12.02.1809 - 19.04.1882 |
(-72.4) - 0.8 |
Life of Charles Robert Darwin |
Personalities |
13.12.1816 - 06.12.1892 |
(-64.6) - 11.4 |
Life of Werner von Siemens |
Personalities |
30.12.1819 - 20.09.1890 |
(-61.5) - 9.2 |
Life of Theodor Fontane |
Personalities |
15.12.1832 - 27.12.1923 |
(-48.6) - 42.5 |
Life of Gustave Eiffel |
Personalities |
17.03.1834 - 06.03.1900 |
(-47.3) - 18.7 |
Life of Gottlieb Wilhelm Daimler |
Personalities |
20.06.1837 - 22.01.1901 |
(-44.1) - 19.6 |
Queen of the United Kingdom: Victoria |
Great Britain |
08.07.1838 - 08.03.1917 |
(-43.0) - 35.7 |
Life of Ferdinand von Zeppelin |
Personalities |
11.12.1843 - 27.05.1910 |
(-37.6) - 28.9 |
Life of Robert Koch |
Personalities |
25.11.1844 - 04.04.1929 |
(-36.6) - 47.8 |
Life of Carl Benz |
Personalities |
11.02.1847 - 18.10.1931 |
(-34.4) - 50.3 |
Life of Thomas Alva Edison |
Personalities |
03.03.1847 - 01.08.1922 |
(-34.4) - 41.1 |
Life of Alexander Graham Bell |
Personalities |
17.03.1849 - 23.11.1890 |
(-32.3) - 9.4 |
King of the Netherlands: Willem III |
Netherlands |
06.05.1856 - 23.09.1939 |
(-25.2) - 58.3 |
Life of Sigmund Freud |
Personalities |
23.09.1861 - 12.03.1942 |
(-19.8) - 60.7 |
Life of Robert Bosch |
Personalities |
30.07.1863 - 07.04.1947 |
(-17.9) - 65.8 |
Life of Henry Ford |
Personalities |
16.10.1863 - 17.03.1937 |
(-17.7) - 55.7 |
Life of Joseph Austen Chamberlain |
Personalities |
05.09.1869 - 1884 |
(-11.8) - 3.0 |
Construction period of Neuschwanstein Castle |
Monuments |
22.04.1870 - 21.01.1924 |
(-11.2) - 42.6 |
Life of Vladimir Lenin |
Personalities |
18.01.1871 - 09.03.1888 |
(-10.5) - 6.7 |
German Emperor: Wilhelm I |
Germany |
04.05.1871 - 20.03.1890 |
(-10.2) - 8.7 |
Chancellor of the German Empire: Otto von Bismarck |
Germany |
30.11.1874 - 24.01.1965 |
(-6.6) - 83.6 |
Life of Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill |
Personalities |
05.01.1876 - 19.04.1967 |
(-5.5) - 85.9 |
Life of Konrad Adenauer |
Personalities |
1878 - 1881 |
(-3.0) |
Second Anglo-Afghan War |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
14.03.1879 - 18.04.1955 |
(-2.3) - 73.8 |
Life of Albert Einstein |
Personalities |
10.10.1880 - 25.07.1887 |
(-0.7) - 6.1 |
President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints: John Taylor |
Mormon History |
04.03.1881 - 19.09.1881 |
(-0.3) - 0.2 |
President of the United States of America: James A. Garfield |
USA - Presidents |
06.08.1881 - 11.03.1955 |
0.1 - 73.7 |
Life of Alexander Fleming |
Personalities |
19.09.1881 - 04.03.1885 |
0.2 - 3.7 |
President of the United States of America: Chester A. Arthur |
USA - Presidents |
1882 |
1.0 |
Establishment of Peugeot |
Companies |
1882 |
1.0 |
Britain occupies Egypt |
Discoveries & Colonization |
21.01.1884 - 12.12.1963 |
2.6 - 82.5 |
Life of Theodor Heuss |
Personalities |
1884 |
3.0 |
First controlled flight of a Zeppelin |
Aviation History |
15.11.1884 - 26.02.1885 |
3.4 - 3.7 |
Berlin Conference ('Congo Conference') |
Discoveries & Colonization |
04.03.1885 - 04.03.1889 |
3.7 - 7.7 |
President of the United States of America: Grover Cleveland |
USA - Presidents |
1886 |
5.0 |
Establishment of the Coca Cola Company |
Companies |
1886 |
5.0 |
Establishment of Johnson & Johnson |
Companies |
28.10.1886 |
5.3 |
Construction period of the Statue of Liberty |
Monuments |
1887 - 1889 |
6.0 - 8.0 |
Construction period of the Eiffel Tower |
Monuments |
1887 |
6.0 |
Huang He flood |
Disasters |
09.03.1888 - 15.06.1888 |
6.7 - 7.0 |
German Emperor: Friedrich III |
Germany |
15.06.1888 - 09.11.1918 |
7.0 - 37.4 |
German Emperor: Wilhelm II |
Germany |
1888 |
7.0 |
First commercially manufactured automobile by Karl Benz |
Automobile History |
04.03.1889 - 04.03.1893 |
7.7 - 11.7 |
President of the United States of America: Benjamin Harrison |
USA - Presidents |
