| 13-dec.-1816 - 6-dec.-1892 |
(-75.4) - 0.6 |
Life of Werner von Siemens |
Personalities |
| 15-dec.-1832 - 27-dec.-1923 |
(-59.4) - 31.7 |
Life of Gustave Eiffel |
Personalities |
| 17-mrt.-1834 - 6-mrt.-1900 |
(-58.2) - 7.8 |
Life of Gottlieb Wilhelm Daimler |
Personalities |
| 8-jul.-1838 - 8-mrt.-1917 |
(-53.9) - 24.9 |
Life of Ferdinand von Zeppelin |
Personalities |
| 11-dec.-1843 - 27-mei-1910 |
(-48.4) - 18.1 |
Life of Robert Koch |
Personalities |
| 25-nov.-1844 - 4-apr.-1929 |
(-47.5) - 36.9 |
Life of Carl Benz |
Personalities |
| 11-feb.-1847 - 18-okt.-1931 |
(-45.3) - 39.5 |
Life of Thomas Alva Edison |
Personalities |
| 3-mrt.-1847 - 1-aug.-1922 |
(-45.2) - 30.3 |
Life of Alexander Graham Bell |
Personalities |
| 6-mei-1856 - 23-sep.-1939 |
(-36.0) - 47.4 |
Life of Sigmund Freud |
Personalities |
| 23-sep.-1861 - 12-mrt.-1942 |
(-30.6) - 49.9 |
Life of Robert Bosch |
Personalities |
| 30-jul.-1863 - 7-apr.-1947 |
(-28.8) - 55.0 |
Life of Henry Ford |
Personalities |
| 16-okt.-1863 - 17-mrt.-1937 |
(-28.6) - 44.9 |
Life of Joseph Austen Chamberlain |
Personalities |
| 22-apr.-1870 - 21-jan.-1924 |
(-22.0) - 31.7 |
Life of Vladimir Lenin |
Personalities |
| 30-nov.-1874 - 24-jan.-1965 |
(-17.4) - 72.8 |
Life of Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill |
Personalities |
| 5-jan.-1876 - 19-apr.-1967 |
(-16.3) - 75.0 |
Life of Konrad Adenauer |
Personalities |
| 14-mrt.-1879 - 18-apr.-1955 |
(-13.2) - 63.0 |
Life of Albert Einstein |
Personalities |
| 6-aug.-1881 - 11-mrt.-1955 |
(-10.8) - 62.9 |
Life of Alexander Fleming |
Personalities |
| 21-jan.-1884 - 12-dec.-1963 |
(-8.3) - 71.7 |
Life of Theodor Heuss |
Personalities |
| 15-jun.-1888 - 9-nov.-1918 |
(-3.9) - 26.5 |
German Emperor: Wilhelm II |
Germany |
| 4-mrt.-1889 - 4-mrt.-1893 |
(-3.2) - 0.8 |
President of the United States of America: Benjamin Harrison |
USA - Presidents |
| 20-apr.-1889 - 30-apr.-1945 |
(-3.0) - 53.0 |
Life of Adolf Hitler |
Personalities |
| 14-okt.-1890 - 28-mrt.-1969 |
(-1.6) - 76.9 |
Life of Dwight David Eisenhower |
Personalities |
| 4-mrt.-1893 - 4-mrt.-1897 |
0.8 - 4.8 |
President of the United States of America: Grover Cleveland |
USA - Presidents |
| 1896 - 1897 |
4.2 - 5.2 |
Matabele Wars ('Ndebele Matabele War') |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 1896 |
4.2 |
Establishment of IBM (International Business Machines Corp., formerly 'Computing Tabulating Recording Corp. (CTR)') |
Companies |
| 4-mrt.-1897 - 14-sep.-1901 |
4.8 - 9.4 |
President of the United States of America: William McKinley |
USA - Presidents |
| 11-okt.-1899 - 31-mei-1902 |
7.4 - 10.1 |
Second Boer War ('Second South African War') |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 8-sep.-1900 |
8.4 |
Galveston hurricane; destruction of the city of Galveston, Texas |
Disasters |
| 14-sep.-1901 - 4-mrt.-1909 |
9.4 - 16.8 |
President of the United States of America: Theodore Roosevelt |
USA - Presidents |
