| Feb 12, 1809 - Apr 19, 1882 |
(-68.0) - 5.2 |
Life of Charles Robert Darwin |
Personalities |
| Dec 13, 1816 - Dec 6, 1892 |
(-60.1) - 15.8 |
Life of Werner von Siemens |
Personalities |
| Dec 30, 1819 - Sep 20, 1890 |
(-57.1) - 13.6 |
Life of Theodor Fontane |
Personalities |
| Dec 15, 1832 - Dec 27, 1923 |
(-44.1) - 46.9 |
Life of Gustave Eiffel |
Personalities |
| Mar 17, 1834 - Mar 6, 1900 |
(-42.9) - 23.1 |
Life of Gottlieb Wilhelm Daimler |
Personalities |
| Jul 8, 1838 - Mar 8, 1917 |
(-38.6) - 40.1 |
Life of Ferdinand von Zeppelin |
Personalities |
| Dec 11, 1843 - May 27, 1910 |
(-33.1) - 33.3 |
Life of Robert Koch |
Personalities |
| Nov 25, 1844 - Apr 4, 1929 |
(-32.2) - 52.2 |
Life of Carl Benz |
Personalities |
| Feb 11, 1847 - Oct 18, 1931 |
(-30.0) - 54.7 |
Life of Thomas Alva Edison |
Personalities |
| Mar 3, 1847 - Aug 1, 1922 |
(-29.9) - 45.5 |
Life of Alexander Graham Bell |
Personalities |
| May 6, 1856 - Sep 23, 1939 |
(-20.7) - 62.7 |
Life of Sigmund Freud |
Personalities |
| Sep 23, 1861 - Mar 12, 1942 |
(-15.3) - 65.1 |
Life of Robert Bosch |
Personalities |
| Jul 30, 1863 - Apr 7, 1947 |
(-13.5) - 70.2 |
Life of Henry Ford |
Personalities |
| Oct 16, 1863 - Mar 17, 1937 |
(-13.3) - 60.1 |
Life of Joseph Austen Chamberlain |
Personalities |
| 1868 - 1878 |
(-8.6) - 1.4 |
Ten Years' War ('Great War') |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| Mar 4, 1869 - Mar 4, 1877 |
(-7.9) - 0.1 |
President of the United States of America: Ulysses S. Grant |
USA - Presidents |
| Sep 5, 1869 - 1884 |
(-7.4) - 7.4 |
Construction period of Neuschwanstein Castle |
Monuments |
| Apr 22, 1870 - Jan 21, 1924 |
(-6.8) - 47.0 |
Life of Vladimir Lenin |
Personalities |
| Jan 18, 1871 - Mar 9, 1888 |
(-6.0) - 11.1 |
German Emperor: Wilhelm I |
Germany |
| Nov 30, 1874 - Jan 24, 1965 |
(-2.1) - 88.0 |
Life of Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill |
Personalities |
| Jan 5, 1876 - Apr 19, 1967 |
(-1.0) - 90.2 |
Life of Konrad Adenauer |
Personalities |
| Mar 4, 1877 - Mar 4, 1881 |
0.1 - 4.1 |
President of the United States of America: Rutherford B. Hayes |
USA - Presidents |
| 1878 - 1881 |
1.4 - 4.4 |
Second Anglo-Afghan War |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 1878 |
1.4 |
Establishment of Bell Telephone Company |
Companies |
| Dec 31, 1878 |
1.9 |
First two-stroke internal combustion gas engine |
Automobile History |
| Mar 14, 1879 - Apr 18, 1955 |
2.1 - 78.2 |
Life of Albert Einstein |
Personalities |
| 1879 |
2.4 |
Discovery of plague vaccine |
Medicine |
| 1879 |
2.4 |
Anglo-Zulu War |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 1879 |
2.4 |
Discovery of cholera vaccine |
Medicine |
| Dec 20, 1880 - Mar 23, 1881 |
3.9 - 4.1 |
First Boer War ('First South African War') |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| Mar 4, 1881 - Sep 19, 1881 |
4.1 - 4.6 |
President of the United States of America: James A. Garfield |
USA - Presidents |
| Aug 6, 1881 - Mar 11, 1955 |
4.5 - 78.1 |
Life of Alexander Fleming |
Personalities |
| Sep 19, 1881 - Mar 4, 1885 |
4.6 - 8.1 |
President of the United States of America: Chester A. Arthur |
USA - Presidents |
| 1882 |
5.4 |
Establishment of Peugeot |
Companies |
| 1882 |
5.4 |
Britain occupies Egypt |
Discoveries & Colonization |
| Jan 21, 1884 - Dec 12, 1963 |
7.0 - 86.9 |
