Dec 15, 1832 - Dec 27, 1923 |
(-70.9) - 20.2 |
Life of Gustave Eiffel |
Personalities |
Jul 8, 1838 - Mar 8, 1917 |
(-65.4) - 13.4 |
Life of Ferdinand von Zeppelin |
Personalities |
Dec 11, 1843 - May 27, 1910 |
(-59.9) - 6.6 |
Life of Robert Koch |
Personalities |
Nov 25, 1844 - Apr 4, 1929 |
(-59.0) - 25.4 |
Life of Carl Benz |
Personalities |
Feb 11, 1847 - Oct 18, 1931 |
(-56.8) - 28.0 |
Life of Thomas Alva Edison |
Personalities |
Mar 3, 1847 - Aug 1, 1922 |
(-56.7) - 18.8 |
Life of Alexander Graham Bell |
Personalities |
May 6, 1856 - Sep 23, 1939 |
(-47.5) - 35.9 |
Life of Sigmund Freud |
Personalities |
Sep 23, 1861 - Mar 12, 1942 |
(-42.1) - 38.4 |
Life of Robert Bosch |
Personalities |
Jul 30, 1863 - Apr 7, 1947 |
(-40.3) - 43.5 |
Life of Henry Ford |
Personalities |
Oct 16, 1863 - Mar 17, 1937 |
(-40.1) - 33.4 |
Life of Joseph Austen Chamberlain |
Personalities |
Apr 22, 1870 - Jan 21, 1924 |
(-33.6) - 20.2 |
Life of Vladimir Lenin |
Personalities |
Nov 30, 1874 - Jan 24, 1965 |
(-28.9) - 61.3 |
Life of Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill |
Personalities |
Jan 5, 1876 - Apr 19, 1967 |
(-27.8) - 63.5 |
Life of Konrad Adenauer |
Personalities |
Mar 14, 1879 - Apr 18, 1955 |
(-24.7) - 51.5 |
Life of Albert Einstein |
Personalities |
Aug 6, 1881 - Mar 11, 1955 |
(-22.3) - 51.4 |
Life of Alexander Fleming |
Personalities |
Jan 21, 1884 - Dec 12, 1963 |
(-19.8) - 60.1 |
Life of Theodor Heuss |
Personalities |
Jun 15, 1888 - Nov 9, 1918 |
(-15.4) - 15.0 |
German Emperor: Wilhelm II |
Germany |
Apr 20, 1889 - Apr 30, 1945 |
(-14.5) - 41.5 |
Life of Adolf Hitler |
Personalities |
Oct 14, 1890 - Mar 28, 1969 |
(-13.1) - 65.4 |
Life of Dwight David Eisenhower |
Personalities |
Sep 14, 1901 - Mar 4, 1909 |
(-2.1) - 5.3 |
President of the United States of America: Theodore Roosevelt |
USA - Presidents |
Dec 5, 1901 - Dec 15, 1966 |
(-1.9) - 63.2 |
Life of Walter Elias Disney |
Personalities |
Dec 16, 1903 |
0.1 |
First controlled powered human flight by the Wright brothers |
Aviation History |
1904 - 1908 |
0.7 - 4.7 |
Herero and Namaqua Uprising ('Herero and Namaqua Genocide') |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
Apr 18, 1906 |
2.5 |
San Francisco earthquake of 1906 |
Disasters |
1907 |
3.7 |
First helicopter flight |
Aviation History |
Sep 16, 1908 |
4.9 |
Establishment of General Motors |
Companies |
Sep 27, 1908 |
4.9 |
Introduction of the Ford Model T |
Automobile History |
Mar 4, 1909 - Mar 4, 1913 |
5.3 - 9.3 |
President of the United States of America: William Howard Taft |
USA - Presidents |
1909 |
5.7 |
Discovery of antibiotics |
Medicine |
May 30, 1911 |
7.6 |
One in seven families in the US owns a car |
Automobile History |
May 30, 1911 |
7.6 |
First 'Indy 500' race in Indianapolis |
Automobile History |
Oct 23, 1911 |
8.0 |
First military use of an airplane |
Aviation History |
Mar 4, 1913 - Mar 4, 1921 |
9.3 - 17.3 |
President of the United States of America: Woodrow Wilson |
USA - Presidents |
Jun 14, 1914 - Jun 15, 1914 |
10.6 |
First transatlantic flight |
Aviation History |
Jun 28, 1914 - Nov 11, 1918 |
10.7 - 15.0 |
World War I |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
Aug 6, 1914 - Nov 25, 1918 |
10.8 - 15.1 |
East African Campaign (World War I) |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