| 19-okt.-1901 |
9.5 |
First motorized zeppelin flight |
Aviation History |
| 5-dec.-1901 - 15-dec.-1966 |
9.6 - 74.7 |
Life of Walter Elias Disney |
Personalities |
| 16-jun.-1903 |
11.1 |
Establishment of Ford Motor Company |
Companies |
| 16-dec.-1903 |
11.6 |
First controlled powered human flight by the Wright brothers |
Aviation History |
| 1904 - 1908 |
12.2 - 16.2 |
Herero and Namaqua Uprising ('Herero and Namaqua Genocide') |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 18-apr.-1906 |
14.0 |
San Francisco earthquake of 1906 |
Disasters |
| 1907 |
15.2 |
First helicopter flight |
Aviation History |
| 16-sep.-1908 |
16.4 |
Establishment of General Motors |
Companies |
| 27-sep.-1908 |
16.4 |
Introduction of the Ford Model T |
Automobile History |
| 4-mrt.-1909 - 4-mrt.-1913 |
16.8 - 20.8 |
President of the United States of America: William Howard Taft |
USA - Presidents |
| 1909 |
17.2 |
Discovery of antibiotics |
Medicine |
| 30-mei-1911 |
19.1 |
One in seven families in the US owns a car |
Automobile History |
| 30-mei-1911 |
19.1 |
First 'Indy 500' race in Indianapolis |
Automobile History |
| 23-okt.-1911 |
19.5 |
First military use of an airplane |
Aviation History |
| 4-mrt.-1913 - 4-mrt.-1921 |
20.8 - 28.8 |
President of the United States of America: Woodrow Wilson |
USA - Presidents |
| 14-jun.-1914 - 15-jun.-1914 |
22.1 |
First transatlantic flight |
Aviation History |
| 28-jun.-1914 - 11-nov.-1918 |
22.2 - 26.5 |
World War I |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 6-aug.-1914 - 25-nov.-1918 |
22.3 - 26.6 |
East African Campaign (World War I) |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 13-sep.-1914 - 9-jul.-1915 |
22.4 - 23.2 |
South-West Africa Campaign (World War I) |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 14-okt.-1914 - 24-okt.-1914 |
22.5 |
Maritz Rebellion |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 24-apr.-1916 - 30-apr.-1916 |
24.0 |
Easter Rising |
Great Britain |
| 1916 |
24.2 |
Establishment of BMW (Bayerische Motoren Werke AG) |
Companies |
| 8-mrt.-1917 - 12-mrt.-1917 |
24.9 |
Russian February Revolution |
Russia |
| 29-mei-1917 - 22-nov.-1963 |
25.1 - 71.6 |
Life of John F. Kennedy |
Personalities |
| 1917 - 1923 |
25.2 - 31.2 |
Russian Civil War |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 7-nov.-1917 |
25.5 |
Founding of the Russian Socialist Federal Soviet Republic |
Russia |
| 9-nov.-1918 |
26.5 |
German Revolution |
Germany |
| 11-feb.-1919 - 28-feb.-1925 |
26.8 - 32.8 |
President of Germany: Friedrich Ebert |
Germany |
| 13-feb.-1919 - 20-jun.-1919 |
26.8 - 27.1 |
Chancellor of Germany: Philipp Scheidemann |
Germany |
| 6-mei-1919 - 8-aug.-1919 |
27.0 - 27.3 |
Third Anglo-Afghan War |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 1919 |
27.2 |
First transatlantic zeppelin flight |
Aviation History |
| 11-aug.-1919 |
27.3 |
Adoption of the Weimar Constitution |
Germany |
| 10-sep.-1919 |
27.4 |
