| 12.02.1809 - 19.04.1882 |
(-57.8) - 15.5 |
Life of Charles Robert Darwin |
Personalities |
| 07.02.1812 - 09.06.1870 |
(-54.8) - 3.6 |
Life of Charles John Huffam Dickens |
Personalities |
| 13.12.1816 - 06.12.1892 |
(-49.9) - 26.1 |
Life of Werner von Siemens |
Personalities |
| 30.12.1819 - 20.09.1890 |
(-46.9) - 23.9 |
Life of Theodor Fontane |
Personalities |
| 15.12.1832 - 27.12.1923 |
(-33.9) - 57.2 |
Life of Gustave Eiffel |
Personalities |
| 17.03.1834 - 06.03.1900 |
(-32.7) - 33.4 |
Life of Gottlieb Wilhelm Daimler |
Personalities |
| 20.06.1837 - 22.01.1901 |
(-29.4) - 34.2 |
Queen of the United Kingdom: Victoria |
Great Britain |
| 08.07.1838 - 08.03.1917 |
(-28.3) - 50.4 |
Life of Ferdinand von Zeppelin |
Personalities |
| 11.12.1843 - 27.05.1910 |
(-22.9) - 43.6 |
Life of Robert Koch |
Personalities |
| 25.11.1844 - 04.04.1929 |
(-22.0) - 62.5 |
Life of Carl Benz |
Personalities |
| 11.02.1847 - 18.10.1931 |
(-19.7) - 65.0 |
Life of Thomas Alva Edison |
Personalities |
| 03.03.1847 - 01.08.1922 |
(-19.7) - 55.8 |
Life of Alexander Graham Bell |
Personalities |
| 27.12.1847 - 29.08.1877 |
(-18.9) - 10.8 |
President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints: Brigham Young |
Mormon History |
| 17.03.1849 - 23.11.1890 |
(-17.6) - 24.1 |
King of the Netherlands: Willem III |
Netherlands |
| 02.12.1852 - 04.09.1870 |
(-13.9) - 3.8 |
Emperor of France: Napoleon III |
France |
| 06.05.1856 - 23.09.1939 |
(-10.5) - 72.9 |
Life of Sigmund Freud |
Personalities |
| 23.09.1861 - 12.03.1942 |
(-5.1) - 75.4 |
Life of Robert Bosch |
Personalities |
| 30.07.1863 - 07.04.1947 |
(-3.3) - 80.5 |
Life of Henry Ford |
Personalities |
| 16.10.1863 - 17.03.1937 |
(-3.0) - 70.4 |
Life of Joseph Austen Chamberlain |
Personalities |
| 15.04.1865 - 04.03.1869 |
(-1.6) - 2.3 |
President of the United States of America: Andrew Johnson |
USA - Presidents |
| 10.03.1867 |
0.4 |
First telephone voice transmission |
Technology |
| 1868 - 1878 |
1.7 - 11.7 |
Ten Years' War ('Great War') |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 04.03.1869 - 04.03.1877 |
2.3 - 10.3 |
President of the United States of America: Ulysses S. Grant |
USA - Presidents |
| 05.09.1869 - 1884 |
2.8 - 17.7 |
Construction period of Neuschwanstein Castle |
Monuments |
| 22.04.1870 - 21.01.1924 |
3.5 - 57.3 |
Life of Vladimir Lenin |
Personalities |
| 1870 |
3.7 |
Start of the 3rd French Republic |
France |
| 19.07.1870 - 10.05.1871 |
3.7 - 4.5 |
Franco-Prussian War |
Germany |
| 18.01.1871 - 09.03.1888 |
4.2 - 21.4 |
German Emperor: Wilhelm I |
Germany |
| 04.05.1871 - 20.03.1890 |
4.5 - 23.4 |
Chancellor of the German Empire: Otto von Bismarck |
Germany |
| 09.11.1871 |
5.0 |
Founding of the German Empire |
Germany |
| 30.11.1874 - 24.01.1965 |
8.1 - 98.3 |
Life of Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill |
Personalities |
| 05.01.1876 - 19.04.1967 |
9.2 - 100.5 |
Life of Konrad Adenauer |
Personalities |
| 04.03.1877 - 04.03.1881 |
10.3 - 14.3 |
President of the United States of America: Rutherford B. Hayes |
USA - Presidents |
| 1878 - 1881 |
11.7 - 14.7 |
Second Anglo-Afghan War |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 1878 |
11.7 |
Establishment of Bell Telephone Company |
Companies |
| 31.12.1878 |
12.2 |
First two-stroke internal combustion gas engine |
Automobile History |
| 14.03.1879 - 18.04.1955 |
12.4 - 88.5 |
Life of Albert Einstein |
