Feb 12, 1809 - Apr 19, 1882 |
(-57.2) - 16.0 |
Life of Charles Robert Darwin |
Personalities |
Feb 7, 1812 - Jun 9, 1870 |
(-54.3) - 4.1 |
Life of Charles John Huffam Dickens |
Personalities |
Dec 13, 1816 - Dec 6, 1892 |
(-49.4) - 26.6 |
Life of Werner von Siemens |
Personalities |
Dec 30, 1819 - Sep 20, 1890 |
(-46.4) - 24.4 |
Life of Theodor Fontane |
Personalities |
Dec 15, 1832 - Dec 27, 1923 |
(-33.4) - 57.7 |
Life of Gustave Eiffel |
Personalities |
Mar 17, 1834 - Mar 6, 1900 |
(-32.1) - 33.9 |
Life of Gottlieb Wilhelm Daimler |
Personalities |
Jul 8, 1838 - Mar 8, 1917 |
(-27.8) - 50.9 |
Life of Ferdinand von Zeppelin |
Personalities |
Dec 11, 1843 - May 27, 1910 |
(-22.4) - 44.1 |
Life of Robert Koch |
Personalities |
Nov 25, 1844 - Apr 4, 1929 |
(-21.4) - 63.0 |
Life of Carl Benz |
Personalities |
Feb 11, 1847 - Oct 18, 1931 |
(-19.2) - 65.5 |
Life of Thomas Alva Edison |
Personalities |
Mar 3, 1847 - Aug 1, 1922 |
(-19.2) - 56.3 |
Life of Alexander Graham Bell |
Personalities |
Dec 2, 1852 - Sep 4, 1870 |
(-13.4) - 4.4 |
Emperor of France: Napoleon III |
France |
May 6, 1856 - Sep 23, 1939 |
(-10.0) - 73.5 |
Life of Sigmund Freud |
Personalities |
Sep 23, 1861 - Mar 12, 1942 |
(-4.6) - 75.9 |
Life of Robert Bosch |
Personalities |
Jul 30, 1863 - Apr 7, 1947 |
(-2.7) - 81.0 |
Life of Henry Ford |
Personalities |
Oct 16, 1863 - Mar 17, 1937 |
(-2.5) - 70.9 |
Life of Joseph Austen Chamberlain |
Personalities |
Apr 15, 1865 - Mar 4, 1869 |
(-1.0) - 2.9 |
President of the United States of America: Andrew Johnson |
USA - Presidents |
Jun 9, 1866 - Jul 26, 1866 |
0.1 - 0.2 |
Austro-Prussian War ('German War') |
Germany |
Mar 10, 1867 |
0.9 |
First telephone voice transmission |
Technology |
1868 - 1878 |
2.2 - 12.2 |
Ten Years' War ('Great War') |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
Mar 4, 1869 - Mar 4, 1877 |
2.9 - 10.9 |
President of the United States of America: Ulysses S. Grant |
USA - Presidents |
Sep 5, 1869 - 1884 |
3.4 - 18.2 |
Construction period of Neuschwanstein Castle |
Monuments |
Apr 22, 1870 - Jan 21, 1924 |
4.0 - 57.8 |
Life of Vladimir Lenin |
Personalities |
1870 |
4.2 |
Start of the 3rd French Republic |
France |
Jul 19, 1870 - May 10, 1871 |
4.2 - 5.0 |
Franco-Prussian War |
Germany |
Jan 18, 1871 - Mar 9, 1888 |
4.7 - 21.9 |
German Emperor: Wilhelm I |
Germany |
Nov 9, 1871 |
5.5 |
Founding of the German Empire |
Germany |
Nov 30, 1874 - Jan 24, 1965 |
8.6 - 98.8 |
Life of Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill |
Personalities |
Jan 5, 1876 - Apr 19, 1967 |
9.7 - 101.0 |
Life of Konrad Adenauer |
Personalities |
Mar 4, 1877 - Mar 4, 1881 |
10.9 - 14.9 |
President of the United States of America: Rutherford B. Hayes |
USA - Presidents |
1878 - 1881 |
12.2 - 15.2 |
Second Anglo-Afghan War |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
1878 |
12.2 |
Establishment of Bell Telephone Company |
Companies |
Dec 31, 1878 |
12.7 |
First two-stroke internal combustion gas engine |
Automobile History |
Mar 14, 1879 - Apr 18, 1955 |
12.9 - 89.0 |
Life of Albert Einstein |
Personalities |
1879 |
13.2 |
Discovery of plague vaccine |
Medicine |
1879 |
13.2 |
Discovery of cholera vaccine |
Medicine |
1879 |
13.2 |
Anglo-Zulu War |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
Dec 20, 1880 - Mar 23, 1881 |
14.7 - 14.9 |
First Boer War ('First South African War') |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
