| 15 Dec 1832 - 27 Dec 1923 |
(-64.5) - 26.6 |
Life of Gustave Eiffel |
Personalities |
| 17 Mar 1834 - 6 Mar 1900 |
(-63.3) - 2.8 |
Life of Gottlieb Wilhelm Daimler |
Personalities |
| 20 Jun 1837 - 22 Jan 1901 |
(-60.0) - 3.6 |
Queen of the United Kingdom: Victoria |
Great Britain |
| 8 Jul 1838 - 8 Mar 1917 |
(-58.9) - 19.8 |
Life of Ferdinand von Zeppelin |
Personalities |
| 11 Dec 1843 - 27 May 1910 |
(-53.5) - 13.0 |
Life of Robert Koch |
Personalities |
| 25 Nov 1844 - 4 Apr 1929 |
(-52.6) - 31.9 |
Life of Carl Benz |
Personalities |
| 11 Feb 1847 - 18 Oct 1931 |
(-50.3) - 34.4 |
Life of Thomas Alva Edison |
Personalities |
| 3 Mar 1847 - 1 Aug 1922 |
(-50.3) - 25.2 |
Life of Alexander Graham Bell |
Personalities |
| 6 May 1856 - 23 Sep 1939 |
(-41.1) - 42.3 |
Life of Sigmund Freud |
Personalities |
| 23 Sep 1861 - 12 Mar 1942 |
(-35.7) - 44.8 |
Life of Robert Bosch |
Personalities |
| 30 Jul 1863 - 7 Apr 1947 |
(-33.9) - 49.9 |
Life of Henry Ford |
Personalities |
| 16 Oct 1863 - 17 Mar 1937 |
(-33.7) - 39.8 |
Life of Joseph Austen Chamberlain |
Personalities |
| 22 Apr 1870 - 21 Jan 1924 |
(-27.1) - 26.6 |
Life of Vladimir Lenin |
Personalities |
| 30 Nov 1874 - 24 Jan 1965 |
(-22.5) - 67.7 |
Life of Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill |
Personalities |
| 5 Jan 1876 - 19 Apr 1967 |
(-21.4) - 69.9 |
Life of Konrad Adenauer |
Personalities |
| 14 Mar 1879 - 18 Apr 1955 |
(-18.2) - 57.9 |
Life of Albert Einstein |
Personalities |
| 6 Aug 1881 - 11 Mar 1955 |
(-15.8) - 57.8 |
Life of Alexander Fleming |
Personalities |
| 21 Jan 1884 - 12 Dec 1963 |
(-13.4) - 66.6 |
Life of Theodor Heuss |
Personalities |
| 15 Jun 1888 - 9 Nov 1918 |
(-9.0) - 21.4 |
German Emperor: Wilhelm II |
Germany |
| 7 Apr 1889 - 2 Sep 1898 |
(-8.2) - 1.2 |
President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints: Wilford Woodruff |
Mormon History |
| 20 Apr 1889 - 30 Apr 1945 |
(-8.1) - 47.9 |
Life of Adolf Hitler |
Personalities |
| 14 Oct 1890 - 28 Mar 1969 |
(-6.6) - 71.9 |
Life of Dwight David Eisenhower |
Personalities |
| 23 Nov 1890 - 4 Sep 1948 |
(-6.5) - 51.3 |
Queen of the Netherlands: Wilhelmina |
Netherlands |
| 1896 - 1897 |
(-0.9) - 0.1 |
Matabele Wars ('Ndebele Matabele War') |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 4 Mar 1897 - 14 Sep 1901 |
(-0.2) - 4.3 |
President of the United States of America: William McKinley |
USA - Presidents |
| 13 Sep 1898 - 10 Oct 1901 |
1.3 - 4.4 |
President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints: Lorenzo Snow |
Mormon History |
| 11 Oct 1899 - 31 May 1902 |
2.4 - 5.0 |
Second Boer War ('Second South African War') |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 8 Sep 1900 |
3.3 |
Galveston hurricane; destruction of the city of Galveston, Texas |
Disasters |
| 22 Jan 1901 - 6 May 1910 |
3.6 - 12.9 |
King of the United Kingdom: Edward VII |
Great Britain |
| 14 Sep 1901 - 4 Mar 1909 |
4.3 - 11.8 |
President of the United States of America: Theodore Roosevelt |
USA - Presidents |
| 17 Oct 1901 - 19 Nov 1918 |
4.4 - 21.5 |
President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints: Joseph F. Smith Sr. |
