| 15 Dec 1832 - 27 Dec 1923 |
(-72.4) - 18.6 |
Life of Gustave Eiffel |
Personalities |
| 8 Jul 1838 - 8 Mar 1917 |
(-66.8) - 11.8 |
Life of Ferdinand von Zeppelin |
Personalities |
| 11 Dec 1843 - 27 May 1910 |
(-61.4) - 5.0 |
Life of Robert Koch |
Personalities |
| 25 Nov 1844 - 4 Apr 1929 |
(-60.5) - 23.9 |
Life of Carl Benz |
Personalities |
| 11 Feb 1847 - 18 Oct 1931 |
(-58.2) - 26.4 |
Life of Thomas Alva Edison |
Personalities |
| 3 Mar 1847 - 1 Aug 1922 |
(-58.2) - 17.2 |
Life of Alexander Graham Bell |
Personalities |
| 6 May 1856 - 23 Sep 1939 |
(-49.0) - 34.4 |
Life of Sigmund Freud |
Personalities |
| 23 Sep 1861 - 12 Mar 1942 |
(-43.6) - 36.8 |
Life of Robert Bosch |
Personalities |
| 30 Jul 1863 - 7 Apr 1947 |
(-41.8) - 41.9 |
Life of Henry Ford |
Personalities |
| 16 Oct 1863 - 17 Mar 1937 |
(-41.6) - 31.9 |
Life of Joseph Austen Chamberlain |
Personalities |
| 22 Apr 1870 - 21 Jan 1924 |
(-35.0) - 18.7 |
Life of Vladimir Lenin |
Personalities |
| 30 Nov 1874 - 24 Jan 1965 |
(-30.4) - 59.7 |
Life of Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill |
Personalities |
| 5 Jan 1876 - 19 Apr 1967 |
(-29.3) - 62.0 |
Life of Konrad Adenauer |
Personalities |
| 14 Mar 1879 - 18 Apr 1955 |
(-26.1) - 50.0 |
Life of Albert Einstein |
Personalities |
| 6 Aug 1881 - 11 Mar 1955 |
(-23.7) - 49.9 |
Life of Alexander Fleming |
Personalities |
| 21 Jan 1884 - 12 Dec 1963 |
(-21.3) - 58.6 |
Life of Theodor Heuss |
Personalities |
| 15 Jun 1888 - 9 Nov 1918 |
(-16.9) - 13.5 |
German Emperor: Wilhelm II |
Germany |
| 20 Apr 1889 - 30 Apr 1945 |
(-16.0) - 40.0 |
Life of Adolf Hitler |
Personalities |
| 14 Oct 1890 - 28 Mar 1969 |
(-14.5) - 63.9 |
Life of Dwight David Eisenhower |
Personalities |
| 14 Sep 1901 - 4 Mar 1909 |
(-3.6) - 3.8 |
President of the United States of America: Theodore Roosevelt |
USA - Presidents |
| 5 Dec 1901 - 15 Dec 1966 |
(-3.4) - 61.6 |
Life of Walter Elias Disney |
Personalities |
| 1904 - 1908 |
(-0.8) - 3.1 |
Herero and Namaqua Uprising ('Herero and Namaqua Genocide') |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 18 Apr 1906 |
0.9 |
San Francisco earthquake of 1906 |
Disasters |
| 1907 |
2.1 |
First helicopter flight |
Aviation History |
| 16 Sep 1908 |
3.3 |
Establishment of General Motors |
Companies |
| 27 Sep 1908 |
3.4 |
Introduction of the Ford Model T |
Automobile History |
| 4 Mar 1909 - 4 Mar 1913 |
3.8 - 7.8 |
President of the United States of America: William Howard Taft |
USA - Presidents |
| 1909 |
4.1 |
Discovery of antibiotics |
Medicine |
| 30 May 1911 |
6.0 |
One in seven families in the US owns a car |
Automobile History |
| 30 May 1911 |
6.0 |
First 'Indy 500' race in Indianapolis |
Automobile History |
| 23 Oct 1911 |
6.4 |
First military use of an airplane |
Aviation History |
| 4 Mar 1913 - 4 Mar 1921 |
7.8 - 15.8 |
President of the United States of America: Woodrow Wilson |
USA - Presidents |
| 14 Jun 1914 - 15 Jun 1914 |
9.1 |
First transatlantic flight |
Aviation History |
| 28 Jun 1914 - 11 Nov 1918 |
