15 Dec 1832 - 27 Dec 1923 |
(-68.6) - 22.5 |
Life of Gustave Eiffel |
Personalities |
8 Jul 1838 - 8 Mar 1917 |
(-63.0) - 15.6 |
Life of Ferdinand von Zeppelin |
Personalities |
11 Dec 1843 - 27 May 1910 |
(-57.6) - 8.9 |
Life of Robert Koch |
Personalities |
25 Nov 1844 - 4 Apr 1929 |
(-56.6) - 27.7 |
Life of Carl Benz |
Personalities |
11 Feb 1847 - 18 Oct 1931 |
(-54.4) - 30.3 |
Life of Thomas Alva Edison |
Personalities |
3 Mar 1847 - 1 Aug 1922 |
(-54.4) - 21.1 |
Life of Alexander Graham Bell |
Personalities |
6 May 1856 - 23 Sep 1939 |
(-45.2) - 38.2 |
Life of Sigmund Freud |
Personalities |
23 Sep 1861 - 12 Mar 1942 |
(-39.8) - 40.7 |
Life of Robert Bosch |
Personalities |
30 Jul 1863 - 7 Apr 1947 |
(-37.9) - 45.7 |
Life of Henry Ford |
Personalities |
16 Oct 1863 - 17 Mar 1937 |
(-37.7) - 35.7 |
Life of Joseph Austen Chamberlain |
Personalities |
22 Apr 1870 - 21 Jan 1924 |
(-31.2) - 22.5 |
Life of Vladimir Lenin |
Personalities |
30 Nov 1874 - 24 Jan 1965 |
(-26.6) - 63.6 |
Life of Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill |
Personalities |
5 Jan 1876 - 19 Apr 1967 |
(-25.5) - 65.8 |
Life of Konrad Adenauer |
Personalities |
14 Mar 1879 - 18 Apr 1955 |
(-22.3) - 53.8 |
Life of Albert Einstein |
Personalities |
6 Aug 1881 - 11 Mar 1955 |
(-19.9) - 53.7 |
Life of Alexander Fleming |
Personalities |
21 Jan 1884 - 12 Dec 1963 |
(-17.4) - 62.4 |
Life of Theodor Heuss |
Personalities |
15 Jun 1888 - 9 Nov 1918 |
(-13.0) - 17.3 |
German Emperor: Wilhelm II |
Germany |
20 Apr 1889 - 30 Apr 1945 |
(-12.2) - 43.8 |
Life of Adolf Hitler |
Personalities |
14 Oct 1890 - 28 Mar 1969 |
(-10.7) - 67.7 |
Life of Dwight David Eisenhower |
Personalities |
4 Mar 1897 - 14 Sep 1901 |
(-4.3) - 0.2 |
President of the United States of America: William McKinley |
USA - Presidents |
11 Oct 1899 - 31 May 1902 |
(-1.7) - 0.9 |
Second Boer War ('Second South African War') |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
14 Sep 1901 - 4 Mar 1909 |
0.2 - 7.6 |
President of the United States of America: Theodore Roosevelt |
USA - Presidents |
19 Oct 1901 |
0.3 |
First motorized zeppelin flight |
Aviation History |
5 Dec 1901 - 15 Dec 1966 |
0.4 - 65.5 |
Life of Walter Elias Disney |
Personalities |
16 Jun 1903 |
1.9 |
Establishment of Ford Motor Company |
Companies |
16 Dec 1903 |
2.4 |
First controlled powered human flight by the Wright brothers |
Aviation History |
1904 - 1908 |
3.0 - 7.0 |
Herero and Namaqua Uprising ('Herero and Namaqua Genocide') |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
18 Apr 1906 |
4.8 |
San Francisco earthquake of 1906 |
Disasters |
1907 |
6.0 |
First helicopter flight |
Aviation History |
16 Sep 1908 |
7.2 |
Establishment of General Motors |
Companies |
27 Sep 1908 |
7.2 |
Introduction of the Ford Model T |
Automobile History |
4 Mar 1909 - 4 Mar 1913 |
7.6 - 11.6 |
President of the United States of America: William Howard Taft |
USA - Presidents |
1909 |
8.0 |
Discovery of antibiotics |
Medicine |
30 May 1911 |
9.9 |
One in seven families in the US owns a car |
Automobile History |
30 May 1911 |
9.9 |
First 'Indy 500' race in Indianapolis |
Automobile History |
23 Oct 1911 |
10.3 |
First military use of an airplane |
Aviation History |
4 Mar 1913 - 4 Mar 1921 |
11.6 - 19.6 |
President of the United States of America: Woodrow Wilson |
USA - Presidents |
