| 15-dec.-1832 - 27-dec.-1923 |
(-82.1) - 9.0 |
Life of Gustave Eiffel |
Personalities |
| 8-jul.-1838 - 8-mrt.-1917 |
(-76.6) - 2.2 |
Life of Ferdinand von Zeppelin |
Personalities |
| 25-nov.-1844 - 4-apr.-1929 |
(-70.2) - 14.2 |
Life of Carl Benz |
Personalities |
| 11-feb.-1847 - 18-okt.-1931 |
(-68.0) - 16.8 |
Life of Thomas Alva Edison |
Personalities |
| 3-mrt.-1847 - 1-aug.-1922 |
(-67.9) - 7.6 |
Life of Alexander Graham Bell |
Personalities |
| 6-mei-1856 - 23-sep.-1939 |
(-58.7) - 24.7 |
Life of Sigmund Freud |
Personalities |
| 23-sep.-1861 - 12-mrt.-1942 |
(-53.3) - 27.2 |
Life of Robert Bosch |
Personalities |
| 30-jul.-1863 - 7-apr.-1947 |
(-51.5) - 32.3 |
Life of Henry Ford |
Personalities |
| 16-okt.-1863 - 17-mrt.-1937 |
(-51.3) - 22.2 |
Life of Joseph Austen Chamberlain |
Personalities |
| 22-apr.-1870 - 21-jan.-1924 |
(-44.8) - 9.0 |
Life of Vladimir Lenin |
Personalities |
| 30-nov.-1874 - 24-jan.-1965 |
(-40.1) - 50.1 |
Life of Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill |
Personalities |
| 5-jan.-1876 - 19-apr.-1967 |
(-39.0) - 52.3 |
Life of Konrad Adenauer |
Personalities |
| 14-mrt.-1879 - 18-apr.-1955 |
(-35.9) - 40.3 |
Life of Albert Einstein |
Personalities |
| 6-aug.-1881 - 11-mrt.-1955 |
(-33.5) - 40.2 |
Life of Alexander Fleming |
Personalities |
| 21-jan.-1884 - 12-dec.-1963 |
(-31.0) - 48.9 |
Life of Theodor Heuss |
Personalities |
| 15-jun.-1888 - 9-nov.-1918 |
(-26.6) - 3.8 |
German Emperor: Wilhelm II |
Germany |
| 20-apr.-1889 - 30-apr.-1945 |
(-25.7) - 30.3 |
Life of Adolf Hitler |
Personalities |
| 14-okt.-1890 - 28-mrt.-1969 |
(-24.3) - 54.2 |
Life of Dwight David Eisenhower |
Personalities |
| 5-dec.-1901 - 15-dec.-1966 |
(-13.1) - 52.0 |
Life of Walter Elias Disney |
Personalities |
| 4-mrt.-1913 - 4-mrt.-1921 |
(-1.9) - 6.1 |
President of the United States of America: Woodrow Wilson |
USA - Presidents |
| 28-jun.-1914 - 11-nov.-1918 |
(-0.5) - 3.8 |
World War I |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 6-aug.-1914 - 25-nov.-1918 |
(-0.4) - 3.9 |
East African Campaign (World War I) |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 13-sep.-1914 - 9-jul.-1915 |
(-0.3) - 0.5 |
South-West Africa Campaign (World War I) |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 24-apr.-1916 - 30-apr.-1916 |
1.3 |
Easter Rising |
Great Britain |
| 1916 |
1.5 |
Establishment of BMW (Bayerische Motoren Werke AG) |
Companies |
| 8-mrt.-1917 - 12-mrt.-1917 |
2.2 |
Russian February Revolution |
Russia |
| 29-mei-1917 - 22-nov.-1963 |
2.4 - 48.9 |
Life of John F. Kennedy |
Personalities |
| 1917 - 1923 |
2.5 - 8.5 |
Russian Civil War |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 7-nov.-1917 |
2.8 |
Founding of the Russian Socialist Federal Soviet Republic |
Russia |
| 9-nov.-1918 |
3.8 |
German Revolution |
Germany |
| 11-feb.-1919 - 28-feb.-1925 |
4.1 - 10.1 |
President of Germany: Friedrich Ebert |