9.1 - 13.5 |
World War I |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 6 Aug 1914 - 25 Nov 1918 |
9.2 - 13.5 |
East African Campaign (World War I) |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 13 Sep 1914 - 9 Jul 1915 |
9.3 - 10.2 |
South-West Africa Campaign (World War I) |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 14 Oct 1914 - 24 Oct 1914 |
9.4 |
Maritz Rebellion |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 24 Apr 1916 - 30 Apr 1916 |
11.0 |
Easter Rising |
Great Britain |
| 1916 |
11.1 |
Establishment of BMW (Bayerische Motoren Werke AG) |
Companies |
| 8 Mar 1917 - 12 Mar 1917 |
11.8 |
Russian February Revolution |
Russia |
| 29 May 1917 - 22 Nov 1963 |
12.0 - 58.6 |
Life of John F. Kennedy |
Personalities |
| 1917 - 1923 |
12.1 - 18.1 |
Russian Civil War |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 7 Nov 1917 |
12.5 |
Founding of the Russian Socialist Federal Soviet Republic |
Russia |
| 9 Nov 1918 |
13.5 |
German Revolution |
Germany |
| 11 Feb 1919 - 28 Feb 1925 |
13.8 - 19.8 |
President of Germany: Friedrich Ebert |
Germany |
| 13 Feb 1919 - 20 Jun 1919 |
13.8 - 14.1 |
Chancellor of Germany: Philipp Scheidemann |
Germany |
| 6 May 1919 - 8 Aug 1919 |
14.0 - 14.2 |
Third Anglo-Afghan War |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 1919 |
14.1 |
First transatlantic zeppelin flight |
Aviation History |
| 11 Aug 1919 |
14.2 |
Adoption of the Weimar Constitution |
Germany |
| 10 Sep 1919 |
14.3 |
Treaty of Saint-Germain |
Italy |
| 4 Mar 1921 - 2 Aug 1923 |
15.8 - 18.2 |
President of the United States of America: Warren G. Harding |
USA - Presidents |
| 6 Dec 1921 |
16.6 |
Anglo-Irish Treaty |
Great Britain |
| 28 Oct 1922 |
17.5 |
Benito Mussolini becomes Prime Minister of Italy |
Italy |
| 2 Aug 1923 - 4 Mar 1929 |
18.2 - 23.8 |
President of the United States of America: Calvin Coolidge |
USA - Presidents |
| 13 Aug 1923 - 23 Nov 1923 |
18.3 - 18.5 |
Chancellor of Germany: Gustav Stresemann |
Germany |
| 13 Sep 1923 |
18.3 |
Establishment of the military dictatorship |
Spain |
| 12 May 1925 - 2 Aug 1934 |
20.0 - 29.2 |
President of Germany: Paul von Hindenburg |
Germany |
| 14 Jun 1928 - 9 Oct 1967 |
23.1 - 62.4 |
Life of Che Guevara |
Personalities |
| 1928 |
23.1 |
Discovery of penicillin |
Medicine |
| 15 Jan 1929 - 4 Apr 1968 |
23.7 - 62.9 |
Life of Martin Luther King |
Personalities |
| 4 Mar 1929 - 4 Mar 1933 |
23.8 - 27.8 |
President of the United States of America: Herbert Hoover |
USA - Presidents |
| 25 Oct 1929 |
24.5 |
'Black Friday' |
USA |
| 22 Jan 1930 - 1 May 1931 |
24.7 - 26.0 |
Construction period of the Empire State Building |
Monuments |
| 30 Mar 1930 - 30 May 1932 |
24.9 - 27.1 |
Chancellor of Germany: Heinrich Brüning |
Germany |
| 5 Aug 1930 - 25 Aug 2012 |
25.2 - 107.4 |
Life of Neil Armstrong |
Personalities |
| 14 Apr 1931 |
25.9 |
Proclamation of the Second Spanish Republic |
Spain |
| 1931 |
26.1 |
Establishment of Porsche |
Companies |
| 11 Dec 1931 |
