12-feb.-1809 - 19-apr.-1882 |
(-71.1) - 2.1 |
Life of Charles Robert Darwin |
Personalities |
13-dec.-1816 - 6-dec.-1892 |
(-63.3) - 12.7 |
Life of Werner von Siemens |
Personalities |
30-dec.-1819 - 20-sep.-1890 |
(-60.2) - 10.5 |
Life of Theodor Fontane |
Personalities |
15-dec.-1832 - 27-dec.-1923 |
(-47.3) - 43.8 |
Life of Gustave Eiffel |
Personalities |
17-mrt.-1834 - 6-mrt.-1900 |
(-46.0) - 20.0 |
Life of Gottlieb Wilhelm Daimler |
Personalities |
8-jul.-1838 - 8-mrt.-1917 |
(-41.7) - 37.0 |
Life of Ferdinand von Zeppelin |
Personalities |
11-dec.-1843 - 27-mei-1910 |
(-36.3) - 30.2 |
Life of Robert Koch |
Personalities |
25-nov.-1844 - 4-apr.-1929 |
(-35.3) - 49.1 |
Life of Carl Benz |
Personalities |
11-feb.-1847 - 18-okt.-1931 |
(-33.1) - 51.6 |
Life of Thomas Alva Edison |
Personalities |
3-mrt.-1847 - 1-aug.-1922 |
(-33.1) - 42.4 |
Life of Alexander Graham Bell |
Personalities |
6-mei-1856 - 23-sep.-1939 |
(-23.9) - 59.6 |
Life of Sigmund Freud |
Personalities |
23-sep.-1861 - 12-mrt.-1942 |
(-18.5) - 62.0 |
Life of Robert Bosch |
Personalities |
30-jul.-1863 - 7-apr.-1947 |
(-16.6) - 67.1 |
Life of Henry Ford |
Personalities |
16-okt.-1863 - 17-mrt.-1937 |
(-16.4) - 57.0 |
Life of Joseph Austen Chamberlain |
Personalities |
5-sep.-1869 - 1884 |
(-10.5) - 4.3 |
Construction period of Neuschwanstein Castle |
Monuments |
22-apr.-1870 - 21-jan.-1924 |
(-9.9) - 43.9 |
Life of Vladimir Lenin |
Personalities |
18-jan.-1871 - 9-mrt.-1888 |
(-9.2) - 8.0 |
German Emperor: Wilhelm I |
Germany |
30-nov.-1874 - 24-jan.-1965 |
(-5.3) - 84.9 |
Life of Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill |
Personalities |
5-jan.-1876 - 19-apr.-1967 |
(-4.2) - 87.2 |
Life of Konrad Adenauer |
Personalities |
4-mrt.-1877 - 4-mrt.-1881 |
(-3.0) - 1.0 |
President of the United States of America: Rutherford B. Hayes |
USA - Presidents |
1878 - 1881 |
(-1.7) - 1.3 |
Second Anglo-Afghan War |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
14-mrt.-1879 - 18-apr.-1955 |
(-1.0) - 75.1 |
Life of Albert Einstein |
Personalities |
20-dec.-1880 - 23-mrt.-1881 |
0.8 - 1.0 |
First Boer War ('First South African War') |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
4-mrt.-1881 - 19-sep.-1881 |
1.0 - 1.5 |
President of the United States of America: James A. Garfield |
USA - Presidents |
6-aug.-1881 - 11-mrt.-1955 |
1.4 - 75.0 |
Life of Alexander Fleming |
Personalities |
19-sep.-1881 - 4-mrt.-1885 |
1.5 - 5.0 |
President of the United States of America: Chester A. Arthur |
USA - Presidents |
1882 |
2.3 |
Establishment of Peugeot |
Companies |
1882 |
2.3 |
Britain occupies Egypt |
Discoveries & Colonization |
21-jan.-1884 - 12-dec.-1963 |
3.9 - 83.8 |
Life of Theodor Heuss |
Personalities |
1884 |
4.3 |
First controlled flight of a Zeppelin |
Aviation History |
15-nov.-1884 - 26-feb.-1885 |
4.7 - 5.0 |
Berlin Conference ('Congo Conference') |
Discoveries & Colonization |
4-mrt.-1885 - 4-mrt.-1889 |
5.0 - 9.0 |
President of the United States of America: Grover Cleveland |
USA - Presidents |
1886 |
6.3 |
Establishment of Johnson & Johnson |
Companies |
1886 |
6.3 |
Establishment of the Coca Cola Company |
Companies |
28-okt.-1886 |
6.6 |
Construction period of the Statue of Liberty |
Monuments |
1887 |
7.3 |
Huang He flood |
Disasters |
1887 - 1889 |
7.3 - 9.3 |
Construction period of the Eiffel Tower |
Monuments |
9-mrt.-1888 - 15-jun.-1888 |
8.0 - 8.3 |
German Emperor: Friedrich III |
Germany |
15-jun.-1888 - 9-nov.-1918 |
8.3 - 38.7 |
German Emperor: Wilhelm II |
Germany |
1888 |
8.3 |
First commercially manufactured automobile by Karl Benz |
Automobile History |
4-mrt.-1889 - 4-mrt.-1893 |
9.0 - 13.0 |
President of the United States of America: Benjamin Harrison |
USA - Presidents |
20-apr.-1889 - 30-apr.-1945 |
9.1 - 65.2 |
Life of Adolf Hitler |
Personalities |
1890 |
10.3 |
Establishment of Daimler |
Companies |
1890 |
10.3 |
Establishment of General Electric |
Companies |
14-okt.-1890 - 28-mrt.-1969 |
10.6 - 89.1 |
Life of Dwight David Eisenhower |
Personalities |
4-mrt.-1893 - 4-mrt.-1897 |
13.0 - 17.0 |
President of the United States of America: Grover Cleveland |
USA - Presidents |
1896 - 1897 |
16.3 - 17.3 |
Matabele Wars ('Ndebele Matabele War') |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
