| 15 Dec 1832 - 27 Dec 1923 |
(-89.7) - 1.4 |
Life of Gustave Eiffel |
Personalities |
| 25 Nov 1844 - 4 Apr 1929 |
(-77.7) - 6.7 |
Life of Carl Benz |
Personalities |
| 11 Feb 1847 - 18 Oct 1931 |
(-75.5) - 9.2 |
Life of Thomas Alva Edison |
Personalities |
| 6 May 1856 - 23 Sep 1939 |
(-66.3) - 17.1 |
Life of Sigmund Freud |
Personalities |
| 23 Sep 1861 - 12 Mar 1942 |
(-60.9) - 19.6 |
Life of Robert Bosch |
Personalities |
| 30 Jul 1863 - 7 Apr 1947 |
(-59.1) - 24.7 |
Life of Henry Ford |
Personalities |
| 16 Oct 1863 - 17 Mar 1937 |
(-58.8) - 14.6 |
Life of Joseph Austen Chamberlain |
Personalities |
| 22 Apr 1870 - 21 Jan 1924 |
(-52.3) - 1.5 |
Life of Vladimir Lenin |
Personalities |
| 30 Nov 1874 - 24 Jan 1965 |
(-47.7) - 42.5 |
Life of Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill |
Personalities |
| 5 Jan 1876 - 19 Apr 1967 |
(-46.6) - 44.7 |
Life of Konrad Adenauer |
Personalities |
| 14 Mar 1879 - 18 Apr 1955 |
(-43.4) - 32.7 |
Life of Albert Einstein |
Personalities |
| 6 Aug 1881 - 11 Mar 1955 |
(-41.0) - 32.6 |
Life of Alexander Fleming |
Personalities |
| 21 Jan 1884 - 12 Dec 1963 |
(-38.6) - 41.4 |
Life of Theodor Heuss |
Personalities |
| 20 Apr 1889 - 30 Apr 1945 |
(-33.3) - 22.8 |
Life of Adolf Hitler |
Personalities |
| 14 Oct 1890 - 28 Mar 1969 |
(-31.8) - 46.7 |
Life of Dwight David Eisenhower |
Personalities |
| 23 Nov 1890 - 4 Sep 1948 |
(-31.7) - 26.1 |
Queen of the Netherlands: Wilhelmina |
Netherlands |
| 5 Dec 1901 - 15 Dec 1966 |
(-20.7) - 44.4 |
Life of Walter Elias Disney |
Personalities |
| 6 May 1910 - 20 Jan 1936 |
(-12.3) - 13.5 |
King of the United Kingdom: George V |
Great Britain |
| 29 May 1917 - 22 Nov 1963 |
(-5.2) - 41.3 |
Life of John F. Kennedy |
Personalities |
| 1917 - 1923 |
(-5.1) - 0.9 |
Russian Civil War |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 23 Nov 1918 - 14 May 1945 |
(-3.7) - 22.8 |
President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints: Heber J. Grant |
Mormon History |
| 11 Feb 1919 - 28 Feb 1925 |
(-3.5) - 2.6 |
President of Germany: Friedrich Ebert |
Germany |
| 4 Mar 1921 - 2 Aug 1923 |
(-1.4) - 1.0 |
President of the United States of America: Warren G. Harding |
USA - Presidents |
| 28 Oct 1922 |
0.2 |
Benito Mussolini becomes Prime Minister of Italy |
Italy |
| 2 Aug 1923 - 4 Mar 1929 |
1.0 - 6.6 |
President of the United States of America: Calvin Coolidge |
USA - Presidents |
| 13 Aug 1923 - 23 Nov 1923 |
1.0 - 1.3 |
Chancellor of Germany: Gustav Stresemann |
Germany |
| 13 Sep 1923 |
1.1 |
Establishment of the military dictatorship |
Spain |
| 12 May 1925 - 2 Aug 1934 |
2.8 - 12.0 |
President of Germany: Paul von Hindenburg |
Germany |
| 14 Jun 1928 - 9 Oct 1967 |
5.9 - 45.2 |
Life of Che Guevara |
Personalities |
| 1928 |
5.9 |
Discovery of penicillin |
Medicine |
| 15 Jan 1929 - 4 Apr 1968 |
6.5 - 45.7 |
Life of Martin Luther King |
Personalities |
| 4 Mar 1929 - 4 Mar 1933 |
6.6 - 10.6 |
President of the United States of America: Herbert Hoover |
USA - Presidents |
| 25 Oct 1929 |
7.2 |
'Black Friday' |
USA |
| 22 Jan 1930 - 1 May 1931 |
7.5 - 8.7 |
Construction period of the Empire State Building |
Monuments |
