| 15 Dec 1832 - 27 Dec 1923 |
(-78.6) - 12.5 |
Life of Gustave Eiffel |
Personalities |
| 8 Jul 1838 - 8 Mar 1917 |
(-73.0) - 5.6 |
Life of Ferdinand von Zeppelin |
Personalities |
| 25 Nov 1844 - 4 Apr 1929 |
(-66.6) - 17.7 |
Life of Carl Benz |
Personalities |
| 11 Feb 1847 - 18 Oct 1931 |
(-64.4) - 20.3 |
Life of Thomas Alva Edison |
Personalities |
| 3 Mar 1847 - 1 Aug 1922 |
(-64.4) - 11.0 |
Life of Alexander Graham Bell |
Personalities |
| 6 May 1856 - 23 Sep 1939 |
(-55.2) - 28.2 |
Life of Sigmund Freud |
Personalities |
| 23 Sep 1861 - 12 Mar 1942 |
(-49.8) - 30.7 |
Life of Robert Bosch |
Personalities |
| 30 Jul 1863 - 7 Apr 1947 |
(-47.9) - 35.7 |
Life of Henry Ford |
Personalities |
| 16 Oct 1863 - 17 Mar 1937 |
(-47.7) - 25.7 |
Life of Joseph Austen Chamberlain |
Personalities |
| 22 Apr 1870 - 21 Jan 1924 |
(-41.2) - 12.5 |
Life of Vladimir Lenin |
Personalities |
| 30 Nov 1874 - 24 Jan 1965 |
(-36.6) - 53.6 |
Life of Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill |
Personalities |
| 5 Jan 1876 - 19 Apr 1967 |
(-35.5) - 55.8 |
Life of Konrad Adenauer |
Personalities |
| 14 Mar 1879 - 18 Apr 1955 |
(-32.3) - 43.8 |
Life of Albert Einstein |
Personalities |
| 6 Aug 1881 - 11 Mar 1955 |
(-29.9) - 43.7 |
Life of Alexander Fleming |
Personalities |
| 21 Jan 1884 - 12 Dec 1963 |
(-27.5) - 52.4 |
Life of Theodor Heuss |
Personalities |
| 15 Jun 1888 - 9 Nov 1918 |
(-23.1) - 7.3 |
German Emperor: Wilhelm II |
Germany |
| 20 Apr 1889 - 30 Apr 1945 |
(-22.2) - 33.8 |
Life of Adolf Hitler |
Personalities |
| 14 Oct 1890 - 28 Mar 1969 |
(-20.7) - 57.7 |
Life of Dwight David Eisenhower |
Personalities |
| 5 Dec 1901 - 15 Dec 1966 |
(-9.6) - 55.4 |
Life of Walter Elias Disney |
Personalities |
| 4 Mar 1909 - 4 Mar 1913 |
(-2.3) - 1.6 |
President of the United States of America: William Howard Taft |
USA - Presidents |
| 23 Oct 1911 |
0.3 |
First military use of an airplane |
Aviation History |
| 4 Mar 1913 - 4 Mar 1921 |
1.6 - 9.6 |
President of the United States of America: Woodrow Wilson |
USA - Presidents |
| 14 Jun 1914 - 15 Jun 1914 |
2.9 |
First transatlantic flight |
Aviation History |
| 28 Jun 1914 - 11 Nov 1918 |
2.9 - 7.3 |
World War I |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 6 Aug 1914 - 25 Nov 1918 |
3.1 - 7.4 |
East African Campaign (World War I) |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 13 Sep 1914 - 9 Jul 1915 |
3.2 - 4.0 |
South-West Africa Campaign (World War I) |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 14 Oct 1914 - 24 Oct 1914 |
3.2 - 3.3 |
Maritz Rebellion |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 24 Apr 1916 - 30 Apr 1916 |
4.8 |
Easter Rising |
Great Britain |
| 1916 |
5.0 |
Establishment of BMW (Bayerische Motoren Werke AG) |
Companies |
| 8 Mar 1917 - 12 Mar 1917 |
5.6 - 5.7 |
Russian February Revolution |
Russia |
| 29 May 1917 - 22 Nov 1963 |
5.9 - 52.4 |
Life of John F. Kennedy |
Personalities |
| 1917 - 1923 |
6.0 - 12.0 |
Russian Civil War |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 7 Nov 1917 |
6.3 |
Founding of the Russian Socialist Federal Soviet Republic |
Russia |
| 9 Nov 1918 |
7.3 |
German Revolution |
Germany |
| 11 Feb 1919 - 28 Feb 1925 |
7.6 - 13.6 |
President of Germany: Friedrich Ebert |
Germany |
| 13 Feb 1919 - 20 Jun 1919 |
7.6 - 7.9 |
Chancellor of Germany: Philipp Scheidemann |
Germany |
| 6 May 1919 - 8 Aug 1919 |
7.8 - 8.1 |
Third Anglo-Afghan War |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 1919 |
8.0 |
First transatlantic zeppelin flight |
Aviation History |
| 11 Aug 1919 |
8.1 |
Adoption of the Weimar Constitution |
Germany |
| 10 Sep 1919 |
8.2 |
