12.02.1809 - 19.04.1882 |
(-64.4) - 8.8 |
Life of Charles Robert Darwin |
Personalities |
13.12.1816 - 06.12.1892 |
(-56.6) - 19.4 |
Life of Werner von Siemens |
Personalities |
30.12.1819 - 20.09.1890 |
(-53.6) - 17.2 |
Life of Theodor Fontane |
Personalities |
15.12.1832 - 27.12.1923 |
(-40.6) - 50.5 |
Life of Gustave Eiffel |
Personalities |
17.03.1834 - 06.03.1900 |
(-39.3) - 26.7 |
Life of Gottlieb Wilhelm Daimler |
Personalities |
20.06.1837 - 22.01.1901 |
(-36.1) - 27.6 |
Queen of the United Kingdom: Victoria |
Great Britain |
08.07.1838 - 08.03.1917 |
(-35.0) - 43.7 |
Life of Ferdinand von Zeppelin |
Personalities |
11.12.1843 - 27.05.1910 |
(-29.6) - 36.9 |
Life of Robert Koch |
Personalities |
25.11.1844 - 04.04.1929 |
(-28.6) - 55.8 |
Life of Carl Benz |
Personalities |
11.02.1847 - 18.10.1931 |
(-26.4) - 58.3 |
Life of Thomas Alva Edison |
Personalities |
03.03.1847 - 01.08.1922 |
(-26.4) - 49.1 |
Life of Alexander Graham Bell |
Personalities |
27.12.1847 - 29.08.1877 |
(-25.5) - 4.1 |
President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints: Brigham Young |
Mormon History |
17.03.1849 - 23.11.1890 |
(-24.3) - 17.4 |
King of the Netherlands: Willem III |
Netherlands |
06.05.1856 - 23.09.1939 |
(-17.2) - 66.3 |
Life of Sigmund Freud |
Personalities |
23.09.1861 - 12.03.1942 |
(-11.8) - 68.7 |
Life of Robert Bosch |
Personalities |
30.07.1863 - 07.04.1947 |
(-9.9) - 73.8 |
Life of Henry Ford |
Personalities |
16.10.1863 - 17.03.1937 |
(-9.7) - 63.7 |
Life of Joseph Austen Chamberlain |
Personalities |
1868 - 1878 |
(-5.0) - 5.0 |
Ten Years' War ('Great War') |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
04.03.1869 - 04.03.1877 |
(-4.3) - 3.7 |
President of the United States of America: Ulysses S. Grant |
USA - Presidents |
05.09.1869 - 1884 |
(-3.8) - 11.0 |
Construction period of Neuschwanstein Castle |
Monuments |
22.04.1870 - 21.01.1924 |
(-3.2) - 50.6 |
Life of Vladimir Lenin |
Personalities |
18.01.1871 - 09.03.1888 |
(-2.5) - 14.7 |
German Emperor: Wilhelm I |
Germany |
04.05.1871 - 20.03.1890 |
(-2.2) - 16.7 |
Chancellor of the German Empire: Otto von Bismarck |
Germany |
30.11.1874 - 24.01.1965 |
1.4 - 91.6 |
Life of Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill |
Personalities |
05.01.1876 - 19.04.1967 |
2.5 - 93.8 |
Life of Konrad Adenauer |
Personalities |
04.03.1877 - 04.03.1881 |
3.7 - 7.7 |
President of the United States of America: Rutherford B. Hayes |
USA - Presidents |
1878 - 1881 |
5.0 - 8.0 |
Second Anglo-Afghan War |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
1878 |
5.0 |
Establishment of Bell Telephone Company |
Companies |
31.12.1878 |
5.5 |
First two-stroke internal combustion gas engine |
Automobile History |
14.03.1879 - 18.04.1955 |
5.7 - 81.8 |
Life of Albert Einstein |
Personalities |
1879 |
6.0 |
Discovery of plague vaccine |
Medicine |
1879 |
6.0 |
Discovery of cholera vaccine |
Medicine |
1879 |
6.0 |
Anglo-Zulu War |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
10.10.1880 - 25.07.1887 |
7.3 - 14.1 |
President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints: John Taylor |
Mormon History |
20.12.1880 - 23.03.1881 |
7.5 - 7.7 |
First Boer War ('First South African War') |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
04.03.1881 - 19.09.1881 |
7.7 - 8.2 |
President of the United States of America: James A. Garfield |
USA - Presidents |
06.08.1881 - 11.03.1955 |
8.1 - 81.7 |
Life of Alexander Fleming |