| 30 Mar 1930 - 30 May 1932 |
7.7 - 9.8 |
Chancellor of Germany: Heinrich Brüning |
Germany |
| 5 Aug 1930 - 25 Aug 2012 |
8.0 - 90.1 |
Life of Neil Armstrong |
Personalities |
| 14 Apr 1931 |
8.7 |
Proclamation of the Second Spanish Republic |
Spain |
| 1931 |
8.9 |
Establishment of Porsche |
Companies |
| 11 Dec 1931 |
9.4 |
Statute of Westminster |
Great Britain |
| 1 Jun 1932 - 17 Nov 1932 |
9.8 - 10.3 |
Chancellor of Germany: Franz von Papen |
Germany |
| 3 Dec 1932 - 28 Jan 1933 |
10.3 - 10.5 |
Chancellor of Germany: Kurt von Schleicher |
Germany |
| 30 Jan 1933 - 30 Apr 1945 |
10.5 - 22.8 |
Chancellor of Germany: Adolf Hitler |
Germany |
| 28 Feb 1933 - 23 Mar 1933 |
10.6 |
'Reichstag Fire Decree' and 'Enabling Act': De facto end of the Weimar Republic & beginning of Nazi dictatorship |
Germany |
| 4 Mar 1933 - 12 Apr 1945 |
10.6 - 22.7 |
President of the United States of America: Franklin D. Roosevelt |
USA - Presidents |
| 1935 |
12.9 |
Italy occupies Ethiopia, the last remaining free territory in Africa. |
Discoveries & Colonization |
| 20 Jan 1936 - 11 Dec 1936 |
13.5 - 14.4 |
King of the United Kingdom: Edward VIII |
Great Britain |
| 11 Dec 1936 - 6 Feb 1952 |
14.4 - 29.5 |
King of the United Kingdom: George VI |
Great Britain |
| 11 Dec 1936 - 6 Feb 1952 |
14.4 - 29.5 |
Queen consort of the United Kingdom: Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon 'Queen Mum' |
Great Britain |
| 6 May 1937 |
14.8 |
Hindenburg disaster |
Aviation History |
| 1937 |
14.9 |
Construction period of the Golden Gate Bridge |
Monuments |
| 27 Aug 1939 |
17.1 |
First flight of turbine-equipped jet plane |
Aviation History |
| 1 Sep 1939 - 2 Sep 1945 |
17.1 - 23.1 |
World War II |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 14 May 1940 |
17.8 |
Establishment of McDonald's |
Companies |
| 7 Dec 1941 |
19.4 |
Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor |
USA |
| 12 Apr 1945 - 20 Jan 1953 |
22.7 - 30.5 |
President of the United States of America: Harry S. Truman |
USA - Presidents |
| 25 Apr 1945 |
22.7 |
Establishment of the United Nations |
World |
| 8 May 1945 |
22.8 |
Unconditional surrender of the German Empire |
Germany |
| 21 May 1945 - 4 Apr 1951 |
22.8 - 28.7 |
President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints: George Albert Smith |
Mormon History |
| 6 Aug 1945 - 9 Aug 1945 |
23.0 |
Nuclear bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki |
USA |
| 14 Oct 1946 |
24.2 |
Start of the 4th French Republic |
France |
| 14 Oct 1947 |
25.2 |
First supersonic flight of the Bell X-1 |
Aviation History |
| 4 Sep 1948 - 30 Apr 1980 |
26.1 - 57.8 |
Queen of the Netherlands: Juliana |
Netherlands |
| 21 Dec 1948 |
26.4 |
Republic of Ireland Act |
Great Britain |
| 23 May 1949 |
26.8 |
Establishment of the Federal Republic of Germany |
Germany |
| 1949 |
26.9 |
Establishment of Circuit City |
Companies |
| 15 Sep 1949 - 16 Oct 1963 |
27.1 - 41.2 |
Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany: Konrad Adenauer |
Germany - Chancellors |
| 7 Oct 1949 |
27.2 |
Establishment of the German Democratic Republic |
Germany |
| 11 Oct 1949 - 7 Sep 1960 |
27.2 - 38.1 |
