| 12 Feb 1809 - 19 Apr 1882 |
(-73.2) - 0.0 |
Life of Charles Robert Darwin |
Personalities |
| 13 Dec 1816 - 6 Dec 1892 |
(-65.3) - 10.7 |
Life of Werner von Siemens |
Personalities |
| 30 Dec 1819 - 20 Sep 1890 |
(-62.3) - 8.5 |
Life of Theodor Fontane |
Personalities |
| 15 Dec 1832 - 27 Dec 1923 |
(-49.3) - 41.7 |
Life of Gustave Eiffel |
Personalities |
| 17 Mar 1834 - 6 Mar 1900 |
(-48.0) - 17.9 |
Life of Gottlieb Wilhelm Daimler |
Personalities |
| 8 Jul 1838 - 8 Mar 1917 |
(-43.7) - 34.9 |
Life of Ferdinand von Zeppelin |
Personalities |
| 11 Dec 1843 - 27 May 1910 |
(-38.3) - 28.2 |
Life of Robert Koch |
Personalities |
| 25 Nov 1844 - 4 Apr 1929 |
(-37.3) - 47.0 |
Life of Carl Benz |
Personalities |
| 11 Feb 1847 - 18 Oct 1931 |
(-35.1) - 49.6 |
Life of Thomas Alva Edison |
Personalities |
| 3 Mar 1847 - 1 Aug 1922 |
(-35.1) - 40.3 |
Life of Alexander Graham Bell |
Personalities |
| 6 May 1856 - 23 Sep 1939 |
(-25.9) - 57.5 |
Life of Sigmund Freud |
Personalities |
| 23 Sep 1861 - 12 Mar 1942 |
(-20.5) - 60.0 |
Life of Robert Bosch |
Personalities |
| 30 Jul 1863 - 7 Apr 1947 |
(-18.7) - 65.0 |
Life of Henry Ford |
Personalities |
| 16 Oct 1863 - 17 Mar 1937 |
(-18.4) - 55.0 |
Life of Joseph Austen Chamberlain |
Personalities |
| 5 Sep 1869 - 1884 |
(-12.5) - 2.2 |
Construction period of Neuschwanstein Castle |
Monuments |
| 22 Apr 1870 - 21 Jan 1924 |
(-11.9) - 41.8 |
Life of Vladimir Lenin |
Personalities |
| 18 Jan 1871 - 9 Mar 1888 |
(-11.2) - 5.9 |
German Emperor: Wilhelm I |
Germany |
| 30 Nov 1874 - 24 Jan 1965 |
(-7.3) - 82.9 |
Life of Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill |
Personalities |
| 5 Jan 1876 - 19 Apr 1967 |
(-6.2) - 85.1 |
Life of Konrad Adenauer |
Personalities |
| 14 Mar 1879 - 18 Apr 1955 |
(-3.0) - 73.1 |
Life of Albert Einstein |
Personalities |
| 6 Aug 1881 - 11 Mar 1955 |
(-0.6) - 73.0 |
Life of Alexander Fleming |
Personalities |
| 19 Sep 1881 - 4 Mar 1885 |
(-0.5) - 2.9 |
President of the United States of America: Chester A. Arthur |
USA - Presidents |
| 1882 |
0.2 |
Establishment of Peugeot |
Companies |
| 1882 |
0.2 |
Britain occupies Egypt |
Discoveries & Colonization |
| 21 Jan 1884 - 12 Dec 1963 |
1.8 - 81.7 |
Life of Theodor Heuss |
Personalities |
| 1884 |
2.2 |
First controlled flight of a Zeppelin |
Aviation History |
| 15 Nov 1884 - 26 Feb 1885 |
2.6 - 2.9 |
Berlin Conference ('Congo Conference') |
Discoveries & Colonization |
| 4 Mar 1885 - 4 Mar 1889 |
2.9 - 6.9 |
President of the United States of America: Grover Cleveland |
USA - Presidents |
| 1886 |
4.2 |
Establishment of the Coca Cola Company |
Companies |
| 1886 |
4.2 |
Establishment of Johnson & Johnson |
Companies |
| 28 Oct 1886 |
4.6 |
Construction period of the Statue of Liberty |
Monuments |
| 1887 - 1889 |
5.2 - 7.2 |
Construction period of the Eiffel Tower |
Monuments |
| 1887 |
5.2 |
Huang He flood |
Disasters |
| 9 Mar 1888 - 15 Jun 1888 |
5.9 - 6.2 |
German Emperor: Friedrich III |
Germany |
| 15 Jun 1888 - 9 Nov 1918 |
6.2 - 36.6 |
German Emperor: Wilhelm II |
Germany |
| 1888 |
6.2 |
First commercially manufactured automobile by Karl Benz |
Automobile History |
| 4 Mar 1889 - 4 Mar 1893 |
6.9 - 10.9 |
President of the United States of America: Benjamin Harrison |
USA - Presidents |
| 20 Apr 1889 - 30 Apr 1945 |
7.0 - 63.1 |
Life of Adolf Hitler |
Personalities |
| 1890 |