26.6 |
Statute of Westminster |
Great Britain |
| 1 Jun 1932 - 17 Nov 1932 |
27.1 - 27.5 |
Chancellor of Germany: Franz von Papen |
Germany |
| 3 Dec 1932 - 28 Jan 1933 |
27.6 - 27.7 |
Chancellor of Germany: Kurt von Schleicher |
Germany |
| 30 Jan 1933 - 30 Apr 1945 |
27.7 - 40.0 |
Chancellor of Germany: Adolf Hitler |
Germany |
| 28 Feb 1933 - 23 Mar 1933 |
27.8 - 27.9 |
'Reichstag Fire Decree' and 'Enabling Act': De facto end of the Weimar Republic & beginning of Nazi dictatorship |
Germany |
| 4 Mar 1933 - 12 Apr 1945 |
27.8 - 39.9 |
President of the United States of America: Franklin D. Roosevelt |
USA - Presidents |
| 1935 |
30.1 |
Italy occupies Ethiopia, the last remaining free territory in Africa. |
Discoveries & Colonization |
| 11 Dec 1936 - 6 Feb 1952 |
31.6 - 46.8 |
Queen consort of the United Kingdom: Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon 'Queen Mum' |
Great Britain |
| 6 May 1937 |
32.0 |
Hindenburg disaster |
Aviation History |
| 1937 |
32.1 |
Construction period of the Golden Gate Bridge |
Monuments |
| 27 Aug 1939 |
34.3 |
First flight of turbine-equipped jet plane |
Aviation History |
| 1 Sep 1939 - 2 Sep 1945 |
34.3 - 40.3 |
World War II |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 14 May 1940 |
35.0 |
Establishment of McDonald's |
Companies |
| 7 Dec 1941 |
36.6 |
Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor |
USA |
| 12 Apr 1945 - 20 Jan 1953 |
39.9 - 47.7 |
President of the United States of America: Harry S. Truman |
USA - Presidents |
| 25 Apr 1945 |
40.0 |
Establishment of the United Nations |
World |
| 8 May 1945 |
40.0 |
Unconditional surrender of the German Empire |
Germany |
| 6 Aug 1945 - 9 Aug 1945 |
40.3 |
Nuclear bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki |
USA |
| 14 Oct 1946 |
41.4 |
Start of the 4th French Republic |
France |
| 14 Oct 1947 |
42.4 |
First supersonic flight of the Bell X-1 |
Aviation History |
| 21 Dec 1948 |
43.6 |
Republic of Ireland Act |
Great Britain |
| 23 May 1949 |
44.1 |
Establishment of the Federal Republic of Germany |
Germany |
| 1949 |
44.2 |
Establishment of Circuit City |
Companies |
| 15 Sep 1949 - 16 Oct 1963 |
44.4 - 58.5 |
Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany: Konrad Adenauer |
Germany - Chancellors |
| 7 Oct 1949 |
44.4 |
Establishment of the German Democratic Republic |
Germany |
| 11 Oct 1949 - 7 Sep 1960 |
44.4 - 55.4 |
Wilhelm Pieck - State President of the GDR |
GDR |
| 17 Jun 1950 |
45.1 |
First successful organ transplant |
Medicine |
| 1950 - 1953 |
45.2 - 48.2 |
Korean War |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 22 Jan 1952 |
46.7 |
First jet airliner in regular commercial use |
Aviation History |
| 6 Feb 1952 - Today |
46.8 |
Queen of the United Kingdom: Elizabeth II |
Great Britain |
| 20 Jan 1953 - 20 Jan 1961 |
47.7 - 55.7 |
President of the United States of America: Dwight D. Eisenhower |
USA - Presidents |
| 17 Jun 1953 |
48.1 |
Uprising of June 17, 1953 in East Germany |
