12.02.1809 - 19.04.1882 |
(-38.2) - 35.0 |
Life of Charles Robert Darwin |
Personalities |
12.02.1809 - 15.04.1865 |
(-38.2) - 18.0 |
Life of Abraham Lincoln |
Personalities |
07.02.1812 - 09.06.1870 |
(-35.3) - 23.1 |
Life of Charles John Huffam Dickens |
Personalities |
08.06.1815 - 24.08.1866 |
(-31.9) - 19.3 |
German Confederation |
Germany |
13.12.1816 - 06.12.1892 |
(-30.4) - 45.6 |
Life of Werner von Siemens |
Personalities |
30.12.1819 - 20.09.1890 |
(-27.4) - 43.4 |
Life of Theodor Fontane |
Personalities |
15.12.1832 - 27.12.1923 |
(-14.4) - 76.7 |
Life of Gustave Eiffel |
Personalities |
17.03.1834 - 06.03.1900 |
(-13.1) - 52.9 |
Life of Gottlieb Wilhelm Daimler |
Personalities |
20.06.1837 - 22.01.1901 |
(-9.9) - 53.8 |
Queen of the United Kingdom: Victoria |
Great Britain |
08.07.1838 - 08.03.1917 |
(-8.8) - 69.9 |
Life of Ferdinand von Zeppelin |
Personalities |
07.10.1840 - 17.03.1849 |
(-6.6) - 1.9 |
King of the Netherlands: Willem II |
Netherlands |
11.12.1843 - 27.05.1910 |
(-3.4) - 63.1 |
Life of Robert Koch |
Personalities |
25.11.1844 - 04.04.1929 |
(-2.4) - 82.0 |
Life of Carl Benz |
Personalities |
04.03.1845 - 04.03.1849 |
(-2.2) - 1.8 |
President of the United States of America: James K. Polk |
USA - Presidents |
11.02.1847 - 18.10.1931 |
(-0.2) - 84.5 |
Life of Thomas Alva Edison |
Personalities |
03.03.1847 - 01.08.1922 |
(-0.2) - 75.3 |
Life of Alexander Graham Bell |
Personalities |
1847 |
0.2 |
Establishment of Siemens |
Companies |
1847 |
0.2 |
Establishment of Cartier |
Companies |
27.12.1847 - 29.08.1877 |
0.7 - 30.3 |
President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints: Brigham Young |
Mormon History |
01.03.1848 - 30.09.1849 |
0.8 - 2.4 |
Revolutions of 1848/1849 in the German Confederation |
Germany |
31.03.1848 - 03.04.1849 |
0.9 - 1.9 |
The National Assembly meets in the Church of St. Paul in Frankfurt |
Germany |
01.12.1848 |
1.6 |
Louis-Napoléon Bonaparte is elected, start of the 2nd Republic |
France |
04.03.1849 - 09.07.1850 |
1.8 - 3.2 |
President of the United States of America: Zachary Taylor |
USA - Presidents |
17.03.1849 - 23.11.1890 |
1.9 - 43.6 |
King of the Netherlands: Willem III |
Netherlands |
1849 |
2.2 |
Establishment of Pfizer |
Companies |
1850 |
3.2 |
Establishment of the American Express Company |
Companies |
09.07.1850 - 04.03.1853 |
3.2 - 5.8 |
President of the United States of America: Millard Fillmore |
USA - Presidents |
1851 |
4.2 |
Western Union established |
Companies |
1851 |
4.2 |
Establishment of Reuters |
Companies |
1851 |
4.2 |
Establishment of The New York Times |
Companies |
02.12.1852 - 04.09.1870 |
5.6 - 23.4 |
Emperor of France: Napoleon III |
France |
04.03.1853 - 04.03.1857 |
5.8 - 9.8 |
President of the United States of America: Franklin Pierce |
USA - Presidents |
1853 |
6.2 |
Establishment of Levi Strauss & Co |
Companies |
06.05.1856 - 23.09.1939 |
9.0 - 92.5 |
Life of Sigmund Freud |
Personalities |
04.03.1857 - 04.03.1861 |
9.8 - 13.8 |
President of the United States of America: James Buchanan |
USA - Presidents |
28.05.1857 - 12.04.1858 |
10.1 - 11.0 |
Utah War |
Mormon History |
1859 |
12.2 |
Construction period of Big Ben |
Monuments |