Treaty of Saint-Germain |
Italy |
| 4 Mar 1921 - 2 Aug 1923 |
9.6 - 12.0 |
President of the United States of America: Warren G. Harding |
USA - Presidents |
| 6 Dec 1921 |
10.4 |
Anglo-Irish Treaty |
Great Britain |
| 28 Oct 1922 |
11.3 |
Benito Mussolini becomes Prime Minister of Italy |
Italy |
| 2 Aug 1923 - 4 Mar 1929 |
12.0 - 17.6 |
President of the United States of America: Calvin Coolidge |
USA - Presidents |
| 13 Aug 1923 - 23 Nov 1923 |
12.1 - 12.4 |
Chancellor of Germany: Gustav Stresemann |
Germany |
| 13 Sep 1923 |
12.2 |
Establishment of the military dictatorship |
Spain |
| 12 May 1925 - 2 Aug 1934 |
13.8 - 23.1 |
President of Germany: Paul von Hindenburg |
Germany |
| 14 Jun 1928 - 9 Oct 1967 |
16.9 - 56.3 |
Life of Che Guevara |
Personalities |
| 1928 |
17.0 |
Discovery of penicillin |
Medicine |
| 15 Jan 1929 - 4 Apr 1968 |
17.5 - 56.8 |
Life of Martin Luther King |
Personalities |
| 4 Mar 1929 - 4 Mar 1933 |
17.6 - 21.6 |
President of the United States of America: Herbert Hoover |
USA - Presidents |
| 25 Oct 1929 |
18.3 |
'Black Friday' |
USA |
| 22 Jan 1930 - 1 May 1931 |
18.5 - 19.8 |
Construction period of the Empire State Building |
Monuments |
| 30 Mar 1930 - 30 May 1932 |
18.7 - 20.9 |
Chancellor of Germany: Heinrich Brüning |
Germany |
| 5 Aug 1930 - 25 Aug 2012 |
19.1 - 101.2 |
Life of Neil Armstrong |
Personalities |
| 14 Apr 1931 |
19.8 |
Proclamation of the Second Spanish Republic |
Spain |
| 1931 |
20.0 |
Establishment of Porsche |
Companies |
| 11 Dec 1931 |
20.4 |
Statute of Westminster |
Great Britain |
| 1 Jun 1932 - 17 Nov 1932 |
20.9 - 21.4 |
Chancellor of Germany: Franz von Papen |
Germany |
| 3 Dec 1932 - 28 Jan 1933 |
21.4 - 21.5 |
Chancellor of Germany: Kurt von Schleicher |
Germany |
| 30 Jan 1933 - 30 Apr 1945 |
21.6 - 33.8 |
Chancellor of Germany: Adolf Hitler |
Germany |
| 28 Feb 1933 - 23 Mar 1933 |
21.6 - 21.7 |
'Reichstag Fire Decree' and 'Enabling Act': De facto end of the Weimar Republic & beginning of Nazi dictatorship |
Germany |
| 4 Mar 1933 - 12 Apr 1945 |
21.6 - 33.8 |
President of the United States of America: Franklin D. Roosevelt |
USA - Presidents |
| 1935 |
24.0 |
Italy occupies Ethiopia, the last remaining free territory in Africa. |
Discoveries & Colonization |
| 11 Dec 1936 - 6 Feb 1952 |
25.4 - 40.6 |
Queen consort of the United Kingdom: Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon 'Queen Mum' |
Great Britain |
| 6 May 1937 |
25.8 |
Hindenburg disaster |
Aviation History |
| 1937 |
26.0 |
Construction period of the Golden Gate Bridge |
Monuments |
| 27 Aug 1939 |
28.1 |
First flight of turbine-equipped jet plane |
Aviation History |
| 1 Sep 1939 - 2 Sep 1945 |
28.1 - 34.2 |
World War II |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 14 May 1940 |
28.8 |
Establishment of McDonald's |
Companies |
| 7 Dec 1941 |
30.4 |
Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor |
USA |
| 12 Apr 1945 - 20 Jan 1953 |
33.8 - 41.5 |
President of the United States of America: Harry S. Truman |
USA - Presidents |
| 25 Apr 1945 |
33.8 |
Establishment of the United Nations |
World |
| 8 May 1945 |
33.8 |
Unconditional surrender of the German Empire |
Germany |
| 6 Aug 1945 - 9 Aug 1945 |
34.1 |
Nuclear bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki |
USA |
| 14 Oct 1946 |
35.3 |
Start of the 4th French Republic |
France |
| 14 Oct 1947 |
36.3 |
First supersonic flight of the Bell X-1 |
Aviation History |
| 21 Dec 1948 |
37.5 |
Republic of Ireland Act |
Great Britain |
| 23 May 1949 |
37.9 |
Establishment of the Federal Republic of Germany |
Germany |
| 1949 |
38.0 |
Establishment of Circuit City |
Companies |
