15.12.1832 - 27.12.1923 |
(-65.1) - 26.0 |
Life of Gustave Eiffel |
Personalities |
17.03.1834 - 06.03.1900 |
(-63.8) - 2.2 |
Life of Gottlieb Wilhelm Daimler |
Personalities |
20.06.1837 - 22.01.1901 |
(-60.6) - 3.1 |
Queen of the United Kingdom: Victoria |
Great Britain |
08.07.1838 - 08.03.1917 |
(-59.5) - 19.2 |
Life of Ferdinand von Zeppelin |
Personalities |
11.12.1843 - 27.05.1910 |
(-54.1) - 12.4 |
Life of Robert Koch |
Personalities |
25.11.1844 - 04.04.1929 |
(-53.1) - 31.3 |
Life of Carl Benz |
Personalities |
11.02.1847 - 18.10.1931 |
(-50.9) - 33.8 |
Life of Thomas Alva Edison |
Personalities |
03.03.1847 - 01.08.1922 |
(-50.9) - 24.6 |
Life of Alexander Graham Bell |
Personalities |
06.05.1856 - 23.09.1939 |
(-41.7) - 41.7 |
Life of Sigmund Freud |
Personalities |
23.09.1861 - 12.03.1942 |
(-36.3) - 44.2 |
Life of Robert Bosch |
Personalities |
30.07.1863 - 07.04.1947 |
(-34.5) - 49.3 |
Life of Henry Ford |
Personalities |
16.10.1863 - 17.03.1937 |
(-34.2) - 39.2 |
Life of Joseph Austen Chamberlain |
Personalities |
22.04.1870 - 21.01.1924 |
(-27.7) - 26.1 |
Life of Vladimir Lenin |
Personalities |
30.11.1874 - 24.01.1965 |
(-23.1) - 67.1 |
Life of Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill |
Personalities |
05.01.1876 - 19.04.1967 |
(-22.0) - 69.3 |
Life of Konrad Adenauer |
Personalities |
14.03.1879 - 18.04.1955 |
(-18.8) - 57.3 |
Life of Albert Einstein |
Personalities |
06.08.1881 - 11.03.1955 |
(-16.4) - 57.2 |
Life of Alexander Fleming |
Personalities |
21.01.1884 - 12.12.1963 |
(-14.0) - 66.0 |
Life of Theodor Heuss |
Personalities |
15.06.1888 - 09.11.1918 |
(-9.6) - 20.9 |
German Emperor: Wilhelm II |
Germany |
07.04.1889 - 02.09.1898 |
(-8.7) - 0.7 |
President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints: Wilford Woodruff |
Mormon History |
20.04.1889 - 30.04.1945 |
(-8.7) - 47.4 |
Life of Adolf Hitler |
Personalities |
14.10.1890 - 28.03.1969 |
(-7.2) - 71.3 |
Life of Dwight David Eisenhower |
Personalities |
23.11.1890 - 04.09.1948 |
(-7.1) - 50.7 |
Queen of the Netherlands: Wilhelmina |
Netherlands |
04.03.1897 - 14.09.1901 |
(-0.8) - 3.7 |
President of the United States of America: William McKinley |
USA - Presidents |
13.09.1898 - 10.10.1901 |
0.7 - 3.8 |
President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints: Lorenzo Snow |
Mormon History |
11.10.1899 - 31.05.1902 |
1.8 - 4.4 |
Second Boer War ('Second South African War') |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
08.09.1900 |
2.7 |
Galveston hurricane; destruction of the city of Galveston, Texas |
Disasters |
22.01.1901 - 06.05.1910 |
3.1 - 12.3 |
King of the United Kingdom: Edward VII |
Great Britain |
14.09.1901 - 04.03.1909 |
3.7 - 11.2 |
President of the United States of America: Theodore Roosevelt |
USA - Presidents |
17.10.1901 - 19.11.1918 |
3.8 - 20.9 |
President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints: Joseph F. Smith Sr. |
Mormon History |
19.10.1901 |
3.8 |
First motorized zeppelin flight |
Aviation History |
05.12.1901 - 15.12.1966 |
3.9 - 69.0 |
Life of Walter Elias Disney |
Personalities |
16.06.1903 |
5.5 |
Establishment of Ford Motor Company |
Companies |
16.12.1903 |
6.0 |
First controlled powered human flight by the Wright brothers |
Aviation History |
1904 - 1908 |
6.5 - 10.5 |
Herero and Namaqua Uprising ('Herero and Namaqua Genocide') |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
18.04.1906 |
8.3 |
San Francisco earthquake of 1906 |