Germany |
| 13-feb.-1919 - 20-jun.-1919 |
4.1 - 4.4 |
Chancellor of Germany: Philipp Scheidemann |
Germany |
| 6-mei-1919 - 8-aug.-1919 |
4.3 - 4.6 |
Third Anglo-Afghan War |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 1919 |
4.5 |
First transatlantic zeppelin flight |
Aviation History |
| 11-aug.-1919 |
4.6 |
Adoption of the Weimar Constitution |
Germany |
| 10-sep.-1919 |
4.7 |
Treaty of Saint-Germain |
Italy |
| 4-mrt.-1921 - 2-aug.-1923 |
6.1 - 8.6 |
President of the United States of America: Warren G. Harding |
USA - Presidents |
| 6-dec.-1921 |
6.9 |
Anglo-Irish Treaty |
Great Britain |
| 28-okt.-1922 |
7.8 |
Benito Mussolini becomes Prime Minister of Italy |
Italy |
| 2-aug.-1923 - 4-mrt.-1929 |
8.6 - 14.2 |
President of the United States of America: Calvin Coolidge |
USA - Presidents |
| 13-aug.-1923 - 23-nov.-1923 |
8.6 - 8.9 |
Chancellor of Germany: Gustav Stresemann |
Germany |
| 13-sep.-1923 |
8.7 |
Establishment of the military dictatorship |
Spain |
| 12-mei-1925 - 2-aug.-1934 |
10.3 - 19.6 |
President of Germany: Paul von Hindenburg |
Germany |
| 14-jun.-1928 - 9-okt.-1967 |
13.4 - 52.8 |
Life of Che Guevara |
Personalities |
| 1928 |
13.5 |
Discovery of penicillin |
Medicine |
| 15-jan.-1929 - 4-apr.-1968 |
14.0 - 53.3 |
Life of Martin Luther King |
Personalities |
| 4-mrt.-1929 - 4-mrt.-1933 |
14.2 - 18.2 |
President of the United States of America: Herbert Hoover |
USA - Presidents |
| 25-okt.-1929 |
14.8 |
'Black Friday' |
USA |
| 22-jan.-1930 - 1-mei-1931 |
15.0 - 16.3 |
Construction period of the Empire State Building |
Monuments |
| 30-mrt.-1930 - 30-mei-1932 |
15.2 - 17.4 |
Chancellor of Germany: Heinrich Brüning |
Germany |
| 5-aug.-1930 - 25-aug.-2012 |
15.6 - 97.7 |
Life of Neil Armstrong |
Personalities |
| 14-apr.-1931 |
16.3 |
Proclamation of the Second Spanish Republic |
Spain |
| 1931 |
16.5 |
Establishment of Porsche |
Companies |
| 11-dec.-1931 |
16.9 |
Statute of Westminster |
Great Britain |
| 1-jun.-1932 - 17-nov.-1932 |
17.4 - 17.9 |
Chancellor of Germany: Franz von Papen |
Germany |
| 3-dec.-1932 - 28-jan.-1933 |
17.9 - 18.1 |
Chancellor of Germany: Kurt von Schleicher |
Germany |
| 30-jan.-1933 - 30-apr.-1945 |
18.1 - 30.3 |
Chancellor of Germany: Adolf Hitler |
Germany |
| 28-feb.-1933 - 23-mrt.-1933 |
18.1 - 18.2 |
'Reichstag Fire Decree' and 'Enabling Act': De facto end of the Weimar Republic & beginning of Nazi dictatorship |
Germany |
| 4-mrt.-1933 - 12-apr.-1945 |
18.2 - 30.3 |
President of the United States of America: Franklin D. Roosevelt |
USA - Presidents |
| 1935 |
20.5 |
Italy occupies Ethiopia, the last remaining free territory in Africa. |
Discoveries & Colonization |
| 11-dec.-1936 - 6-feb.-1952 |
21.9 - 37.1 |
Queen consort of the United Kingdom: Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon 'Queen Mum' |
Great Britain |
| 6-mei-1937 |
22.3 |
Hindenburg disaster |
Aviation History |
