| 12-feb.-1809 - 19-apr.-1882 |
(-64.9) - 8.3 |
Life of Charles Robert Darwin |
Personalities |
| 13-dec.-1816 - 6-dec.-1892 |
(-57.1) - 19.0 |
Life of Werner von Siemens |
Personalities |
| 30-dec.-1819 - 20-sep.-1890 |
(-54.0) - 16.7 |
Life of Theodor Fontane |
Personalities |
| 15-dec.-1832 - 27-dec.-1923 |
(-41.1) - 50.0 |
Life of Gustave Eiffel |
Personalities |
| 17-mrt.-1834 - 6-mrt.-1900 |
(-39.8) - 26.2 |
Life of Gottlieb Wilhelm Daimler |
Personalities |
| 8-jul.-1838 - 8-mrt.-1917 |
(-35.5) - 43.2 |
Life of Ferdinand von Zeppelin |
Personalities |
| 11-dec.-1843 - 27-mei-1910 |
(-30.1) - 36.4 |
Life of Robert Koch |
Personalities |
| 25-nov.-1844 - 4-apr.-1929 |
(-29.1) - 55.3 |
Life of Carl Benz |
Personalities |
| 11-feb.-1847 - 18-okt.-1931 |
(-26.9) - 57.8 |
Life of Thomas Alva Edison |
Personalities |
| 3-mrt.-1847 - 1-aug.-1922 |
(-26.8) - 48.6 |
Life of Alexander Graham Bell |
Personalities |
| 6-mei-1856 - 23-sep.-1939 |
(-17.7) - 65.8 |
Life of Sigmund Freud |
Personalities |
| 23-sep.-1861 - 12-mrt.-1942 |
(-12.3) - 68.2 |
Life of Robert Bosch |
Personalities |
| 30-jul.-1863 - 7-apr.-1947 |
(-10.4) - 73.3 |
Life of Henry Ford |
Personalities |
| 16-okt.-1863 - 17-mrt.-1937 |
(-10.2) - 63.3 |
Life of Joseph Austen Chamberlain |
Personalities |
| 1868 - 1878 |
(-5.5) - 4.5 |
Ten Years' War ('Great War') |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 4-mrt.-1869 - 4-mrt.-1877 |
(-4.8) - 3.2 |
President of the United States of America: Ulysses S. Grant |
USA - Presidents |
| 5-sep.-1869 - 1884 |
(-4.3) - 10.5 |
Construction period of Neuschwanstein Castle |
Monuments |
| 22-apr.-1870 - 21-jan.-1924 |
(-3.7) - 50.1 |
Life of Vladimir Lenin |
Personalities |
| 18-jan.-1871 - 9-mrt.-1888 |
(-2.9) - 14.2 |
German Emperor: Wilhelm I |
Germany |
| 30-nov.-1874 - 24-jan.-1965 |
0.9 - 91.1 |
Life of Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill |
Personalities |
| 5-jan.-1876 - 19-apr.-1967 |
2.0 - 93.4 |
Life of Konrad Adenauer |
Personalities |
| 4-mrt.-1877 - 4-mrt.-1881 |
3.2 - 7.2 |
President of the United States of America: Rutherford B. Hayes |
USA - Presidents |
| 1878 |
4.5 |
Establishment of Bell Telephone Company |
Companies |
| 1878 - 1881 |
4.5 - 7.5 |
Second Anglo-Afghan War |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 31-dec.-1878 |
5.0 |
First two-stroke internal combustion gas engine |
Automobile History |
| 14-mrt.-1879 - 18-apr.-1955 |
5.2 - 81.4 |
Life of Albert Einstein |
Personalities |
| 1879 |
5.5 |
Discovery of plague vaccine |
Medicine |
| 1879 |
5.5 |
Discovery of cholera vaccine |
Medicine |
| 1879 |
5.5 |
Anglo-Zulu War |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 20-dec.-1880 - 23-mrt.-1881 |
7.0 - 7.2 |
First Boer War ('First South African War') |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 4-mrt.-1881 - 19-sep.-1881 |
7.2 - 7.7 |
President of the United States of America: James A. Garfield |
USA - Presidents |
| 6-aug.-1881 - 11-mrt.-1955 |
7.6 - 81.3 |
Life of Alexander Fleming |
Personalities |
| 19-sep.-1881 - 4-mrt.-1885 |
