| 13 Dec 1816 - 6 Dec 1892 |
(-69.6) - 6.4 |
Life of Werner von Siemens |
Personalities |
| 30 Dec 1819 - 20 Sep 1890 |
(-66.5) - 4.2 |
Life of Theodor Fontane |
Personalities |
| 15 Dec 1832 - 27 Dec 1923 |
(-53.6) - 37.5 |
Life of Gustave Eiffel |
Personalities |
| 17 Mar 1834 - 6 Mar 1900 |
(-52.3) - 13.6 |
Life of Gottlieb Wilhelm Daimler |
Personalities |
| 8 Jul 1838 - 8 Mar 1917 |
(-48.0) - 30.7 |
Life of Ferdinand von Zeppelin |
Personalities |
| 11 Dec 1843 - 27 May 1910 |
(-42.6) - 23.9 |
Life of Robert Koch |
Personalities |
| 25 Nov 1844 - 4 Apr 1929 |
(-41.6) - 42.7 |
Life of Carl Benz |
Personalities |
| 11 Feb 1847 - 18 Oct 1931 |
(-39.4) - 45.3 |
Life of Thomas Alva Edison |
Personalities |
| 3 Mar 1847 - 1 Aug 1922 |
(-39.4) - 36.1 |
Life of Alexander Graham Bell |
Personalities |
| 6 May 1856 - 23 Sep 1939 |
(-30.2) - 53.2 |
Life of Sigmund Freud |
Personalities |
| 23 Sep 1861 - 12 Mar 1942 |
(-24.8) - 55.7 |
Life of Robert Bosch |
Personalities |
| 30 Jul 1863 - 7 Apr 1947 |
(-22.9) - 60.8 |
Life of Henry Ford |
Personalities |
| 16 Oct 1863 - 17 Mar 1937 |
(-22.7) - 50.7 |
Life of Joseph Austen Chamberlain |
Personalities |
| 22 Apr 1870 - 21 Jan 1924 |
(-16.2) - 37.5 |
Life of Vladimir Lenin |
Personalities |
| 18 Jan 1871 - 9 Mar 1888 |
(-15.5) - 1.6 |
German Emperor: Wilhelm I |
Germany |
| 30 Nov 1874 - 24 Jan 1965 |
(-11.6) - 78.6 |
Life of Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill |
Personalities |
| 5 Jan 1876 - 19 Apr 1967 |
(-10.5) - 80.8 |
Life of Konrad Adenauer |
Personalities |
| 14 Mar 1879 - 18 Apr 1955 |
(-7.3) - 68.8 |
Life of Albert Einstein |
Personalities |
| 6 Aug 1881 - 11 Mar 1955 |
(-4.9) - 68.7 |
Life of Alexander Fleming |
Personalities |
| 21 Jan 1884 - 12 Dec 1963 |
(-2.4) - 77.5 |
Life of Theodor Heuss |
Personalities |
| 4 Mar 1885 - 4 Mar 1889 |
(-1.3) - 2.6 |
President of the United States of America: Grover Cleveland |
USA - Presidents |
| 1886 |
|
Establishment of the Coca Cola Company |
Companies |
| 1886 |
|
Establishment of Johnson & Johnson |
Companies |
| 28 Oct 1886 |
0.3 |
Construction period of the Statue of Liberty |
Monuments |
| 1887 - 1889 |
1.0 - 3.0 |
Construction period of the Eiffel Tower |
Monuments |
| 1887 |
1.0 |
Huang He flood |
Disasters |
| 9 Mar 1888 - 15 Jun 1888 |
1.6 - 1.9 |
German Emperor: Friedrich III |
Germany |
| 15 Jun 1888 - 9 Nov 1918 |
1.9 - 32.3 |
German Emperor: Wilhelm II |
Germany |
| 1888 |
2.0 |
First commercially manufactured automobile by Karl Benz |
Automobile History |
| 4 Mar 1889 - 4 Mar 1893 |
2.6 - 6.6 |
President of the United States of America: Benjamin Harrison |
USA - Presidents |
| 20 Apr 1889 - 30 Apr 1945 |
2.8 - 58.8 |
Life of Adolf Hitler |
Personalities |
| 1890 |
4.0 |
Establishment of Daimler |
Companies |
| 1890 |
4.0 |
Establishment of General Electric |
Companies |
| 14 Oct 1890 - 28 Mar 1969 |
4.2 - 82.7 |
Life of Dwight David Eisenhower |
Personalities |
| 4 Mar 1893 - 4 Mar 1897 |
6.6 - 10.6 |
President of the United States of America: Grover Cleveland |
USA - Presidents |
| 1896 |
10.0 |
Establishment of IBM (International Business Machines Corp., formerly 'Computing Tabulating Recording Corp. (CTR)') |
Companies |
| 1896 - 1897 |