Germany |
| 24 Feb 1955 - 5 Oct 2011 |
49.8 - 106.5 |
Life of Steven 'Steve' Paul Jobs |
Personalities |
| 4 Oct 1957 |
52.4 |
Sputnik launched: first artificial satellite in Earth's orbit |
Technology |
| 5 Oct 1958 |
53.4 |
Start of the 5th French Republic |
France |
| 1959 - 30 Apr 1975 |
54.2 - 70.0 |
Vietnam War |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 1960 - 1973 |
55.2 - 68.2 |
Walter Ulbricht - Chairman of the State Council of the GDR |
GDR |
| 20 Jan 1961 - 22 Nov 1963 |
55.7 - 58.6 |
President of the United States of America: John F. Kennedy |
USA - Presidents |
| 12 Apr 1961 |
55.9 |
First human in space |
Technology |
| 25 May 1961 - 24 Jul 1975 |
56.1 - 70.2 |
Apollo Space Program |
Technology |
| 13 Aug 1961 |
56.3 |
Construction of the Berlin Wall |
Germany |
| 11 Oct 1962 - 8 Dec 1965 |
57.4 - 60.6 |
Second Vatican Council |
World |
| 16 Oct 1962 - 28 Oct 1962 |
57.5 |
Cuban Missile Crisis ('October Crisis') |
USA |
| 16 Oct 1963 - 1 Dec 1966 |
58.5 - 61.6 |
Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany: Ludwig Erhard |
Germany - Chancellors |
| 22 Nov 1963 - 20 Jan 1969 |
58.6 - 63.7 |
President of the United States of America: Lyndon B. Johnson |
USA - Presidents |
| 1966 - 1973 |
61.2 - 68.2 |
Construction period of the World Trade Center |
Monuments |
| 1 Dec 1966 - 21 Oct 1969 |
61.6 - 64.5 |
Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany: Kurt Georg Kiesinger |
Germany - Chancellors |
| 1967 |
62.2 |
Founding of the European Community (EC) |
European Union |
| 20 Jan 1969 - 9 Aug 1974 |
63.7 - 69.3 |
President of the United States of America: Richard Nixon |
USA - Presidents |
| 20 Jul 1969 |
64.2 |
First man on the moon |
Technology |
| 21 Oct 1969 - 7 May 1974 |
64.5 - 69.0 |
Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany: Willy Brandt |
Germany - Chancellors |
| 31 Oct 1969 |
64.5 |
Establishment of Wal Mart |
Companies |
| 21 Jul 1972 |
67.2 |
Bloody Friday |
Great Britain |
| 1973 - 1976 |
68.2 - 71.2 |
Willi Stoph - Chairman of the Council of State of the GDR |
GDR |
| 16 May 1974 - 1 Oct 1982 |
69.0 - 77.4 |
Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany: Helmut Schmidt |
Germany - Chancellors |
| 9 Aug 1974 - 20 Jan 1977 |
69.3 - 71.7 |
President of the United States of America: Gerald Ford |
USA - Presidents |
| 20 Nov 1975 |
70.6 |
Franco's Death, end of the Francoist regime |
Spain |
| 1 Apr 1976 |
70.9 |
Apple Computer is established |
Apple Inc. - Corporate History |
| 1976 - 1989 |
71.2 - 84.2 |
Erich Honecker - Chairman of the Council of State of the GDR |
GDR |
| 20 Jan 1977 - 20 Jan 1981 |
71.7 - 75.7 |
President of the United States of America: Jimmy Carter |
USA - Presidents |
| 16 Apr 1977 |
72.0 |
Introduction of the Apple II |
Apple Inc. - Corporate History |
| 27 Dec 1979 - 15 Feb 1989 |
74.7 - 83.8 |
Soviet-Afghan War (1979-1989) |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 22 Sep 1980 - 20 Aug 1988 |
75.4 - 83.3 |