7.7 - 11.2 |
President of the United States of America: Chester A. Arthur |
USA - Presidents |
| 1882 |
8.5 |
Establishment of Peugeot |
Companies |
| 1882 |
8.5 |
Britain occupies Egypt |
Discoveries & Colonization |
| 21-jan.-1884 - 12-dec.-1963 |
10.1 - 90.0 |
Life of Theodor Heuss |
Personalities |
| 1884 |
10.5 |
First controlled flight of a Zeppelin |
Aviation History |
| 15-nov.-1884 - 26-feb.-1885 |
10.9 - 11.2 |
Berlin Conference ('Congo Conference') |
Discoveries & Colonization |
| 4-mrt.-1885 - 4-mrt.-1889 |
11.2 - 15.2 |
President of the United States of America: Grover Cleveland |
USA - Presidents |
| 1886 |
12.5 |
Establishment of Johnson & Johnson |
Companies |
| 1886 |
12.5 |
Establishment of the Coca Cola Company |
Companies |
| 28-okt.-1886 |
12.8 |
Construction period of the Statue of Liberty |
Monuments |
| 1887 |
13.5 |
Huang He flood |
Disasters |
| 1887 - 1889 |
13.5 - 15.5 |
Construction period of the Eiffel Tower |
Monuments |
| 9-mrt.-1888 - 15-jun.-1888 |
14.2 - 14.5 |
German Emperor: Friedrich III |
Germany |
| 15-jun.-1888 - 9-nov.-1918 |
14.5 - 44.9 |
German Emperor: Wilhelm II |
Germany |
| 1888 |
14.5 |
First commercially manufactured automobile by Karl Benz |
Automobile History |
| 4-mrt.-1889 - 4-mrt.-1893 |
15.2 - 19.2 |
President of the United States of America: Benjamin Harrison |
USA - Presidents |
| 20-apr.-1889 - 30-apr.-1945 |
15.3 - 71.4 |
Life of Adolf Hitler |
Personalities |
| 1890 |
16.5 |
Establishment of Daimler |
Companies |
| 1890 |
16.5 |
Establishment of General Electric |
Companies |
| 14-okt.-1890 - 28-mrt.-1969 |
16.8 - 95.3 |
Life of Dwight David Eisenhower |
Personalities |
| 4-mrt.-1893 - 4-mrt.-1897 |
19.2 - 23.2 |
President of the United States of America: Grover Cleveland |
USA - Presidents |
| 1896 - 1897 |
22.5 - 23.5 |
Matabele Wars ('Ndebele Matabele War') |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 1896 |
22.5 |
Establishment of IBM (International Business Machines Corp., formerly 'Computing Tabulating Recording Corp. (CTR)') |
Companies |
| 4-mrt.-1897 - 14-sep.-1901 |
23.2 - 27.7 |
President of the United States of America: William McKinley |
USA - Presidents |
| 11-okt.-1899 - 31-mei-1902 |
25.8 - 28.4 |
Second Boer War ('Second South African War') |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 8-sep.-1900 |
26.7 |
Galveston hurricane; destruction of the city of Galveston, Texas |
Disasters |
| 14-sep.-1901 - 4-mrt.-1909 |
27.7 - 35.2 |
President of the United States of America: Theodore Roosevelt |
USA - Presidents |
| 19-okt.-1901 |
27.8 |
First motorized zeppelin flight |
Aviation History |
| 5-dec.-1901 - 15-dec.-1966 |
28.0 - 93.0 |
Life of Walter Elias Disney |
Personalities |
| 16-jun.-1903 |
29.5 |
Establishment of Ford Motor Company |
Companies |
| 16-dec.-1903 |
30.0 |
First controlled powered human flight by the Wright brothers |
Aviation History |
| 1904 - 1908 |
30.5 - 34.5 |
Herero and Namaqua Uprising ('Herero and Namaqua Genocide') |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 18-apr.-1906 |