Disasters |
1907 |
9.5 |
First helicopter flight |
Aviation History |
16.09.1908 |
10.7 |
Establishment of General Motors |
Companies |
27.09.1908 |
10.7 |
Introduction of the Ford Model T |
Automobile History |
04.03.1909 - 04.03.1913 |
11.2 - 15.2 |
President of the United States of America: William Howard Taft |
USA - Presidents |
1909 |
11.5 |
Discovery of antibiotics |
Medicine |
06.05.1910 - 20.01.1936 |
12.3 - 38.1 |
King of the United Kingdom: George V |
Great Britain |
30.05.1911 |
13.4 |
First 'Indy 500' race in Indianapolis |
Automobile History |
30.05.1911 |
13.4 |
One in seven families in the US owns a car |
Automobile History |
23.10.1911 |
13.8 |
First military use of an airplane |
Aviation History |
04.03.1913 - 04.03.1921 |
15.2 - 23.2 |
President of the United States of America: Woodrow Wilson |
USA - Presidents |
14.06.1914 - 15.06.1914 |
16.5 |
First transatlantic flight |
Aviation History |
28.06.1914 - 11.11.1918 |
16.5 - 20.9 |
World War I |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
06.08.1914 - 25.11.1918 |
16.6 - 20.9 |
East African Campaign (World War I) |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
13.09.1914 - 09.07.1915 |
16.7 - 17.5 |
South-West Africa Campaign (World War I) |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
14.10.1914 - 24.10.1914 |
16.8 |
Maritz Rebellion |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
24.04.1916 - 30.04.1916 |
18.3 |
Easter Rising |
Great Britain |
1916 |
18.5 |
Establishment of BMW (Bayerische Motoren Werke AG) |
Companies |
08.03.1917 - 12.03.1917 |
19.2 |
Russian February Revolution |
Russia |
29.05.1917 - 22.11.1963 |
19.4 - 65.9 |
Life of John F. Kennedy |
Personalities |
1917 - 1923 |
19.5 - 25.5 |
Russian Civil War |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
07.11.1917 |
19.9 |
Founding of the Russian Socialist Federal Soviet Republic |
Russia |
09.11.1918 |
20.9 |
German Revolution |
Germany |
23.11.1918 - 14.05.1945 |
20.9 - 47.4 |
President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints: Heber J. Grant |
Mormon History |
11.02.1919 - 28.02.1925 |
21.1 - 27.2 |
President of Germany: Friedrich Ebert |
Germany |
13.02.1919 - 20.06.1919 |
21.1 - 21.5 |
Chancellor of Germany: Philipp Scheidemann |
Germany |
06.05.1919 - 08.08.1919 |
21.4 - 21.6 |
Third Anglo-Afghan War |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
1919 |
21.5 |
First transatlantic zeppelin flight |
Aviation History |
11.08.1919 |
21.6 |
Adoption of the Weimar Constitution |
Germany |
10.09.1919 |
21.7 |
Treaty of Saint-Germain |
Italy |
04.03.1921 - 02.08.1923 |
23.2 - 25.6 |
President of the United States of America: Warren G. Harding |
USA - Presidents |
06.12.1921 |
23.9 |
Anglo-Irish Treaty |
Great Britain |
28.10.1922 |
24.8 |
Benito Mussolini becomes Prime Minister of Italy |
Italy |
02.08.1923 - 04.03.1929 |
25.6 - 31.2 |
President of the United States of America: Calvin Coolidge |
USA - Presidents |
13.08.1923 - 23.11.1923 |
25.6 - 25.9 |
Chancellor of Germany: Gustav Stresemann |
Germany |
13.09.1923 |
25.7 |
Establishment of the military dictatorship |
Spain |
12.05.1925 - 02.08.1934 |
27.4 - 36.6 |
President of Germany: Paul von Hindenburg |
Germany |
14.06.1928 - 09.10.1967 |
30.5 - 69.8 |
Life of Che Guevara |
Personalities |
1928 |
30.5 |
Discovery of penicillin |
Medicine |
15.01.1929 - 04.04.1968 |
31.1 - 70.3 |
Life of Martin Luther King |
Personalities |
04.03.1929 - 04.03.1933 |
31.2 - 35.2 |
