| 15-dec.-1832 - 27-dec.-1923 |
(-68.8) - 22.3 |
Life of Gustave Eiffel |
Personalities |
| 8-jul.-1838 - 8-mrt.-1917 |
(-63.2) - 15.5 |
Life of Ferdinand von Zeppelin |
Personalities |
| 11-dec.-1843 - 27-mei-1910 |
(-57.8) - 8.7 |
Life of Robert Koch |
Personalities |
| 25-nov.-1844 - 4-apr.-1929 |
(-56.8) - 27.6 |
Life of Carl Benz |
Personalities |
| 11-feb.-1847 - 18-okt.-1931 |
(-54.6) - 30.1 |
Life of Thomas Alva Edison |
Personalities |
| 3-mrt.-1847 - 1-aug.-1922 |
(-54.6) - 20.9 |
Life of Alexander Graham Bell |
Personalities |
| 6-mei-1856 - 23-sep.-1939 |
(-45.4) - 38.1 |
Life of Sigmund Freud |
Personalities |
| 23-sep.-1861 - 12-mrt.-1942 |
(-40.0) - 40.5 |
Life of Robert Bosch |
Personalities |
| 30-jul.-1863 - 7-apr.-1947 |
(-38.1) - 45.6 |
Life of Henry Ford |
Personalities |
| 16-okt.-1863 - 17-mrt.-1937 |
(-37.9) - 35.5 |
Life of Joseph Austen Chamberlain |
Personalities |
| 22-apr.-1870 - 21-jan.-1924 |
(-31.4) - 22.4 |
Life of Vladimir Lenin |
Personalities |
| 30-nov.-1874 - 24-jan.-1965 |
(-26.8) - 63.4 |
Life of Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill |
Personalities |
| 5-jan.-1876 - 19-apr.-1967 |
(-25.7) - 65.6 |
Life of Konrad Adenauer |
Personalities |
| 14-mrt.-1879 - 18-apr.-1955 |
(-22.5) - 53.6 |
Life of Albert Einstein |
Personalities |
| 6-aug.-1881 - 11-mrt.-1955 |
(-20.1) - 53.5 |
Life of Alexander Fleming |
Personalities |
| 21-jan.-1884 - 12-dec.-1963 |
(-17.6) - 62.3 |
Life of Theodor Heuss |
Personalities |
| 15-jun.-1888 - 9-nov.-1918 |
(-13.2) - 17.2 |
German Emperor: Wilhelm II |
Germany |
| 20-apr.-1889 - 30-apr.-1945 |
(-12.4) - 43.7 |
Life of Adolf Hitler |
Personalities |
| 14-okt.-1890 - 28-mrt.-1969 |
(-10.9) - 67.6 |
Life of Dwight David Eisenhower |
Personalities |
| 4-mrt.-1897 - 14-sep.-1901 |
(-4.5) - 0.0 |
President of the United States of America: William McKinley |
USA - Presidents |
| 11-okt.-1899 - 31-mei-1902 |
(-1.9) - 0.7 |
Second Boer War ('Second South African War') |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 14-sep.-1901 - 4-mrt.-1909 |
0.0 - 7.5 |
President of the United States of America: Theodore Roosevelt |
USA - Presidents |
| 19-okt.-1901 |
0.1 |
First motorized zeppelin flight |
Aviation History |
| 5-dec.-1901 - 15-dec.-1966 |
0.2 - 65.3 |
Life of Walter Elias Disney |
Personalities |
| 16-jun.-1903 |
1.8 |
Establishment of Ford Motor Company |
Companies |
| 16-dec.-1903 |
2.3 |
First controlled powered human flight by the Wright brothers |
Aviation History |
| 1904 - 1908 |
2.8 - 6.8 |
Herero and Namaqua Uprising ('Herero and Namaqua Genocide') |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 18-apr.-1906 |
4.6 |
San Francisco earthquake of 1906 |
Disasters |
| 1907 |
5.8 |
First helicopter flight |
Aviation History |
| 16-sep.-1908 |
7.0 |
Establishment of General Motors |
Companies |
| 27-sep.-1908 |
7.0 |
Introduction of the Ford Model T |
Automobile History |
| 4-mrt.-1909 - 4-mrt.-1913 |
7.5 - 11.5 |
President of the United States of America: William Howard Taft |
USA - Presidents |
| 1909 |
7.8 |
Discovery of antibiotics |
Medicine |
| 30-mei-1911 |
9.7 |
One in seven families in the US owns a car |
Automobile History |
| 30-mei-1911 |
9.7 |
First 'Indy 500' race in Indianapolis |
Automobile History |
| 23-okt.-1911 |
10.1 |
First military use of an airplane |
Aviation History |
| 4-mrt.-1913 - 4-mrt.-1921 |
11.5 - 19.5 |
President of the United States of America: Woodrow Wilson |
USA - Presidents |
| 14-jun.-1914 - 15-jun.-1914 |
12.8 |
First transatlantic flight |
Aviation History |
| 28-jun.-1914 - 11-nov.-1918 |
12.8 - 17.2 |
World War I |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 6-aug.-1914 - 25-nov.-1918 |
12.9 - 17.2 |
East African Campaign (World War I) |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 13-sep.-1914 - 9-jul.-1915 |
13.0 - 13.8 |
South-West Africa Campaign (World War I) |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 14-okt.-1914 - 24-okt.-1914 |
13.1 |
Maritz Rebellion |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 24-apr.-1916 - 30-apr.-1916 |
14.6 |
Easter Rising |
Great Britain |
| 1916 |
14.8 |
Establishment of BMW (Bayerische Motoren Werke AG) |
Companies |
| 8-mrt.-1917 - 12-mrt.-1917 |