Personalities |
19.09.1881 - 04.03.1885 |
8.2 - 11.7 |
President of the United States of America: Chester A. Arthur |
USA - Presidents |
1882 |
9.0 |
Establishment of Peugeot |
Companies |
1882 |
9.0 |
Britain occupies Egypt |
Discoveries & Colonization |
21.01.1884 - 12.12.1963 |
10.5 - 90.5 |
Life of Theodor Heuss |
Personalities |
1884 |
11.0 |
First controlled flight of a Zeppelin |
Aviation History |
15.11.1884 - 26.02.1885 |
11.4 - 11.6 |
Berlin Conference ('Congo Conference') |
Discoveries & Colonization |
04.03.1885 - 04.03.1889 |
11.7 - 15.7 |
President of the United States of America: Grover Cleveland |
USA - Presidents |
1886 |
13.0 |
Establishment of the Coca Cola Company |
Companies |
1886 |
13.0 |
Establishment of Johnson & Johnson |
Companies |
28.10.1886 |
13.3 |
Construction period of the Statue of Liberty |
Monuments |
1887 - 1889 |
14.0 - 16.0 |
Construction period of the Eiffel Tower |
Monuments |
1887 |
14.0 |
Huang He flood |
Disasters |
09.03.1888 - 15.06.1888 |
14.7 - 15.0 |
German Emperor: Friedrich III |
Germany |
15.06.1888 - 09.11.1918 |
15.0 - 45.4 |
German Emperor: Wilhelm II |
Germany |
1888 |
15.0 |
First commercially manufactured automobile by Karl Benz |
Automobile History |
04.03.1889 - 04.03.1893 |
15.7 - 19.7 |
President of the United States of America: Benjamin Harrison |
USA - Presidents |
07.04.1889 - 02.09.1898 |
15.8 - 25.2 |
President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints: Wilford Woodruff |
Mormon History |
20.04.1889 - 30.04.1945 |
15.8 - 71.9 |
Life of Adolf Hitler |
Personalities |
1890 |
17.0 |
Establishment of Daimler |
Companies |
1890 |
17.0 |
Establishment of General Electric |
Companies |
14.10.1890 - 28.03.1969 |
17.3 - 95.8 |
Life of Dwight David Eisenhower |
Personalities |
23.11.1890 - 04.09.1948 |
17.4 - 75.2 |
Queen of the Netherlands: Wilhelmina |
Netherlands |
04.03.1893 - 04.03.1897 |
19.7 - 23.7 |
President of the United States of America: Grover Cleveland |
USA - Presidents |
06.04.1893 |
19.8 |
Dedication of the Salt Lake Temple |
Mormon History |
1896 |
23.0 |
Establishment of IBM (International Business Machines Corp., formerly 'Computing Tabulating Recording Corp. (CTR)') |
Companies |
1896 - 1897 |
23.0 - 24.0 |
Matabele Wars ('Ndebele Matabele War') |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
04.03.1897 - 14.09.1901 |
23.7 - 28.2 |
President of the United States of America: William McKinley |
USA - Presidents |
13.09.1898 - 10.10.1901 |
25.2 - 28.3 |
President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints: Lorenzo Snow |
Mormon History |
11.10.1899 - 31.05.1902 |
26.3 - 28.9 |
Second Boer War ('Second South African War') |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
08.09.1900 |
27.2 |
Galveston hurricane; destruction of the city of Galveston, Texas |
Disasters |
22.01.1901 - 06.05.1910 |
27.6 - 36.9 |
King of the United Kingdom: Edward VII |
Great Britain |
14.09.1901 - 04.03.1909 |
28.2 - 35.7 |
President of the United States of America: Theodore Roosevelt |
USA - Presidents |
17.10.1901 - 19.11.1918 |
28.3 - 45.4 |
President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints: Joseph F. Smith Sr. |
Mormon History |
19.10.1901 |
28.3 |
First motorized zeppelin flight |
Aviation History |
05.12.1901 - 15.12.1966 |
28.4 - 93.5 |
Life of Walter Elias Disney |
Personalities |
16.06.1903 |
30.0 |
Establishment of Ford Motor Company |
Companies |
16.12.1903 |
