| 13 Dec 1816 - 6 Dec 1892 |
(-66.0) - 10.0 |
Life of Werner von Siemens |
Personalities |
| 30 Dec 1819 - 20 Sep 1890 |
(-63.0) - 7.8 |
Life of Theodor Fontane |
Personalities |
| 15 Dec 1832 - 27 Dec 1923 |
(-50.0) - 41.1 |
Life of Gustave Eiffel |
Personalities |
| 17 Mar 1834 - 6 Mar 1900 |
(-48.8) - 17.2 |
Life of Gottlieb Wilhelm Daimler |
Personalities |
| 20 Jun 1837 - 22 Jan 1901 |
(-45.5) - 18.1 |
Queen of the United Kingdom: Victoria |
Great Britain |
| 8 Jul 1838 - 8 Mar 1917 |
(-44.5) - 34.3 |
Life of Ferdinand von Zeppelin |
Personalities |
| 11 Dec 1843 - 27 May 1910 |
(-39.0) - 27.5 |
Life of Robert Koch |
Personalities |
| 25 Nov 1844 - 4 Apr 1929 |
(-38.1) - 46.3 |
Life of Carl Benz |
Personalities |
| 11 Feb 1847 - 18 Oct 1931 |
(-35.9) - 48.9 |
Life of Thomas Alva Edison |
Personalities |
| 3 Mar 1847 - 1 Aug 1922 |
(-35.8) - 39.7 |
Life of Alexander Graham Bell |
Personalities |
| 17 Mar 1849 - 23 Nov 1890 |
(-33.8) - 8.0 |
King of the Netherlands: Willem III |
Netherlands |
| 6 May 1856 - 23 Sep 1939 |
(-26.6) - 56.8 |
Life of Sigmund Freud |
Personalities |
| 23 Sep 1861 - 12 Mar 1942 |
(-21.2) - 59.3 |
Life of Robert Bosch |
Personalities |
| 30 Jul 1863 - 7 Apr 1947 |
(-19.4) - 64.4 |
Life of Henry Ford |
Personalities |
| 16 Oct 1863 - 17 Mar 1937 |
(-19.2) - 54.3 |
Life of Joseph Austen Chamberlain |
Personalities |
| 5 Sep 1869 - 1884 |
(-13.3) - 1.6 |
Construction period of Neuschwanstein Castle |
Monuments |
| 22 Apr 1870 - 21 Jan 1924 |
(-12.6) - 41.1 |
Life of Vladimir Lenin |
Personalities |
| 18 Jan 1871 - 9 Mar 1888 |
(-11.9) - 5.2 |
German Emperor: Wilhelm I |
Germany |
| 4 May 1871 - 20 Mar 1890 |
(-11.6) - 7.3 |
Chancellor of the German Empire: Otto von Bismarck |
Germany |
| 30 Nov 1874 - 24 Jan 1965 |
(-8.0) - 82.2 |
Life of Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill |
Personalities |
| 5 Jan 1876 - 19 Apr 1967 |
(-6.9) - 84.4 |
Life of Konrad Adenauer |
Personalities |
| 14 Mar 1879 - 18 Apr 1955 |
(-3.7) - 72.4 |
Life of Albert Einstein |
Personalities |
| 10 Oct 1880 - 25 Jul 1887 |
(-2.2) - 4.6 |
President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints: John Taylor |
Mormon History |
| 6 Aug 1881 - 11 Mar 1955 |
(-1.3) - 72.3 |
Life of Alexander Fleming |
Personalities |
| 19 Sep 1881 - 4 Mar 1885 |
(-1.2) - 2.2 |
President of the United States of America: Chester A. Arthur |
USA - Presidents |
| 21 Jan 1884 - 12 Dec 1963 |
1.1 - 81.1 |
Life of Theodor Heuss |
Personalities |
| 1884 |
1.6 |
First controlled flight of a Zeppelin |
Aviation History |
| 15 Nov 1884 - 26 Feb 1885 |
1.9 - 2.2 |
Berlin Conference ('Congo Conference') |
Discoveries & Colonization |
| 4 Mar 1885 - 4 Mar 1889 |
2.2 - 6.2 |
President of the United States of America: Grover Cleveland |
USA - Presidents |
| 1886 |
3.6 |
Establishment of the Coca Cola Company |
Companies |
| 1886 |
3.6 |
Establishment of Johnson & Johnson |
Companies |
| 28 Oct 1886 |
3.9 |
Construction period of the Statue of Liberty |
Monuments |
| 1887 |
4.6 |
Huang He flood |
Disasters |
| 1887 - 1889 |