8.2 |
Establishment of Daimler |
Companies |
| 1890 |
8.2 |
Establishment of General Electric |
Companies |
| 14 Oct 1890 - 28 Mar 1969 |
8.5 - 87.0 |
Life of Dwight David Eisenhower |
Personalities |
| 4 Mar 1893 - 4 Mar 1897 |
10.9 - 14.9 |
President of the United States of America: Grover Cleveland |
USA - Presidents |
| 1896 |
14.2 |
Establishment of IBM (International Business Machines Corp., formerly 'Computing Tabulating Recording Corp. (CTR)') |
Companies |
| 1896 - 1897 |
14.2 - 15.2 |
Matabele Wars ('Ndebele Matabele War') |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 4 Mar 1897 - 14 Sep 1901 |
14.9 - 19.4 |
President of the United States of America: William McKinley |
USA - Presidents |
| 11 Oct 1899 - 31 May 1902 |
17.5 - 20.2 |
Second Boer War ('Second South African War') |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 8 Sep 1900 |
18.4 |
Galveston hurricane; destruction of the city of Galveston, Texas |
Disasters |
| 14 Sep 1901 - 4 Mar 1909 |
19.4 - 26.9 |
President of the United States of America: Theodore Roosevelt |
USA - Presidents |
| 19 Oct 1901 |
19.5 |
First motorized zeppelin flight |
Aviation History |
| 5 Dec 1901 - 15 Dec 1966 |
19.7 - 84.7 |
Life of Walter Elias Disney |
Personalities |
| 16 Jun 1903 |
21.2 |
Establishment of Ford Motor Company |
Companies |
| 16 Dec 1903 |
21.7 |
First controlled powered human flight by the Wright brothers |
Aviation History |
| 1904 - 1908 |
22.2 - 26.2 |
Herero and Namaqua Uprising ('Herero and Namaqua Genocide') |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 18 Apr 1906 |
24.0 |
San Francisco earthquake of 1906 |
Disasters |
| 1907 |
25.2 |
First helicopter flight |
Aviation History |
| 16 Sep 1908 |
26.5 |
Establishment of General Motors |
Companies |
| 27 Sep 1908 |
26.5 |
Introduction of the Ford Model T |
Automobile History |
| 4 Mar 1909 - 4 Mar 1913 |
26.9 - 30.9 |
President of the United States of America: William Howard Taft |
USA - Presidents |
| 1909 |
27.2 |
Discovery of antibiotics |
Medicine |
| 30 May 1911 |
29.2 |
One in seven families in the US owns a car |
Automobile History |
| 30 May 1911 |
29.2 |
First 'Indy 500' race in Indianapolis |
Automobile History |
| 23 Oct 1911 |
29.6 |
First military use of an airplane |
Aviation History |
| 4 Mar 1913 - 4 Mar 1921 |
30.9 - 38.9 |
President of the United States of America: Woodrow Wilson |
USA - Presidents |
| 14 Jun 1914 - 15 Jun 1914 |
32.2 |
First transatlantic flight |
Aviation History |
| 28 Jun 1914 - 11 Nov 1918 |
32.2 - 36.6 |
World War I |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 6 Aug 1914 - 25 Nov 1918 |
32.3 - 36.7 |
East African Campaign (World War I) |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 13 Sep 1914 - 9 Jul 1915 |
32.5 - 33.3 |
South-West Africa Campaign (World War I) |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 14 Oct 1914 - 24 Oct 1914 |
32.5 - 32.6 |
Maritz Rebellion |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 24 Apr 1916 - 30 Apr 1916 |
34.1 |
Easter Rising |
Great Britain |
| 1916 |
34.2 |
Establishment of BMW (Bayerische Motoren Werke AG) |
Companies |
| 8 Mar 1917 - 12 Mar 1917 |
34.9 |
Russian February Revolution |
Russia |
| 29 May 1917 - 22 Nov 1963 |
35.2 - 81.7 |
Life of John F. Kennedy |
Personalities |
| 1917 - 1923 |
35.2 - 41.3 |
Russian Civil War |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 7 Nov 1917 |