| 1937 |
22.5 |
Construction period of the Golden Gate Bridge |
Monuments |
| 27-aug.-1939 |
24.6 |
First flight of turbine-equipped jet plane |
Aviation History |
| 1-sep.-1939 - 2-sep.-1945 |
24.7 - 30.7 |
World War II |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 14-mei-1940 |
25.4 |
Establishment of McDonald's |
Companies |
| 7-dec.-1941 |
26.9 |
Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor |
USA |
| 12-apr.-1945 - 20-jan.-1953 |
30.3 - 38.0 |
President of the United States of America: Harry S. Truman |
USA - Presidents |
| 25-apr.-1945 |
30.3 |
Establishment of the United Nations |
World |
| 8-mei-1945 |
30.3 |
Unconditional surrender of the German Empire |
Germany |
| 6-aug.-1945 - 9-aug.-1945 |
30.6 |
Nuclear bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki |
USA |
| 14-okt.-1946 |
31.8 |
Start of the 4th French Republic |
France |
| 14-okt.-1947 |
32.8 |
First supersonic flight of the Bell X-1 |
Aviation History |
| 21-dec.-1948 |
34.0 |
Republic of Ireland Act |
Great Britain |
| 23-mei-1949 |
34.4 |
Establishment of the Federal Republic of Germany |
Germany |
| 1949 |
34.5 |
Establishment of Circuit City |
Companies |
| 15-sep.-1949 - 16-okt.-1963 |
34.7 - 48.8 |
Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany: Konrad Adenauer |
Germany - Chancellors |
| 7-okt.-1949 |
34.8 |
Establishment of the German Democratic Republic |
Germany |
| 11-okt.-1949 - 7-sep.-1960 |
34.8 - 45.7 |
Wilhelm Pieck - State President of the GDR |
GDR |
| 17-jun.-1950 |
35.5 |
First successful organ transplant |
Medicine |
| 1950 - 1953 |
35.5 - 38.5 |
Korean War |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 22-jan.-1952 |
37.1 |
First jet airliner in regular commercial use |
Aviation History |
| 6-feb.-1952 - Heden |
37.1 |
Queen of the United Kingdom: Elizabeth II |
Great Britain |
| 20-jan.-1953 - 20-jan.-1961 |
38.0 - 46.1 |
President of the United States of America: Dwight D. Eisenhower |
USA - Presidents |
| 17-jun.-1953 |
38.5 |
Uprising of June 17, 1953 in East Germany |
Germany |
| 24-feb.-1955 - 5-okt.-2011 |
40.1 - 96.8 |
Life of Steven 'Steve' Paul Jobs |
Personalities |
| 4-okt.-1957 |
42.8 |
Sputnik launched: first artificial satellite in Earth's orbit |
Technology |
| 5-okt.-1958 |
43.8 |
Start of the 5th French Republic |
France |
| 1959 - 30-apr.-1975 |
44.5 - 60.3 |
Vietnam War |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 1960 - 1973 |
45.5 - 58.5 |
Walter Ulbricht - Chairman of the State Council of the GDR |
GDR |
| 20-jan.-1961 - 22-nov.-1963 |
46.1 - 48.9 |
President of the United States of America: John F. Kennedy |
USA - Presidents |
| 12-apr.-1961 |
46.3 |
First human in space |
Technology |
| 25-mei-1961 - 24-jul.-1975 |
46.4 - 60.6 |
Apollo Space Program |
Technology |
| 13-aug.-1961 |
46.6 |
Construction of the Berlin Wall |
Germany |
| 11-okt.-1962 - 8-dec.-1965 |
47.8 - 50.9 |