4.6 - 6.6 |
Construction period of the Eiffel Tower |
Monuments |
| 9 Mar 1888 - 15 Jun 1888 |
5.2 - 5.5 |
German Emperor: Friedrich III |
Germany |
| 15 Jun 1888 - 9 Nov 1918 |
5.5 - 35.9 |
German Emperor: Wilhelm II |
Germany |
| 1888 |
5.6 |
First commercially manufactured automobile by Karl Benz |
Automobile History |
| 4 Mar 1889 - 4 Mar 1893 |
6.2 - 10.2 |
President of the United States of America: Benjamin Harrison |
USA - Presidents |
| 7 Apr 1889 - 2 Sep 1898 |
6.3 - 15.7 |
President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints: Wilford Woodruff |
Mormon History |
| 20 Apr 1889 - 30 Apr 1945 |
6.4 - 62.4 |
Life of Adolf Hitler |
Personalities |
| 1890 |
7.6 |
Establishment of Daimler |
Companies |
| 1890 |
7.6 |
Establishment of General Electric |
Companies |
| 14 Oct 1890 - 28 Mar 1969 |
7.8 - 86.4 |
Life of Dwight David Eisenhower |
Personalities |
| 23 Nov 1890 - 4 Sep 1948 |
8.0 - 65.8 |
Queen of the Netherlands: Wilhelmina |
Netherlands |
| 4 Mar 1893 - 4 Mar 1897 |
10.2 - 14.2 |
President of the United States of America: Grover Cleveland |
USA - Presidents |
| 6 Apr 1893 |
10.3 |
Dedication of the Salt Lake Temple |
Mormon History |
| 1896 |
13.6 |
Establishment of IBM (International Business Machines Corp., formerly 'Computing Tabulating Recording Corp. (CTR)') |
Companies |
| 1896 - 1897 |
13.6 - 14.6 |
Matabele Wars ('Ndebele Matabele War') |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 4 Mar 1897 - 14 Sep 1901 |
14.2 - 18.8 |
President of the United States of America: William McKinley |
USA - Presidents |
| 13 Sep 1898 - 10 Oct 1901 |
15.8 - 18.8 |
President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints: Lorenzo Snow |
Mormon History |
| 11 Oct 1899 - 31 May 1902 |
16.8 - 19.5 |
Second Boer War ('Second South African War') |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 8 Sep 1900 |
17.8 |
Galveston hurricane; destruction of the city of Galveston, Texas |
Disasters |
| 22 Jan 1901 - 6 May 1910 |
18.1 - 27.4 |
King of the United Kingdom: Edward VII |
Great Britain |
| 14 Sep 1901 - 4 Mar 1909 |
18.8 - 26.2 |
President of the United States of America: Theodore Roosevelt |
USA - Presidents |
| 17 Oct 1901 - 19 Nov 1918 |
18.9 - 36.0 |
President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints: Joseph F. Smith Sr. |
Mormon History |
| 19 Oct 1901 |
18.9 |
First motorized zeppelin flight |
Aviation History |
| 5 Dec 1901 - 15 Dec 1966 |
19.0 - 84.1 |
Life of Walter Elias Disney |
Personalities |
| 16 Jun 1903 |
20.5 |
Establishment of Ford Motor Company |
Companies |
| 16 Dec 1903 |
21.0 |
First controlled powered human flight by the Wright brothers |
Aviation History |
| 1904 - 1908 |
21.6 - 25.6 |
Herero and Namaqua Uprising ('Herero and Namaqua Genocide') |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 18 Apr 1906 |
23.4 |
San Francisco earthquake of 1906 |
Disasters |
| 1907 |
24.6 |
First helicopter flight |
Aviation History |
| 16 Sep 1908 |
25.8 |
Establishment of General Motors |
Companies |
| 27 Sep 1908 |
25.8 |