Mormon History |
| 19 Oct 1901 |
4.4 |
First motorized zeppelin flight |
Aviation History |
| 5 Dec 1901 - 15 Dec 1966 |
4.5 - 69.6 |
Life of Walter Elias Disney |
Personalities |
| 16 Jun 1903 |
6.0 |
Establishment of Ford Motor Company |
Companies |
| 16 Dec 1903 |
6.5 |
First controlled powered human flight by the Wright brothers |
Aviation History |
| 1904 - 1908 |
7.1 - 11.1 |
Herero and Namaqua Uprising ('Herero and Namaqua Genocide') |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 18 Apr 1906 |
8.9 |
San Francisco earthquake of 1906 |
Disasters |
| 1907 |
10.1 |
First helicopter flight |
Aviation History |
| 16 Sep 1908 |
11.3 |
Establishment of General Motors |
Companies |
| 27 Sep 1908 |
11.3 |
Introduction of the Ford Model T |
Automobile History |
| 4 Mar 1909 - 4 Mar 1913 |
11.8 - 15.8 |
President of the United States of America: William Howard Taft |
USA - Presidents |
| 1909 |
12.1 |
Discovery of antibiotics |
Medicine |
| 6 May 1910 - 20 Jan 1936 |
12.9 - 38.7 |
King of the United Kingdom: George V |
Great Britain |
| 30 May 1911 |
14.0 |
One in seven families in the US owns a car |
Automobile History |
| 30 May 1911 |
14.0 |
First 'Indy 500' race in Indianapolis |
Automobile History |
| 23 Oct 1911 |
14.4 |
First military use of an airplane |
Aviation History |
| 4 Mar 1913 - 4 Mar 1921 |
15.8 - 23.8 |
President of the United States of America: Woodrow Wilson |
USA - Presidents |
| 14 Jun 1914 - 15 Jun 1914 |
17.0 |
First transatlantic flight |
Aviation History |
| 28 Jun 1914 - 11 Nov 1918 |
17.1 - 21.5 |
World War I |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 6 Aug 1914 - 25 Nov 1918 |
17.2 - 21.5 |
East African Campaign (World War I) |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 13 Sep 1914 - 9 Jul 1915 |
17.3 - 18.1 |
South-West Africa Campaign (World War I) |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 14 Oct 1914 - 24 Oct 1914 |
17.4 |
Maritz Rebellion |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 24 Apr 1916 - 30 Apr 1916 |
18.9 |
Easter Rising |
Great Britain |
| 1916 |
19.1 |
Establishment of BMW (Bayerische Motoren Werke AG) |
Companies |
| 8 Mar 1917 - 12 Mar 1917 |
19.8 |
Russian February Revolution |
Russia |
| 29 May 1917 - 22 Nov 1963 |
20.0 - 66.5 |
Life of John F. Kennedy |
Personalities |
| 1917 - 1923 |
20.1 - 26.1 |
Russian Civil War |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 7 Nov 1917 |
20.4 |
Founding of the Russian Socialist Federal Soviet Republic |
Russia |
| 9 Nov 1918 |
21.4 |
German Revolution |
Germany |
| 23 Nov 1918 - 14 May 1945 |
21.5 - 48.0 |
President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints: Heber J. Grant |
Mormon History |
| 11 Feb 1919 - 28 Feb 1925 |
21.7 - 27.8 |
President of Germany: Friedrich Ebert |
Germany |
| 13 Feb 1919 - 20 Jun 1919 |
21.7 - 22.1 |
Chancellor of Germany: Philipp Scheidemann |
Germany |
| 6 May 1919 - 8 Aug 1919 |
21.9 - 22.2 |
Third Anglo-Afghan War |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 1919 |
22.1 |
First transatlantic zeppelin flight |
Aviation History |
| 11 Aug 1919 |
22.2 |
Adoption of the Weimar Constitution |
Germany |
