| 15 Dec 1832 - 27 Dec 1923 |
(-85.5) - 5.6 |
Life of Gustave Eiffel |
Personalities |
| 25 Nov 1844 - 4 Apr 1929 |
(-73.5) - 10.9 |
Life of Carl Benz |
Personalities |
| 11 Feb 1847 - 18 Oct 1931 |
(-71.3) - 13.4 |
Life of Thomas Alva Edison |
Personalities |
| 3 Mar 1847 - 1 Aug 1922 |
(-71.3) - 4.2 |
Life of Alexander Graham Bell |
Personalities |
| 6 May 1856 - 23 Sep 1939 |
(-62.1) - 21.4 |
Life of Sigmund Freud |
Personalities |
| 23 Sep 1861 - 12 Mar 1942 |
(-56.7) - 23.8 |
Life of Robert Bosch |
Personalities |
| 30 Jul 1863 - 7 Apr 1947 |
(-54.8) - 28.9 |
Life of Henry Ford |
Personalities |
| 16 Oct 1863 - 17 Mar 1937 |
(-54.6) - 18.8 |
Life of Joseph Austen Chamberlain |
Personalities |
| 22 Apr 1870 - 21 Jan 1924 |
(-48.1) - 5.7 |
Life of Vladimir Lenin |
Personalities |
| 30 Nov 1874 - 24 Jan 1965 |
(-43.5) - 46.7 |
Life of Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill |
Personalities |
| 5 Jan 1876 - 19 Apr 1967 |
(-42.4) - 48.9 |
Life of Konrad Adenauer |
Personalities |
| 14 Mar 1879 - 18 Apr 1955 |
(-39.2) - 36.9 |
Life of Albert Einstein |
Personalities |
| 6 Aug 1881 - 11 Mar 1955 |
(-36.8) - 36.8 |
Life of Alexander Fleming |
Personalities |
| 21 Jan 1884 - 12 Dec 1963 |
(-34.3) - 45.6 |
Life of Theodor Heuss |
Personalities |
| 15 Jun 1888 - 9 Nov 1918 |
(-29.9) - 0.5 |
German Emperor: Wilhelm II |
Germany |
| 20 Apr 1889 - 30 Apr 1945 |
(-29.1) - 27.0 |
Life of Adolf Hitler |
Personalities |
| 14 Oct 1890 - 28 Mar 1969 |
(-27.6) - 50.9 |
Life of Dwight David Eisenhower |
Personalities |
| 23 Nov 1890 - 4 Sep 1948 |
(-27.5) - 30.3 |
Queen of the Netherlands: Wilhelmina |
Netherlands |
| 17 Oct 1901 - 19 Nov 1918 |
(-16.6) - 0.5 |
President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints: Joseph F. Smith Sr. |
Mormon History |
| 5 Dec 1901 - 15 Dec 1966 |
(-16.5) - 48.6 |
Life of Walter Elias Disney |
Personalities |
| 6 May 1910 - 20 Jan 1936 |
(-8.0) - 17.7 |
King of the United Kingdom: George V |
Great Britain |
| 4 Mar 1913 - 4 Mar 1921 |
(-5.2) - 2.8 |
President of the United States of America: Woodrow Wilson |
USA - Presidents |
| 28 Jun 1914 - 11 Nov 1918 |
(-3.9) - 0.5 |
World War I |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 6 Aug 1914 - 25 Nov 1918 |
(-3.8) - 0.5 |
East African Campaign (World War I) |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 29 May 1917 - 22 Nov 1963 |
(-1.0) - 45.5 |
Life of John F. Kennedy |
Personalities |
| 1917 - 1923 |
(-0.9) - 5.1 |
Russian Civil War |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 9 Nov 1918 |
0.5 |
German Revolution |
Germany |
| 23 Nov 1918 - 14 May 1945 |
0.5 - 27.0 |
President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints: Heber J. Grant |
Mormon History |
| 11 Feb 1919 - 28 Feb 1925 |
0.7 - 6.8 |
President of Germany: Friedrich Ebert |
Germany |
| 13 Feb 1919 - 20 Jun 1919 |
0.7 - 1.1 |
Chancellor of Germany: Philipp Scheidemann |
Germany |
| 6 May 1919 - 8 Aug 1919 |
1.0 - 1.2 |
Third Anglo-Afghan War |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 1919 |
1.1 |
First transatlantic zeppelin flight |
Aviation History |
| 11 Aug 1919 |
1.2 |
Adoption of the Weimar Constitution |
Germany |
| 10 Sep 1919 |
1.3 |
Treaty of Saint-Germain |
Italy |
| 4 Mar 1921 - 2 Aug 1923 |