President of the United States of America: Herbert Hoover |
USA - Presidents |
25.10.1929 |
31.8 |
'Black Friday' |
USA |
22.01.1930 - 01.05.1931 |
32.1 - 33.3 |
Construction period of the Empire State Building |
Monuments |
30.03.1930 - 30.05.1932 |
32.3 - 34.4 |
Chancellor of Germany: Heinrich Brüning |
Germany |
05.08.1930 - 25.08.2012 |
32.6 - 114.7 |
Life of Neil Armstrong |
Personalities |
14.04.1931 |
33.3 |
Proclamation of the Second Spanish Republic |
Spain |
1931 |
33.5 |
Establishment of Porsche |
Companies |
11.12.1931 |
34.0 |
Statute of Westminster |
Great Britain |
01.06.1932 - 17.11.1932 |
34.4 - 34.9 |
Chancellor of Germany: Franz von Papen |
Germany |
03.12.1932 - 28.01.1933 |
34.9 - 35.1 |
Chancellor of Germany: Kurt von Schleicher |
Germany |
30.01.1933 - 30.04.1945 |
35.1 - 47.4 |
Chancellor of Germany: Adolf Hitler |
Germany |
28.02.1933 - 23.03.1933 |
35.2 |
'Reichstag Fire Decree' and 'Enabling Act': De facto end of the Weimar Republic & beginning of Nazi dictatorship |
Germany |
04.03.1933 - 12.04.1945 |
35.2 - 47.3 |
President of the United States of America: Franklin D. Roosevelt |
USA - Presidents |
1935 |
37.5 |
Italy occupies Ethiopia, the last remaining free territory in Africa. |
Discoveries & Colonization |
20.01.1936 - 11.12.1936 |
38.1 - 39.0 |
King of the United Kingdom: Edward VIII |
Great Britain |
11.12.1936 - 06.02.1952 |
39.0 - 54.1 |
King of the United Kingdom: George VI |
Great Britain |
11.12.1936 - 06.02.1952 |
39.0 - 54.1 |
Queen consort of the United Kingdom: Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon 'Queen Mum' |
Great Britain |
06.05.1937 |
39.4 |
Hindenburg disaster |
Aviation History |
1937 |
39.5 |
Construction period of the Golden Gate Bridge |
Monuments |
27.08.1939 |
41.7 |
First flight of turbine-equipped jet plane |
Aviation History |
01.09.1939 - 02.09.1945 |
41.7 - 47.7 |
World War II |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
14.05.1940 |
42.4 |
Establishment of McDonald's |
Companies |
07.12.1941 |
44.0 |
Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor |
USA |
12.04.1945 - 20.01.1953 |
47.3 - 55.1 |
President of the United States of America: Harry S. Truman |
USA - Presidents |
25.04.1945 |
47.3 |
Establishment of the United Nations |
World |
08.05.1945 |
47.4 |
Unconditional surrender of the German Empire |
Germany |
21.05.1945 - 04.04.1951 |
47.4 - 53.3 |
President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints: George Albert Smith |
Mormon History |
06.08.1945 - 09.08.1945 |
47.6 |
Nuclear bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki |
USA |
14.10.1946 |
48.8 |
Start of the 4th French Republic |
France |
14.10.1947 |
49.8 |
First supersonic flight of the Bell X-1 |
Aviation History |
04.09.1948 - 30.04.1980 |
50.7 - 82.4 |
Queen of the Netherlands: Juliana |
Netherlands |
21.12.1948 |
51.0 |
Republic of Ireland Act |
Great Britain |
23.05.1949 |
51.4 |
Establishment of the Federal Republic of Germany |
Germany |
1949 |
51.5 |
Establishment of Circuit City |
Companies |
15.09.1949 - 16.10.1963 |
51.7 - 65.8 |
Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany: Konrad Adenauer |
Germany - Chancellors |
07.10.1949 |
51.8 |
Establishment of the German Democratic Republic |
Germany |
11.10.1949 - 07.09.1960 |
51.8 - 62.7 |
Wilhelm Pieck - State President of the GDR |
GDR |
17.06.1950 |
52.5 |
First successful organ transplant |
Medicine |
1950 - 1953 |
52.5 - 55.5 |