Treaty of Saint-Germain |
Italy |
| 4-mrt.-1921 - 2-aug.-1923 |
28.8 - 31.3 |
President of the United States of America: Warren G. Harding |
USA - Presidents |
| 6-dec.-1921 |
29.6 |
Anglo-Irish Treaty |
Great Britain |
| 28-okt.-1922 |
30.5 |
Benito Mussolini becomes Prime Minister of Italy |
Italy |
| 2-aug.-1923 - 4-mrt.-1929 |
31.3 - 36.9 |
President of the United States of America: Calvin Coolidge |
USA - Presidents |
| 13-aug.-1923 - 23-nov.-1923 |
31.3 - 31.6 |
Chancellor of Germany: Gustav Stresemann |
Germany |
| 13-sep.-1923 |
31.4 |
Establishment of the military dictatorship |
Spain |
| 12-mei-1925 - 2-aug.-1934 |
33.0 - 42.3 |
President of Germany: Paul von Hindenburg |
Germany |
| 14-jun.-1928 - 9-okt.-1967 |
36.1 - 75.5 |
Life of Che Guevara |
Personalities |
| 1928 |
36.2 |
Discovery of penicillin |
Medicine |
| 15-jan.-1929 - 4-apr.-1968 |
36.7 - 76.0 |
Life of Martin Luther King |
Personalities |
| 4-mrt.-1929 - 4-mrt.-1933 |
36.9 - 40.9 |
President of the United States of America: Herbert Hoover |
USA - Presidents |
| 25-okt.-1929 |
37.5 |
'Black Friday' |
USA |
| 22-jan.-1930 - 1-mei-1931 |
37.7 - 39.0 |
Construction period of the Empire State Building |
Monuments |
| 30-mrt.-1930 - 30-mei-1932 |
37.9 - 40.1 |
Chancellor of Germany: Heinrich Brüning |
Germany |
| 5-aug.-1930 - 25-aug.-2012 |
38.3 - 120.4 |
Life of Neil Armstrong |
Personalities |
| 14-apr.-1931 |
39.0 |
Proclamation of the Second Spanish Republic |
Spain |
| 1931 |
39.2 |
Establishment of Porsche |
Companies |
| 11-dec.-1931 |
39.6 |
Statute of Westminster |
Great Britain |
| 1-jun.-1932 - 17-nov.-1932 |
40.1 - 40.6 |
Chancellor of Germany: Franz von Papen |
Germany |
| 3-dec.-1932 - 28-jan.-1933 |
40.6 - 40.8 |
Chancellor of Germany: Kurt von Schleicher |
Germany |
| 30-jan.-1933 - 30-apr.-1945 |
40.8 - 53.0 |
Chancellor of Germany: Adolf Hitler |
Germany |
| 28-feb.-1933 - 23-mrt.-1933 |
40.8 - 40.9 |
'Reichstag Fire Decree' and 'Enabling Act': De facto end of the Weimar Republic & beginning of Nazi dictatorship |
Germany |
| 4-mrt.-1933 - 12-apr.-1945 |
40.9 - 53.0 |
President of the United States of America: Franklin D. Roosevelt |
USA - Presidents |
| 1935 |
43.2 |
Italy occupies Ethiopia, the last remaining free territory in Africa. |
Discoveries & Colonization |
| 11-dec.-1936 - 6-feb.-1952 |
44.6 - 59.8 |
Queen consort of the United Kingdom: Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon 'Queen Mum' |
Great Britain |
| 6-mei-1937 |
45.0 |
Hindenburg disaster |
Aviation History |
| 1937 |
45.2 |
Construction period of the Golden Gate Bridge |
Monuments |
| 27-aug.-1939 |
47.3 |
First flight of turbine-equipped jet plane |
Aviation History |
| 1-sep.-1939 - 2-sep.-1945 |
47.4 - 53.4 |
World War II |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 14-mei-1940 |
48.1 |
Establishment of McDonald's |
Companies |
| 7-dec.-1941 |
49.6 |
Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor |
USA |
| 12-apr.-1945 - 20-jan.-1953 |