| 10 Sep 1919 |
22.3 |
Treaty of Saint-Germain |
Italy |
| 4 Mar 1921 - 2 Aug 1923 |
23.8 - 26.2 |
President of the United States of America: Warren G. Harding |
USA - Presidents |
| 6 Dec 1921 |
24.5 |
Anglo-Irish Treaty |
Great Britain |
| 28 Oct 1922 |
25.4 |
Benito Mussolini becomes Prime Minister of Italy |
Italy |
| 2 Aug 1923 - 4 Mar 1929 |
26.2 - 31.8 |
President of the United States of America: Calvin Coolidge |
USA - Presidents |
| 13 Aug 1923 - 23 Nov 1923 |
26.2 - 26.5 |
Chancellor of Germany: Gustav Stresemann |
Germany |
| 13 Sep 1923 |
26.3 |
Establishment of the military dictatorship |
Spain |
| 12 May 1925 - 2 Aug 1934 |
28.0 - 37.2 |
President of Germany: Paul von Hindenburg |
Germany |
| 14 Jun 1928 - 9 Oct 1967 |
31.0 - 70.4 |
Life of Che Guevara |
Personalities |
| 1928 |
31.1 |
Discovery of penicillin |
Medicine |
| 15 Jan 1929 - 4 Apr 1968 |
31.6 - 70.9 |
Life of Martin Luther King |
Personalities |
| 4 Mar 1929 - 4 Mar 1933 |
31.8 - 35.8 |
President of the United States of America: Herbert Hoover |
USA - Presidents |
| 25 Oct 1929 |
32.4 |
'Black Friday' |
USA |
| 22 Jan 1930 - 1 May 1931 |
32.7 - 33.9 |
Construction period of the Empire State Building |
Monuments |
| 30 Mar 1930 - 30 May 1932 |
32.8 - 35.0 |
Chancellor of Germany: Heinrich Brüning |
Germany |
| 5 Aug 1930 - 25 Aug 2012 |
33.2 - 115.3 |
Life of Neil Armstrong |
Personalities |
| 14 Apr 1931 |
33.9 |
Proclamation of the Second Spanish Republic |
Spain |
| 1931 |
34.1 |
Establishment of Porsche |
Companies |
| 11 Dec 1931 |
34.5 |
Statute of Westminster |
Great Britain |
| 1 Jun 1932 - 17 Nov 1932 |
35.0 - 35.5 |
Chancellor of Germany: Franz von Papen |
Germany |
| 3 Dec 1932 - 28 Jan 1933 |
35.5 - 35.7 |
Chancellor of Germany: Kurt von Schleicher |
Germany |
| 30 Jan 1933 - 30 Apr 1945 |
35.7 - 47.9 |
Chancellor of Germany: Adolf Hitler |
Germany |
| 28 Feb 1933 - 23 Mar 1933 |
35.8 |
'Reichstag Fire Decree' and 'Enabling Act': De facto end of the Weimar Republic & beginning of Nazi dictatorship |
Germany |
| 4 Mar 1933 - 12 Apr 1945 |
35.8 - 47.9 |
President of the United States of America: Franklin D. Roosevelt |
USA - Presidents |
| 1935 |
38.1 |
Italy occupies Ethiopia, the last remaining free territory in Africa. |
Discoveries & Colonization |
| 20 Jan 1936 - 11 Dec 1936 |
38.7 - 39.5 |
King of the United Kingdom: Edward VIII |
Great Britain |
| 11 Dec 1936 - 6 Feb 1952 |
39.5 - 54.7 |
King of the United Kingdom: George VI |
Great Britain |
| 11 Dec 1936 - 6 Feb 1952 |
39.5 - 54.7 |
Queen consort of the United Kingdom: Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon 'Queen Mum' |
Great Britain |
| 6 May 1937 |
39.9 |
Hindenburg disaster |
Aviation History |
| 1937 |
40.1 |
Construction period of the Golden Gate Bridge |
Monuments |
| 27 Aug 1939 |
42.3 |
First flight of turbine-equipped jet plane |
Aviation History |
| 1 Sep 1939 - 2 Sep 1945 |
42.3 - 48.3 |
World War II |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 14 May 1940 |
43.0 |
Establishment of McDonald's |
Companies |
| 7 Dec 1941 |
44.5 |
Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor |
USA |
| 12 Apr 1945 - 20 Jan 1953 |