04.03.1861 - 15.04.1865 |
13.8 - 18.0 |
President of the United States of America: Abraham Lincoln |
USA - Presidents |
17.03.1861 |
13.9 |
Victor Emmanuel II proclaimed as King of Italy, the first king of a united Italy |
Italy |
12.04.1861 - 09.04.1865 |
14.0 - 17.9 |
American Civil War |
USA |
23.09.1861 - 12.03.1942 |
14.4 - 94.9 |
Life of Robert Bosch |
Personalities |
30.07.1863 - 07.04.1947 |
16.3 - 100.0 |
Life of Henry Ford |
Personalities |
16.10.1863 - 17.03.1937 |
16.5 - 89.9 |
Life of Joseph Austen Chamberlain |
Personalities |
15.04.1865 - 04.03.1869 |
18.0 - 21.9 |
President of the United States of America: Andrew Johnson |
USA - Presidents |
09.06.1866 - 26.07.1866 |
19.1 - 19.2 |
Austro-Prussian War ('German War') |
Germany |
10.03.1867 |
19.9 |
First telephone voice transmission |
Technology |
1868 - 1878 |
21.2 - 31.2 |
Ten Years' War ('Great War') |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
04.03.1869 - 04.03.1877 |
21.9 - 29.9 |
President of the United States of America: Ulysses S. Grant |
USA - Presidents |
05.09.1869 - 1884 |
22.4 - 37.2 |
Construction period of Neuschwanstein Castle |
Monuments |
22.04.1870 - 21.01.1924 |
23.0 - 76.8 |
Life of Vladimir Lenin |
Personalities |
1870 |
23.2 |
Start of the 3rd French Republic |
France |
19.07.1870 - 10.05.1871 |
23.2 - 24.0 |
Franco-Prussian War |
Germany |
18.01.1871 - 09.03.1888 |
23.7 - 40.9 |
German Emperor: Wilhelm I |
Germany |
04.05.1871 - 20.03.1890 |
24.0 - 42.9 |
Chancellor of the German Empire: Otto von Bismarck |
Germany |
09.11.1871 |
24.5 |
Founding of the German Empire |
Germany |
30.11.1874 - 24.01.1965 |
27.6 - 117.8 |
Life of Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill |
Personalities |
05.01.1876 - 19.04.1967 |
28.7 - 120.0 |
Life of Konrad Adenauer |
Personalities |
04.03.1877 - 04.03.1881 |
29.9 - 33.9 |
President of the United States of America: Rutherford B. Hayes |
USA - Presidents |
1878 - 1881 |
31.2 - 34.2 |
Second Anglo-Afghan War |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
1878 |
31.2 |
Establishment of Bell Telephone Company |
Companies |
31.12.1878 |
31.7 |
First two-stroke internal combustion gas engine |
Automobile History |
14.03.1879 - 18.04.1955 |
31.9 - 108.0 |
Life of Albert Einstein |
Personalities |
1879 |
32.2 |
Discovery of plague vaccine |
Medicine |
1879 |
32.2 |
Discovery of cholera vaccine |
Medicine |
1879 |
32.2 |
Anglo-Zulu War |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
10.10.1880 - 25.07.1887 |
33.5 - 40.3 |
President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints: John Taylor |
Mormon History |
20.12.1880 - 23.03.1881 |
33.7 - 33.9 |
First Boer War ('First South African War') |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
04.03.1881 - 19.09.1881 |
33.9 - 34.4 |
President of the United States of America: James A. Garfield |
USA - Presidents |
06.08.1881 - 11.03.1955 |
34.3 - 107.9 |
Life of Alexander Fleming |
Personalities |
19.09.1881 - 04.03.1885 |
34.4 - 37.9 |
President of the United States of America: Chester A. Arthur |
USA - Presidents |
1882 |
35.2 |
Establishment of Peugeot |
Companies |
1882 |
35.2 |
Britain occupies Egypt |
Discoveries & Colonization |