53.0 - 60.8 |
President of the United States of America: Harry S. Truman |
USA - Presidents |
| 25-apr.-1945 |
53.0 |
Establishment of the United Nations |
World |
| 8-mei-1945 |
53.0 |
Unconditional surrender of the German Empire |
Germany |
| 6-aug.-1945 - 9-aug.-1945 |
53.3 |
Nuclear bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki |
USA |
| 14-okt.-1946 |
54.5 |
Start of the 4th French Republic |
France |
| 14-okt.-1947 |
55.5 |
First supersonic flight of the Bell X-1 |
Aviation History |
| 21-dec.-1948 |
56.7 |
Republic of Ireland Act |
Great Britain |
| 23-mei-1949 |
57.1 |
Establishment of the Federal Republic of Germany |
Germany |
| 1949 |
57.2 |
Establishment of Circuit City |
Companies |
| 15-sep.-1949 - 16-okt.-1963 |
57.4 - 71.5 |
Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany: Konrad Adenauer |
Germany - Chancellors |
| 7-okt.-1949 |
57.5 |
Establishment of the German Democratic Republic |
Germany |
| 11-okt.-1949 - 7-sep.-1960 |
57.5 - 68.4 |
Wilhelm Pieck - State President of the GDR |
GDR |
| 17-jun.-1950 |
58.2 |
First successful organ transplant |
Medicine |
| 1950 - 1953 |
58.2 - 61.2 |
Korean War |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 22-jan.-1952 |
59.8 |
First jet airliner in regular commercial use |
Aviation History |
| 6-feb.-1952 - Heden |
59.8 |
Queen of the United Kingdom: Elizabeth II |
Great Britain |
| 20-jan.-1953 - 20-jan.-1961 |
60.8 - 68.8 |
President of the United States of America: Dwight D. Eisenhower |
USA - Presidents |
| 17-jun.-1953 |
61.2 |
Uprising of June 17, 1953 in East Germany |
Germany |
| 24-feb.-1955 - 5-okt.-2011 |
62.8 - 119.5 |
Life of Steven 'Steve' Paul Jobs |
Personalities |
| 4-okt.-1957 |
65.5 |
Sputnik launched: first artificial satellite in Earth's orbit |
Technology |
| 5-okt.-1958 |
66.5 |
Start of the 5th French Republic |
France |
| 1959 - 30-apr.-1975 |
67.2 - 83.0 |
Vietnam War |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 1960 - 1973 |
68.2 - 81.2 |
Walter Ulbricht - Chairman of the State Council of the GDR |
GDR |
| 20-jan.-1961 - 22-nov.-1963 |
68.8 - 71.6 |
President of the United States of America: John F. Kennedy |
USA - Presidents |
| 12-apr.-1961 |
69.0 |
First human in space |
Technology |
| 25-mei-1961 - 24-jul.-1975 |
69.1 - 83.3 |
Apollo Space Program |
Technology |
| 13-aug.-1961 |
69.3 |
Construction of the Berlin Wall |
Germany |
| 11-okt.-1962 - 8-dec.-1965 |
70.5 - 73.6 |
Second Vatican Council |
World |
| 16-okt.-1962 - 28-okt.-1962 |
70.5 |
Cuban Missile Crisis ('October Crisis') |
USA |
| 16-okt.-1963 - 1-dec.-1966 |
71.5 - 74.6 |
Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany: Ludwig Erhard |
Germany - Chancellors |
| 22-nov.-1963 - 20-jan.-1969 |
71.6 - 76.8 |
President of the United States of America: Lyndon B. Johnson |
USA - Presidents |
| 1966 - 1973 |
74.2 - 81.2 |
Construction period of the World Trade Center |
Monuments |
| 1-dec.-1966 - 21-okt.-1969 |