35.6 |
Founding of the Russian Socialist Federal Soviet Republic |
Russia |
| 9 Nov 1918 |
36.6 |
German Revolution |
Germany |
| 11 Feb 1919 - 28 Feb 1925 |
36.9 - 42.9 |
President of Germany: Friedrich Ebert |
Germany |
| 13 Feb 1919 - 20 Jun 1919 |
36.9 - 37.2 |
Chancellor of Germany: Philipp Scheidemann |
Germany |
| 6 May 1919 - 8 Aug 1919 |
37.1 - 37.4 |
Third Anglo-Afghan War |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 1919 |
37.2 |
First transatlantic zeppelin flight |
Aviation History |
| 11 Aug 1919 |
37.4 |
Adoption of the Weimar Constitution |
Germany |
| 10 Sep 1919 |
37.4 |
Treaty of Saint-Germain |
Italy |
| 4 Mar 1921 - 2 Aug 1923 |
38.9 - 41.3 |
President of the United States of America: Warren G. Harding |
USA - Presidents |
| 6 Dec 1921 |
39.7 |
Anglo-Irish Treaty |
Great Britain |
| 28 Oct 1922 |
40.6 |
Benito Mussolini becomes Prime Minister of Italy |
Italy |
| 2 Aug 1923 - 4 Mar 1929 |
41.3 - 46.9 |
President of the United States of America: Calvin Coolidge |
USA - Presidents |
| 13 Aug 1923 - 23 Nov 1923 |
41.4 - 41.7 |
Chancellor of Germany: Gustav Stresemann |
Germany |
| 13 Sep 1923 |
41.5 |
Establishment of the military dictatorship |
Spain |
| 12 May 1925 - 2 Aug 1934 |
43.1 - 52.4 |
President of Germany: Paul von Hindenburg |
Germany |
| 14 Jun 1928 - 9 Oct 1967 |
46.2 - 85.6 |
Life of Che Guevara |
Personalities |
| 1928 |
46.3 |
Discovery of penicillin |
Medicine |
| 15 Jan 1929 - 4 Apr 1968 |
46.8 - 86.0 |
Life of Martin Luther King |
Personalities |
| 4 Mar 1929 - 4 Mar 1933 |
46.9 - 50.9 |
President of the United States of America: Herbert Hoover |
USA - Presidents |
| 25 Oct 1929 |
47.6 |
'Black Friday' |
USA |
| 22 Jan 1930 - 1 May 1931 |
47.8 - 49.1 |
Construction period of the Empire State Building |
Monuments |
| 30 Mar 1930 - 30 May 1932 |
48.0 - 50.2 |
Chancellor of Germany: Heinrich Brüning |
Germany |
| 5 Aug 1930 - 25 Aug 2012 |
48.4 - 130.5 |
Life of Neil Armstrong |
Personalities |
| 14 Apr 1931 |
49.0 |
Proclamation of the Second Spanish Republic |
Spain |
| 1931 |
49.3 |
Establishment of Porsche |
Companies |
| 11 Dec 1931 |
49.7 |
Statute of Westminster |
Great Britain |
| 1 Jun 1932 - 17 Nov 1932 |
50.2 - 50.6 |
Chancellor of Germany: Franz von Papen |
Germany |
| 3 Dec 1932 - 28 Jan 1933 |
50.7 - 50.8 |
Chancellor of Germany: Kurt von Schleicher |
Germany |
| 30 Jan 1933 - 30 Apr 1945 |
50.8 - 63.1 |
Chancellor of Germany: Adolf Hitler |
Germany |
| 28 Feb 1933 - 23 Mar 1933 |
50.9 - 51.0 |
'Reichstag Fire Decree' and 'Enabling Act': De facto end of the Weimar Republic & beginning of Nazi dictatorship |
Germany |
| 4 Mar 1933 - 12 Apr 1945 |
50.9 - 63.1 |
President of the United States of America: Franklin D. Roosevelt |
USA - Presidents |
| 1935 |
53.3 |
Italy occupies Ethiopia, the last remaining free territory in Africa. |
Discoveries & Colonization |
| 11 Dec 1936 - 6 Feb 1952 |
54.7 - 69.9 |
Queen consort of the United Kingdom: Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon 'Queen Mum' |
Great Britain |
| 6 May 1937 |
55.1 |
Hindenburg disaster |
Aviation History |
| 1937 |
55.3 |
Construction period of the Golden Gate Bridge |
Monuments |
| 27 Aug 1939 |
57.4 |
First flight of turbine-equipped jet plane |
Aviation History |
| 1 Sep 1939 - 2 Sep 1945 |
57.4 - 63.4 |