Wilhelm Pieck - State President of the GDR |
GDR |
| 17 Jun 1950 |
27.9 |
First successful organ transplant |
Medicine |
| 1950 - 1953 |
27.9 - 30.9 |
Korean War |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 9 Apr 1951 - 18 Jan 1970 |
28.7 - 47.5 |
President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints: David O. McKay |
Mormon History |
| 22 Jan 1952 |
29.5 |
First jet airliner in regular commercial use |
Aviation History |
| 6 Feb 1952 - Today |
29.5 |
Queen of the United Kingdom: Elizabeth II |
Great Britain |
| 20 Jan 1953 - 20 Jan 1961 |
30.5 - 38.5 |
President of the United States of America: Dwight D. Eisenhower |
USA - Presidents |
| 17 Jun 1953 |
30.9 |
Uprising of June 17, 1953 in East Germany |
Germany |
| 4 Jul 1954 |
31.9 |
FIFA World Cup Champion 1954: Germany |
Germany |
| 24 Feb 1955 - 5 Oct 2011 |
32.6 - 89.2 |
Life of Steven 'Steve' Paul Jobs |
Personalities |
| 4 Oct 1957 |
35.2 |
Sputnik launched: first artificial satellite in Earth's orbit |
Technology |
| 5 Oct 1958 |
36.2 |
Start of the 5th French Republic |
France |
| 8 Jan 1959 - 28 Apr 1969 |
36.5 - 46.8 |
President of France: Charles de Gaulle |
France |
| 1959 - 30 Apr 1975 |
36.9 - 52.8 |
Vietnam War |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 1960 - 1973 |
37.9 - 50.9 |
Walter Ulbricht - Chairman of the State Council of the GDR |
GDR |
| 20 Jan 1961 - 22 Nov 1963 |
38.5 - 41.3 |
President of the United States of America: John F. Kennedy |
USA - Presidents |
| 12 Apr 1961 |
38.7 |
First human in space |
Technology |
| 25 May 1961 - 24 Jul 1975 |
38.8 - 53.0 |
Apollo Space Program |
Technology |
| 13 Aug 1961 |
39.0 |
Construction of the Berlin Wall |
Germany |
| 11 Oct 1962 - 8 Dec 1965 |
40.2 - 43.4 |
Second Vatican Council |
World |
| 16 Oct 1962 - 28 Oct 1962 |
40.2 - 40.3 |
Cuban Missile Crisis ('October Crisis') |
USA |
| 16 Oct 1963 - 1 Dec 1966 |
41.2 - 44.4 |
Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany: Ludwig Erhard |
Germany - Chancellors |
| 22 Nov 1963 - 20 Jan 1969 |
41.3 - 46.5 |
President of the United States of America: Lyndon B. Johnson |
USA - Presidents |
| 1966 - 1973 |
43.9 - 50.9 |
Construction period of the World Trade Center |
Monuments |
| 1 Dec 1966 - 21 Oct 1969 |
44.4 - 47.2 |
Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany: Kurt Georg Kiesinger |
Germany - Chancellors |
| 1967 |
44.9 |
Founding of the European Community (EC) |
European Union |
| 20 Jan 1969 - 9 Aug 1974 |
46.5 - 52.0 |
President of the United States of America: Richard Nixon |
USA - Presidents |
| 20 Jun 1969 - 2 Apr 1974 |
46.9 - 51.7 |
President of France: Georges Pompidou |
France |
| 20 Jul 1969 |
47.0 |
First man on the moon |
Technology |
| 21 Oct 1969 - 7 May 1974 |
47.2 - 51.8 |
Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany: Willy Brandt |
Germany - Chancellors |
| 31 Oct 1969 |
47.3 |
Establishment of Wal Mart |
Companies |
| 23 Jan 1970 - 2 Jul 1972 |
47.5 - 49.9 |
President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints: Joseph Fielding Smith |
Mormon History |
| 7 Jul 1972 - 26 Dec 1973 |
50.0 - 51.4 |
President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints: Joseph Fielding Smith |