Mar 4, 1881 - Sep 19, 1881 |
14.9 - 15.4 |
President of the United States of America: James A. Garfield |
USA - Presidents |
Aug 6, 1881 - Mar 11, 1955 |
15.3 - 88.9 |
Life of Alexander Fleming |
Personalities |
Sep 19, 1881 - Mar 4, 1885 |
15.4 - 18.9 |
President of the United States of America: Chester A. Arthur |
USA - Presidents |
1882 |
16.2 |
Britain occupies Egypt |
Discoveries & Colonization |
1882 |
16.2 |
Establishment of Peugeot |
Companies |
Jan 21, 1884 - Dec 12, 1963 |
17.8 - 97.7 |
Life of Theodor Heuss |
Personalities |
1884 |
18.2 |
First controlled flight of a Zeppelin |
Aviation History |
Nov 15, 1884 - Feb 26, 1885 |
18.6 - 18.9 |
Berlin Conference ('Congo Conference') |
Discoveries & Colonization |
Mar 4, 1885 - Mar 4, 1889 |
18.9 - 22.9 |
President of the United States of America: Grover Cleveland |
USA - Presidents |
1886 |
20.2 |
Establishment of the Coca Cola Company |
Companies |
1886 |
20.2 |
Establishment of Johnson & Johnson |
Companies |
Oct 28, 1886 |
20.5 |
Construction period of the Statue of Liberty |
Monuments |
1887 - 1889 |
21.2 - 23.2 |
Construction period of the Eiffel Tower |
Monuments |
1887 |
21.2 |
Huang He flood |
Disasters |
Mar 9, 1888 - Jun 15, 1888 |
21.9 - 22.2 |
German Emperor: Friedrich III |
Germany |
Jun 15, 1888 - Nov 9, 1918 |
22.2 - 52.6 |
German Emperor: Wilhelm II |
Germany |
1888 |
22.2 |
First commercially manufactured automobile by Karl Benz |
Automobile History |
Mar 4, 1889 - Mar 4, 1893 |
22.9 - 26.9 |
President of the United States of America: Benjamin Harrison |
USA - Presidents |
Apr 20, 1889 - Apr 30, 1945 |
23.0 - 79.1 |
Life of Adolf Hitler |
Personalities |
1890 |
24.2 |
Establishment of General Electric |
Companies |
1890 |
24.2 |
Establishment of Daimler |
Companies |
Oct 14, 1890 - Mar 28, 1969 |
24.5 - 103.0 |
Life of Dwight David Eisenhower |
Personalities |
Mar 4, 1893 - Mar 4, 1897 |
26.9 - 30.9 |
President of the United States of America: Grover Cleveland |
USA - Presidents |
1896 |
30.2 |
Establishment of IBM (International Business Machines Corp., formerly 'Computing Tabulating Recording Corp. (CTR)') |
Companies |
1896 - 1897 |
30.2 - 31.2 |
Matabele Wars ('Ndebele Matabele War') |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
Mar 4, 1897 - Sep 14, 1901 |
30.9 - 35.4 |
President of the United States of America: William McKinley |
USA - Presidents |
Oct 11, 1899 - May 31, 1902 |
33.5 - 36.1 |
Second Boer War ('Second South African War') |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
Sep 8, 1900 |
34.4 |
Galveston hurricane; destruction of the city of Galveston, Texas |
Disasters |
Sep 14, 1901 - Mar 4, 1909 |
35.4 - 42.9 |
President of the United States of America: Theodore Roosevelt |
USA - Presidents |
Oct 19, 1901 |
35.5 |
First motorized zeppelin flight |
Aviation History |
Dec 5, 1901 - Dec 15, 1966 |
35.6 - 100.7 |
Life of Walter Elias Disney |
Personalities |
Jun 16, 1903 |
37.2 |
Establishment of Ford Motor Company |
Companies |
Dec 16, 1903 |
37.7 |
First controlled powered human flight by the Wright brothers |
Aviation History |
1904 - 1908 |
38.2 - 42.2 |
Herero and Namaqua Uprising ('Herero and Namaqua Genocide') |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
Apr 18, 1906 |
40.0 |
San Francisco earthquake of 1906 |
Disasters |
1907 |
41.2 |
First helicopter flight |
Aviation History |
Sep 16, 1908 |
42.4 |
Establishment of General Motors |