74.6 - 77.5 |
Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany: Kurt Georg Kiesinger |
Germany - Chancellors |
| 1967 |
75.2 |
Founding of the European Community (EC) |
European Union |
| 20-jan.-1969 - 9-aug.-1974 |
76.8 - 82.3 |
President of the United States of America: Richard Nixon |
USA - Presidents |
| 20-jul.-1969 |
77.3 |
First man on the moon |
Technology |
| 21-okt.-1969 - 7-mei-1974 |
77.5 - 82.1 |
Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany: Willy Brandt |
Germany - Chancellors |
| 31-okt.-1969 |
77.5 |
Establishment of Wal Mart |
Companies |
| 21-jul.-1972 |
80.3 |
Bloody Friday |
Great Britain |
| 1973 - 1976 |
81.2 - 84.2 |
Willi Stoph - Chairman of the Council of State of the GDR |
GDR |
| 16-mei-1974 - 1-okt.-1982 |
82.1 - 90.5 |
Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany: Helmut Schmidt |
Germany - Chancellors |
| 9-aug.-1974 - 20-jan.-1977 |
82.3 - 84.8 |
President of the United States of America: Gerald Ford |
USA - Presidents |
| 20-nov.-1975 |
83.6 |
Franco's Death, end of the Francoist regime |
Spain |
| 1-apr.-1976 |
84.0 |
Apple Computer is established |
Apple Inc. - Corporate History |
| 1976 - 1989 |
84.2 - 97.2 |
Erich Honecker - Chairman of the Council of State of the GDR |
GDR |
| 20-jan.-1977 - 20-jan.-1981 |
84.8 - 88.8 |
President of the United States of America: Jimmy Carter |
USA - Presidents |
| 16-apr.-1977 |
85.0 |
Introduction of the Apple II |
Apple Inc. - Corporate History |
| 27-dec.-1979 - 15-feb.-1989 |
87.7 - 96.8 |
Soviet-Afghan War (1979-1989) |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 22-sep.-1980 - 20-aug.-1988 |
88.4 - 96.4 |
First Gulf War ('Iran-Iraq War') |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 20-jan.-1981 - 20-jan.-1989 |
88.8 - 96.8 |
President of the United States of America: Ronald Reagan |
USA - Presidents |
| 2-apr.-1982 - 14-jun.-1982 |
90.0 - 90.2 |
Falklands War |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 1-okt.-1982 - 27-okt.-1998 |
90.5 - 106.6 |
Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany: Helmut Kohl |
Germany - Chancellors |
| 19-jan.-1983 |
90.8 |
Introduction of the Apple Lisa |
Apple Inc. - Corporate History |
| 1983 |
91.2 |
Discovery of HIV |
Medicine |
| 24-jan.-1984 |
91.8 |
Introduction of the Macintosh |
Apple Inc. - Corporate History |
| 20-jan.-1989 - 20-jan.-1993 |
96.8 - 100.8 |
President of the United States of America: George H. W. Bush |
USA - Presidents |
| 18-okt.-1989 - 3-dec.-1989 |
97.5 - 97.6 |
Egon Krenz - Chairman of the Council of State of the GDR |
GDR |
| 2-aug.-1990 - 28-feb.-1991 |
98.3 - 98.9 |
Second Gulf War ('Operation Desert Shield', 'Operation Desert Storm') |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 3-okt.-1990 |
98.5 |
German reunification |
Germany |
| 8-dec.-1991 |
99.7 |
Signing of the Belavezha Accords, declaring the Soviet Union dissolved |
Russia |
Henri Théophile Arnout
Eudonie Lucie Boudry
Birth