Mormon History |
| 21 Jul 1972 |
50.0 |
Bloody Friday |
Great Britain |
| 1973 - 1976 |
50.9 - 53.9 |
Willi Stoph - Chairman of the Council of State of the GDR |
GDR |
| 30 Dec 1973 - 5 Nov 1985 |
51.4 - 63.3 |
President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints: Spencer W. Kimball |
Mormon History |
| 16 May 1974 - 1 Oct 1982 |
51.8 - 60.2 |
Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany: Helmut Schmidt |
Germany - Chancellors |
| 27 May 1974 - 21 May 1981 |
51.8 - 58.8 |
President of France: Valéry Giscard d'Estaing |
France |
| 7 Jul 1974 |
52.0 |
FIFA World Cup Champion 1974: Germany |
Germany |
| 8 Jul 1974 |
52.0 |
FIFA World Cup Champion 1990: Germany |
Germany |
| 13 Jul 1974 |
52.0 |
FIFA World Cup Champion 2014: Germany |
Germany |
| 9 Aug 1974 - 20 Jan 1977 |
52.0 - 54.5 |
President of the United States of America: Gerald Ford |
USA - Presidents |
| 20 Nov 1975 |
53.3 |
Franco's Death, end of the Francoist regime |
Spain |
| 1 Apr 1976 |
53.7 |
Apple Computer is established |
Apple Inc. - Corporate History |
| 1976 - 1989 |
53.9 - 66.9 |
Erich Honecker - Chairman of the Council of State of the GDR |
GDR |
| 20 Jan 1977 - 20 Jan 1981 |
54.5 - 58.5 |
President of the United States of America: Jimmy Carter |
USA - Presidents |
| 16 Apr 1977 |
54.7 |
Introduction of the Apple II |
Apple Inc. - Corporate History |
| 27 Dec 1979 - 15 Feb 1989 |
57.4 - 66.6 |
Soviet-Afghan War (1979-1989) |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 30 Apr 1980 - 30 Apr 2013 |
57.8 - 90.8 |
Queen of the Netherlands: Beatrix |
Netherlands |
| 22 Sep 1980 - 20 Aug 1988 |
58.2 - 66.1 |
First Gulf War ('Iran-Iraq War') |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 20 Jan 1981 - 20 Jan 1989 |
58.5 - 66.5 |
President of the United States of America: Ronald Reagan |
USA - Presidents |
| 21 May 1981 - 17 May 1995 |
58.8 - 72.8 |
President of France: François Mitterrand |
France |
| 2 Apr 1982 - 14 Jun 1982 |
59.7 - 59.9 |
Falklands War |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 1 Oct 1982 - 27 Oct 1998 |
60.2 - 76.3 |
Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany: Helmut Kohl |
Germany - Chancellors |
| 19 Jan 1983 |
60.5 |
Introduction of the Apple Lisa |
Apple Inc. - Corporate History |
| 1983 |
60.9 |
Discovery of HIV |
Medicine |
| 24 Jan 1984 |
61.5 |
Introduction of the Macintosh |
Apple Inc. - Corporate History |
| 10 Nov 1985 - 30 May 1994 |
63.3 - 71.9 |
President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints: Ezra Taft Benson |
Mormon History |
| 20 Jan 1989 - 20 Jan 1993 |
66.5 - 70.5 |
President of the United States of America: George H. W. Bush |
USA - Presidents |
| 18 Oct 1989 - 3 Dec 1989 |
67.2 - 67.4 |
Egon Krenz - Chairman of the Council of State of the GDR |
GDR |
| 2 Aug 1990 - 28 Feb 1991 |
68.0 - 68.6 |
Second Gulf War ('Operation Desert Shield', 'Operation Desert Storm') |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 3 Oct 1990 |
68.2 |
German reunification |
Germany |
| 8 Dec 1991 |
69.4 |
Signing of the Belavezha Accords, declaring the Soviet Union dissolved |
Russia |
| 1992 - 1996 |
70.0 - 74.0 |