Personalities |
| 1879 |
12.7 |
Discovery of plague vaccine |
Medicine |
| 1879 |
12.7 |
Discovery of cholera vaccine |
Medicine |
| 1879 |
12.7 |
Anglo-Zulu War |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 10.10.1880 - 25.07.1887 |
13.9 - 20.7 |
President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints: John Taylor |
Mormon History |
| 20.12.1880 - 23.03.1881 |
14.1 - 14.4 |
First Boer War ('First South African War') |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 04.03.1881 - 19.09.1881 |
14.3 - 14.9 |
President of the United States of America: James A. Garfield |
USA - Presidents |
| 06.08.1881 - 11.03.1955 |
14.8 - 88.4 |
Life of Alexander Fleming |
Personalities |
| 19.09.1881 - 04.03.1885 |
14.9 - 18.3 |
President of the United States of America: Chester A. Arthur |
USA - Presidents |
| 1882 |
15.7 |
Establishment of Peugeot |
Companies |
| 1882 |
15.7 |
Britain occupies Egypt |
Discoveries & Colonization |
| 21.01.1884 - 12.12.1963 |
17.2 - 97.2 |
Life of Theodor Heuss |
Personalities |
| 1884 |
17.7 |
First controlled flight of a Zeppelin |
Aviation History |
| 15.11.1884 - 26.02.1885 |
18.0 - 18.3 |
Berlin Conference ('Congo Conference') |
Discoveries & Colonization |
| 04.03.1885 - 04.03.1889 |
18.3 - 22.4 |
President of the United States of America: Grover Cleveland |
USA - Presidents |
| 1886 |
19.7 |
Establishment of the Coca Cola Company |
Companies |
| 1886 |
19.7 |
Establishment of Johnson & Johnson |
Companies |
| 28.10.1886 |
20.0 |
Construction period of the Statue of Liberty |
Monuments |
| 1887 - 1889 |
20.7 - 22.7 |
Construction period of the Eiffel Tower |
Monuments |
| 1887 |
20.7 |
Huang He flood |
Disasters |
| 09.03.1888 - 15.06.1888 |
21.4 - 21.6 |
German Emperor: Friedrich III |
Germany |
| 15.06.1888 - 09.11.1918 |
21.6 - 52.1 |
German Emperor: Wilhelm II |
Germany |
| 1888 |
21.7 |
First commercially manufactured automobile by Karl Benz |
Automobile History |
| 04.03.1889 - 04.03.1893 |
22.4 - 26.4 |
President of the United States of America: Benjamin Harrison |
USA - Presidents |
| 07.04.1889 - 02.09.1898 |
22.4 - 31.9 |
President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints: Wilford Woodruff |
Mormon History |
| 20.04.1889 - 30.04.1945 |
22.5 - 78.5 |
Life of Adolf Hitler |
Personalities |
| 1890 |
23.7 |
Establishment of Daimler |
Companies |
| 1890 |
23.7 |
Establishment of General Electric |
Companies |
| 14.10.1890 - 28.03.1969 |
24.0 - 102.5 |
Life of Dwight David Eisenhower |
Personalities |
| 23.11.1890 - 04.09.1948 |
24.1 - 81.9 |
Queen of the Netherlands: Wilhelmina |
Netherlands |
| 04.03.1893 - 04.03.1897 |
26.4 - 30.4 |
President of the United States of America: Grover Cleveland |
USA - Presidents |
| 06.04.1893 |
26.4 |
Dedication of the Salt Lake Temple |
Mormon History |
| 1896 |
29.7 |
Establishment of IBM (International Business Machines Corp., formerly 'Computing Tabulating Recording Corp. (CTR)') |
Companies |
| 1896 - 1897 |
29.7 - 30.7 |
Matabele Wars ('Ndebele Matabele War') |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 04.03.1897 - 14.09.1901 |
30.4 - 34.9 |
President of the United States of America: William McKinley |
USA - Presidents |
| 13.09.1898 - 10.10.1901 |
31.9 - 35.0 |
President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints: Lorenzo Snow |
Mormon History |
| 11.10.1899 - 31.05.1902 |
33.0 - 35.6 |