15.5 |
Russian February Revolution |
Russia |
| 29-mei-1917 - 22-nov.-1963 |
15.7 - 62.2 |
Life of John F. Kennedy |
Personalities |
| 1917 - 1923 |
15.8 - 21.8 |
Russian Civil War |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 7-nov.-1917 |
16.2 |
Founding of the Russian Socialist Federal Soviet Republic |
Russia |
| 9-nov.-1918 |
17.2 |
German Revolution |
Germany |
| 11-feb.-1919 - 28-feb.-1925 |
17.4 - 23.5 |
President of Germany: Friedrich Ebert |
Germany |
| 13-feb.-1919 - 20-jun.-1919 |
17.4 - 17.8 |
Chancellor of Germany: Philipp Scheidemann |
Germany |
| 6-mei-1919 - 8-aug.-1919 |
17.7 - 17.9 |
Third Anglo-Afghan War |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 1919 |
17.8 |
First transatlantic zeppelin flight |
Aviation History |
| 11-aug.-1919 |
17.9 |
Adoption of the Weimar Constitution |
Germany |
| 10-sep.-1919 |
18.0 |
Treaty of Saint-Germain |
Italy |
| 4-mrt.-1921 - 2-aug.-1923 |
19.5 - 21.9 |
President of the United States of America: Warren G. Harding |
USA - Presidents |
| 6-dec.-1921 |
20.2 |
Anglo-Irish Treaty |
Great Britain |
| 28-okt.-1922 |
21.1 |
Benito Mussolini becomes Prime Minister of Italy |
Italy |
| 2-aug.-1923 - 4-mrt.-1929 |
21.9 - 27.5 |
President of the United States of America: Calvin Coolidge |
USA - Presidents |
| 13-aug.-1923 - 23-nov.-1923 |
21.9 - 22.2 |
Chancellor of Germany: Gustav Stresemann |
Germany |
| 13-sep.-1923 |
22.0 |
Establishment of the military dictatorship |
Spain |
| 12-mei-1925 - 2-aug.-1934 |
23.7 - 32.9 |
President of Germany: Paul von Hindenburg |
Germany |
| 14-jun.-1928 - 9-okt.-1967 |
26.8 - 66.1 |
Life of Che Guevara |
Personalities |
| 1928 |
26.8 |
Discovery of penicillin |
Medicine |
| 15-jan.-1929 - 4-apr.-1968 |
27.4 - 66.6 |
Life of Martin Luther King |
Personalities |
| 4-mrt.-1929 - 4-mrt.-1933 |
27.5 - 31.5 |
President of the United States of America: Herbert Hoover |
USA - Presidents |
| 25-okt.-1929 |
28.1 |
'Black Friday' |
USA |
| 22-jan.-1930 - 1-mei-1931 |
28.4 - 29.7 |
Construction period of the Empire State Building |
Monuments |
| 30-mrt.-1930 - 30-mei-1932 |
28.6 - 30.7 |
Chancellor of Germany: Heinrich Brüning |
Germany |
| 5-aug.-1930 - 25-aug.-2012 |
28.9 - 111.0 |
Life of Neil Armstrong |
Personalities |
| 14-apr.-1931 |
29.6 |
Proclamation of the Second Spanish Republic |
Spain |
| 1931 |
29.8 |
Establishment of Porsche |
Companies |
| 11-dec.-1931 |
30.3 |
Statute of Westminster |
Great Britain |
| 1-jun.-1932 - 17-nov.-1932 |
30.7 - 31.2 |
Chancellor of Germany: Franz von Papen |
Germany |
| 3-dec.-1932 - 28-jan.-1933 |
31.2 - 31.4 |
Chancellor of Germany: Kurt von Schleicher |
Germany |
| 30-jan.-1933 - 30-apr.-1945 |
31.4 - 43.7 |
Chancellor of Germany: Adolf Hitler |
Germany |
| 28-feb.-1933 - 23-mrt.-1933 |
31.5 - 31.6 |
'Reichstag Fire Decree' and 'Enabling Act': De facto end of the Weimar Republic & beginning of Nazi dictatorship |
Germany |
| 4-mrt.-1933 - 12-apr.-1945 |
31.5 - 43.6 |
President of the United States of America: Franklin D. Roosevelt |
USA - Presidents |
| 1935 |
33.8 |
Italy occupies Ethiopia, the last remaining free territory in Africa. |
Discoveries & Colonization |
| 11-dec.-1936 - 6-feb.-1952 |
35.3 - 50.4 |
Queen consort of the United Kingdom: Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon 'Queen Mum' |
Great Britain |
| 6-mei-1937 |
35.7 |
Hindenburg disaster |
Aviation History |
| 1937 |
35.8 |
Construction period of the Golden Gate Bridge |
Monuments |
| 27-aug.-1939 |
38.0 |
First flight of turbine-equipped jet plane |
Aviation History |
| 1-sep.-1939 - 2-sep.-1945 |
38.0 - 44.0 |
World War II |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 14-mei-1940 |
38.7 |
Establishment of McDonald's |
Companies |
| 7-dec.-1941 |
40.3 |
Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor |
USA |
| 12-apr.-1945 - 20-jan.-1953 |
43.6 - 51.4 |
President of the United States of America: Harry S. Truman |
USA - Presidents |
| 25-apr.-1945 |
43.6 |
Establishment of the United Nations |
World |
| 8-mei-1945 |
43.7 |
Unconditional surrender of the German Empire |
Germany |
| 6-aug.-1945 - 9-aug.-1945 |
43.9 |
Nuclear bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki |
USA |
Alfred, Emile Demoen
Birth