Afghan Civil War |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 20 Jan 1993 - 20 Jan 2001 |
70.5 - 78.5 |
President of the United States of America: Bill Clinton |
USA - Presidents |
| 4 Aug 1993 |
71.0 |
Introduction of the Apple Newton |
Apple Inc. - Corporate History |
| 1 Nov 1993 |
71.3 |
Founding of the European Union (EU) |
European Union |
| 5 Jun 1994 - 3 Mar 1995 |
71.9 - 72.6 |
President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints: Howard W. Hunter |
Mormon History |
| 1994 - 1996 |
72.0 - 74.0 |
First Chechen War ('War in Chechnya') |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 17 Jan 1995 |
72.5 |
Kobe earthquake |
Disasters |
| 12 Mar 1995 - 27 Jan 2008 |
72.6 - 85.5 |
President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints: Gordon B. Hinckley |
Mormon History |
| 17 May 1995 - 16 May 2007 |
72.8 - 84.8 |
President of France: Jacques Chirac |
France |
| 1998 - 2003 |
76.0 - 81.0 |
Second Congo War ('Great War of Africa') |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 1998 - 1999 |
76.0 - 77.0 |
Kosovo War ('Kosovo Conflict') |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 15 Aug 1998 |
76.1 |
Introduction of the Apple iMac |
Apple Inc. - Corporate History |
| 27 Oct 1998 - 22 Nov 2005 |
76.3 - 83.4 |
Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany: Gerhard Schröder |
Germany - Chancellors |
| 1 Jan 1999 |
76.5 |
ECU as an internal accounting unit in the European Community |
European Union |
| 20 Jan 2001 - 20 Jan 2009 |
78.5 - 86.5 |
President of the United States of America: George W. Bush |
USA - Presidents |
| 11 Sep 2001 |
79.2 |
September 11 attacks ('9/11') |
USA |
| 7 Oct 2001 - Today |
79.2 |
Afghanistan War |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 23 Oct 2001 |
79.3 |
Apple iPod introduced |
Apple Inc. - Corporate History |
| 1 Jan 2002 |
79.5 |
Introduction of the Euro |
European Union |
| 20 Mar 2003 - 1 May 2003 |
80.7 - 80.8 |
Third Gulf War ('Iraq War') |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 26 Dec 2004 |
82.4 |
Indian Ocean tsunami |
Disasters |
| 6 Jun 2005 |
82.9 |
Apple switches to Intel CPU architecture |
Apple Inc. - Corporate History |
| 22 Nov 2005 - Today |
83.4 |
Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany: Angela Merkel |
Germany - Chancellors |
| 9 Jan 2007 |
84.5 |
Introduction of the Apple iPhone |
Apple Inc. - Corporate History |
| 16 May 2007 - 15 May 2012 |
84.8 - 89.8 |
President of France: Nicolas Sarkozy |
France |
| 3 Feb 2008 - 2 Jan 2018 |
85.6 - 95.5 |
President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints: Thomas S. Monson |
Mormon History |
| 20 Jan 2009 - 20 Jan 2017 |
86.5 - 94.5 |
President of the United States of America: Barack Obama |
USA - Presidents |
| 15 May 2012 - 14 May 2017 |
89.8 - 94.8 |
President of France: François Hollande |
France |
| 30 Apr 2013 - Today |
90.8 |
King of the Netherlands: Willem-Alexander |
Netherlands |
| 20 Jan 2017 - Today |
94.5 |
President of the United States of America: Donald Trump |
USA - Presidents |
| 14 May 2017 - Today |
94.8 |
President of France: Emmanuel Macron |
France |
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