47.9 - 55.7 |
President of the United States of America: Harry S. Truman |
USA - Presidents |
| 25 Apr 1945 |
47.9 |
Establishment of the United Nations |
World |
| 8 May 1945 |
48.0 |
Unconditional surrender of the German Empire |
Germany |
| 21 May 1945 - 4 Apr 1951 |
48.0 - 53.9 |
President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints: George Albert Smith |
Mormon History |
| 6 Aug 1945 - 9 Aug 1945 |
48.2 |
Nuclear bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki |
USA |
| 14 Oct 1946 |
49.4 |
Start of the 4th French Republic |
France |
| 14 Oct 1947 |
50.4 |
First supersonic flight of the Bell X-1 |
Aviation History |
| 4 Sep 1948 - 30 Apr 1980 |
51.3 - 83.0 |
Queen of the Netherlands: Juliana |
Netherlands |
| 21 Dec 1948 |
51.6 |
Republic of Ireland Act |
Great Britain |
| 23 May 1949 |
52.0 |
Establishment of the Federal Republic of Germany |
Germany |
| 1949 |
52.1 |
Establishment of Circuit City |
Companies |
| 15 Sep 1949 - 16 Oct 1963 |
52.3 - 66.4 |
Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany: Konrad Adenauer |
Germany - Chancellors |
| 7 Oct 1949 |
52.4 |
Establishment of the German Democratic Republic |
Germany |
| 11 Oct 1949 - 7 Sep 1960 |
52.4 - 63.3 |
Wilhelm Pieck - State President of the GDR |
GDR |
| 17 Jun 1950 |
53.1 |
First successful organ transplant |
Medicine |
| 1950 - 1953 |
53.1 - 56.1 |
Korean War |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 9 Apr 1951 - 18 Jan 1970 |
53.9 - 72.7 |
President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints: David O. McKay |
Mormon History |
| 22 Jan 1952 |
54.7 |
First jet airliner in regular commercial use |
Aviation History |
| 6 Feb 1952 - Today |
54.7 |
Queen of the United Kingdom: Elizabeth II |
Great Britain |
| 20 Jan 1953 - 20 Jan 1961 |
55.7 - 63.7 |
President of the United States of America: Dwight D. Eisenhower |
USA - Presidents |
| 17 Jun 1953 |
56.1 |
Uprising of June 17, 1953 in East Germany |
Germany |
| 4 Jul 1954 |
57.1 |
FIFA World Cup Champion 1954: Germany |
Germany |
| 24 Feb 1955 - 5 Oct 2011 |
57.8 - 114.4 |
Life of Steven 'Steve' Paul Jobs |
Personalities |
| 4 Oct 1957 |
60.4 |
Sputnik launched: first artificial satellite in Earth's orbit |
Technology |
| 5 Oct 1958 |
61.4 |
Start of the 5th French Republic |
France |
| 8 Jan 1959 - 28 Apr 1969 |
61.6 - 71.9 |
President of France: Charles de Gaulle |
France |
| 1959 - 30 Apr 1975 |
62.1 - 78.0 |
Vietnam War |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 1960 - 1973 |
63.1 - 76.1 |
Walter Ulbricht - Chairman of the State Council of the GDR |
GDR |
| 20 Jan 1961 - 22 Nov 1963 |
63.7 - 66.5 |
President of the United States of America: John F. Kennedy |
USA - Presidents |
| 12 Apr 1961 |
63.9 |
First human in space |
Technology |
| 25 May 1961 - 24 Jul 1975 |
64.0 - 78.2 |
Apollo Space Program |
Technology |
| 13 Aug 1961 |
64.2 |
Construction of the Berlin Wall |
Germany |
| 11 Oct 1962 - 8 Dec 1965 |
65.4 - 68.6 |
Second Vatican Council |
World |
| 16 Oct 1962 - 28 Oct 1962 |
65.4 |
Cuban Missile Crisis ('October Crisis') |
USA |
| 16 Oct 1963 - 1 Dec 1966 |
66.4 - 69.5 |
Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany: Ludwig Erhard |