21.01.1884 - 12.12.1963 |
36.7 - 116.7 |
Life of Theodor Heuss |
Personalities |
1884 |
37.2 |
First controlled flight of a Zeppelin |
Aviation History |
15.11.1884 - 26.02.1885 |
37.6 - 37.8 |
Berlin Conference ('Congo Conference') |
Discoveries & Colonization |
04.03.1885 - 04.03.1889 |
37.9 - 41.9 |
President of the United States of America: Grover Cleveland |
USA - Presidents |
1886 |
39.2 |
Establishment of the Coca Cola Company |
Companies |
1886 |
39.2 |
Establishment of Johnson & Johnson |
Companies |
28.10.1886 |
39.5 |
Construction period of the Statue of Liberty |
Monuments |
1887 - 1889 |
40.2 - 42.2 |
Construction period of the Eiffel Tower |
Monuments |
1887 |
40.2 |
Huang He flood |
Disasters |
09.03.1888 - 15.06.1888 |
40.9 - 41.1 |
German Emperor: Friedrich III |
Germany |
15.06.1888 - 09.11.1918 |
41.1 - 71.6 |
German Emperor: Wilhelm II |
Germany |
1888 |
41.2 |
First commercially manufactured automobile by Karl Benz |
Automobile History |
04.03.1889 - 04.03.1893 |
41.9 - 45.9 |
President of the United States of America: Benjamin Harrison |
USA - Presidents |
07.04.1889 - 02.09.1898 |
42.0 - 51.4 |
President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints: Wilford Woodruff |
Mormon History |
20.04.1889 - 30.04.1945 |
42.0 - 98.1 |
Life of Adolf Hitler |
Personalities |
1890 |
43.2 |
Establishment of Daimler |
Companies |
1890 |
43.2 |
Establishment of General Electric |
Companies |
14.10.1890 - 28.03.1969 |
43.5 - 122.0 |
Life of Dwight David Eisenhower |
Personalities |
23.11.1890 - 04.09.1948 |
43.6 - 101.4 |
Queen of the Netherlands: Wilhelmina |
Netherlands |
04.03.1893 - 04.03.1897 |
45.9 - 49.9 |
President of the United States of America: Grover Cleveland |
USA - Presidents |
06.04.1893 |
46.0 |
Dedication of the Salt Lake Temple |
Mormon History |
1896 |
49.2 |
Establishment of IBM (International Business Machines Corp., formerly 'Computing Tabulating Recording Corp. (CTR)') |
Companies |
1896 - 1897 |
49.2 - 50.2 |
Matabele Wars ('Ndebele Matabele War') |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
04.03.1897 - 14.09.1901 |
49.9 - 54.4 |
President of the United States of America: William McKinley |
USA - Presidents |
13.09.1898 - 10.10.1901 |
51.4 - 54.5 |
President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints: Lorenzo Snow |
Mormon History |
11.10.1899 - 31.05.1902 |
52.5 - 55.1 |
Second Boer War ('Second South African War') |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
08.09.1900 |
53.4 |
Galveston hurricane; destruction of the city of Galveston, Texas |
Disasters |
22.01.1901 - 06.05.1910 |
53.8 - 63.0 |
King of the United Kingdom: Edward VII |
Great Britain |
14.09.1901 - 04.03.1909 |
54.4 - 61.9 |
President of the United States of America: Theodore Roosevelt |
USA - Presidents |
17.10.1901 - 19.11.1918 |
54.5 - 71.6 |
President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints: Joseph F. Smith Sr. |
Mormon History |
19.10.1901 |
54.5 |
First motorized zeppelin flight |
Aviation History |
05.12.1901 - 15.12.1966 |
54.6 - 119.7 |
Life of Walter Elias Disney |
Personalities |
16.06.1903 |
56.2 |
Establishment of Ford Motor Company |
Companies |
16.12.1903 |
56.7 |