30.5 |
First controlled powered human flight by the Wright brothers |
Aviation History |
1904 - 1908 |
31.0 - 35.0 |
Herero and Namaqua Uprising ('Herero and Namaqua Genocide') |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
18.04.1906 |
32.8 |
San Francisco earthquake of 1906 |
Disasters |
1907 |
34.0 |
First helicopter flight |
Aviation History |
16.09.1908 |
35.2 |
Establishment of General Motors |
Companies |
27.09.1908 |
35.2 |
Introduction of the Ford Model T |
Automobile History |
04.03.1909 - 04.03.1913 |
35.7 - 39.7 |
President of the United States of America: William Howard Taft |
USA - Presidents |
1909 |
36.0 |
Discovery of antibiotics |
Medicine |
06.05.1910 - 20.01.1936 |
36.9 - 62.6 |
King of the United Kingdom: George V |
Great Britain |
30.05.1911 |
37.9 |
First 'Indy 500' race in Indianapolis |
Automobile History |
30.05.1911 |
37.9 |
One in seven families in the US owns a car |
Automobile History |
23.10.1911 |
38.3 |
First military use of an airplane |
Aviation History |
04.03.1913 - 04.03.1921 |
39.7 - 47.7 |
President of the United States of America: Woodrow Wilson |
USA - Presidents |
14.06.1914 - 15.06.1914 |
41.0 |
First transatlantic flight |
Aviation History |
28.06.1914 - 11.11.1918 |
41.0 - 45.4 |
World War I |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
06.08.1914 - 25.11.1918 |
41.1 - 45.4 |
East African Campaign (World War I) |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
13.09.1914 - 09.07.1915 |
41.2 - 42.0 |
South-West Africa Campaign (World War I) |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
14.10.1914 - 24.10.1914 |
41.3 |
Maritz Rebellion |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
24.04.1916 - 30.04.1916 |
42.8 |
Easter Rising |
Great Britain |
1916 |
43.0 |
Establishment of BMW (Bayerische Motoren Werke AG) |
Companies |
08.03.1917 - 12.03.1917 |
43.7 |
Russian February Revolution |
Russia |
29.05.1917 - 22.11.1963 |
43.9 - 90.4 |
Life of John F. Kennedy |
Personalities |
1917 - 1923 |
44.0 - 50.0 |
Russian Civil War |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
07.11.1917 |
44.4 |
Founding of the Russian Socialist Federal Soviet Republic |
Russia |
09.11.1918 |
45.4 |
German Revolution |
Germany |
23.11.1918 - 14.05.1945 |
45.4 - 71.9 |
President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints: Heber J. Grant |
Mormon History |
11.02.1919 - 28.02.1925 |
45.6 - 51.7 |
President of Germany: Friedrich Ebert |
Germany |
13.02.1919 - 20.06.1919 |
45.6 - 46.0 |
Chancellor of Germany: Philipp Scheidemann |
Germany |
06.05.1919 - 08.08.1919 |
45.9 - 46.1 |
Third Anglo-Afghan War |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
1919 |
46.0 |
First transatlantic zeppelin flight |
Aviation History |
11.08.1919 |
46.1 |
Adoption of the Weimar Constitution |
Germany |
10.09.1919 |
46.2 |
Treaty of Saint-Germain |
Italy |
04.03.1921 - 02.08.1923 |
47.7 - 50.1 |
President of the United States of America: Warren G. Harding |
USA - Presidents |
06.12.1921 |
48.4 |
Anglo-Irish Treaty |
Great Britain |
28.10.1922 |
49.3 |
Benito Mussolini becomes Prime Minister of Italy |
Italy |
02.08.1923 - 04.03.1929 |
50.1 - 55.7 |
President of the United States of America: Calvin Coolidge |
USA - Presidents |
13.08.1923 - 23.11.1923 |
50.1 - 50.4 |
Chancellor of Germany: Gustav Stresemann |
Germany |
13.09.1923 |
50.2 |
Establishment of the military dictatorship |
Spain |
12.05.1925 - 02.08.1934 |
51.9 - 61.1 |