1896 |
16.3 |
Establishment of IBM (International Business Machines Corp., formerly 'Computing Tabulating Recording Corp. (CTR)') |
Companies |
4-mrt.-1897 - 14-sep.-1901 |
17.0 - 21.5 |
President of the United States of America: William McKinley |
USA - Presidents |
11-okt.-1899 - 31-mei-1902 |
19.6 - 22.2 |
Second Boer War ('Second South African War') |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
8-sep.-1900 |
20.5 |
Galveston hurricane; destruction of the city of Galveston, Texas |
Disasters |
14-sep.-1901 - 4-mrt.-1909 |
21.5 - 29.0 |
President of the United States of America: Theodore Roosevelt |
USA - Presidents |
19-okt.-1901 |
21.6 |
First motorized zeppelin flight |
Aviation History |
5-dec.-1901 - 15-dec.-1966 |
21.7 - 86.8 |
Life of Walter Elias Disney |
Personalities |
16-jun.-1903 |
23.3 |
Establishment of Ford Motor Company |
Companies |
16-dec.-1903 |
23.8 |
First controlled powered human flight by the Wright brothers |
Aviation History |
1904 - 1908 |
24.3 - 28.3 |
Herero and Namaqua Uprising ('Herero and Namaqua Genocide') |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
18-apr.-1906 |
26.1 |
San Francisco earthquake of 1906 |
Disasters |
1907 |
27.3 |
First helicopter flight |
Aviation History |
16-sep.-1908 |
28.5 |
Establishment of General Motors |
Companies |
27-sep.-1908 |
28.6 |
Introduction of the Ford Model T |
Automobile History |
4-mrt.-1909 - 4-mrt.-1913 |
29.0 - 33.0 |
President of the United States of America: William Howard Taft |
USA - Presidents |
1909 |
29.3 |
Discovery of antibiotics |
Medicine |
30-mei-1911 |
31.2 |
One in seven families in the US owns a car |
Automobile History |
30-mei-1911 |
31.2 |
First 'Indy 500' race in Indianapolis |
Automobile History |
23-okt.-1911 |
31.6 |
First military use of an airplane |
Aviation History |
4-mrt.-1913 - 4-mrt.-1921 |
33.0 - 41.0 |
President of the United States of America: Woodrow Wilson |
USA - Presidents |
14-jun.-1914 - 15-jun.-1914 |
34.3 |
First transatlantic flight |
Aviation History |
28-jun.-1914 - 11-nov.-1918 |
34.3 - 38.7 |
World War I |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
6-aug.-1914 - 25-nov.-1918 |
34.4 - 38.7 |
East African Campaign (World War I) |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
13-sep.-1914 - 9-jul.-1915 |
34.5 - 35.3 |
South-West Africa Campaign (World War I) |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
14-okt.-1914 - 24-okt.-1914 |
34.6 |
Maritz Rebellion |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
24-apr.-1916 - 30-apr.-1916 |
36.1 |
Easter Rising |
Great Britain |
1916 |
36.3 |
Establishment of BMW (Bayerische Motoren Werke AG) |
Companies |
8-mrt.-1917 - 12-mrt.-1917 |
37.0 |
Russian February Revolution |
Russia |
29-mei-1917 - 22-nov.-1963 |
37.2 - 83.7 |
Life of John F. Kennedy |
Personalities |
1917 - 1923 |
37.3 - 43.3 |
Russian Civil War |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
7-nov.-1917 |
37.7 |
Founding of the Russian Socialist Federal Soviet Republic |
Russia |
9-nov.-1918 |
38.7 |
German Revolution |
Germany |
11-feb.-1919 - 28-feb.-1925 |
38.9 - 45.0 |
President of Germany: Friedrich Ebert |
Germany |
13-feb.-1919 - 20-jun.-1919 |
38.9 - 39.3 |
Chancellor of Germany: Philipp Scheidemann |
Germany |
6-mei-1919 - 8-aug.-1919 |
39.2 - 39.4 |
Third Anglo-Afghan War |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
1919 |
39.3 |
First transatlantic zeppelin flight |
Aviation History |
11-aug.-1919 |
39.4 |
Adoption of the Weimar Constitution |
Germany |
10-sep.-1919 |
39.5 |
Treaty of Saint-Germain |
Italy |
4-mrt.-1921 - 2-aug.-1923 |
41.0 - 43.4 |
President of the United States of America: Warren G. Harding |
USA - Presidents |
6-dec.-1921 |
41.8 |
Anglo-Irish Treaty |
Great Britain |
28-okt.-1922 |
42.6 |
Benito Mussolini becomes Prime Minister of Italy |
Italy |
2-aug.-1923 - 4-mrt.-1929 |
43.4 - 49.0 |
President of the United States of America: Calvin Coolidge |
USA - Presidents |
13-aug.-1923 - 23-nov.-1923 |
43.4 - 43.7 |
Chancellor of Germany: Gustav Stresemann |
Germany |
13-sep.-1923 |
43.5 |
Establishment of the military dictatorship |
Spain |
12-mei-1925 - 2-aug.-1934 |
45.2 - 54.4 |
President of Germany: Paul von Hindenburg |
Germany |