Life of Theodor Heuss |
Personalities |
| 1884 |
7.4 |
First controlled flight of a Zeppelin |
Aviation History |
| Nov 15, 1884 - Feb 26, 1885 |
7.8 - 8.1 |
Berlin Conference ('Congo Conference') |
Discoveries & Colonization |
| Mar 4, 1885 - Mar 4, 1889 |
8.1 - 12.1 |
President of the United States of America: Grover Cleveland |
USA - Presidents |
| 1886 |
9.4 |
Establishment of the Coca Cola Company |
Companies |
| 1886 |
9.4 |
Establishment of Johnson & Johnson |
Companies |
| Oct 28, 1886 |
9.7 |
Construction period of the Statue of Liberty |
Monuments |
| 1887 |
10.4 |
Huang He flood |
Disasters |
| 1887 - 1889 |
10.4 - 12.4 |
Construction period of the Eiffel Tower |
Monuments |
| Mar 9, 1888 - Jun 15, 1888 |
11.1 - 11.4 |
German Emperor: Friedrich III |
Germany |
| Jun 15, 1888 - Nov 9, 1918 |
11.4 - 41.8 |
German Emperor: Wilhelm II |
Germany |
| 1888 |
11.4 |
First commercially manufactured automobile by Karl Benz |
Automobile History |
| Mar 4, 1889 - Mar 4, 1893 |
12.1 - 16.1 |
President of the United States of America: Benjamin Harrison |
USA - Presidents |
| Apr 20, 1889 - Apr 30, 1945 |
12.2 - 68.3 |
Life of Adolf Hitler |
Personalities |
| 1890 |
13.4 |
Establishment of Daimler |
Companies |
| 1890 |
13.4 |
Establishment of General Electric |
Companies |
| Oct 14, 1890 - Mar 28, 1969 |
13.7 - 92.2 |
Life of Dwight David Eisenhower |
Personalities |
| Mar 4, 1893 - Mar 4, 1897 |
16.1 - 20.1 |
President of the United States of America: Grover Cleveland |
USA - Presidents |
| 1896 - 1897 |
19.4 - 20.4 |
Matabele Wars ('Ndebele Matabele War') |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 1896 |
19.4 |
Establishment of IBM (International Business Machines Corp., formerly 'Computing Tabulating Recording Corp. (CTR)') |
Companies |
| Mar 4, 1897 - Sep 14, 1901 |
20.1 - 24.6 |
President of the United States of America: William McKinley |
USA - Presidents |
| Oct 11, 1899 - May 31, 1902 |
22.7 - 25.3 |
Second Boer War ('Second South African War') |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| Sep 8, 1900 |
23.6 |
Galveston hurricane; destruction of the city of Galveston, Texas |
Disasters |
| Sep 14, 1901 - Mar 4, 1909 |
24.6 - 32.1 |
President of the United States of America: Theodore Roosevelt |
USA - Presidents |
| Oct 19, 1901 |
24.7 |
First motorized zeppelin flight |
Aviation History |
| Dec 5, 1901 - Dec 15, 1966 |
24.8 - 89.9 |
Life of Walter Elias Disney |
Personalities |
| Jun 16, 1903 |
26.4 |
Establishment of Ford Motor Company |
Companies |
| Dec 16, 1903 |
26.9 |
First controlled powered human flight by the Wright brothers |
Aviation History |
| 1904 - 1908 |
27.4 - 31.4 |
Herero and Namaqua Uprising ('Herero and Namaqua Genocide') |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| Apr 18, 1906 |
29.2 |
San Francisco earthquake of 1906 |
Disasters |
| 1907 |
30.4 |
First helicopter flight |
Aviation History |
| Sep 16, 1908 |
31.6 |
Establishment of General Motors |
Companies |
| Sep 27, 1908 |
31.7 |
Introduction of the Ford Model T |
Automobile History |
| Mar 4, 1909 - Mar 4, 1913 |
32.1 - 36.1 |
President of the United States of America: William Howard Taft |
USA - Presidents |
| 1909 |
32.4 |
Discovery of antibiotics |
Medicine |
| May 30, 1911 |
34.3 |
First 'Indy 500' race in Indianapolis |
Automobile History |
| May 30, 1911 |
34.3 |