President of Germany: Paul von Hindenburg |
Germany |
14.06.1928 - 09.10.1967 |
55.0 - 94.3 |
Life of Che Guevara |
Personalities |
1928 |
55.0 |
Discovery of penicillin |
Medicine |
15.01.1929 - 04.04.1968 |
55.6 - 94.8 |
Life of Martin Luther King |
Personalities |
04.03.1929 - 04.03.1933 |
55.7 - 59.7 |
President of the United States of America: Herbert Hoover |
USA - Presidents |
25.10.1929 |
56.3 |
'Black Friday' |
USA |
22.01.1930 - 01.05.1931 |
56.6 - 57.9 |
Construction period of the Empire State Building |
Monuments |
30.03.1930 - 30.05.1932 |
56.8 - 58.9 |
Chancellor of Germany: Heinrich Brüning |
Germany |
05.08.1930 - 25.08.2012 |
57.1 - 139.2 |
Life of Neil Armstrong |
Personalities |
14.04.1931 |
57.8 |
Proclamation of the Second Spanish Republic |
Spain |
1931 |
58.0 |
Establishment of Porsche |
Companies |
11.12.1931 |
58.5 |
Statute of Westminster |
Great Britain |
01.06.1932 - 17.11.1932 |
58.9 - 59.4 |
Chancellor of Germany: Franz von Papen |
Germany |
03.12.1932 - 28.01.1933 |
59.4 - 59.6 |
Chancellor of Germany: Kurt von Schleicher |
Germany |
30.01.1933 - 30.04.1945 |
59.6 - 71.9 |
Chancellor of Germany: Adolf Hitler |
Germany |
28.02.1933 - 23.03.1933 |
59.7 |
'Reichstag Fire Decree' and 'Enabling Act': De facto end of the Weimar Republic & beginning of Nazi dictatorship |
Germany |
04.03.1933 - 12.04.1945 |
59.7 - 71.8 |
President of the United States of America: Franklin D. Roosevelt |
USA - Presidents |
1935 |
62.0 |
Italy occupies Ethiopia, the last remaining free territory in Africa. |
Discoveries & Colonization |
20.01.1936 - 11.12.1936 |
62.6 - 63.5 |
King of the United Kingdom: Edward VIII |
Great Britain |
11.12.1936 - 06.02.1952 |
63.5 - 78.6 |
King of the United Kingdom: George VI |
Great Britain |
11.12.1936 - 06.02.1952 |
63.5 - 78.6 |
Queen consort of the United Kingdom: Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon 'Queen Mum' |
Great Britain |
06.05.1937 |
63.9 |
Hindenburg disaster |
Aviation History |
1937 |
64.0 |
Construction period of the Golden Gate Bridge |
Monuments |
27.08.1939 |
66.2 |
First flight of turbine-equipped jet plane |
Aviation History |
01.09.1939 - 02.09.1945 |
66.2 - 72.2 |
World War II |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
14.05.1940 |
66.9 |
Establishment of McDonald's |
Companies |
07.12.1941 |
68.5 |
Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor |
USA |
12.04.1945 - 20.01.1953 |
71.8 - 79.6 |
President of the United States of America: Harry S. Truman |
USA - Presidents |
25.04.1945 |
71.8 |
Establishment of the United Nations |
World |
08.05.1945 |
71.9 |
Unconditional surrender of the German Empire |
Germany |
21.05.1945 - 04.04.1951 |
71.9 - 77.8 |
President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints: George Albert Smith |
Mormon History |
06.08.1945 - 09.08.1945 |
72.1 |
Nuclear bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki |
USA |
14.10.1946 |
73.3 |
Start of the 4th French Republic |
France |
14.10.1947 |
74.3 |
First supersonic flight of the Bell X-1 |
Aviation History |
04.09.1948 - 30.04.1980 |
75.2 - 106.9 |
Queen of the Netherlands: Juliana |
Netherlands |
21.12.1948 |
75.5 |
Republic of Ireland Act |
Great Britain |
23.05.1949 |
75.9 |
Establishment of the Federal Republic of Germany |
Germany |
1949 |
76.0 |
Establishment of Circuit City |
Companies |
15.09.1949 - 16.10.1963 |
76.2 - 90.3 |
Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany: Konrad Adenauer |