2.8 - 5.2 |
President of the United States of America: Warren G. Harding |
USA - Presidents |
| 6 Dec 1921 |
3.6 |
Anglo-Irish Treaty |
Great Britain |
| 28 Oct 1922 |
4.4 |
Benito Mussolini becomes Prime Minister of Italy |
Italy |
| 2 Aug 1923 - 4 Mar 1929 |
5.2 - 10.8 |
President of the United States of America: Calvin Coolidge |
USA - Presidents |
| 13 Aug 1923 - 23 Nov 1923 |
5.2 - 5.5 |
Chancellor of Germany: Gustav Stresemann |
Germany |
| 13 Sep 1923 |
5.3 |
Establishment of the military dictatorship |
Spain |
| 12 May 1925 - 2 Aug 1934 |
7.0 - 16.2 |
President of Germany: Paul von Hindenburg |
Germany |
| 14 Jun 1928 - 9 Oct 1967 |
10.1 - 49.4 |
Life of Che Guevara |
Personalities |
| 1928 |
10.1 |
Discovery of penicillin |
Medicine |
| 15 Jan 1929 - 4 Apr 1968 |
10.7 - 49.9 |
Life of Martin Luther King |
Personalities |
| 4 Mar 1929 - 4 Mar 1933 |
10.8 - 14.8 |
President of the United States of America: Herbert Hoover |
USA - Presidents |
| 25 Oct 1929 |
11.4 |
'Black Friday' |
USA |
| 22 Jan 1930 - 1 May 1931 |
11.7 - 13.0 |
Construction period of the Empire State Building |
Monuments |
| 30 Mar 1930 - 30 May 1932 |
11.9 - 14.0 |
Chancellor of Germany: Heinrich Brüning |
Germany |
| 5 Aug 1930 - 25 Aug 2012 |
12.2 - 94.3 |
Life of Neil Armstrong |
Personalities |
| 14 Apr 1931 |
12.9 |
Proclamation of the Second Spanish Republic |
Spain |
| 1931 |
13.1 |
Establishment of Porsche |
Companies |
| 11 Dec 1931 |
13.6 |
Statute of Westminster |
Great Britain |
| 1 Jun 1932 - 17 Nov 1932 |
14.0 - 14.5 |
Chancellor of Germany: Franz von Papen |
Germany |
| 3 Dec 1932 - 28 Jan 1933 |
14.6 - 14.7 |
Chancellor of Germany: Kurt von Schleicher |
Germany |
| 30 Jan 1933 - 30 Apr 1945 |
14.7 - 27.0 |
Chancellor of Germany: Adolf Hitler |
Germany |
| 28 Feb 1933 - 23 Mar 1933 |
14.8 - 14.9 |
'Reichstag Fire Decree' and 'Enabling Act': De facto end of the Weimar Republic & beginning of Nazi dictatorship |
Germany |
| 4 Mar 1933 - 12 Apr 1945 |
14.8 - 26.9 |
President of the United States of America: Franklin D. Roosevelt |
USA - Presidents |
| 1935 |
17.1 |
Italy occupies Ethiopia, the last remaining free territory in Africa. |
Discoveries & Colonization |
| 20 Jan 1936 - 11 Dec 1936 |
17.7 - 18.6 |
King of the United Kingdom: Edward VIII |
Great Britain |
| 11 Dec 1936 - 6 Feb 1952 |
18.6 - 33.7 |
King of the United Kingdom: George VI |
Great Britain |
| 11 Dec 1936 - 6 Feb 1952 |
18.6 - 33.7 |
Queen consort of the United Kingdom: Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon 'Queen Mum' |
Great Britain |
| 6 May 1937 |
19.0 |
Hindenburg disaster |
Aviation History |
| 1937 |
19.1 |
Construction period of the Golden Gate Bridge |
Monuments |
| 27 Aug 1939 |
21.3 |
First flight of turbine-equipped jet plane |
Aviation History |
| 1 Sep 1939 - 2 Sep 1945 |
21.3 - 27.3 |
World War II |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 14 May 1940 |
22.0 |
Establishment of McDonald's |
Companies |
| 7 Dec 1941 |
23.6 |
Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor |
USA |
| 12 Apr 1945 - 20 Jan 1953 |
26.9 - 34.7 |
President of the United States of America: Harry S. Truman |
USA - Presidents |
| 25 Apr 1945 |
27.0 |
Establishment of the United Nations |
World |
| 8 May 1945 |