One in seven families in the US owns a car |
Automobile History |
| Oct 23, 1911 |
34.7 |
First military use of an airplane |
Aviation History |
| Mar 4, 1913 - Mar 4, 1921 |
36.1 - 44.1 |
President of the United States of America: Woodrow Wilson |
USA - Presidents |
| Jun 14, 1914 - Jun 15, 1914 |
37.4 |
First transatlantic flight |
Aviation History |
| Jun 28, 1914 - Nov 11, 1918 |
37.4 - 41.8 |
World War I |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| Aug 6, 1914 - Nov 25, 1918 |
37.5 - 41.8 |
East African Campaign (World War I) |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| Sep 13, 1914 - Jul 9, 1915 |
37.6 - 38.4 |
South-West Africa Campaign (World War I) |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| Oct 14, 1914 - Oct 24, 1914 |
37.7 |
Maritz Rebellion |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| Apr 24, 1916 - Apr 30, 1916 |
39.2 |
Easter Rising |
Great Britain |
| 1916 |
39.4 |
Establishment of BMW (Bayerische Motoren Werke AG) |
Companies |
| Mar 8, 1917 - Mar 12, 1917 |
40.1 |
Russian February Revolution |
Russia |
| May 29, 1917 - Nov 22, 1963 |
40.3 - 86.8 |
Life of John F. Kennedy |
Personalities |
| 1917 - 1923 |
40.4 - 46.4 |
Russian Civil War |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| Nov 7, 1917 |
40.8 |
Founding of the Russian Socialist Federal Soviet Republic |
Russia |
| Nov 9, 1918 |
41.8 |
German Revolution |
Germany |
| Feb 11, 1919 - Feb 28, 1925 |
42.0 - 48.1 |
President of Germany: Friedrich Ebert |
Germany |
| Feb 13, 1919 - Jun 20, 1919 |
42.0 - 42.4 |
Chancellor of Germany: Philipp Scheidemann |
Germany |
| May 6, 1919 - Aug 8, 1919 |
42.3 - 42.5 |
Third Anglo-Afghan War |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 1919 |
42.4 |
First transatlantic zeppelin flight |
Aviation History |
| Aug 11, 1919 |
42.5 |
Adoption of the Weimar Constitution |
Germany |
| Sep 10, 1919 |
42.6 |
Treaty of Saint-Germain |
Italy |
| Mar 4, 1921 - Aug 2, 1923 |
44.1 - 46.5 |
President of the United States of America: Warren G. Harding |
USA - Presidents |
| Dec 6, 1921 |
44.9 |
Anglo-Irish Treaty |
Great Britain |
| Oct 28, 1922 |
45.7 |
Benito Mussolini becomes Prime Minister of Italy |
Italy |
| Aug 2, 1923 - Mar 4, 1929 |
46.5 - 52.1 |
President of the United States of America: Calvin Coolidge |
USA - Presidents |
| Aug 13, 1923 - Nov 23, 1923 |
46.5 - 46.8 |
Chancellor of Germany: Gustav Stresemann |
Germany |
| Sep 13, 1923 |
46.6 |
Establishment of the military dictatorship |
Spain |
| May 12, 1925 - Aug 2, 1934 |
48.3 - 57.5 |
President of Germany: Paul von Hindenburg |
Germany |
| Jun 14, 1928 - Oct 9, 1967 |
51.4 - 90.7 |
Life of Che Guevara |
Personalities |
| 1928 |
51.4 |
Discovery of penicillin |
Medicine |
| Jan 15, 1929 - Apr 4, 1968 |
52.0 - 91.2 |
Life of Martin Luther King |
Personalities |
| Mar 4, 1929 - Mar 4, 1933 |
52.1 - 56.1 |
President of the United States of America: Herbert Hoover |
USA - Presidents |
| Oct 25, 1929 |
52.7 |
'Black Friday' |
USA |
| Jan 22, 1930 - May 1, 1931 |
53.0 - 54.3 |
Construction period of the Empire State Building |
Monuments |
| Mar 30, 1930 - May 30, 1932 |
53.2 - 55.3 |
Chancellor of Germany: Heinrich Brüning |
Germany |
| Aug 5, 1930 - Aug 25, 2012 |
53.5 - 135.6 |
Life of Neil Armstrong |
Personalities |
| Apr 14, 1931 |
54.2 |
Proclamation of the Second Spanish Republic |