Germany - Chancellors |
07.10.1949 |
76.3 |
Establishment of the German Democratic Republic |
Germany |
11.10.1949 - 07.09.1960 |
76.3 - 87.2 |
Wilhelm Pieck - State President of the GDR |
GDR |
17.06.1950 |
77.0 |
First successful organ transplant |
Medicine |
1950 - 1953 |
77.0 - 80.0 |
Korean War |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
09.04.1951 - 18.01.1970 |
77.8 - 96.6 |
President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints: David O. McKay |
Mormon History |
22.01.1952 |
78.6 |
First jet airliner in regular commercial use |
Aviation History |
06.02.1952 - Heute |
78.6 |
Queen of the United Kingdom: Elizabeth II |
Great Britain |
20.01.1953 - 20.01.1961 |
79.6 - 87.6 |
President of the United States of America: Dwight D. Eisenhower |
USA - Presidents |
17.06.1953 |
80.0 |
Uprising of June 17, 1953 in East Germany |
Germany |
04.07.1954 |
81.0 |
FIFA World Cup Champion 1954: Germany |
Germany |
24.02.1955 - 05.10.2011 |
81.7 - 138.3 |
Life of Steven 'Steve' Paul Jobs |
Personalities |
04.10.1957 |
84.3 |
Sputnik launched: first artificial satellite in Earth's orbit |
Technology |
05.10.1958 |
85.3 |
Start of the 5th French Republic |
France |
08.01.1959 - 28.04.1969 |
85.6 - 95.9 |
President of France: Charles de Gaulle |
France |
1959 - 30.04.1975 |
86.0 - 101.9 |
Vietnam War |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
1960 - 1973 |
87.0 - 100.0 |
Walter Ulbricht - Chairman of the State Council of the GDR |
GDR |
20.01.1961 - 22.11.1963 |
87.6 - 90.4 |
President of the United States of America: John F. Kennedy |
USA - Presidents |
12.04.1961 |
87.8 |
First human in space |
Technology |
25.05.1961 - 24.07.1975 |
87.9 - 102.1 |
Apollo Space Program |
Technology |
13.08.1961 |
88.2 |
Construction of the Berlin Wall |
Germany |
11.10.1962 - 08.12.1965 |
89.3 - 92.5 |
Second Vatican Council |
World |
16.10.1962 - 28.10.1962 |
89.3 - 89.4 |
Cuban Missile Crisis ('October Crisis') |
USA |
16.10.1963 - 01.12.1966 |
90.3 - 93.5 |
Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany: Ludwig Erhard |
Germany - Chancellors |
22.11.1963 - 20.01.1969 |
90.4 - 95.6 |
President of the United States of America: Lyndon B. Johnson |
USA - Presidents |
1966 - 1973 |
93.0 - 100.0 |
Construction period of the World Trade Center |
Monuments |
01.12.1966 - 21.10.1969 |
93.5 - 96.4 |
Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany: Kurt Georg Kiesinger |
Germany - Chancellors |
1967 |
94.0 |
Founding of the European Community (EC) |
European Union |
20.01.1969 - 09.08.1974 |
95.6 - 101.2 |
President of the United States of America: Richard Nixon |
USA - Presidents |
20.06.1969 - 02.04.1974 |
96.0 - 100.8 |
President of France: Georges Pompidou |
France |
20.07.1969 |
96.1 |
First man on the moon |
Technology |
21.10.1969 - 07.05.1974 |
96.4 - 100.9 |
Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany: Willy Brandt |
Germany - Chancellors |
31.10.1969 |
96.4 |
Establishment of Wal Mart |
Companies |
23.01.1970 - 02.07.1972 |
96.6 - 99.1 |
President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints: Joseph Fielding Smith |
Mormon History |
07.07.1972 - 26.12.1973 |
99.1 - 100.5 |
President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints: Joseph Fielding Smith |
Mormon History |
21.07.1972 |
99.1 |
Bloody Friday |
Great Britain |
1973 - 1976 |
100.0 - 103.0 |
Willi Stoph - Chairman of the Council of State of the GDR |
GDR |