Second Boer War ('Second South African War') |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 08.09.1900 |
33.9 |
Galveston hurricane; destruction of the city of Galveston, Texas |
Disasters |
| 22.01.1901 - 06.05.1910 |
34.2 - 43.5 |
King of the United Kingdom: Edward VII |
Great Britain |
| 14.09.1901 - 04.03.1909 |
34.9 - 42.4 |
President of the United States of America: Theodore Roosevelt |
USA - Presidents |
| 17.10.1901 - 19.11.1918 |
35.0 - 52.1 |
President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints: Joseph F. Smith Sr. |
Mormon History |
| 19.10.1901 |
35.0 |
First motorized zeppelin flight |
Aviation History |
| 05.12.1901 - 15.12.1966 |
35.1 - 100.2 |
Life of Walter Elias Disney |
Personalities |
| 16.06.1903 |
36.6 |
Establishment of Ford Motor Company |
Companies |
| 16.12.1903 |
37.1 |
First controlled powered human flight by the Wright brothers |
Aviation History |
| 1904 - 1908 |
37.7 - 41.7 |
Herero and Namaqua Uprising ('Herero and Namaqua Genocide') |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 18.04.1906 |
39.5 |
San Francisco earthquake of 1906 |
Disasters |
| 1907 |
40.7 |
First helicopter flight |
Aviation History |
| 16.09.1908 |
41.9 |
Establishment of General Motors |
Companies |
| 27.09.1908 |
41.9 |
Introduction of the Ford Model T |
Automobile History |
| 04.03.1909 - 04.03.1913 |
42.4 - 46.4 |
President of the United States of America: William Howard Taft |
USA - Presidents |
| 1909 |
42.7 |
Discovery of antibiotics |
Medicine |
| 06.05.1910 - 20.01.1936 |
43.5 - 69.3 |
King of the United Kingdom: George V |
Great Britain |
| 30.05.1911 |
44.6 |
First 'Indy 500' race in Indianapolis |
Automobile History |
| 30.05.1911 |
44.6 |
One in seven families in the US owns a car |
Automobile History |
| 23.10.1911 |
45.0 |
First military use of an airplane |
Aviation History |
| 04.03.1913 - 04.03.1921 |
46.4 - 54.4 |
President of the United States of America: Woodrow Wilson |
USA - Presidents |
| 14.06.1914 - 15.06.1914 |
47.6 |
First transatlantic flight |
Aviation History |
| 28.06.1914 - 11.11.1918 |
47.7 - 52.1 |
World War I |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 06.08.1914 - 25.11.1918 |
47.8 - 52.1 |
East African Campaign (World War I) |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 13.09.1914 - 09.07.1915 |
47.9 - 48.7 |
South-West Africa Campaign (World War I) |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 14.10.1914 - 24.10.1914 |
48.0 |
Maritz Rebellion |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 24.04.1916 - 30.04.1916 |
49.5 |
Easter Rising |
Great Britain |
| 1916 |
49.7 |
Establishment of BMW (Bayerische Motoren Werke AG) |
Companies |
| 08.03.1917 - 12.03.1917 |
50.4 |
Russian February Revolution |
Russia |
| 29.05.1917 - 22.11.1963 |
50.6 - 97.1 |
Life of John F. Kennedy |
Personalities |
| 1917 - 1923 |
50.7 - 56.7 |
Russian Civil War |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 07.11.1917 |
51.0 |
Founding of the Russian Socialist Federal Soviet Republic |
Russia |
| 09.11.1918 |
52.1 |
German Revolution |
Germany |
| 23.11.1918 - 14.05.1945 |
52.1 - 78.6 |
President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints: Heber J. Grant |
Mormon History |
| 11.02.1919 - 28.02.1925 |
52.3 - 58.4 |
President of Germany: Friedrich Ebert |
Germany |
| 13.02.1919 - 20.06.1919 |
52.3 - 52.7 |
Chancellor of Germany: Philipp Scheidemann |
Germany |
| 06.05.1919 - 08.08.1919 |