World War II |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 14 May 1940 |
58.1 |
Establishment of McDonald's |
Companies |
| 7 Dec 1941 |
59.7 |
Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor |
USA |
| 12 Apr 1945 - 20 Jan 1953 |
63.1 - 70.8 |
President of the United States of America: Harry S. Truman |
USA - Presidents |
| 25 Apr 1945 |
63.1 |
Establishment of the United Nations |
World |
| 8 May 1945 |
63.1 |
Unconditional surrender of the German Empire |
Germany |
| 6 Aug 1945 - 9 Aug 1945 |
63.4 |
Nuclear bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki |
USA |
| 14 Oct 1946 |
64.6 |
Start of the 4th French Republic |
France |
| 14 Oct 1947 |
65.6 |
First supersonic flight of the Bell X-1 |
Aviation History |
| 21 Dec 1948 |
66.7 |
Republic of Ireland Act |
Great Britain |
| 23 May 1949 |
67.2 |
Establishment of the Federal Republic of Germany |
Germany |
| 1949 |
67.3 |
Establishment of Circuit City |
Companies |
| 15 Sep 1949 - 16 Oct 1963 |
67.5 - 81.6 |
Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany: Konrad Adenauer |
Germany - Chancellors |
| 7 Oct 1949 |
67.5 |
Establishment of the German Democratic Republic |
Germany |
| 11 Oct 1949 - 7 Sep 1960 |
67.6 - 78.5 |
Wilhelm Pieck - State President of the GDR |
GDR |
| 17 Jun 1950 |
68.2 |
First successful organ transplant |
Medicine |
| 1950 - 1953 |
68.3 - 71.3 |
Korean War |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 22 Jan 1952 |
69.8 |
First jet airliner in regular commercial use |
Aviation History |
| 6 Feb 1952 - Today |
69.9 |
Queen of the United Kingdom: Elizabeth II |
Great Britain |
| 20 Jan 1953 - 20 Jan 1961 |
70.8 - 78.8 |
President of the United States of America: Dwight D. Eisenhower |
USA - Presidents |
| 17 Jun 1953 |
71.2 |
Uprising of June 17, 1953 in East Germany |
Germany |
| 24 Feb 1955 - 5 Oct 2011 |
72.9 - 129.6 |
Life of Steven 'Steve' Paul Jobs |
Personalities |
| 4 Oct 1957 |
75.5 |
Sputnik launched: first artificial satellite in Earth's orbit |
Technology |
| 5 Oct 1958 |
76.5 |
Start of the 5th French Republic |
France |
| 1959 - 30 Apr 1975 |
77.3 - 93.1 |
Vietnam War |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 1960 - 1973 |
78.3 - 91.3 |
Walter Ulbricht - Chairman of the State Council of the GDR |
GDR |
| 20 Jan 1961 - 22 Nov 1963 |
78.8 - 81.7 |
President of the United States of America: John F. Kennedy |
USA - Presidents |
| 12 Apr 1961 |
79.1 |
First human in space |
Technology |
| 25 May 1961 - 24 Jul 1975 |
79.2 - 93.4 |
Apollo Space Program |
Technology |
| 13 Aug 1961 |
79.4 |
Construction of the Berlin Wall |
Germany |
| 11 Oct 1962 - 8 Dec 1965 |
80.6 - 83.7 |
Second Vatican Council |
World |
| 16 Oct 1962 - 28 Oct 1962 |
80.6 |
Cuban Missile Crisis ('October Crisis') |
USA |
| 16 Oct 1963 - 1 Dec 1966 |
81.6 - 84.7 |
Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany: Ludwig Erhard |
Germany - Chancellors |
| 22 Nov 1963 - 20 Jan 1969 |
81.7 - 86.8 |
President of the United States of America: Lyndon B. Johnson |
USA - Presidents |
| 1966 - 1973 |
84.3 - 91.3 |
Construction period of the World Trade Center |
Monuments |
| 1 Dec 1966 - 21 Oct 1969 |
84.7 - 87.6 |
Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany: Kurt Georg Kiesinger |
Germany - Chancellors |
| 1967 |
85.3 |
Founding of the European Community (EC) |
European Union |
Frederick Cumming
Phillis Mary Buchan
Birth