First controlled powered human flight by the Wright brothers |
Aviation History |
1904 - 1908 |
57.2 - 61.2 |
Herero and Namaqua Uprising ('Herero and Namaqua Genocide') |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
18.04.1906 |
59.0 |
San Francisco earthquake of 1906 |
Disasters |
1907 |
60.2 |
First helicopter flight |
Aviation History |
16.09.1908 |
61.4 |
Establishment of General Motors |
Companies |
27.09.1908 |
61.4 |
Introduction of the Ford Model T |
Automobile History |
04.03.1909 - 04.03.1913 |
61.9 - 65.9 |
President of the United States of America: William Howard Taft |
USA - Presidents |
1909 |
62.2 |
Discovery of antibiotics |
Medicine |
06.05.1910 - 20.01.1936 |
63.0 - 88.8 |
King of the United Kingdom: George V |
Great Britain |
30.05.1911 |
64.1 |
First 'Indy 500' race in Indianapolis |
Automobile History |
30.05.1911 |
64.1 |
One in seven families in the US owns a car |
Automobile History |
23.10.1911 |
64.5 |
First military use of an airplane |
Aviation History |
04.03.1913 - 04.03.1921 |
65.9 - 73.9 |
President of the United States of America: Woodrow Wilson |
USA - Presidents |
14.06.1914 - 15.06.1914 |
67.2 |
First transatlantic flight |
Aviation History |
28.06.1914 - 11.11.1918 |
67.2 - 71.6 |
World War I |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
06.08.1914 - 25.11.1918 |
67.3 - 71.6 |
East African Campaign (World War I) |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
13.09.1914 - 09.07.1915 |
67.4 - 68.2 |
South-West Africa Campaign (World War I) |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
14.10.1914 - 24.10.1914 |
67.5 |
Maritz Rebellion |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
24.04.1916 - 30.04.1916 |
69.0 |
Easter Rising |
Great Britain |
1916 |
69.2 |
Establishment of BMW (Bayerische Motoren Werke AG) |
Companies |
08.03.1917 - 12.03.1917 |
69.9 |
Russian February Revolution |
Russia |
29.05.1917 - 22.11.1963 |
70.1 - 116.6 |
Life of John F. Kennedy |
Personalities |
1917 - 1923 |
70.2 - 76.2 |
Russian Civil War |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
07.11.1917 |
70.6 |
Founding of the Russian Socialist Federal Soviet Republic |
Russia |
09.11.1918 |
71.6 |
German Revolution |
Germany |
23.11.1918 - 14.05.1945 |
71.6 - 98.1 |
President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints: Heber J. Grant |
Mormon History |
11.02.1919 - 28.02.1925 |
71.8 - 77.9 |
President of Germany: Friedrich Ebert |
Germany |
13.02.1919 - 20.06.1919 |
71.8 - 72.2 |
Chancellor of Germany: Philipp Scheidemann |
Germany |
06.05.1919 - 08.08.1919 |
72.1 - 72.3 |
Third Anglo-Afghan War |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
1919 |
72.2 |
First transatlantic zeppelin flight |
Aviation History |
11.08.1919 |
72.3 |
Adoption of the Weimar Constitution |
Germany |
10.09.1919 |
72.4 |
Treaty of Saint-Germain |
Italy |
04.03.1921 - 02.08.1923 |
73.9 - 76.3 |
President of the United States of America: Warren G. Harding |
USA - Presidents |
06.12.1921 |
74.6 |
Anglo-Irish Treaty |
Great Britain |
28.10.1922 |
75.5 |
Benito Mussolini becomes Prime Minister of Italy |
Italy |
02.08.1923 - 04.03.1929 |
76.3 - 81.9 |
President of the United States of America: Calvin Coolidge |