07.04.1889 - 02.09.1898 |
7.8 - 17.2 |
President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints: Wilford Woodruff |
Mormon History |
20.04.1889 - 30.04.1945 |
7.8 - 63.9 |
Life of Adolf Hitler |
Personalities |
1890 |
9.0 |
Establishment of Daimler |
Companies |
1890 |
9.0 |
Establishment of General Electric |
Companies |
14.10.1890 - 28.03.1969 |
9.3 - 87.8 |
Life of Dwight David Eisenhower |
Personalities |
23.11.1890 - 04.09.1948 |
9.4 - 67.2 |
Queen of the Netherlands: Wilhelmina |
Netherlands |
04.03.1893 - 04.03.1897 |
11.7 - 15.7 |
President of the United States of America: Grover Cleveland |
USA - Presidents |
06.04.1893 |
11.8 |
Dedication of the Salt Lake Temple |
Mormon History |
1896 |
15.0 |
Establishment of IBM (International Business Machines Corp., formerly 'Computing Tabulating Recording Corp. (CTR)') |
Companies |
1896 - 1897 |
15.0 - 16.0 |
Matabele Wars ('Ndebele Matabele War') |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
04.03.1897 - 14.09.1901 |
15.7 - 20.2 |
President of the United States of America: William McKinley |
USA - Presidents |
13.09.1898 - 10.10.1901 |
17.2 - 20.3 |
President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints: Lorenzo Snow |
Mormon History |
11.10.1899 - 31.05.1902 |
18.3 - 20.9 |
Second Boer War ('Second South African War') |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
08.09.1900 |
19.2 |
Galveston hurricane; destruction of the city of Galveston, Texas |
Disasters |
22.01.1901 - 06.05.1910 |
19.6 - 28.9 |
King of the United Kingdom: Edward VII |
Great Britain |
14.09.1901 - 04.03.1909 |
20.2 - 27.7 |
President of the United States of America: Theodore Roosevelt |
USA - Presidents |
17.10.1901 - 19.11.1918 |
20.3 - 37.4 |
President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints: Joseph F. Smith Sr. |
Mormon History |
19.10.1901 |
20.3 |
First motorized zeppelin flight |
Aviation History |
05.12.1901 - 15.12.1966 |
20.4 - 85.5 |
Life of Walter Elias Disney |
Personalities |
16.06.1903 |
22.0 |
Establishment of Ford Motor Company |
Companies |
16.12.1903 |
22.5 |
First controlled powered human flight by the Wright brothers |
Aviation History |
1904 - 1908 |
23.0 - 27.0 |
Herero and Namaqua Uprising ('Herero and Namaqua Genocide') |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
18.04.1906 |
24.8 |
San Francisco earthquake of 1906 |
Disasters |
1907 |
26.0 |
First helicopter flight |
Aviation History |
16.09.1908 |
27.2 |
Establishment of General Motors |
Companies |
27.09.1908 |
27.3 |
Introduction of the Ford Model T |
Automobile History |
04.03.1909 - 04.03.1913 |
27.7 - 31.7 |
President of the United States of America: William Howard Taft |
USA - Presidents |
1909 |
28.0 |
Discovery of antibiotics |
Medicine |
06.05.1910 - 20.01.1936 |
28.9 - 54.6 |
King of the United Kingdom: George V |
Great Britain |
30.05.1911 |
29.9 |
First 'Indy 500' race in Indianapolis |
Automobile History |
30.05.1911 |
29.9 |
One in seven families in the US owns a car |
Automobile History |
23.10.1911 |
30.3 |
First military use of an airplane |
Aviation History |
04.03.1913 - 04.03.1921 |
31.7 - 39.7 |
President of the United States of America: Woodrow Wilson |
USA - Presidents |
14.06.1914 - 15.06.1914 |
33.0 |
First transatlantic flight |
Aviation History |
28.06.1914 - 11.11.1918 |
33.0 - 37.4 |
World War I |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
06.08.1914 - 25.11.1918 |
33.1 - 37.4 |
East African Campaign (World War I) |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
13.09.1914 - 09.07.1915 |
33.2 - 34.0 |
South-West Africa Campaign (World War I) |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
14.10.1914 - 24.10.1914 |
33.3 |
Maritz Rebellion |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
24.04.1916 - 30.04.1916 |
34.8 - 34.9 |