10.0 - 11.0 |
Matabele Wars ('Ndebele Matabele War') |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 4 Mar 1897 - 14 Sep 1901 |
10.6 - 15.2 |
President of the United States of America: William McKinley |
USA - Presidents |
| 11 Oct 1899 - 31 May 1902 |
13.2 - 15.9 |
Second Boer War ('Second South African War') |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 8 Sep 1900 |
14.2 |
Galveston hurricane; destruction of the city of Galveston, Texas |
Disasters |
| 14 Sep 1901 - 4 Mar 1909 |
15.2 - 22.6 |
President of the United States of America: Theodore Roosevelt |
USA - Presidents |
| 19 Oct 1901 |
15.3 |
First motorized zeppelin flight |
Aviation History |
| 5 Dec 1901 - 15 Dec 1966 |
15.4 - 80.5 |
Life of Walter Elias Disney |
Personalities |
| 16 Jun 1903 |
16.9 |
Establishment of Ford Motor Company |
Companies |
| 16 Dec 1903 |
17.4 |
First controlled powered human flight by the Wright brothers |
Aviation History |
| 1904 - 1908 |
18.0 - 22.0 |
Herero and Namaqua Uprising ('Herero and Namaqua Genocide') |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 18 Apr 1906 |
19.8 |
San Francisco earthquake of 1906 |
Disasters |
| 1907 |
21.0 |
First helicopter flight |
Aviation History |
| 16 Sep 1908 |
22.2 |
Establishment of General Motors |
Companies |
| 27 Sep 1908 |
22.2 |
Introduction of the Ford Model T |
Automobile History |
| 4 Mar 1909 - 4 Mar 1913 |
22.6 - 26.6 |
President of the United States of America: William Howard Taft |
USA - Presidents |
| 1909 |
23.0 |
Discovery of antibiotics |
Medicine |
| 30 May 1911 |
24.9 |
One in seven families in the US owns a car |
Automobile History |
| 30 May 1911 |
24.9 |
First 'Indy 500' race in Indianapolis |
Automobile History |
| 23 Oct 1911 |
25.3 |
First military use of an airplane |
Aviation History |
| 4 Mar 1913 - 4 Mar 1921 |
26.6 - 34.6 |
President of the United States of America: Woodrow Wilson |
USA - Presidents |
| 14 Jun 1914 - 15 Jun 1914 |
27.9 |
First transatlantic flight |
Aviation History |
| 28 Jun 1914 - 11 Nov 1918 |
28.0 - 32.3 |
World War I |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 6 Aug 1914 - 25 Nov 1918 |
28.1 - 32.4 |
East African Campaign (World War I) |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 13 Sep 1914 - 9 Jul 1915 |
28.2 - 29.0 |
South-West Africa Campaign (World War I) |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 14 Oct 1914 - 24 Oct 1914 |
28.3 |
Maritz Rebellion |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 24 Apr 1916 - 30 Apr 1916 |
29.8 |
Easter Rising |
Great Britain |
| 1916 |
30.0 |
Establishment of BMW (Bayerische Motoren Werke AG) |
Companies |
| 8 Mar 1917 - 12 Mar 1917 |
30.7 |
Russian February Revolution |
Russia |
| 29 May 1917 - 22 Nov 1963 |
30.9 - 77.4 |
Life of John F. Kennedy |
Personalities |
| 1917 - 1923 |
31.0 - 37.0 |
Russian Civil War |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 7 Nov 1917 |
31.3 |
Founding of the Russian Socialist Federal Soviet Republic |
Russia |
| 9 Nov 1918 |
32.3 |
German Revolution |
Germany |
| 11 Feb 1919 - 28 Feb 1925 |
32.6 - 38.6 |
President of Germany: Friedrich Ebert |
Germany |
| 13 Feb 1919 - 20 Jun 1919 |
32.6 - 32.9 |
Chancellor of Germany: Philipp Scheidemann |
Germany |