Sep 13, 1914 - Jul 9, 1915 |
10.9 - 11.7 |
South-West Africa Campaign (World War I) |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
Oct 14, 1914 - Oct 24, 1914 |
11.0 |
Maritz Rebellion |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
Apr 24, 1916 - Apr 30, 1916 |
12.5 |
Easter Rising |
Great Britain |
1916 |
12.7 |
Establishment of BMW (Bayerische Motoren Werke AG) |
Companies |
Mar 8, 1917 - Mar 12, 1917 |
13.4 |
Russian February Revolution |
Russia |
May 29, 1917 - Nov 22, 1963 |
13.6 - 60.1 |
Life of John F. Kennedy |
Personalities |
1917 - 1923 |
13.7 - 19.7 |
Russian Civil War |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
Nov 7, 1917 |
14.0 |
Founding of the Russian Socialist Federal Soviet Republic |
Russia |
Nov 9, 1918 |
15.0 |
German Revolution |
Germany |
Feb 11, 1919 - Feb 28, 1925 |
15.3 - 21.3 |
President of Germany: Friedrich Ebert |
Germany |
Feb 13, 1919 - Jun 20, 1919 |
15.3 - 15.6 |
Chancellor of Germany: Philipp Scheidemann |
Germany |
May 6, 1919 - Aug 8, 1919 |
15.5 - 15.8 |
Third Anglo-Afghan War |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
1919 |
15.7 |
First transatlantic zeppelin flight |
Aviation History |
Aug 11, 1919 |
15.8 |
Adoption of the Weimar Constitution |
Germany |
Sep 10, 1919 |
15.9 |
Treaty of Saint-Germain |
Italy |
Mar 4, 1921 - Aug 2, 1923 |
17.3 - 19.8 |
President of the United States of America: Warren G. Harding |
USA - Presidents |
Dec 6, 1921 |
18.1 |
Anglo-Irish Treaty |
Great Britain |
Oct 28, 1922 |
19.0 |
Benito Mussolini becomes Prime Minister of Italy |
Italy |
Aug 2, 1923 - Mar 4, 1929 |
19.8 - 25.3 |
President of the United States of America: Calvin Coolidge |
USA - Presidents |
Aug 13, 1923 - Nov 23, 1923 |
19.8 - 20.1 |
Chancellor of Germany: Gustav Stresemann |
Germany |
Sep 13, 1923 |
19.9 |
Establishment of the military dictatorship |
Spain |
May 12, 1925 - Aug 2, 1934 |
21.5 - 30.8 |
President of Germany: Paul von Hindenburg |
Germany |
Jun 14, 1928 - Oct 9, 1967 |
24.6 - 64.0 |
Life of Che Guevara |
Personalities |
1928 |
24.7 |
Discovery of penicillin |
Medicine |
Jan 15, 1929 - Apr 4, 1968 |
25.2 - 64.5 |
Life of Martin Luther King |
Personalities |
Mar 4, 1929 - Mar 4, 1933 |
25.3 - 29.4 |
President of the United States of America: Herbert Hoover |
USA - Presidents |
Oct 25, 1929 |
26.0 |
'Black Friday' |
USA |
Jan 22, 1930 - May 1, 1931 |
26.2 - 27.5 |
Construction period of the Empire State Building |
Monuments |
Mar 30, 1930 - May 30, 1932 |
26.4 - 28.6 |
Chancellor of Germany: Heinrich BrĂ¼ning |
Germany |
Aug 5, 1930 - Aug 25, 2012 |
26.8 - 108.9 |
Life of Neil Armstrong |
Personalities |
Apr 14, 1931 |
27.5 |
Proclamation of the Second Spanish Republic |
Spain |
1931 |
27.7 |
Establishment of Porsche |
Companies |
Dec 11, 1931 |
28.1 |
Statute of Westminster |
Great Britain |
Jun 1, 1932 - Nov 17, 1932 |
28.6 - 29.1 |
Chancellor of Germany: Franz von Papen |
Germany |
Dec 3, 1932 - Jan 28, 1933 |
29.1 - 29.3 |
Chancellor of Germany: Kurt von Schleicher |
Germany |
Jan 30, 1933 - Apr 30, 1945 |
29.3 - 41.5 |
Chancellor of Germany: Adolf Hitler |
Germany |
Feb 28, 1933 - Mar 23, 1933 |
29.3 - 29.4 |
'Reichstag Fire Decree' and 'Enabling Act': De facto end of the Weimar Republic & beginning of Nazi dictatorship |