14 Jun 1914 - 15 Jun 1914 |
12.9 |
First transatlantic flight |
Aviation History |
28 Jun 1914 - 11 Nov 1918 |
13.0 - 17.3 |
World War I |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
6 Aug 1914 - 25 Nov 1918 |
13.1 - 17.4 |
East African Campaign (World War I) |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
13 Sep 1914 - 9 Jul 1915 |
13.2 - 14.0 |
South-West Africa Campaign (World War I) |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
14 Oct 1914 - 24 Oct 1914 |
13.2 - 13.3 |
Maritz Rebellion |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
24 Apr 1916 - 30 Apr 1916 |
14.8 |
Easter Rising |
Great Britain |
1916 |
15.0 |
Establishment of BMW (Bayerische Motoren Werke AG) |
Companies |
8 Mar 1917 - 12 Mar 1917 |
15.6 - 15.7 |
Russian February Revolution |
Russia |
29 May 1917 - 22 Nov 1963 |
15.9 - 62.4 |
Life of John F. Kennedy |
Personalities |
1917 - 1923 |
16.0 - 22.0 |
Russian Civil War |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
7 Nov 1917 |
16.3 |
Founding of the Russian Socialist Federal Soviet Republic |
Russia |
9 Nov 1918 |
17.3 |
German Revolution |
Germany |
11 Feb 1919 - 28 Feb 1925 |
17.6 - 23.6 |
President of Germany: Friedrich Ebert |
Germany |
13 Feb 1919 - 20 Jun 1919 |
17.6 - 17.9 |
Chancellor of Germany: Philipp Scheidemann |
Germany |
6 May 1919 - 8 Aug 1919 |
17.8 - 18.1 |
Third Anglo-Afghan War |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
1919 |
18.0 |
First transatlantic zeppelin flight |
Aviation History |
11 Aug 1919 |
18.1 |
Adoption of the Weimar Constitution |
Germany |
10 Sep 1919 |
18.2 |
Treaty of Saint-Germain |
Italy |
4 Mar 1921 - 2 Aug 1923 |
19.6 - 22.1 |
President of the United States of America: Warren G. Harding |
USA - Presidents |
6 Dec 1921 |
20.4 |
Anglo-Irish Treaty |
Great Britain |
28 Oct 1922 |
21.3 |
Benito Mussolini becomes Prime Minister of Italy |
Italy |
2 Aug 1923 - 4 Mar 1929 |
22.1 - 27.6 |
President of the United States of America: Calvin Coolidge |
USA - Presidents |
13 Aug 1923 - 23 Nov 1923 |
22.1 - 22.4 |
Chancellor of Germany: Gustav Stresemann |
Germany |
13 Sep 1923 |
22.2 |
Establishment of the military dictatorship |
Spain |
12 May 1925 - 2 Aug 1934 |
23.8 - 33.1 |
President of Germany: Paul von Hindenburg |
Germany |
14 Jun 1928 - 9 Oct 1967 |
26.9 - 66.3 |
Life of Che Guevara |
Personalities |
1928 |
27.0 |
Discovery of penicillin |
Medicine |
15 Jan 1929 - 4 Apr 1968 |
27.5 - 66.8 |
Life of Martin Luther King |
Personalities |
4 Mar 1929 - 4 Mar 1933 |
27.6 - 31.6 |
President of the United States of America: Herbert Hoover |
USA - Presidents |
25 Oct 1929 |
28.3 |
'Black Friday' |
USA |
22 Jan 1930 - 1 May 1931 |
28.5 - 29.8 |
Construction period of the Empire State Building |
Monuments |
30 Mar 1930 - 30 May 1932 |
28.7 - 30.9 |
Chancellor of Germany: Heinrich Brüning |
Germany |
5 Aug 1930 - 25 Aug 2012 |
29.1 - 111.2 |
Life of Neil Armstrong |
Personalities |
14 Apr 1931 |
29.8 |
Proclamation of the Second Spanish Republic |
Spain |
1931 |
30.0 |
Establishment of Porsche |
Companies |
11 Dec 1931 |
30.4 |
Statute of Westminster |
Great Britain |
1 Jun 1932 - 17 Nov 1932 |
30.9 - 31.4 |
Chancellor of Germany: Franz von Papen |
Germany |
3 Dec 1932 - 28 Jan 1933 |
31.4 - 31.6 |
Chancellor of Germany: Kurt von Schleicher |
Germany |
30 Jan 1933 - 30 Apr 1945 |
31.6 - 43.8 |