Second Vatican Council |
World |
| 16-okt.-1962 - 28-okt.-1962 |
47.8 |
Cuban Missile Crisis ('October Crisis') |
USA |
| 16-okt.-1963 - 1-dec.-1966 |
48.8 - 51.9 |
Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany: Ludwig Erhard |
Germany - Chancellors |
| 22-nov.-1963 - 20-jan.-1969 |
48.9 - 54.1 |
President of the United States of America: Lyndon B. Johnson |
USA - Presidents |
| 1966 - 1973 |
51.5 - 58.5 |
Construction period of the World Trade Center |
Monuments |
| 1-dec.-1966 - 21-okt.-1969 |
51.9 - 54.8 |
Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany: Kurt Georg Kiesinger |
Germany - Chancellors |
| 1967 |
52.5 |
Founding of the European Community (EC) |
European Union |
| 20-jan.-1969 - 9-aug.-1974 |
54.1 - 59.6 |
President of the United States of America: Richard Nixon |
USA - Presidents |
| 20-jul.-1969 |
54.6 |
First man on the moon |
Technology |
| 21-okt.-1969 - 7-mei-1974 |
54.8 - 59.4 |
Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany: Willy Brandt |
Germany - Chancellors |
| 31-okt.-1969 |
54.8 |
Establishment of Wal Mart |
Companies |
| 21-jul.-1972 |
57.6 |
Bloody Friday |
Great Britain |
| 1973 - 1976 |
58.5 - 61.5 |
Willi Stoph - Chairman of the Council of State of the GDR |
GDR |
| 16-mei-1974 - 1-okt.-1982 |
59.4 - 67.8 |
Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany: Helmut Schmidt |
Germany - Chancellors |
| 9-aug.-1974 - 20-jan.-1977 |
59.6 - 62.1 |
President of the United States of America: Gerald Ford |
USA - Presidents |
| 20-nov.-1975 |
60.9 |
Franco's Death, end of the Francoist regime |
Spain |
| 1-apr.-1976 |
61.3 |
Apple Computer is established |
Apple Inc. - Corporate History |
| 1976 - 1989 |
61.5 - 74.5 |
Erich Honecker - Chairman of the Council of State of the GDR |
GDR |
| 20-jan.-1977 - 20-jan.-1981 |
62.1 - 66.1 |
President of the United States of America: Jimmy Carter |
USA - Presidents |
| 16-apr.-1977 |
62.3 |
Introduction of the Apple II |
Apple Inc. - Corporate History |
| 27-dec.-1979 - 15-feb.-1989 |
65.0 - 74.1 |
Soviet-Afghan War (1979-1989) |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 22-sep.-1980 - 20-aug.-1988 |
65.7 - 73.7 |
First Gulf War ('Iran-Iraq War') |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 20-jan.-1981 - 20-jan.-1989 |
66.1 - 74.1 |
President of the United States of America: Ronald Reagan |
USA - Presidents |
| 2-apr.-1982 - 14-jun.-1982 |
67.3 - 67.5 |
Falklands War |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 1-okt.-1982 - 27-okt.-1998 |
67.8 - 83.8 |
Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany: Helmut Kohl |
Germany - Chancellors |
| 19-jan.-1983 |
68.1 |
Introduction of the Apple Lisa |
Apple Inc. - Corporate History |
| 1983 |
68.5 |
Discovery of HIV |
Medicine |
| 24-jan.-1984 |
69.1 |
Introduction of the Macintosh |
Apple Inc. - Corporate History |
Leopoldus Julianus De Meerschman
Joanna Maria Colleta D'Haen
Birth