Introduction of the Ford Model T |
Automobile History |
| 4 Mar 1909 - 4 Mar 1913 |
26.2 - 30.2 |
President of the United States of America: William Howard Taft |
USA - Presidents |
| 1909 |
26.6 |
Discovery of antibiotics |
Medicine |
| 6 May 1910 - 20 Jan 1936 |
27.4 - 53.1 |
King of the United Kingdom: George V |
Great Britain |
| 30 May 1911 |
28.5 |
One in seven families in the US owns a car |
Automobile History |
| 30 May 1911 |
28.5 |
First 'Indy 500' race in Indianapolis |
Automobile History |
| 23 Oct 1911 |
28.9 |
First military use of an airplane |
Aviation History |
| 4 Mar 1913 - 4 Mar 1921 |
30.2 - 38.3 |
President of the United States of America: Woodrow Wilson |
USA - Presidents |
| 14 Jun 1914 - 15 Jun 1914 |
31.5 |
First transatlantic flight |
Aviation History |
| 28 Jun 1914 - 11 Nov 1918 |
31.6 - 35.9 |
World War I |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 6 Aug 1914 - 25 Nov 1918 |
31.7 - 36.0 |
East African Campaign (World War I) |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 13 Sep 1914 - 9 Jul 1915 |
31.8 - 32.6 |
South-West Africa Campaign (World War I) |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 14 Oct 1914 - 24 Oct 1914 |
31.9 |
Maritz Rebellion |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 24 Apr 1916 - 30 Apr 1916 |
33.4 |
Easter Rising |
Great Britain |
| 1916 |
33.6 |
Establishment of BMW (Bayerische Motoren Werke AG) |
Companies |
| 8 Mar 1917 - 12 Mar 1917 |
34.3 |
Russian February Revolution |
Russia |
| 29 May 1917 - 22 Nov 1963 |
34.5 - 81.0 |
Life of John F. Kennedy |
Personalities |
| 1917 - 1923 |
34.6 - 40.6 |
Russian Civil War |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 7 Nov 1917 |
34.9 |
Founding of the Russian Socialist Federal Soviet Republic |
Russia |
| 9 Nov 1918 |
35.9 |
German Revolution |
Germany |
| 23 Nov 1918 - 14 May 1945 |
36.0 - 62.5 |
President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints: Heber J. Grant |
Mormon History |
| 11 Feb 1919 - 28 Feb 1925 |
36.2 - 42.2 |
President of Germany: Friedrich Ebert |
Germany |
| 13 Feb 1919 - 20 Jun 1919 |
36.2 - 36.5 |
Chancellor of Germany: Philipp Scheidemann |
Germany |
| 6 May 1919 - 8 Aug 1919 |
36.4 - 36.7 |
Third Anglo-Afghan War |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 1919 |
36.6 |
First transatlantic zeppelin flight |
Aviation History |
| 11 Aug 1919 |
36.7 |
Adoption of the Weimar Constitution |
Germany |
| 10 Sep 1919 |
36.8 |
Treaty of Saint-Germain |
Italy |
| 4 Mar 1921 - 2 Aug 1923 |
38.3 - 40.7 |
President of the United States of America: Warren G. Harding |
USA - Presidents |
| 6 Dec 1921 |
39.0 |
Anglo-Irish Treaty |
Great Britain |
| 28 Oct 1922 |
39.9 |
Benito Mussolini becomes Prime Minister of Italy |
Italy |
| 2 Aug 1923 - 4 Mar 1929 |
40.7 - 46.3 |
President of the United States of America: Calvin Coolidge |
USA - Presidents |
| 13 Aug 1923 - 23 Nov 1923 |
40.7 - 41.0 |
Chancellor of Germany: Gustav Stresemann |
Germany |
| 13 Sep 1923 |
40.8 |
Establishment of the military dictatorship |
Spain |
| 12 May 1925 - 2 Aug 1934 |