Germany |
Mar 4, 1933 - Apr 12, 1945 |
29.4 - 41.5 |
President of the United States of America: Franklin D. Roosevelt |
USA - Presidents |
1935 |
31.7 |
Italy occupies Ethiopia, the last remaining free territory in Africa. |
Discoveries & Colonization |
Dec 11, 1936 - Feb 6, 1952 |
33.1 - 48.3 |
Queen consort of the United Kingdom: Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon 'Queen Mum' |
Great Britain |
May 6, 1937 |
33.5 |
Hindenburg disaster |
Aviation History |
1937 |
33.7 |
Construction period of the Golden Gate Bridge |
Monuments |
Aug 27, 1939 |
35.8 |
First flight of turbine-equipped jet plane |
Aviation History |
Sep 1, 1939 - Sep 2, 1945 |
35.8 - 41.9 |
World War II |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
May 14, 1940 |
36.6 |
Establishment of McDonald's |
Companies |
Dec 7, 1941 |
38.1 |
Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor |
USA |
Apr 12, 1945 - Jan 20, 1953 |
41.5 - 49.2 |
President of the United States of America: Harry S. Truman |
USA - Presidents |
Apr 25, 1945 |
41.5 |
Establishment of the United Nations |
World |
May 8, 1945 |
41.5 |
Unconditional surrender of the German Empire |
Germany |
Aug 6, 1945 - Aug 9, 1945 |
41.8 |
Nuclear bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki |
USA |
Oct 14, 1946 |
43.0 |
Start of the 4th French Republic |
France |
Oct 14, 1947 |
44.0 |
First supersonic flight of the Bell X-1 |
Aviation History |
Dec 21, 1948 |
45.2 |
Republic of Ireland Act |
Great Britain |
May 23, 1949 |
45.6 |
Establishment of the Federal Republic of Germany |
Germany |
1949 |
45.7 |
Establishment of Circuit City |
Companies |
Sep 15, 1949 - Oct 16, 1963 |
45.9 - 60.0 |
Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany: Konrad Adenauer |
Germany - Chancellors |
Oct 7, 1949 |
46.0 |
Establishment of the German Democratic Republic |
Germany |
Oct 11, 1949 - Sep 7, 1960 |
46.0 - 56.9 |
Wilhelm Pieck - State President of the GDR |
GDR |
Jun 17, 1950 |
46.6 |
First successful organ transplant |
Medicine |
1950 - 1953 |
46.7 - 49.7 |
Korean War |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
Jan 22, 1952 |
48.2 |
First jet airliner in regular commercial use |
Aviation History |
Feb 6, 1952 - Today |
48.3 |
Queen of the United Kingdom: Elizabeth II |
Great Britain |
Jan 20, 1953 - Jan 20, 1961 |
49.2 - 57.3 |
President of the United States of America: Dwight D. Eisenhower |
USA - Presidents |
Jun 17, 1953 |
49.7 |
Uprising of June 17, 1953 in East Germany |
Germany |
Feb 24, 1955 - Oct 5, 2011 |
51.3 - 108.0 |
Life of Steven 'Steve' Paul Jobs |
Personalities |
Oct 4, 1957 |
54.0 |
Sputnik launched: first artificial satellite in Earth's orbit |
Technology |
Oct 5, 1958 |
55.0 |
Start of the 5th French Republic |
France |
1959 - Apr 30, 1975 |
55.7 - 71.5 |
Vietnam War |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
1960 - 1973 |
56.7 - 69.7 |
Walter Ulbricht - Chairman of the State Council of the GDR |
GDR |
Jan 20, 1961 - Nov 22, 1963 |
57.3 - 60.1 |
President of the United States of America: John F. Kennedy |
USA - Presidents |
Apr 12, 1961 |
57.5 |
First human in space |
Technology |
May 25, 1961 - Jul 24, 1975 |
57.6 - 71.8 |
Apollo Space Program |
Technology |
Aug 13, 1961 |
57.8 |
Construction of the Berlin Wall |
Germany |