32.3 |
San Francisco earthquake of 1906 |
Disasters |
| 1907 |
33.5 |
First helicopter flight |
Aviation History |
| 16-sep.-1908 |
34.7 |
Establishment of General Motors |
Companies |
| 27-sep.-1908 |
34.8 |
Introduction of the Ford Model T |
Automobile History |
| 4-mrt.-1909 - 4-mrt.-1913 |
35.2 - 39.2 |
President of the United States of America: William Howard Taft |
USA - Presidents |
| 1909 |
35.5 |
Discovery of antibiotics |
Medicine |
| 30-mei-1911 |
37.4 |
One in seven families in the US owns a car |
Automobile History |
| 30-mei-1911 |
37.4 |
First 'Indy 500' race in Indianapolis |
Automobile History |
| 23-okt.-1911 |
37.8 |
First military use of an airplane |
Aviation History |
| 4-mrt.-1913 - 4-mrt.-1921 |
39.2 - 47.2 |
President of the United States of America: Woodrow Wilson |
USA - Presidents |
| 14-jun.-1914 - 15-jun.-1914 |
40.5 |
First transatlantic flight |
Aviation History |
| 28-jun.-1914 - 11-nov.-1918 |
40.5 - 44.9 |
World War I |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 6-aug.-1914 - 25-nov.-1918 |
40.6 - 44.9 |
East African Campaign (World War I) |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 13-sep.-1914 - 9-jul.-1915 |
40.7 - 41.6 |
South-West Africa Campaign (World War I) |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 14-okt.-1914 - 24-okt.-1914 |
40.8 |
Maritz Rebellion |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 24-apr.-1916 - 30-apr.-1916 |
42.4 |
Easter Rising |
Great Britain |
| 1916 |
42.5 |
Establishment of BMW (Bayerische Motoren Werke AG) |
Companies |
| 8-mrt.-1917 - 12-mrt.-1917 |
43.2 |
Russian February Revolution |
Russia |
| 29-mei-1917 - 22-nov.-1963 |
43.4 - 90.0 |
Life of John F. Kennedy |
Personalities |
| 1917 - 1923 |
43.5 - 49.5 |
Russian Civil War |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 7-nov.-1917 |
43.9 |
Founding of the Russian Socialist Federal Soviet Republic |
Russia |
| 9-nov.-1918 |
44.9 |
German Revolution |
Germany |
| 11-feb.-1919 - 28-feb.-1925 |
45.2 - 51.2 |
President of Germany: Friedrich Ebert |
Germany |
| 13-feb.-1919 - 20-jun.-1919 |
45.2 - 45.5 |
Chancellor of Germany: Philipp Scheidemann |
Germany |
| 6-mei-1919 - 8-aug.-1919 |
45.4 - 45.6 |
Third Anglo-Afghan War |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 1919 |
45.5 |
First transatlantic zeppelin flight |
Aviation History |
| 11-aug.-1919 |
45.6 |
Adoption of the Weimar Constitution |
Germany |
| 10-sep.-1919 |
45.7 |
Treaty of Saint-Germain |
Italy |
| 4-mrt.-1921 - 2-aug.-1923 |
47.2 - 49.6 |
President of the United States of America: Warren G. Harding |
USA - Presidents |
| 6-dec.-1921 |
48.0 |
Anglo-Irish Treaty |
Great Britain |
| 28-okt.-1922 |
48.9 |
Benito Mussolini becomes Prime Minister of Italy |
Italy |
| 2-aug.-1923 - 4-mrt.-1929 |
49.6 - 55.2 |
President of the United States of America: Calvin Coolidge |
USA - Presidents |
| 13-aug.-1923 - 23-nov.-1923 |
49.7 - 49.9 |
Chancellor of Germany: Gustav Stresemann |
Germany |
| 13-sep.-1923 |
49.7 |
Establishment of the military dictatorship |
Spain |