Germany - Chancellors |
| 22 Nov 1963 - 20 Jan 1969 |
66.5 - 71.7 |
President of the United States of America: Lyndon B. Johnson |
USA - Presidents |
| 1966 - 1973 |
69.1 - 76.1 |
Construction period of the World Trade Center |
Monuments |
| 1 Dec 1966 - 21 Oct 1969 |
69.5 - 72.4 |
Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany: Kurt Georg Kiesinger |
Germany - Chancellors |
| 1967 |
70.1 |
Founding of the European Community (EC) |
European Union |
| 20 Jan 1969 - 9 Aug 1974 |
71.7 - 77.2 |
President of the United States of America: Richard Nixon |
USA - Presidents |
| 20 Jun 1969 - 2 Apr 1974 |
72.1 - 76.9 |
President of France: Georges Pompidou |
France |
| 20 Jul 1969 |
72.2 |
First man on the moon |
Technology |
| 21 Oct 1969 - 7 May 1974 |
72.4 - 77.0 |
Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany: Willy Brandt |
Germany - Chancellors |
| 31 Oct 1969 |
72.5 |
Establishment of Wal Mart |
Companies |
| 23 Jan 1970 - 2 Jul 1972 |
72.7 - 75.1 |
President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints: Joseph Fielding Smith |
Mormon History |
| 7 Jul 1972 - 26 Dec 1973 |
75.1 - 76.6 |
President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints: Joseph Fielding Smith |
Mormon History |
| 21 Jul 1972 |
75.2 |
Bloody Friday |
Great Britain |
| 1973 - 1976 |
76.1 - 79.1 |
Willi Stoph - Chairman of the Council of State of the GDR |
GDR |
| 30 Dec 1973 - 5 Nov 1985 |
76.6 - 88.5 |
President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints: Spencer W. Kimball |
Mormon History |
| 16 May 1974 - 1 Oct 1982 |
77.0 - 85.4 |
Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany: Helmut Schmidt |
Germany - Chancellors |
| 27 May 1974 - 21 May 1981 |
77.0 - 84.0 |
President of France: Valéry Giscard d'Estaing |
France |
| 7 Jul 1974 |
77.1 |
FIFA World Cup Champion 1974: Germany |
Germany |
| 8 Jul 1974 |
77.1 |
FIFA World Cup Champion 1990: Germany |
Germany |
| 13 Jul 1974 |
77.2 |
FIFA World Cup Champion 2014: Germany |
Germany |
| 9 Aug 1974 - 20 Jan 1977 |
77.2 - 79.7 |
President of the United States of America: Gerald Ford |
USA - Presidents |
| 20 Nov 1975 |
78.5 |
Franco's Death, end of the Francoist regime |
Spain |
| 1 Apr 1976 |
78.9 |
Apple Computer is established |
Apple Inc. - Corporate History |
| 1976 - 1989 |
79.1 - 92.1 |
Erich Honecker - Chairman of the Council of State of the GDR |
GDR |
| 20 Jan 1977 - 20 Jan 1981 |
79.7 - 83.7 |
President of the United States of America: Jimmy Carter |
USA - Presidents |
| 16 Apr 1977 |
79.9 |
Introduction of the Apple II |
Apple Inc. - Corporate History |
| 27 Dec 1979 - 15 Feb 1989 |
82.6 - 91.8 |
Soviet-Afghan War (1979-1989) |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 30 Apr 1980 - 30 Apr 2013 |
83.0 - 116.0 |
Queen of the Netherlands: Beatrix |
Netherlands |
| 22 Sep 1980 - 20 Aug 1988 |
83.4 - 91.3 |
First Gulf War ('Iran-Iraq War') |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 20 Jan 1981 - 20 Jan 1989 |
83.7 - 91.7 |
President of the United States of America: Ronald Reagan |
USA - Presidents |
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