Easter Rising |
Great Britain |
1916 |
35.0 |
Establishment of BMW (Bayerische Motoren Werke AG) |
Companies |
08.03.1917 - 12.03.1917 |
35.7 |
Russian February Revolution |
Russia |
29.05.1917 - 22.11.1963 |
35.9 - 82.4 |
Life of John F. Kennedy |
Personalities |
1917 - 1923 |
36.0 - 42.0 |
Russian Civil War |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
07.11.1917 |
36.4 |
Founding of the Russian Socialist Federal Soviet Republic |
Russia |
09.11.1918 |
37.4 |
German Revolution |
Germany |
23.11.1918 - 14.05.1945 |
37.4 - 63.9 |
President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints: Heber J. Grant |
Mormon History |
11.02.1919 - 28.02.1925 |
37.6 - 43.7 |
President of Germany: Friedrich Ebert |
Germany |
13.02.1919 - 20.06.1919 |
37.6 - 38.0 |
Chancellor of Germany: Philipp Scheidemann |
Germany |
06.05.1919 - 08.08.1919 |
37.9 - 38.1 |
Third Anglo-Afghan War |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
1919 |
38.0 |
First transatlantic zeppelin flight |
Aviation History |
11.08.1919 |
38.1 |
Adoption of the Weimar Constitution |
Germany |
10.09.1919 |
38.2 |
Treaty of Saint-Germain |
Italy |
04.03.1921 - 02.08.1923 |
39.7 - 42.1 |
President of the United States of America: Warren G. Harding |
USA - Presidents |
06.12.1921 |
40.5 |
Anglo-Irish Treaty |
Great Britain |
28.10.1922 |
41.4 |
Benito Mussolini becomes Prime Minister of Italy |
Italy |
02.08.1923 - 04.03.1929 |
42.1 - 47.7 |
President of the United States of America: Calvin Coolidge |
USA - Presidents |
13.08.1923 - 23.11.1923 |
42.1 - 42.4 |
Chancellor of Germany: Gustav Stresemann |
Germany |
13.09.1923 |
42.2 |
Establishment of the military dictatorship |
Spain |
12.05.1925 - 02.08.1934 |
43.9 - 53.1 |
President of Germany: Paul von Hindenburg |
Germany |
14.06.1928 - 09.10.1967 |
47.0 - 86.3 |
Life of Che Guevara |
Personalities |
1928 |
47.0 |
Discovery of penicillin |
Medicine |
15.01.1929 - 04.04.1968 |
47.6 - 86.8 |
Life of Martin Luther King |
Personalities |
04.03.1929 - 04.03.1933 |
47.7 - 51.7 |
President of the United States of America: Herbert Hoover |
USA - Presidents |
25.10.1929 |
48.4 |
'Black Friday' |
USA |
22.01.1930 - 01.05.1931 |
48.6 - 49.9 |
Construction period of the Empire State Building |
Monuments |
30.03.1930 - 30.05.1932 |
48.8 - 50.9 |
Chancellor of Germany: Heinrich Brüning |
Germany |
05.08.1930 - 25.08.2012 |
49.1 - 131.2 |
Life of Neil Armstrong |
Personalities |
14.04.1931 |
49.8 |
Proclamation of the Second Spanish Republic |
Spain |
1931 |
50.0 |
Establishment of Porsche |
Companies |
11.12.1931 |
50.5 |
Statute of Westminster |
Great Britain |
01.06.1932 - 17.11.1932 |
51.0 - 51.4 |
Chancellor of Germany: Franz von Papen |
Germany |
03.12.1932 - 28.01.1933 |
51.5 - 51.6 |
Chancellor of Germany: Kurt von Schleicher |
Germany |
30.01.1933 - 30.04.1945 |
51.6 - 63.9 |
Chancellor of Germany: Adolf Hitler |
Germany |
28.02.1933 - 23.03.1933 |
51.7 - 51.8 |
'Reichstag Fire Decree' and 'Enabling Act': De facto end of the Weimar Republic & beginning of Nazi dictatorship |
Germany |
04.03.1933 - 12.04.1945 |
51.7 - 63.8 |
President of the United States of America: Franklin D. Roosevelt |
USA - Presidents |
1935 |
54.0 |
Italy occupies Ethiopia, the last remaining free territory in Africa. |
Discoveries & Colonization |
20.01.1936 - 11.12.1936 |
54.6 - 55.5 |
King of the United Kingdom: Edward VIII |
Great Britain |
11.12.1936 - 06.02.1952 |
55.5 - 70.6 |
King of the United Kingdom: George VI |
Great Britain |
11.12.1936 - 06.02.1952 |
55.5 - 70.6 |
Queen consort of the United Kingdom: Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon 'Queen Mum' |
Great Britain |
06.05.1937 |
55.9 |
Hindenburg disaster |
Aviation History |
1937 |
56.0 |
Construction period of the Golden Gate Bridge |
Monuments |
27.08.1939 |
58.2 |