27.0 |
Unconditional surrender of the German Empire |
Germany |
| 21 May 1945 - 4 Apr 1951 |
27.0 - 32.9 |
President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints: George Albert Smith |
Mormon History |
| 6 Aug 1945 - 9 Aug 1945 |
27.2 |
Nuclear bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki |
USA |
| 14 Oct 1946 |
28.4 |
Start of the 4th French Republic |
France |
| 14 Oct 1947 |
29.4 |
First supersonic flight of the Bell X-1 |
Aviation History |
| 4 Sep 1948 - 30 Apr 1980 |
30.3 - 62.0 |
Queen of the Netherlands: Juliana |
Netherlands |
| 21 Dec 1948 |
30.6 |
Republic of Ireland Act |
Great Britain |
| 23 May 1949 |
31.0 |
Establishment of the Federal Republic of Germany |
Germany |
| 1949 |
31.1 |
Establishment of Circuit City |
Companies |
| 15 Sep 1949 - 16 Oct 1963 |
31.3 - 45.4 |
Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany: Konrad Adenauer |
Germany - Chancellors |
| 7 Oct 1949 |
31.4 |
Establishment of the German Democratic Republic |
Germany |
| 11 Oct 1949 - 7 Sep 1960 |
31.4 - 42.3 |
Wilhelm Pieck - State President of the GDR |
GDR |
| 17 Jun 1950 |
32.1 |
First successful organ transplant |
Medicine |
| 1950 - 1953 |
32.1 - 35.1 |
Korean War |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 9 Apr 1951 - 18 Jan 1970 |
32.9 - 51.7 |
President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints: David O. McKay |
Mormon History |
| 22 Jan 1952 |
33.7 |
First jet airliner in regular commercial use |
Aviation History |
| 6 Feb 1952 - Today |
33.7 |
Queen of the United Kingdom: Elizabeth II |
Great Britain |
| 20 Jan 1953 - 20 Jan 1961 |
34.7 - 42.7 |
President of the United States of America: Dwight D. Eisenhower |
USA - Presidents |
| 17 Jun 1953 |
35.1 |
Uprising of June 17, 1953 in East Germany |
Germany |
| 4 Jul 1954 |
36.1 |
FIFA World Cup Champion 1954: Germany |
Germany |
| 24 Feb 1955 - 5 Oct 2011 |
36.8 - 93.4 |
Life of Steven 'Steve' Paul Jobs |
Personalities |
| 4 Oct 1957 |
39.4 |
Sputnik launched: first artificial satellite in Earth's orbit |
Technology |
| 5 Oct 1958 |
40.4 |
Start of the 5th French Republic |
France |
| 8 Jan 1959 - 28 Apr 1969 |
40.7 - 51.0 |
President of France: Charles de Gaulle |
France |
| 1959 - 30 Apr 1975 |
41.1 - 57.0 |
Vietnam War |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 1960 - 1973 |
42.1 - 55.2 |
Walter Ulbricht - Chairman of the State Council of the GDR |
GDR |
| 20 Jan 1961 - 22 Nov 1963 |
42.7 - 45.5 |
President of the United States of America: John F. Kennedy |
USA - Presidents |
| 12 Apr 1961 |
42.9 |
First human in space |
Technology |
| 25 May 1961 - 24 Jul 1975 |
43.0 - 57.2 |
Apollo Space Program |
Technology |
| 13 Aug 1961 |
43.3 |
Construction of the Berlin Wall |
Germany |
| 11 Oct 1962 - 8 Dec 1965 |
44.4 - 47.6 |
Second Vatican Council |
World |
| 16 Oct 1962 - 28 Oct 1962 |
44.4 - 44.5 |
Cuban Missile Crisis ('October Crisis') |
USA |
| 16 Oct 1963 - 1 Dec 1966 |
45.4 - 48.6 |
Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany: Ludwig Erhard |
Germany - Chancellors |
| 22 Nov 1963 - 20 Jan 1969 |
45.5 - 50.7 |
President of the United States of America: Lyndon B. Johnson |
USA - Presidents |
| 1966 - 1973 |
48.1 - 55.2 |
Construction period of the World Trade Center |