| 6 May 1919 - 8 Aug 1919 |
32.8 - 33.1 |
Third Anglo-Afghan War |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 1919 |
33.0 |
First transatlantic zeppelin flight |
Aviation History |
| 11 Aug 1919 |
33.1 |
Adoption of the Weimar Constitution |
Germany |
| 10 Sep 1919 |
33.2 |
Treaty of Saint-Germain |
Italy |
| 4 Mar 1921 - 2 Aug 1923 |
34.6 - 37.1 |
President of the United States of America: Warren G. Harding |
USA - Presidents |
| 6 Dec 1921 |
35.4 |
Anglo-Irish Treaty |
Great Britain |
| 28 Oct 1922 |
36.3 |
Benito Mussolini becomes Prime Minister of Italy |
Italy |
| 2 Aug 1923 - 4 Mar 1929 |
37.1 - 42.7 |
President of the United States of America: Calvin Coolidge |
USA - Presidents |
| 13 Aug 1923 - 23 Nov 1923 |
37.1 - 37.4 |
Chancellor of Germany: Gustav Stresemann |
Germany |
| 13 Sep 1923 |
37.2 |
Establishment of the military dictatorship |
Spain |
| 12 May 1925 - 2 Aug 1934 |
38.8 - 48.1 |
President of Germany: Paul von Hindenburg |
Germany |
| 14 Jun 1928 - 9 Oct 1967 |
41.9 - 81.3 |
Life of Che Guevara |
Personalities |
| 1928 |
42.0 |
Discovery of penicillin |
Medicine |
| 15 Jan 1929 - 4 Apr 1968 |
42.5 - 81.8 |
Life of Martin Luther King |
Personalities |
| 4 Mar 1929 - 4 Mar 1933 |
42.7 - 46.7 |
President of the United States of America: Herbert Hoover |
USA - Presidents |
| 25 Oct 1929 |
43.3 |
'Black Friday' |
USA |
| 22 Jan 1930 - 1 May 1931 |
43.5 - 44.8 |
Construction period of the Empire State Building |
Monuments |
| 30 Mar 1930 - 30 May 1932 |
43.7 - 45.9 |
Chancellor of Germany: Heinrich Brüning |
Germany |
| 5 Aug 1930 - 25 Aug 2012 |
44.1 - 126.2 |
Life of Neil Armstrong |
Personalities |
| 14 Apr 1931 |
44.8 |
Proclamation of the Second Spanish Republic |
Spain |
| 1931 |
45.0 |
Establishment of Porsche |
Companies |
| 11 Dec 1931 |
45.4 |
Statute of Westminster |
Great Britain |
| 1 Jun 1932 - 17 Nov 1932 |
45.9 - 46.4 |
Chancellor of Germany: Franz von Papen |
Germany |
| 3 Dec 1932 - 28 Jan 1933 |
46.4 - 46.6 |
Chancellor of Germany: Kurt von Schleicher |
Germany |
| 30 Jan 1933 - 30 Apr 1945 |
46.6 - 58.8 |
Chancellor of Germany: Adolf Hitler |
Germany |
| 28 Feb 1933 - 23 Mar 1933 |
46.6 - 46.7 |
'Reichstag Fire Decree' and 'Enabling Act': De facto end of the Weimar Republic & beginning of Nazi dictatorship |
Germany |
| 4 Mar 1933 - 12 Apr 1945 |
46.7 - 58.8 |
President of the United States of America: Franklin D. Roosevelt |
USA - Presidents |
| 1935 |
49.0 |
Italy occupies Ethiopia, the last remaining free territory in Africa. |
Discoveries & Colonization |
| 11 Dec 1936 - 6 Feb 1952 |
50.4 - 65.6 |
Queen consort of the United Kingdom: Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon 'Queen Mum' |
Great Britain |
| 6 May 1937 |
50.8 |
Hindenburg disaster |
Aviation History |
| 1937 |
51.0 |
Construction period of the Golden Gate Bridge |
Monuments |
| 27 Aug 1939 |
53.1 |
First flight of turbine-equipped jet plane |
Aviation History |
| 1 Sep 1939 - 2 Sep 1945 |
53.2 - 59.2 |
World War II |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 14 May 1940 |
53.9 |
Establishment of McDonald's |
Companies |
| 7 Dec 1941 |
55.4 |
Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor |
USA |
Nathaniel Goodwin
Frances Butler
Birth