Spain |
| 1931 |
54.4 |
Establishment of Porsche |
Companies |
| Dec 11, 1931 |
54.9 |
Statute of Westminster |
Great Britain |
| Jun 1, 1932 - Nov 17, 1932 |
55.3 - 55.8 |
Chancellor of Germany: Franz von Papen |
Germany |
| Dec 3, 1932 - Jan 28, 1933 |
55.9 - 56.0 |
Chancellor of Germany: Kurt von Schleicher |
Germany |
| Jan 30, 1933 - Apr 30, 1945 |
56.0 - 68.3 |
Chancellor of Germany: Adolf Hitler |
Germany |
| Feb 28, 1933 - Mar 23, 1933 |
56.1 - 56.2 |
'Reichstag Fire Decree' and 'Enabling Act': De facto end of the Weimar Republic & beginning of Nazi dictatorship |
Germany |
| Mar 4, 1933 - Apr 12, 1945 |
56.1 - 68.2 |
President of the United States of America: Franklin D. Roosevelt |
USA - Presidents |
| 1935 |
58.4 |
Italy occupies Ethiopia, the last remaining free territory in Africa. |
Discoveries & Colonization |
| Dec 11, 1936 - Feb 6, 1952 |
59.9 - 75.0 |
Queen consort of the United Kingdom: Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon 'Queen Mum' |
Great Britain |
| May 6, 1937 |
60.3 |
Hindenburg disaster |
Aviation History |
| 1937 |
60.4 |
Construction period of the Golden Gate Bridge |
Monuments |
| Aug 27, 1939 |
62.6 |
First flight of turbine-equipped jet plane |
Aviation History |
| Sep 1, 1939 - Sep 2, 1945 |
62.6 - 68.6 |
World War II |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| May 14, 1940 |
63.3 |
Establishment of McDonald's |
Companies |
| Dec 7, 1941 |
64.9 |
Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor |
USA |
| Apr 12, 1945 - Jan 20, 1953 |
68.2 - 76.0 |
President of the United States of America: Harry S. Truman |
USA - Presidents |
| Apr 25, 1945 |
68.3 |
Establishment of the United Nations |
World |
| May 8, 1945 |
68.3 |
Unconditional surrender of the German Empire |
Germany |
| Aug 6, 1945 - Aug 9, 1945 |
68.5 |
Nuclear bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki |
USA |
| Oct 14, 1946 |
69.7 |
Start of the 4th French Republic |
France |
| Oct 14, 1947 |
70.7 |
First supersonic flight of the Bell X-1 |
Aviation History |
| Dec 21, 1948 |
71.9 |
Republic of Ireland Act |
Great Britain |
| May 23, 1949 |
72.3 |
Establishment of the Federal Republic of Germany |
Germany |
| 1949 |
72.4 |
Establishment of Circuit City |
Companies |
| Sep 15, 1949 - Oct 16, 1963 |
72.6 - 86.7 |
Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany: Konrad Adenauer |
Germany - Chancellors |
| Oct 7, 1949 |
72.7 |
Establishment of the German Democratic Republic |
Germany |
| Oct 11, 1949 - Sep 7, 1960 |
72.7 - 83.6 |
Wilhelm Pieck - State President of the GDR |
GDR |
| Jun 17, 1950 |
73.4 |
First successful organ transplant |
Medicine |
| 1950 - 1953 |
73.4 - 76.4 |
Korean War |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| Jan 22, 1952 |
75.0 |
First jet airliner in regular commercial use |
Aviation History |
| Feb 6, 1952 - Today |
75.0 |
Queen of the United Kingdom: Elizabeth II |
Great Britain |
| Jan 20, 1953 - Jan 20, 1961 |
76.0 - 84.0 |
President of the United States of America: Dwight D. Eisenhower |
USA - Presidents |
| Jun 17, 1953 |
76.4 |
Uprising of June 17, 1953 in East Germany |
Germany |
| Feb 24, 1955 - Oct 5, 2011 |
78.1 - 134.7 |
Life of Steven 'Steve' Paul Jobs |
Personalities |
| Oct 4, 1957 |
80.7 |
Sputnik launched: first artificial satellite in Earth's orbit |
Technology |
Dennis Miner
Phoebe Kelly
Birth