First flight of turbine-equipped jet plane |
Aviation History |
01.09.1939 - 02.09.1945 |
58.2 - 64.2 |
World War II |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
14.05.1940 |
58.9 |
Establishment of McDonald's |
Companies |
07.12.1941 |
60.5 |
Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor |
USA |
12.04.1945 - 20.01.1953 |
63.8 - 71.6 |
President of the United States of America: Harry S. Truman |
USA - Presidents |
25.04.1945 |
63.9 |
Establishment of the United Nations |
World |
08.05.1945 |
63.9 |
Unconditional surrender of the German Empire |
Germany |
21.05.1945 - 04.04.1951 |
63.9 - 69.8 |
President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints: George Albert Smith |
Mormon History |
06.08.1945 - 09.08.1945 |
64.1 - 64.2 |
Nuclear bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki |
USA |
14.10.1946 |
65.3 |
Start of the 4th French Republic |
France |
14.10.1947 |
66.3 |
First supersonic flight of the Bell X-1 |
Aviation History |
04.09.1948 - 30.04.1980 |
67.2 - 98.9 |
Queen of the Netherlands: Juliana |
Netherlands |
21.12.1948 |
67.5 |
Republic of Ireland Act |
Great Britain |
23.05.1949 |
67.9 |
Establishment of the Federal Republic of Germany |
Germany |
1949 |
68.0 |
Establishment of Circuit City |
Companies |
15.09.1949 - 16.10.1963 |
68.3 - 82.3 |
Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany: Konrad Adenauer |
Germany - Chancellors |
07.10.1949 |
68.3 |
Establishment of the German Democratic Republic |
Germany |
11.10.1949 - 07.09.1960 |
68.3 - 79.2 |
Wilhelm Pieck - State President of the GDR |
GDR |
17.06.1950 |
69.0 |
First successful organ transplant |
Medicine |
1950 - 1953 |
69.0 - 72.0 |
Korean War |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
09.04.1951 - 18.01.1970 |
69.8 - 88.6 |
President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints: David O. McKay |
Mormon History |
22.01.1952 |
70.6 |
First jet airliner in regular commercial use |
Aviation History |
06.02.1952 - Heute |
70.6 |
Queen of the United Kingdom: Elizabeth II |
Great Britain |
20.01.1953 - 20.01.1961 |
71.6 - 79.6 |
President of the United States of America: Dwight D. Eisenhower |
USA - Presidents |
17.06.1953 |
72.0 |
Uprising of June 17, 1953 in East Germany |
Germany |
04.07.1954 |
73.1 |
FIFA World Cup Champion 1954: Germany |
Germany |
24.02.1955 - 05.10.2011 |
73.7 - 130.4 |
Life of Steven 'Steve' Paul Jobs |
Personalities |
04.10.1957 |
76.3 |
Sputnik launched: first artificial satellite in Earth's orbit |
Technology |
05.10.1958 |
77.3 |
Start of the 5th French Republic |
France |
08.01.1959 - 28.04.1969 |
77.6 - 87.9 |
President of France: Charles de Gaulle |
France |
1959 - 30.04.1975 |
78.0 - 93.9 |
Vietnam War |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
1960 - 1973 |
79.1 - 92.1 |
Walter Ulbricht - Chairman of the State Council of the GDR |
GDR |
20.01.1961 - 22.11.1963 |
79.6 - 82.4 |
President of the United States of America: John F. Kennedy |
USA - Presidents |
12.04.1961 |
79.8 |
First human in space |
Technology |
25.05.1961 - 24.07.1975 |
80.0 - 94.1 |
Apollo Space Program |
Technology |
13.08.1961 |
80.2 |
Construction of the Berlin Wall |
Germany |
11.10.1962 - 08.12.1965 |
81.3 - 84.5 |
Second Vatican Council |
World |
16.10.1962 - 28.10.1962 |
81.3 - 81.4 |
Cuban Missile Crisis ('October Crisis') |
USA |
16.10.1963 - 01.12.1966 |
82.3 - 85.5 |
Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany: Ludwig Erhard |
Germany - Chancellors |
22.11.1963 - 20.01.1969 |
82.4 - 87.6 |
President of the United States of America: Lyndon B. Johnson |
USA - Presidents |
1966 - 1973 |
85.1 - 92.1 |
Construction period of the World Trade Center |
Monuments |
01.12.1966 - 21.10.1969 |
85.5 - 88.4 |
Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany: Kurt Georg Kiesinger |
Germany - Chancellors |