| 15 Sep 1949 - 16 Oct 1963 |
38.2 - 52.3 |
Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany: Konrad Adenauer |
Germany - Chancellors |
| 7 Oct 1949 |
38.2 |
Establishment of the German Democratic Republic |
Germany |
| 11 Oct 1949 - 7 Sep 1960 |
38.3 - 49.2 |
Wilhelm Pieck - State President of the GDR |
GDR |
| 17 Jun 1950 |
38.9 |
First successful organ transplant |
Medicine |
| 1950 - 1953 |
39.0 - 42.0 |
Korean War |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 22 Jan 1952 |
40.5 |
First jet airliner in regular commercial use |
Aviation History |
| 6 Feb 1952 - Today |
40.6 |
Queen of the United Kingdom: Elizabeth II |
Great Britain |
| 20 Jan 1953 - 20 Jan 1961 |
41.5 - 49.5 |
President of the United States of America: Dwight D. Eisenhower |
USA - Presidents |
| 17 Jun 1953 |
41.9 |
Uprising of June 17, 1953 in East Germany |
Germany |
| 24 Feb 1955 - 5 Oct 2011 |
43.6 - 100.3 |
Life of Steven 'Steve' Paul Jobs |
Personalities |
| 4 Oct 1957 |
46.2 |
Sputnik launched: first artificial satellite in Earth's orbit |
Technology |
| 5 Oct 1958 |
47.2 |
Start of the 5th French Republic |
France |
| 1959 - 30 Apr 1975 |
48.0 - 63.8 |
Vietnam War |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 1960 - 1973 |
49.0 - 62.0 |
Walter Ulbricht - Chairman of the State Council of the GDR |
GDR |
| 20 Jan 1961 - 22 Nov 1963 |
49.5 - 52.4 |
President of the United States of America: John F. Kennedy |
USA - Presidents |
| 12 Apr 1961 |
49.8 |
First human in space |
Technology |
| 25 May 1961 - 24 Jul 1975 |
49.9 - 64.1 |
Apollo Space Program |
Technology |
| 13 Aug 1961 |
50.1 |
Construction of the Berlin Wall |
Germany |
| 11 Oct 1962 - 8 Dec 1965 |
51.3 - 54.4 |
Second Vatican Council |
World |
| 16 Oct 1962 - 28 Oct 1962 |
51.3 |
Cuban Missile Crisis ('October Crisis') |
USA |
| 16 Oct 1963 - 1 Dec 1966 |
52.3 - 55.4 |
Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany: Ludwig Erhard |
Germany - Chancellors |
| 22 Nov 1963 - 20 Jan 1969 |
52.4 - 57.6 |
President of the United States of America: Lyndon B. Johnson |
USA - Presidents |
| 1966 - 1973 |
55.0 - 62.0 |
Construction period of the World Trade Center |
Monuments |
| 1 Dec 1966 - 21 Oct 1969 |
55.4 - 58.3 |
Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany: Kurt Georg Kiesinger |
Germany - Chancellors |
| 1967 |
56.0 |
Founding of the European Community (EC) |
European Union |
| 20 Jan 1969 - 9 Aug 1974 |
57.6 - 63.1 |
President of the United States of America: Richard Nixon |
USA - Presidents |
| 20 Jul 1969 |
58.0 |
First man on the moon |
Technology |
| 21 Oct 1969 - 7 May 1974 |
58.3 - 62.8 |
Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany: Willy Brandt |
Germany - Chancellors |
| 31 Oct 1969 |
58.3 |
Establishment of Wal Mart |
Companies |
| 21 Jul 1972 |
61.1 |
Bloody Friday |
Great Britain |
| 1973 - 1976 |
62.0 - 65.0 |
Willi Stoph - Chairman of the Council of State of the GDR |
GDR |
| 16 May 1974 - 1 Oct 1982 |
62.9 - 71.3 |
Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany: Helmut Schmidt |
Germany - Chancellors |
| 9 Aug 1974 - 20 Jan 1977 |
63.1 - 65.6 |
President of the United States of America: Gerald Ford |
USA - Presidents |
| 20 Nov 1975 |
64.4 |
Franco's Death, end of the Francoist regime |
Spain |
| 1 Apr 1976 |
64.8 |
Apple Computer is established |
Apple Inc. - Corporate History |
| 1976 - 1989 |
65.0 - 78.0 |
Erich Honecker - Chairman of the Council of State of the GDR |
GDR |
| 20 Jan 1977 - 20 Jan 1981 |
65.6 - 69.6 |
President of the United States of America: Jimmy Carter |
USA - Presidents |
| 16 Apr 1977 |
65.8 |
Introduction of the Apple II |
Apple Inc. - Corporate History |