42.4 - 51.7 |
President of Germany: Paul von Hindenburg |
Germany |
| 14 Jun 1928 - 9 Oct 1967 |
45.5 - 84.9 |
Life of Che Guevara |
Personalities |
| 1928 |
45.6 |
Discovery of penicillin |
Medicine |
| 15 Jan 1929 - 4 Apr 1968 |
46.1 - 85.4 |
Life of Martin Luther King |
Personalities |
| 4 Mar 1929 - 4 Mar 1933 |
46.3 - 50.3 |
President of the United States of America: Herbert Hoover |
USA - Presidents |
| 25 Oct 1929 |
46.9 |
'Black Friday' |
USA |
| 22 Jan 1930 - 1 May 1931 |
47.1 - 48.4 |
Construction period of the Empire State Building |
Monuments |
| 30 Mar 1930 - 30 May 1932 |
47.3 - 49.5 |
Chancellor of Germany: Heinrich Brüning |
Germany |
| 5 Aug 1930 - 25 Aug 2012 |
47.7 - 129.8 |
Life of Neil Armstrong |
Personalities |
| 14 Apr 1931 |
48.4 |
Proclamation of the Second Spanish Republic |
Spain |
| 1931 |
48.6 |
Establishment of Porsche |
Companies |
| 11 Dec 1931 |
49.0 |
Statute of Westminster |
Great Britain |
| 1 Jun 1932 - 17 Nov 1932 |
49.5 - 50.0 |
Chancellor of Germany: Franz von Papen |
Germany |
| 3 Dec 1932 - 28 Jan 1933 |
50.0 - 50.2 |
Chancellor of Germany: Kurt von Schleicher |
Germany |
| 30 Jan 1933 - 30 Apr 1945 |
50.2 - 62.4 |
Chancellor of Germany: Adolf Hitler |
Germany |
| 28 Feb 1933 - 23 Mar 1933 |
50.2 - 50.3 |
'Reichstag Fire Decree' and 'Enabling Act': De facto end of the Weimar Republic & beginning of Nazi dictatorship |
Germany |
| 4 Mar 1933 - 12 Apr 1945 |
50.3 - 62.4 |
President of the United States of America: Franklin D. Roosevelt |
USA - Presidents |
| 1935 |
52.6 |
Italy occupies Ethiopia, the last remaining free territory in Africa. |
Discoveries & Colonization |
| 20 Jan 1936 - 11 Dec 1936 |
53.1 - 54.0 |
King of the United Kingdom: Edward VIII |
Great Britain |
| 11 Dec 1936 - 6 Feb 1952 |
54.0 - 69.2 |
King of the United Kingdom: George VI |
Great Britain |
| 11 Dec 1936 - 6 Feb 1952 |
54.0 - 69.2 |
Queen consort of the United Kingdom: Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon 'Queen Mum' |
Great Britain |
| 6 May 1937 |
54.4 |
Hindenburg disaster |
Aviation History |
| 1937 |
54.6 |
Construction period of the Golden Gate Bridge |
Monuments |
| 27 Aug 1939 |
56.7 |
First flight of turbine-equipped jet plane |
Aviation History |
| 1 Sep 1939 - 2 Sep 1945 |
56.8 - 62.8 |
World War II |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 14 May 1940 |
57.5 |
Establishment of McDonald's |
Companies |
| 7 Dec 1941 |
59.0 |
Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor |
USA |
| 12 Apr 1945 - 20 Jan 1953 |
62.4 - 70.2 |
President of the United States of America: Harry S. Truman |
USA - Presidents |
| 25 Apr 1945 |
62.4 |
Establishment of the United Nations |
World |
| 8 May 1945 |
62.4 |
Unconditional surrender of the German Empire |
Germany |
| 21 May 1945 - 4 Apr 1951 |
62.5 - 68.4 |
President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints: George Albert Smith |
Mormon History |
| 6 Aug 1945 - 9 Aug 1945 |
62.7 |
Nuclear bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki |
USA |
| 14 Oct 1946 |
63.9 |
Start of the 4th French Republic |