Monuments |
| 1 Dec 1966 - 21 Oct 1969 |
48.6 - 51.5 |
Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany: Kurt Georg Kiesinger |
Germany - Chancellors |
| 1967 |
49.1 |
Founding of the European Community (EC) |
European Union |
| 20 Jan 1969 - 9 Aug 1974 |
50.7 - 56.3 |
President of the United States of America: Richard Nixon |
USA - Presidents |
| 20 Jun 1969 - 2 Apr 1974 |
51.1 - 55.9 |
President of France: Georges Pompidou |
France |
| 20 Jul 1969 |
51.2 |
First man on the moon |
Technology |
| 21 Oct 1969 - 7 May 1974 |
51.5 - 56.0 |
Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany: Willy Brandt |
Germany - Chancellors |
| 31 Oct 1969 |
51.5 |
Establishment of Wal Mart |
Companies |
| 23 Jan 1970 - 2 Jul 1972 |
51.7 - 54.2 |
President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints: Joseph Fielding Smith |
Mormon History |
| 7 Jul 1972 - 26 Dec 1973 |
54.2 - 55.6 |
President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints: Joseph Fielding Smith |
Mormon History |
| 21 Jul 1972 |
54.2 |
Bloody Friday |
Great Britain |
| 1973 - 1976 |
55.2 - 58.2 |
Willi Stoph - Chairman of the Council of State of the GDR |
GDR |
| 30 Dec 1973 - 5 Nov 1985 |
55.7 - 67.5 |
President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints: Spencer W. Kimball |
Mormon History |
| 16 May 1974 - 1 Oct 1982 |
56.0 - 64.4 |
Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany: Helmut Schmidt |
Germany - Chancellors |
| 27 May 1974 - 21 May 1981 |
56.1 - 63.0 |
President of France: Valéry Giscard d'Estaing |
France |
| 7 Jul 1974 |
56.2 |
FIFA World Cup Champion 1974: Germany |
Germany |
| 8 Jul 1974 |
56.2 |
FIFA World Cup Champion 1990: Germany |
Germany |
| 13 Jul 1974 |
56.2 |
FIFA World Cup Champion 2014: Germany |
Germany |
| 9 Aug 1974 - 20 Jan 1977 |
56.3 - 58.7 |
President of the United States of America: Gerald Ford |
USA - Presidents |
| 20 Nov 1975 |
57.5 |
Franco's Death, end of the Francoist regime |
Spain |
| 1 Apr 1976 |
57.9 |
Apple Computer is established |
Apple Inc. - Corporate History |
| 1976 - 1989 |
58.2 - 71.2 |
Erich Honecker - Chairman of the Council of State of the GDR |
GDR |
| 20 Jan 1977 - 20 Jan 1981 |
58.7 - 62.7 |
President of the United States of America: Jimmy Carter |
USA - Presidents |
| 16 Apr 1977 |
58.9 |
Introduction of the Apple II |
Apple Inc. - Corporate History |
| 27 Dec 1979 - 15 Feb 1989 |
61.6 - 70.8 |
Soviet-Afghan War (1979-1989) |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 30 Apr 1980 - 30 Apr 2013 |
62.0 - 95.0 |
Queen of the Netherlands: Beatrix |
Netherlands |
| 22 Sep 1980 - 20 Aug 1988 |
62.4 - 70.3 |
First Gulf War ('Iran-Iraq War') |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 20 Jan 1981 - 20 Jan 1989 |
62.7 - 70.7 |
President of the United States of America: Ronald Reagan |
USA - Presidents |
| 21 May 1981 - 17 May 1995 |
63.0 - 77.0 |
President of France: François Mitterrand |
France |
| 2 Apr 1982 - 14 Jun 1982 |
63.9 - 64.1 |
Falklands War |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 1 Oct 1982 - 27 Oct 1998 |
64.4 - 80.5 |
Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany: Helmut Kohl |
Germany - Chancellors |
| 19 Jan 1983 |
64.7 |
Introduction of the Apple Lisa |