52.5 - 52.8 |
Third Anglo-Afghan War |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 1919 |
52.7 |
First transatlantic zeppelin flight |
Aviation History |
| 11.08.1919 |
52.8 |
Adoption of the Weimar Constitution |
Germany |
| 10.09.1919 |
52.9 |
Treaty of Saint-Germain |
Italy |
| 04.03.1921 - 02.08.1923 |
54.4 - 56.8 |
President of the United States of America: Warren G. Harding |
USA - Presidents |
| 06.12.1921 |
55.1 |
Anglo-Irish Treaty |
Great Britain |
| 28.10.1922 |
56.0 |
Benito Mussolini becomes Prime Minister of Italy |
Italy |
| 02.08.1923 - 04.03.1929 |
56.8 - 62.4 |
President of the United States of America: Calvin Coolidge |
USA - Presidents |
| 13.08.1923 - 23.11.1923 |
56.8 - 57.1 |
Chancellor of Germany: Gustav Stresemann |
Germany |
| 13.09.1923 |
56.9 |
Establishment of the military dictatorship |
Spain |
| 12.05.1925 - 02.08.1934 |
58.6 - 67.8 |
President of Germany: Paul von Hindenburg |
Germany |
| 14.06.1928 - 09.10.1967 |
61.7 - 101.0 |
Life of Che Guevara |
Personalities |
| 1928 |
61.7 |
Discovery of penicillin |
Medicine |
| 15.01.1929 - 04.04.1968 |
62.2 - 101.5 |
Life of Martin Luther King |
Personalities |
| 04.03.1929 - 04.03.1933 |
62.4 - 66.4 |
President of the United States of America: Herbert Hoover |
USA - Presidents |
| 25.10.1929 |
63.0 |
'Black Friday' |
USA |
| 22.01.1930 - 01.05.1931 |
63.3 - 64.5 |
Construction period of the Empire State Building |
Monuments |
| 30.03.1930 - 30.05.1932 |
63.4 - 65.6 |
Chancellor of Germany: Heinrich Brüning |
Germany |
| 05.08.1930 - 25.08.2012 |
63.8 - 145.9 |
Life of Neil Armstrong |
Personalities |
| 14.04.1931 |
64.5 |
Proclamation of the Second Spanish Republic |
Spain |
| 1931 |
64.7 |
Establishment of Porsche |
Companies |
| 11.12.1931 |
65.1 |
Statute of Westminster |
Great Britain |
| 01.06.1932 - 17.11.1932 |
65.6 - 66.1 |
Chancellor of Germany: Franz von Papen |
Germany |
| 03.12.1932 - 28.01.1933 |
66.1 - 66.3 |
Chancellor of Germany: Kurt von Schleicher |
Germany |
| 30.01.1933 - 30.04.1945 |
66.3 - 78.5 |
Chancellor of Germany: Adolf Hitler |
Germany |
| 28.02.1933 - 23.03.1933 |
66.4 |
'Reichstag Fire Decree' and 'Enabling Act': De facto end of the Weimar Republic & beginning of Nazi dictatorship |
Germany |
| 04.03.1933 - 12.04.1945 |
66.4 - 78.5 |
President of the United States of America: Franklin D. Roosevelt |
USA - Presidents |
| 1935 |
68.7 |
Italy occupies Ethiopia, the last remaining free territory in Africa. |
Discoveries & Colonization |
| 20.01.1936 - 11.12.1936 |
69.3 - 70.2 |
King of the United Kingdom: Edward VIII |
Great Britain |
| 11.12.1936 - 06.02.1952 |
70.2 - 85.3 |
King of the United Kingdom: George VI |
Great Britain |
| 11.12.1936 - 06.02.1952 |
70.2 - 85.3 |
Queen consort of the United Kingdom: Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon 'Queen Mum' |
Great Britain |
| 06.05.1937 |
70.6 |
Hindenburg disaster |
Aviation History |
| 1937 |
70.7 |
Construction period of the Golden Gate Bridge |
Monuments |
| 27.08.1939 |
72.9 |
First flight of turbine-equipped jet plane |
Aviation History |
| 01.09.1939 - 02.09.1945 |
72.9 - 78.9 |
World War II |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 14.05.1940 |
73.6 |
Establishment of McDonald's |
Companies |
| 07.12.1941 |
75.1 |
Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor |
USA |
| 12.04.1945 - 20.01.1953 |
78.5 - 86.3 |
President of the United States of America: Harry S. Truman |