Companies |
Sep 27, 1908 |
42.4 |
Introduction of the Ford Model T |
Automobile History |
Mar 4, 1909 - Mar 4, 1913 |
42.9 - 46.9 |
President of the United States of America: William Howard Taft |
USA - Presidents |
1909 |
43.2 |
Discovery of antibiotics |
Medicine |
May 30, 1911 |
45.1 |
One in seven families in the US owns a car |
Automobile History |
May 30, 1911 |
45.1 |
First 'Indy 500' race in Indianapolis |
Automobile History |
Oct 23, 1911 |
45.5 |
First military use of an airplane |
Aviation History |
Mar 4, 1913 - Mar 4, 1921 |
46.9 - 54.9 |
President of the United States of America: Woodrow Wilson |
USA - Presidents |
Jun 14, 1914 - Jun 15, 1914 |
48.2 |
First transatlantic flight |
Aviation History |
Jun 28, 1914 - Nov 11, 1918 |
48.2 - 52.6 |
World War I |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
Aug 6, 1914 - Nov 25, 1918 |
48.3 - 52.6 |
East African Campaign (World War I) |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
Sep 13, 1914 - Jul 9, 1915 |
48.4 - 49.2 |
South-West Africa Campaign (World War I) |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
Oct 14, 1914 - Oct 24, 1914 |
48.5 |
Maritz Rebellion |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
Apr 24, 1916 - Apr 30, 1916 |
50.0 |
Easter Rising |
Great Britain |
1916 |
50.2 |
Establishment of BMW (Bayerische Motoren Werke AG) |
Companies |
Mar 8, 1917 - Mar 12, 1917 |
50.9 |
Russian February Revolution |
Russia |
May 29, 1917 - Nov 22, 1963 |
51.1 - 97.6 |
Life of John F. Kennedy |
Personalities |
1917 - 1923 |
51.2 - 57.2 |
Russian Civil War |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
Nov 7, 1917 |
51.6 |
Founding of the Russian Socialist Federal Soviet Republic |
Russia |
Nov 9, 1918 |
52.6 |
German Revolution |
Germany |
Feb 11, 1919 - Feb 28, 1925 |
52.8 - 58.9 |
President of Germany: Friedrich Ebert |
Germany |
Feb 13, 1919 - Jun 20, 1919 |
52.8 - 53.2 |
Chancellor of Germany: Philipp Scheidemann |
Germany |
May 6, 1919 - Aug 8, 1919 |
53.1 - 53.3 |
Third Anglo-Afghan War |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
1919 |
53.2 |
First transatlantic zeppelin flight |
Aviation History |
Aug 11, 1919 |
53.3 |
Adoption of the Weimar Constitution |
Germany |
Sep 10, 1919 |
53.4 |
Treaty of Saint-Germain |
Italy |
Mar 4, 1921 - Aug 2, 1923 |
54.9 - 57.3 |
President of the United States of America: Warren G. Harding |
USA - Presidents |
Dec 6, 1921 |
55.6 |
Anglo-Irish Treaty |
Great Britain |
Oct 28, 1922 |
56.5 |
Benito Mussolini becomes Prime Minister of Italy |
Italy |
Aug 2, 1923 - Mar 4, 1929 |
57.3 - 62.9 |
President of the United States of America: Calvin Coolidge |
USA - Presidents |
Aug 13, 1923 - Nov 23, 1923 |
57.3 - 57.6 |
Chancellor of Germany: Gustav Stresemann |
Germany |
Sep 13, 1923 |
57.4 |
Establishment of the military dictatorship |
Spain |
May 12, 1925 - Aug 2, 1934 |
59.1 - 68.3 |
President of Germany: Paul von Hindenburg |
Germany |
Jun 14, 1928 - Oct 9, 1967 |
62.2 - 101.5 |
Life of Che Guevara |
Personalities |
1928 |
62.2 |
Discovery of penicillin |
Medicine |
Jan 15, 1929 - Apr 4, 1968 |
62.8 - 102.0 |
Life of Martin Luther King |
Personalities |
Mar 4, 1929 - Mar 4, 1933 |
62.9 - 66.9 |
President of the United States of America: Herbert Hoover |
USA - Presidents |
Oct 25, 1929 |
63.5 |
'Black Friday' |
USA |
Jan 22, 1930 - May 1, 1931 |
63.8 - 65.1 |
Construction period of the Empire State Building |