France |
| 14 Oct 1947 |
64.9 |
First supersonic flight of the Bell X-1 |
Aviation History |
| 4 Sep 1948 - 30 Apr 1980 |
65.8 - 97.4 |
Queen of the Netherlands: Juliana |
Netherlands |
| 21 Dec 1948 |
66.1 |
Republic of Ireland Act |
Great Britain |
| 23 May 1949 |
66.5 |
Establishment of the Federal Republic of Germany |
Germany |
| 1949 |
66.6 |
Establishment of Circuit City |
Companies |
| 15 Sep 1949 - 16 Oct 1963 |
66.8 - 80.9 |
Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany: Konrad Adenauer |
Germany - Chancellors |
| 7 Oct 1949 |
66.9 |
Establishment of the German Democratic Republic |
Germany |
| 11 Oct 1949 - 7 Sep 1960 |
66.9 - 77.8 |
Wilhelm Pieck - State President of the GDR |
GDR |
| 17 Jun 1950 |
67.6 |
First successful organ transplant |
Medicine |
| 1950 - 1953 |
67.6 - 70.6 |
Korean War |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 9 Apr 1951 - 18 Jan 1970 |
68.4 - 87.2 |
President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints: David O. McKay |
Mormon History |
| 22 Jan 1952 |
69.2 |
First jet airliner in regular commercial use |
Aviation History |
| 6 Feb 1952 - Today |
69.2 |
Queen of the United Kingdom: Elizabeth II |
Great Britain |
| 20 Jan 1953 - 20 Jan 1961 |
70.2 - 78.2 |
President of the United States of America: Dwight D. Eisenhower |
USA - Presidents |
| 17 Jun 1953 |
70.6 |
Uprising of June 17, 1953 in East Germany |
Germany |
| 4 Jul 1954 |
71.6 |
FIFA World Cup Champion 1954: Germany |
Germany |
| 24 Feb 1955 - 5 Oct 2011 |
72.3 - 128.9 |
Life of Steven 'Steve' Paul Jobs |
Personalities |
| 4 Oct 1957 |
74.9 |
Sputnik launched: first artificial satellite in Earth's orbit |
Technology |
| 5 Oct 1958 |
75.9 |
Start of the 5th French Republic |
France |
| 8 Jan 1959 - 28 Apr 1969 |
76.1 - 86.4 |
President of France: Charles de Gaulle |
France |
| 1959 - 30 Apr 1975 |
76.6 - 92.4 |
Vietnam War |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 1960 - 1973 |
77.6 - 90.6 |
Walter Ulbricht - Chairman of the State Council of the GDR |
GDR |
| 20 Jan 1961 - 22 Nov 1963 |
78.2 - 81.0 |
President of the United States of America: John F. Kennedy |
USA - Presidents |
| 12 Apr 1961 |
78.4 |
First human in space |
Technology |
| 25 May 1961 - 24 Jul 1975 |
78.5 - 92.7 |
Apollo Space Program |
Technology |
| 13 Aug 1961 |
78.7 |
Construction of the Berlin Wall |
Germany |
| 11 Oct 1962 - 8 Dec 1965 |
79.9 - 83.0 |
Second Vatican Council |
World |
| 16 Oct 1962 - 28 Oct 1962 |
79.9 |
Cuban Missile Crisis ('October Crisis') |
USA |
| 16 Oct 1963 - 1 Dec 1966 |
80.9 - 84.0 |
Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany: Ludwig Erhard |
Germany - Chancellors |
| 22 Nov 1963 - 20 Jan 1969 |
81.0 - 86.2 |
President of the United States of America: Lyndon B. Johnson |
USA - Presidents |
| 1966 - 1973 |
83.6 - 90.6 |
Construction period of the World Trade Center |
Monuments |
| 1 Dec 1966 - 21 Oct 1969 |
84.0 - 86.9 |
Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany: Kurt Georg Kiesinger |
Germany - Chancellors |
| 1967 |
84.6 |