Korean War |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
09.04.1951 - 18.01.1970 |
53.3 - 72.1 |
President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints: David O. McKay |
Mormon History |
22.01.1952 |
54.1 |
First jet airliner in regular commercial use |
Aviation History |
06.02.1952 - Heute |
54.1 |
Queen of the United Kingdom: Elizabeth II |
Great Britain |
20.01.1953 - 20.01.1961 |
55.1 - 63.1 |
President of the United States of America: Dwight D. Eisenhower |
USA - Presidents |
17.06.1953 |
55.5 |
Uprising of June 17, 1953 in East Germany |
Germany |
04.07.1954 |
56.5 |
FIFA World Cup Champion 1954: Germany |
Germany |
24.02.1955 - 05.10.2011 |
57.2 - 113.8 |
Life of Steven 'Steve' Paul Jobs |
Personalities |
04.10.1957 |
59.8 |
Sputnik launched: first artificial satellite in Earth's orbit |
Technology |
05.10.1958 |
60.8 |
Start of the 5th French Republic |
France |
08.01.1959 - 28.04.1969 |
61.1 - 71.4 |
President of France: Charles de Gaulle |
France |
1959 - 30.04.1975 |
61.5 - 77.4 |
Vietnam War |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
1960 - 1973 |
62.5 - 75.5 |
Walter Ulbricht - Chairman of the State Council of the GDR |
GDR |
20.01.1961 - 22.11.1963 |
63.1 - 65.9 |
President of the United States of America: John F. Kennedy |
USA - Presidents |
12.04.1961 |
63.3 |
First human in space |
Technology |
25.05.1961 - 24.07.1975 |
63.4 - 77.6 |
Apollo Space Program |
Technology |
13.08.1961 |
63.7 |
Construction of the Berlin Wall |
Germany |
11.10.1962 - 08.12.1965 |
64.8 - 68.0 |
Second Vatican Council |
World |
16.10.1962 - 28.10.1962 |
64.8 - 64.9 |
Cuban Missile Crisis ('October Crisis') |
USA |
16.10.1963 - 01.12.1966 |
65.8 - 69.0 |
Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany: Ludwig Erhard |
Germany - Chancellors |
22.11.1963 - 20.01.1969 |
65.9 - 71.1 |
President of the United States of America: Lyndon B. Johnson |
USA - Presidents |
1966 - 1973 |
68.5 - 75.5 |
Construction period of the World Trade Center |
Monuments |
01.12.1966 - 21.10.1969 |
69.0 - 71.8 |
Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany: Kurt Georg Kiesinger |
Germany - Chancellors |
1967 |
69.5 |
Founding of the European Community (EC) |
European Union |
20.01.1969 - 09.08.1974 |
71.1 - 76.6 |
President of the United States of America: Richard Nixon |
USA - Presidents |
20.06.1969 - 02.04.1974 |
71.5 - 76.3 |
President of France: Georges Pompidou |
France |
20.07.1969 |
71.6 |
First man on the moon |
Technology |
21.10.1969 - 07.05.1974 |
71.8 - 76.4 |
Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany: Willy Brandt |
Germany - Chancellors |
31.10.1969 |
71.9 |
Establishment of Wal Mart |
Companies |
23.01.1970 - 02.07.1972 |
72.1 - 74.5 |
President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints: Joseph Fielding Smith |
Mormon History |
07.07.1972 - 26.12.1973 |
74.6 - 76.0 |
President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints: Joseph Fielding Smith |
Mormon History |
21.07.1972 |
74.6 |
Bloody Friday |
Great Britain |
1973 - 1976 |
75.5 - 78.5 |
Willi Stoph - Chairman of the Council of State of the GDR |
GDR |
30.12.1973 - 05.11.1985 |
76.0 - 87.9 |
President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints: Spencer W. Kimball |
Mormon History |
16.05.1974 - 01.10.1982 |
76.4 - 84.8 |
Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany: Helmut Schmidt |
Germany - Chancellors |
27.05.1974 - 21.05.1981 |
76.4 - 83.4 |
President of France: Valéry Giscard d'Estaing |