USA - Presidents |
13.08.1923 - 23.11.1923 |
76.3 - 76.6 |
Chancellor of Germany: Gustav Stresemann |
Germany |
13.09.1923 |
76.4 |
Establishment of the military dictatorship |
Spain |
12.05.1925 - 02.08.1934 |
78.1 - 87.3 |
President of Germany: Paul von Hindenburg |
Germany |
14.06.1928 - 09.10.1967 |
81.2 - 120.5 |
Life of Che Guevara |
Personalities |
1928 |
81.2 |
Discovery of penicillin |
Medicine |
15.01.1929 - 04.04.1968 |
81.8 - 121.0 |
Life of Martin Luther King |
Personalities |
04.03.1929 - 04.03.1933 |
81.9 - 85.9 |
President of the United States of America: Herbert Hoover |
USA - Presidents |
25.10.1929 |
82.5 |
'Black Friday' |
USA |
22.01.1930 - 01.05.1931 |
82.8 - 84.0 |
Construction period of the Empire State Building |
Monuments |
30.03.1930 - 30.05.1932 |
83.0 - 85.1 |
Chancellor of Germany: Heinrich Brüning |
Germany |
05.08.1930 - 25.08.2012 |
83.3 - 165.4 |
Life of Neil Armstrong |
Personalities |
14.04.1931 |
84.0 |
Proclamation of the Second Spanish Republic |
Spain |
1931 |
84.2 |
Establishment of Porsche |
Companies |
11.12.1931 |
84.7 |
Statute of Westminster |
Great Britain |
01.06.1932 - 17.11.1932 |
85.1 - 85.6 |
Chancellor of Germany: Franz von Papen |
Germany |
03.12.1932 - 28.01.1933 |
85.6 - 85.8 |
Chancellor of Germany: Kurt von Schleicher |
Germany |
30.01.1933 - 30.04.1945 |
85.8 - 98.1 |
Chancellor of Germany: Adolf Hitler |
Germany |
28.02.1933 - 23.03.1933 |
85.9 |
'Reichstag Fire Decree' and 'Enabling Act': De facto end of the Weimar Republic & beginning of Nazi dictatorship |
Germany |
04.03.1933 - 12.04.1945 |
85.9 - 98.0 |
President of the United States of America: Franklin D. Roosevelt |
USA - Presidents |
1935 |
88.2 |
Italy occupies Ethiopia, the last remaining free territory in Africa. |
Discoveries & Colonization |
20.01.1936 - 11.12.1936 |
88.8 - 89.7 |
King of the United Kingdom: Edward VIII |
Great Britain |
11.12.1936 - 06.02.1952 |
89.7 - 104.8 |
King of the United Kingdom: George VI |
Great Britain |
11.12.1936 - 06.02.1952 |
89.7 - 104.8 |
Queen consort of the United Kingdom: Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon 'Queen Mum' |
Great Britain |
06.05.1937 |
90.1 |
Hindenburg disaster |
Aviation History |
1937 |
90.2 |
Construction period of the Golden Gate Bridge |
Monuments |
27.08.1939 |
92.4 |
First flight of turbine-equipped jet plane |
Aviation History |
01.09.1939 - 02.09.1945 |
92.4 - 98.4 |
World War II |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
14.05.1940 |
93.1 |
Establishment of McDonald's |
Companies |
07.12.1941 |
94.7 |
Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor |
USA |
12.04.1945 - 20.01.1953 |
98.0 - 105.8 |
President of the United States of America: Harry S. Truman |
USA - Presidents |
25.04.1945 |
98.0 |
Establishment of the United Nations |
World |
08.05.1945 |
98.1 |
Unconditional surrender of the German Empire |
Germany |
21.05.1945 - 04.04.1951 |
98.1 - 104.0 |
President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints: George Albert Smith |
Mormon History |
06.08.1945 - 09.08.1945 |
98.3 |
Nuclear bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki |
USA |
14.10.1946 |
99.5 |
Start of the 4th French Republic |
France |