Chancellor of Germany: Adolf Hitler |
Germany |
28 Feb 1933 - 23 Mar 1933 |
31.6 - 31.7 |
'Reichstag Fire Decree' and 'Enabling Act': De facto end of the Weimar Republic & beginning of Nazi dictatorship |
Germany |
4 Mar 1933 - 12 Apr 1945 |
31.6 - 43.8 |
President of the United States of America: Franklin D. Roosevelt |
USA - Presidents |
1935 |
34.0 |
Italy occupies Ethiopia, the last remaining free territory in Africa. |
Discoveries & Colonization |
11 Dec 1936 - 6 Feb 1952 |
35.4 - 50.6 |
Queen consort of the United Kingdom: Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon 'Queen Mum' |
Great Britain |
6 May 1937 |
35.8 |
Hindenburg disaster |
Aviation History |
1937 |
36.0 |
Construction period of the Golden Gate Bridge |
Monuments |
27 Aug 1939 |
38.1 |
First flight of turbine-equipped jet plane |
Aviation History |
1 Sep 1939 - 2 Sep 1945 |
38.1 - 44.2 |
World War II |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
14 May 1940 |
38.8 |
Establishment of McDonald's |
Companies |
7 Dec 1941 |
40.4 |
Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor |
USA |
12 Apr 1945 - 20 Jan 1953 |
43.8 - 51.5 |
President of the United States of America: Harry S. Truman |
USA - Presidents |
25 Apr 1945 |
43.8 |
Establishment of the United Nations |
World |
8 May 1945 |
43.8 |
Unconditional surrender of the German Empire |
Germany |
6 Aug 1945 - 9 Aug 1945 |
44.1 |
Nuclear bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki |
USA |
14 Oct 1946 |
45.3 |
Start of the 4th French Republic |
France |
14 Oct 1947 |
46.3 |
First supersonic flight of the Bell X-1 |
Aviation History |
21 Dec 1948 |
47.5 |
Republic of Ireland Act |
Great Britain |
23 May 1949 |
47.9 |
Establishment of the Federal Republic of Germany |
Germany |
1949 |
48.0 |
Establishment of Circuit City |
Companies |
15 Sep 1949 - 16 Oct 1963 |
48.2 - 62.3 |
Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany: Konrad Adenauer |
Germany - Chancellors |
7 Oct 1949 |
48.3 |
Establishment of the German Democratic Republic |
Germany |
11 Oct 1949 - 7 Sep 1960 |
48.3 - 59.2 |
Wilhelm Pieck - State President of the GDR |
GDR |
17 Jun 1950 |
48.9 |
First successful organ transplant |
Medicine |
1950 - 1953 |
49.0 - 52.0 |
Korean War |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
22 Jan 1952 |
50.5 |
First jet airliner in regular commercial use |
Aviation History |
6 Feb 1952 - Today |
50.6 |
Queen of the United Kingdom: Elizabeth II |
Great Britain |
20 Jan 1953 - 20 Jan 1961 |
51.5 - 59.5 |
President of the United States of America: Dwight D. Eisenhower |
USA - Presidents |
17 Jun 1953 |
51.9 |
Uprising of June 17, 1953 in East Germany |
Germany |
24 Feb 1955 - 5 Oct 2011 |
53.6 - 110.3 |
Life of Steven 'Steve' Paul Jobs |
Personalities |
4 Oct 1957 |
56.3 |
Sputnik launched: first artificial satellite in Earth's orbit |
Technology |
5 Oct 1958 |
57.3 |
Start of the 5th French Republic |
France |
1959 - 30 Apr 1975 |
58.0 - 73.8 |
Vietnam War |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
1960 - 1973 |
59.0 - 72.0 |
Walter Ulbricht - Chairman of the State Council of the GDR |
GDR |
20 Jan 1961 - 22 Nov 1963 |
59.5 - 62.4 |
President of the United States of America: John F. Kennedy |
USA - Presidents |
12 Apr 1961 |
59.8 |
First human in space |
Technology |
25 May 1961 - 24 Jul 1975 |
59.9 - 74.1 |
Apollo Space Program |
Technology |