| 27 Dec 1979 - 15 Feb 1989 |
68.5 - 77.6 |
Soviet-Afghan War (1979-1989) |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 22 Sep 1980 - 20 Aug 1988 |
69.2 - 77.1 |
First Gulf War ('Iran-Iraq War') |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 20 Jan 1981 - 20 Jan 1989 |
69.6 - 77.6 |
President of the United States of America: Ronald Reagan |
USA - Presidents |
| 2 Apr 1982 - 14 Jun 1982 |
70.8 - 71.0 |
Falklands War |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 1 Oct 1982 - 27 Oct 1998 |
71.3 - 87.3 |
Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany: Helmut Kohl |
Germany - Chancellors |
| 19 Jan 1983 |
71.6 |
Introduction of the Apple Lisa |
Apple Inc. - Corporate History |
| 1983 |
72.0 |
Discovery of HIV |
Medicine |
| 24 Jan 1984 |
72.6 |
Introduction of the Macintosh |
Apple Inc. - Corporate History |
| 20 Jan 1989 - 20 Jan 1993 |
77.6 - 81.6 |
President of the United States of America: George H. W. Bush |
USA - Presidents |
| 18 Oct 1989 - 3 Dec 1989 |
78.3 - 78.4 |
Egon Krenz - Chairman of the Council of State of the GDR |
GDR |
| 2 Aug 1990 - 28 Feb 1991 |
79.1 - 79.7 |
Second Gulf War ('Operation Desert Shield', 'Operation Desert Storm') |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 3 Oct 1990 |
79.3 |
German reunification |
Germany |
| 8 Dec 1991 |
80.4 |
Signing of the Belavezha Accords, declaring the Soviet Union dissolved |
Russia |
| 1992 - 1996 |
81.0 - 85.0 |
Afghan Civil War |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 20 Jan 1993 - 20 Jan 2001 |
81.6 - 89.6 |
President of the United States of America: Bill Clinton |
USA - Presidents |
| 4 Aug 1993 |
82.1 |
Introduction of the Apple Newton |
Apple Inc. - Corporate History |
| 1 Nov 1993 |
82.3 |
Founding of the European Union (EU) |
European Union |
| 1994 - 1996 |
83.0 - 85.0 |
First Chechen War ('War in Chechnya') |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 17 Jan 1995 |
83.6 |
Kobe earthquake |
Disasters |
| 1998 - 2003 |
87.0 - 92.0 |
Second Congo War ('Great War of Africa') |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 1998 - 1999 |
87.0 - 88.0 |
Kosovo War ('Kosovo Conflict') |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 15 Aug 1998 |
87.1 |
Introduction of the Apple iMac |
Apple Inc. - Corporate History |
| 27 Oct 1998 - 22 Nov 2005 |
87.3 - 94.4 |
Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany: Gerhard Schröder |
Germany - Chancellors |
| 1 Jan 1999 |
87.5 |
ECU as an internal accounting unit in the European Community |
European Union |
| 20 Jan 2001 - 20 Jan 2009 |
89.6 - 97.6 |
President of the United States of America: George W. Bush |
USA - Presidents |
| 11 Sep 2001 |
90.2 |
September 11 attacks ('9/11') |
USA |
| 7 Oct 2001 - Today |
90.3 |
Afghanistan War |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 23 Oct 2001 |
90.3 |
Apple iPod introduced |
Apple Inc. - Corporate History |
| 1 Jan 2002 |
90.5 |
Introduction of the Euro |
European Union |
| 20 Mar 2003 - 1 May 2003 |
91.7 - 91.8 |
Third Gulf War ('Iraq War') |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 26 Dec 2004 |
93.5 |
Indian Ocean tsunami |
Disasters |
| 6 Jun 2005 |
94.0 |
Apple switches to Intel CPU architecture |
Apple Inc. - Corporate History |
| 22 Nov 2005 - Today |
94.4 |
Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany: Angela Merkel |
Germany - Chancellors |
| 9 Jan 2007 |
95.5 |
Introduction of the Apple iPhone |
Apple Inc. - Corporate History |
| 20 Jan 2009 - Today |
97.6 |
President of the United States of America: Barack Obama |
USA - Presidents |
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