Founding of the European Community (EC) |
European Union |
| 20 Jan 1969 - 9 Aug 1974 |
86.2 - 91.7 |
President of the United States of America: Richard Nixon |
USA - Presidents |
| 20 Jun 1969 - 2 Apr 1974 |
86.6 - 91.4 |
President of France: Georges Pompidou |
France |
| 20 Jul 1969 |
86.7 |
First man on the moon |
Technology |
| 21 Oct 1969 - 7 May 1974 |
86.9 - 91.5 |
Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany: Willy Brandt |
Germany - Chancellors |
| 31 Oct 1969 |
86.9 |
Establishment of Wal Mart |
Companies |
| 23 Jan 1970 - 2 Jul 1972 |
87.2 - 89.6 |
President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints: Joseph Fielding Smith |
Mormon History |
| 7 Jul 1972 - 26 Dec 1973 |
89.6 - 91.1 |
President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints: Joseph Fielding Smith |
Mormon History |
| 21 Jul 1972 |
89.7 |
Bloody Friday |
Great Britain |
| 1973 - 1976 |
90.6 - 93.6 |
Willi Stoph - Chairman of the Council of State of the GDR |
GDR |
| 30 Dec 1973 - 5 Nov 1985 |
91.1 - 103.0 |
President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints: Spencer W. Kimball |
Mormon History |
| 16 May 1974 - 1 Oct 1982 |
91.5 - 99.9 |
Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany: Helmut Schmidt |
Germany - Chancellors |
| 27 May 1974 - 21 May 1981 |
91.5 - 98.5 |
President of France: Valéry Giscard d'Estaing |
France |
| 7 Jul 1974 |
91.6 |
FIFA World Cup Champion 1974: Germany |
Germany |
| 8 Jul 1974 |
91.6 |
FIFA World Cup Champion 1990: Germany |
Germany |
| 13 Jul 1974 |
91.6 |
FIFA World Cup Champion 2014: Germany |
Germany |
| 9 Aug 1974 - 20 Jan 1977 |
91.7 - 94.2 |
President of the United States of America: Gerald Ford |
USA - Presidents |
| 20 Nov 1975 |
93.0 |
Franco's Death, end of the Francoist regime |
Spain |
| 1 Apr 1976 |
93.4 |
Apple Computer is established |
Apple Inc. - Corporate History |
| 1976 - 1989 |
93.6 - 106.6 |
Erich Honecker - Chairman of the Council of State of the GDR |
GDR |
| 20 Jan 1977 - 20 Jan 1981 |
94.2 - 98.2 |
President of the United States of America: Jimmy Carter |
USA - Presidents |
| 16 Apr 1977 |
94.4 |
Introduction of the Apple II |
Apple Inc. - Corporate History |
| 27 Dec 1979 - 15 Feb 1989 |
97.1 - 106.3 |
Soviet-Afghan War (1979-1989) |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 30 Apr 1980 - 30 Apr 2013 |
97.4 - 130.5 |
Queen of the Netherlands: Beatrix |
Netherlands |
| 22 Sep 1980 - 20 Aug 1988 |
97.8 - 105.8 |
First Gulf War ('Iran-Iraq War') |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 20 Jan 1981 - 20 Jan 1989 |
98.2 - 106.2 |
President of the United States of America: Ronald Reagan |
USA - Presidents |
| 21 May 1981 - 17 May 1995 |
98.5 - 112.5 |
President of France: François Mitterrand |
France |
| 2 Apr 1982 - 14 Jun 1982 |
99.4 - 99.6 |
Falklands War |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 1 Oct 1982 - 27 Oct 1998 |
99.9 - 116.0 |
Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany: Helmut Kohl |
Germany - Chancellors |
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