France |
07.07.1974 |
76.6 |
FIFA World Cup Champion 1974: Germany |
Germany |
08.07.1974 - 08.07.1990 |
76.6 - 92.6 |
FIFA World Cup Champion 1990: Germany |
Germany |
13.07.1974 - 13.07.2014 |
76.6 - 116.6 |
FIFA World Cup Champion 2014: Germany |
Germany |
09.08.1974 - 20.01.1977 |
76.6 - 79.1 |
President of the United States of America: Gerald Ford |
USA - Presidents |
20.11.1975 |
77.9 |
Franco's Death, end of the Francoist regime |
Spain |
01.04.1976 |
78.3 |
Apple Computer is established |
Apple Inc. - Corporate History |
1976 - 1989 |
78.5 - 91.6 |
Erich Honecker - Chairman of the Council of State of the GDR |
GDR |
20.01.1977 - 20.01.1981 |
79.1 - 83.1 |
President of the United States of America: Jimmy Carter |
USA - Presidents |
16.04.1977 |
79.3 |
Introduction of the Apple II |
Apple Inc. - Corporate History |
27.12.1979 - 15.02.1989 |
82.0 - 91.2 |
Soviet-Afghan War (1979-1989) |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
30.04.1980 - 30.04.2013 |
82.4 - 115.4 |
Queen of the Netherlands: Beatrix |
Netherlands |
22.09.1980 - 20.08.1988 |
82.8 - 90.7 |
First Gulf War ('Iran-Iraq War') |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
20.01.1981 - 20.01.1989 |
83.1 - 91.1 |
President of the United States of America: Ronald Reagan |
USA - Presidents |
21.05.1981 - 17.05.1995 |
83.4 - 97.4 |
President of France: François Mitterrand |
France |
02.04.1982 - 14.06.1982 |
84.3 - 84.5 |
Falklands War |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
01.10.1982 - 27.10.1998 |
84.8 - 100.9 |
Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany: Helmut Kohl |
Germany - Chancellors |
19.01.1983 |
85.1 |
Introduction of the Apple Lisa |
Apple Inc. - Corporate History |
1983 |
85.5 |
Discovery of HIV |
Medicine |
24.01.1984 |
86.1 |
Introduction of the Macintosh |
Apple Inc. - Corporate History |
10.11.1985 - 30.05.1994 |
87.9 - 96.5 |
President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints: Ezra Taft Benson |
Mormon History |
20.01.1989 - 20.01.1993 |
91.1 - 95.1 |
President of the United States of America: George H. W. Bush |
USA - Presidents |
18.10.1989 - 03.12.1989 |
91.9 - 92.0 |
Egon Krenz - Chairman of the Council of State of the GDR |
GDR |
02.08.1990 - 28.02.1991 |
92.6 - 93.2 |
Second Gulf War ('Operation Desert Shield', 'Operation Desert Storm') |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
03.10.1990 |
92.8 |
German reunification |
Germany |
08.12.1991 |
94.0 |
Signing of the Belavezha Accords, declaring the Soviet Union dissolved |
Russia |
1992 - 1996 |
94.6 - 98.6 |
Afghan Civil War |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
20.01.1993 - 20.01.2001 |
95.1 - 103.1 |
President of the United States of America: Bill Clinton |
USA - Presidents |
04.08.1993 |
95.6 |
Introduction of the Apple Newton |
Apple Inc. - Corporate History |
01.11.1993 |
95.9 |
Founding of the European Union (EU) |
European Union |
05.06.1994 - 03.03.1995 |
96.5 - 97.2 |
President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints: Howard W. Hunter |
Mormon History |
1994 - 1996 |
96.6 - 98.6 |
First Chechen War ('War in Chechnya') |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
17.01.1995 |
97.1 |
Kobe earthquake |
Disasters |
12.03.1995 - 27.01.2008 |
97.3 - 110.1 |
President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints: Gordon B. Hinckley |
Mormon History |
17.05.1995 - 16.05.2007 |
97.4 - 109.4 |
President of France: Jacques Chirac |
France |