| 12-mei-1925 - 2-aug.-1934 |
51.4 - 60.6 |
President of Germany: Paul von Hindenburg |
Germany |
| 14-jun.-1928 - 9-okt.-1967 |
54.5 - 93.8 |
Life of Che Guevara |
Personalities |
| 1928 |
54.5 |
Discovery of penicillin |
Medicine |
| 15-jan.-1929 - 4-apr.-1968 |
55.1 - 94.3 |
Life of Martin Luther King |
Personalities |
| 4-mrt.-1929 - 4-mrt.-1933 |
55.2 - 59.2 |
President of the United States of America: Herbert Hoover |
USA - Presidents |
| 25-okt.-1929 |
55.9 |
'Black Friday' |
USA |
| 22-jan.-1930 - 1-mei-1931 |
56.1 - 57.4 |
Construction period of the Empire State Building |
Monuments |
| 30-mrt.-1930 - 30-mei-1932 |
56.3 - 58.5 |
Chancellor of Germany: Heinrich Brüning |
Germany |
| 5-aug.-1930 - 25-aug.-2012 |
56.6 - 138.8 |
Life of Neil Armstrong |
Personalities |
| 14-apr.-1931 |
57.3 |
Proclamation of the Second Spanish Republic |
Spain |
| 1931 |
57.5 |
Establishment of Porsche |
Companies |
| 11-dec.-1931 |
58.0 |
Statute of Westminster |
Great Britain |
| 1-jun.-1932 - 17-nov.-1932 |
58.5 - 58.9 |
Chancellor of Germany: Franz von Papen |
Germany |
| 3-dec.-1932 - 28-jan.-1933 |
59.0 - 59.1 |
Chancellor of Germany: Kurt von Schleicher |
Germany |
| 30-jan.-1933 - 30-apr.-1945 |
59.1 - 71.4 |
Chancellor of Germany: Adolf Hitler |
Germany |
| 28-feb.-1933 - 23-mrt.-1933 |
59.2 - 59.3 |
'Reichstag Fire Decree' and 'Enabling Act': De facto end of the Weimar Republic & beginning of Nazi dictatorship |
Germany |
| 4-mrt.-1933 - 12-apr.-1945 |
59.2 - 71.3 |
President of the United States of America: Franklin D. Roosevelt |
USA - Presidents |
| 1935 |
61.5 |
Italy occupies Ethiopia, the last remaining free territory in Africa. |
Discoveries & Colonization |
| 11-dec.-1936 - 6-feb.-1952 |
63.0 - 78.2 |
Queen consort of the United Kingdom: Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon 'Queen Mum' |
Great Britain |
| 6-mei-1937 |
63.4 |
Hindenburg disaster |
Aviation History |
| 1937 |
63.5 |
Construction period of the Golden Gate Bridge |
Monuments |
| 27-aug.-1939 |
65.7 |
First flight of turbine-equipped jet plane |
Aviation History |
| 1-sep.-1939 - 2-sep.-1945 |
65.7 - 71.7 |
World War II |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 14-mei-1940 |
66.4 |
Establishment of McDonald's |
Companies |
| 7-dec.-1941 |
68.0 |
Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor |
USA |
| 12-apr.-1945 - 20-jan.-1953 |
71.3 - 79.1 |
President of the United States of America: Harry S. Truman |
USA - Presidents |
| 25-apr.-1945 |
71.4 |
Establishment of the United Nations |
World |
| 8-mei-1945 |
71.4 |
Unconditional surrender of the German Empire |
Germany |
| 6-aug.-1945 - 9-aug.-1945 |
71.7 |
Nuclear bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki |
USA |
| 14-okt.-1946 |
72.8 |
Start of the 4th French Republic |
France |
| 14-okt.-1947 |
73.8 |
First supersonic flight of the Bell X-1 |
Aviation History |
| 21-dec.-1948 |
75.0 |
Republic of Ireland Act |
Great Britain |
| 23-mei-1949 |
75.5 |
Establishment of the Federal Republic of Germany |
Germany |
| 1949 |
75.6 |