Apple Inc. - Corporate History |
| 1983 |
65.2 |
Discovery of HIV |
Medicine |
| 24 Jan 1984 |
65.7 |
Introduction of the Macintosh |
Apple Inc. - Corporate History |
| 10 Nov 1985 - 30 May 1994 |
67.5 - 76.1 |
President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints: Ezra Taft Benson |
Mormon History |
| 20 Jan 1989 - 20 Jan 1993 |
70.7 - 74.7 |
President of the United States of America: George H. W. Bush |
USA - Presidents |
| 18 Oct 1989 - 3 Dec 1989 |
71.5 - 71.6 |
Egon Krenz - Chairman of the Council of State of the GDR |
GDR |
| 2 Aug 1990 - 28 Feb 1991 |
72.3 - 72.8 |
Second Gulf War ('Operation Desert Shield', 'Operation Desert Storm') |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 3 Oct 1990 |
72.4 |
German reunification |
Germany |
| 8 Dec 1991 |
73.6 |
Signing of the Belavezha Accords, declaring the Soviet Union dissolved |
Russia |
| 1992 - 1996 |
74.2 - 78.2 |
Afghan Civil War |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 20 Jan 1993 - 20 Jan 2001 |
74.7 - 82.7 |
President of the United States of America: Bill Clinton |
USA - Presidents |
| 4 Aug 1993 |
75.3 |
Introduction of the Apple Newton |
Apple Inc. - Corporate History |
| 1 Nov 1993 |
75.5 |
Founding of the European Union (EU) |
European Union |
| 5 Jun 1994 - 3 Mar 1995 |
76.1 - 76.8 |
President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints: Howard W. Hunter |
Mormon History |
| 1994 - 1996 |
76.2 - 78.2 |
First Chechen War ('War in Chechnya') |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 17 Jan 1995 |
76.7 |
Kobe earthquake |
Disasters |
| 12 Mar 1995 - 27 Jan 2008 |
76.9 - 89.8 |
President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints: Gordon B. Hinckley |
Mormon History |
| 17 May 1995 - 16 May 2007 |
77.0 - 89.0 |
President of France: Jacques Chirac |
France |
| 1998 - 2003 |
80.2 - 85.2 |
Second Congo War ('Great War of Africa') |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 1998 - 1999 |
80.2 - 81.2 |
Kosovo War ('Kosovo Conflict') |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 15 Aug 1998 |
80.3 |
Introduction of the Apple iMac |
Apple Inc. - Corporate History |
| 27 Oct 1998 - 22 Nov 2005 |
80.5 - 87.6 |
Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany: Gerhard Schröder |
Germany - Chancellors |
| 1 Jan 1999 |
80.7 |
ECU as an internal accounting unit in the European Community |
European Union |
| 20 Jan 2001 - 20 Jan 2009 |
82.7 - 90.7 |
President of the United States of America: George W. Bush |
USA - Presidents |
| 11 Sep 2001 |
83.4 |
September 11 attacks ('9/11') |
USA |
| 7 Oct 2001 - Today |
83.4 |
Afghanistan War |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 23 Oct 2001 |
83.5 |
Apple iPod introduced |
Apple Inc. - Corporate History |
| 1 Jan 2002 |
83.7 |
Introduction of the Euro |
European Union |
| 20 Mar 2003 - 1 May 2003 |
84.9 - 85.0 |
Third Gulf War ('Iraq War') |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 26 Dec 2004 |
86.7 |
Indian Ocean tsunami |
Disasters |
| 6 Jun 2005 |
87.1 |
Apple switches to Intel CPU architecture |
Apple Inc. - Corporate History |
| 22 Nov 2005 - Today |
87.6 |
Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany: Angela Merkel |
Germany - Chancellors |
Robert Emmet Ryan
Edith Yost
Birth