USA - Presidents |
| 25.04.1945 |
78.5 |
Establishment of the United Nations |
World |
| 08.05.1945 |
78.6 |
Unconditional surrender of the German Empire |
Germany |
| 21.05.1945 - 04.04.1951 |
78.6 - 84.5 |
President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints: George Albert Smith |
Mormon History |
| 06.08.1945 - 09.08.1945 |
78.8 |
Nuclear bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki |
USA |
| 14.10.1946 |
80.0 |
Start of the 4th French Republic |
France |
| 14.10.1947 |
81.0 |
First supersonic flight of the Bell X-1 |
Aviation History |
| 04.09.1948 - 30.04.1980 |
81.9 - 113.6 |
Queen of the Netherlands: Juliana |
Netherlands |
| 21.12.1948 |
82.2 |
Republic of Ireland Act |
Great Britain |
| 23.05.1949 |
82.6 |
Establishment of the Federal Republic of Germany |
Germany |
| 1949 |
82.7 |
Establishment of Circuit City |
Companies |
| 15.09.1949 - 16.10.1963 |
82.9 - 97.0 |
Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany: Konrad Adenauer |
Germany - Chancellors |
| 07.10.1949 |
83.0 |
Establishment of the German Democratic Republic |
Germany |
| 11.10.1949 - 07.09.1960 |
83.0 - 93.9 |
Wilhelm Pieck - State President of the GDR |
GDR |
| 17.06.1950 |
83.7 |
First successful organ transplant |
Medicine |
| 1950 - 1953 |
83.7 - 86.7 |
Korean War |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 09.04.1951 - 18.01.1970 |
84.5 - 103.3 |
President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints: David O. McKay |
Mormon History |
| 22.01.1952 |
85.3 |
First jet airliner in regular commercial use |
Aviation History |
| 06.02.1952 - Heute |
85.3 |
Queen of the United Kingdom: Elizabeth II |
Great Britain |
| 20.01.1953 - 20.01.1961 |
86.3 - 94.3 |
President of the United States of America: Dwight D. Eisenhower |
USA - Presidents |
| 17.06.1953 |
86.7 |
Uprising of June 17, 1953 in East Germany |
Germany |
| 04.07.1954 |
87.7 |
FIFA World Cup Champion 1954: Germany |
Germany |
| 24.02.1955 - 05.10.2011 |
88.4 - 145.0 |
Life of Steven 'Steve' Paul Jobs |
Personalities |
| 04.10.1957 |
91.0 |
Sputnik launched: first artificial satellite in Earth's orbit |
Technology |
| 05.10.1958 |
92.0 |
Start of the 5th French Republic |
France |
| 08.01.1959 - 28.04.1969 |
92.2 - 102.6 |
President of France: Charles de Gaulle |
France |
| 1959 - 30.04.1975 |
92.7 - 108.6 |
Vietnam War |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 1960 - 1973 |
93.7 - 106.7 |
Walter Ulbricht - Chairman of the State Council of the GDR |
GDR |
| 20.01.1961 - 22.11.1963 |
94.3 - 97.1 |
President of the United States of America: John F. Kennedy |
USA - Presidents |
| 12.04.1961 |
94.5 |
First human in space |
Technology |
| 25.05.1961 - 24.07.1975 |
94.6 - 108.8 |
Apollo Space Program |
Technology |
| 13.08.1961 |
94.8 |
Construction of the Berlin Wall |
Germany |
| 11.10.1962 - 08.12.1965 |
96.0 - 99.2 |
Second Vatican Council |
World |
| 16.10.1962 - 28.10.1962 |
96.0 |
Cuban Missile Crisis ('October Crisis') |
USA |
| 16.10.1963 - 01.12.1966 |
97.0 - 100.1 |
Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany: Ludwig Erhard |
Germany - Chancellors |
| 22.11.1963 - 20.01.1969 |
97.1 - 102.3 |
President of the United States of America: Lyndon B. Johnson |
USA - Presidents |
| 1966 - 1973 |
99.7 - 106.7 |
Construction period of the World Trade Center |
Monuments |
Paul Schmelzer
Anna Kratzwald (Dalmatiner)
Birth