Establishment of Circuit City |
Companies |
| 15-sep.-1949 - 16-okt.-1963 |
75.8 - 89.9 |
Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany: Konrad Adenauer |
Germany - Chancellors |
| 7-okt.-1949 |
75.8 |
Establishment of the German Democratic Republic |
Germany |
| 11-okt.-1949 - 7-sep.-1960 |
75.8 - 86.8 |
Wilhelm Pieck - State President of the GDR |
GDR |
| 17-jun.-1950 |
76.5 |
First successful organ transplant |
Medicine |
| 1950 - 1953 |
76.6 - 79.6 |
Korean War |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 22-jan.-1952 |
78.1 |
First jet airliner in regular commercial use |
Aviation History |
| 6-feb.-1952 - Heden |
78.2 |
Queen of the United Kingdom: Elizabeth II |
Great Britain |
| 20-jan.-1953 - 20-jan.-1961 |
79.1 - 87.1 |
President of the United States of America: Dwight D. Eisenhower |
USA - Presidents |
| 17-jun.-1953 |
79.5 |
Uprising of June 17, 1953 in East Germany |
Germany |
| 24-feb.-1955 - 5-okt.-2011 |
81.2 - 137.9 |
Life of Steven 'Steve' Paul Jobs |
Personalities |
| 4-okt.-1957 |
83.8 |
Sputnik launched: first artificial satellite in Earth's orbit |
Technology |
| 5-okt.-1958 |
84.8 |
Start of the 5th French Republic |
France |
| 1959 - 30-apr.-1975 |
85.6 - 101.4 |
Vietnam War |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 1960 - 1973 |
86.6 - 99.6 |
Walter Ulbricht - Chairman of the State Council of the GDR |
GDR |
| 20-jan.-1961 - 22-nov.-1963 |
87.1 - 90.0 |
President of the United States of America: John F. Kennedy |
USA - Presidents |
| 12-apr.-1961 |
87.3 |
First human in space |
Technology |
| 25-mei-1961 - 24-jul.-1975 |
87.5 - 101.6 |
Apollo Space Program |
Technology |
| 13-aug.-1961 |
87.7 |
Construction of the Berlin Wall |
Germany |
| 11-okt.-1962 - 8-dec.-1965 |
88.8 - 92.0 |
Second Vatican Council |
World |
| 16-okt.-1962 - 28-okt.-1962 |
88.9 |
Cuban Missile Crisis ('October Crisis') |
USA |
| 16-okt.-1963 - 1-dec.-1966 |
89.9 - 93.0 |
Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany: Ludwig Erhard |
Germany - Chancellors |
| 22-nov.-1963 - 20-jan.-1969 |
90.0 - 95.1 |
President of the United States of America: Lyndon B. Johnson |
USA - Presidents |
| 1966 - 1973 |
92.6 - 99.6 |
Construction period of the World Trade Center |
Monuments |
| 1-dec.-1966 - 21-okt.-1969 |
93.0 - 95.9 |
Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany: Kurt Georg Kiesinger |
Germany - Chancellors |
| 1967 |
93.6 |
Founding of the European Community (EC) |
European Union |
| 20-jan.-1969 - 9-aug.-1974 |
95.1 - 100.7 |
President of the United States of America: Richard Nixon |
USA - Presidents |
| 20-jul.-1969 |
95.6 |
First man on the moon |
Technology |
| 21-okt.-1969 - 7-mei-1974 |
95.9 - 100.4 |
Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany: Willy Brandt |
Germany - Chancellors |
| 31-okt.-1969 |
95.9 |
Establishment of Wal Mart |
Companies |
| 21-jul.-1972 |
98.6 |
Bloody Friday |
Great Britain |
| 1973 - 1976 |
99.6 - 102.6 |
Willi Stoph - Chairman of the Council of State of the GDR |
GDR |
Charles Louis Monchy
Philomène Cecile Hueghebaert
Birth