First Gulf War ('Iran-Iraq War') |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 20 Jan 1981 - 20 Jan 1989 |
75.7 - 83.7 |
President of the United States of America: Ronald Reagan |
USA - Presidents |
| 2 Apr 1982 - 14 Jun 1982 |
76.9 - 77.1 |
Falklands War |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 1 Oct 1982 - 27 Oct 1998 |
77.4 - 93.5 |
Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany: Helmut Kohl |
Germany - Chancellors |
| 19 Jan 1983 |
77.7 |
Introduction of the Apple Lisa |
Apple Inc. - Corporate History |
| 1983 |
78.2 |
Discovery of HIV |
Medicine |
| 24 Jan 1984 |
78.7 |
Introduction of the Macintosh |
Apple Inc. - Corporate History |
| 20 Jan 1989 - 20 Jan 1993 |
83.7 - 87.7 |
President of the United States of America: George H. W. Bush |
USA - Presidents |
| 18 Oct 1989 - 3 Dec 1989 |
84.5 - 84.6 |
Egon Krenz - Chairman of the Council of State of the GDR |
GDR |
| 2 Aug 1990 - 28 Feb 1991 |
85.3 - 85.8 |
Second Gulf War ('Operation Desert Shield', 'Operation Desert Storm') |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 3 Oct 1990 |
85.4 |
German reunification |
Germany |
| 8 Dec 1991 |
86.6 |
Signing of the Belavezha Accords, declaring the Soviet Union dissolved |
Russia |
| 1992 - 1996 |
87.2 - 91.2 |
Afghan Civil War |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 20 Jan 1993 - 20 Jan 2001 |
87.7 - 95.7 |
President of the United States of America: Bill Clinton |
USA - Presidents |
| 4 Aug 1993 |
88.3 |
Introduction of the Apple Newton |
Apple Inc. - Corporate History |
| 1 Nov 1993 |
88.5 |
Founding of the European Union (EU) |
European Union |
| 1994 - 1996 |
89.2 - 91.2 |
First Chechen War ('War in Chechnya') |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 17 Jan 1995 |
89.7 |
Kobe earthquake |
Disasters |
| 1998 - 1999 |
93.2 - 94.2 |
Kosovo War ('Kosovo Conflict') |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 1998 - 2003 |
93.2 - 98.2 |
Second Congo War ('Great War of Africa') |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 15 Aug 1998 |
93.3 |
Introduction of the Apple iMac |
Apple Inc. - Corporate History |
| 27 Oct 1998 - 22 Nov 2005 |
93.5 - 100.6 |
Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany: Gerhard Schröder |
Germany - Chancellors |
| 1 Jan 1999 |
93.7 |
ECU as an internal accounting unit in the European Community |
European Union |
| 20 Jan 2001 - 20 Jan 2009 |
95.7 - 103.8 |
President of the United States of America: George W. Bush |
USA - Presidents |
| 11 Sep 2001 |
96.4 |
September 11 attacks ('9/11') |
USA |
| 7 Oct 2001 - Today |
96.5 |
Afghanistan War |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 23 Oct 2001 |
96.5 |
Apple iPod introduced |
Apple Inc. - Corporate History |
| 1 Jan 2002 |
96.7 |
Introduction of the Euro |
European Union |
| 20 Mar 2003 - 1 May 2003 |
97.9 - 98.0 |
Third Gulf War ('Iraq War') |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 26 Dec 2004 |
99.7 |
Indian Ocean tsunami |
Disasters |
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