Monuments |
Mar 30, 1930 - May 30, 1932 |
64.0 - 66.1 |
Chancellor of Germany: Heinrich BrĂ¼ning |
Germany |
Aug 5, 1930 - Aug 25, 2012 |
64.3 - 146.4 |
Life of Neil Armstrong |
Personalities |
Apr 14, 1931 |
65.0 |
Proclamation of the Second Spanish Republic |
Spain |
1931 |
65.2 |
Establishment of Porsche |
Companies |
Dec 11, 1931 |
65.7 |
Statute of Westminster |
Great Britain |
Jun 1, 1932 - Nov 17, 1932 |
66.1 - 66.6 |
Chancellor of Germany: Franz von Papen |
Germany |
Dec 3, 1932 - Jan 28, 1933 |
66.6 - 66.8 |
Chancellor of Germany: Kurt von Schleicher |
Germany |
Jan 30, 1933 - Apr 30, 1945 |
66.8 - 79.1 |
Chancellor of Germany: Adolf Hitler |
Germany |
Feb 28, 1933 - Mar 23, 1933 |
66.9 - 67.0 |
'Reichstag Fire Decree' and 'Enabling Act': De facto end of the Weimar Republic & beginning of Nazi dictatorship |
Germany |
Mar 4, 1933 - Apr 12, 1945 |
66.9 - 79.0 |
President of the United States of America: Franklin D. Roosevelt |
USA - Presidents |
1935 |
69.2 |
Italy occupies Ethiopia, the last remaining free territory in Africa. |
Discoveries & Colonization |
Dec 11, 1936 - Feb 6, 1952 |
70.7 - 85.8 |
Queen consort of the United Kingdom: Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon 'Queen Mum' |
Great Britain |
May 6, 1937 |
71.1 |
Hindenburg disaster |
Aviation History |
1937 |
71.2 |
Construction period of the Golden Gate Bridge |
Monuments |
Aug 27, 1939 |
73.4 |
First flight of turbine-equipped jet plane |
Aviation History |
Sep 1, 1939 - Sep 2, 1945 |
73.4 - 79.4 |
World War II |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
May 14, 1940 |
74.1 |
Establishment of McDonald's |
Companies |
Dec 7, 1941 |
75.7 |
Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor |
USA |
Apr 12, 1945 - Jan 20, 1953 |
79.0 - 86.8 |
President of the United States of America: Harry S. Truman |
USA - Presidents |
Apr 25, 1945 |
79.0 |
Establishment of the United Nations |
World |
May 8, 1945 |
79.1 |
Unconditional surrender of the German Empire |
Germany |
Aug 6, 1945 - Aug 9, 1945 |
79.3 |
Nuclear bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki |
USA |
Oct 14, 1946 |
80.5 |
Start of the 4th French Republic |
France |
Oct 14, 1947 |
81.5 |
First supersonic flight of the Bell X-1 |
Aviation History |
Dec 21, 1948 |
82.7 |
Republic of Ireland Act |
Great Britain |
May 23, 1949 |
83.1 |
Establishment of the Federal Republic of Germany |
Germany |
1949 |
83.2 |
Establishment of Circuit City |
Companies |
Sep 15, 1949 - Oct 16, 1963 |
83.4 - 97.5 |
Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany: Konrad Adenauer |
Germany - Chancellors |
Oct 7, 1949 |
83.5 |
Establishment of the German Democratic Republic |
Germany |
Oct 11, 1949 - Sep 7, 1960 |
83.5 - 94.4 |
Wilhelm Pieck - State President of the GDR |
GDR |
Jun 17, 1950 |
84.2 |
First successful organ transplant |
Medicine |
1950 - 1953 |
84.2 - 87.2 |
Korean War |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
Jan 22, 1952 |
85.8 |
First jet airliner in regular commercial use |
Aviation History |
Feb 6, 1952 - Today |
85.8 |
Queen of the United Kingdom: Elizabeth II |
Great Britain |
Jan 20, 1953 - Jan 20, 1961 |
86.8 - 94.8 |
President of the United States of America: Dwight D. Eisenhower |
USA - Presidents |
Jun 17, 1953 |
87.2 |
Uprising of June 17, 1953 in East Germany |
Germany |
Feb 24, 1955 - Oct 5, 2011 |
88.9 - 145.5 |
Life of Steven 'Steve' Paul Jobs |
Personalities |