| 12-feb.-1809 - 19-apr.-1882 |
(-43.7) - 29.5 |
Life of Charles Robert Darwin |
Personalities |
| 12-feb.-1809 - 15-apr.-1865 |
(-43.7) - 12.5 |
Life of Abraham Lincoln |
Personalities |
| 7-feb.-1812 - 9-jun.-1870 |
(-40.7) - 17.7 |
Life of Charles John Huffam Dickens |
Personalities |
| 13-dec.-1816 - 6-dec.-1892 |
(-35.8) - 40.2 |
Life of Werner von Siemens |
Personalities |
| 30-dec.-1819 - 20-sep.-1890 |
(-32.8) - 38.0 |
Life of Theodor Fontane |
Personalities |
| 15-dec.-1832 - 27-dec.-1923 |
(-19.8) - 71.3 |
Life of Gustave Eiffel |
Personalities |
| 17-mrt.-1834 - 6-mrt.-1900 |
(-18.6) - 47.4 |
Life of Gottlieb Wilhelm Daimler |
Personalities |
| 8-jul.-1838 - 8-mrt.-1917 |
(-14.3) - 64.5 |
Life of Ferdinand von Zeppelin |
Personalities |
| 11-dec.-1843 - 27-mei-1910 |
(-8.8) - 57.7 |
Life of Robert Koch |
Personalities |
| 25-nov.-1844 - 4-apr.-1929 |
(-7.9) - 76.5 |
Life of Carl Benz |
Personalities |
| 11-feb.-1847 - 18-okt.-1931 |
(-5.7) - 79.1 |
Life of Thomas Alva Edison |
Personalities |
| 3-mrt.-1847 - 1-aug.-1922 |
(-5.6) - 69.9 |
Life of Alexander Graham Bell |
Personalities |
| 9-jul.-1850 - 4-mrt.-1853 |
(-2.3) - 0.4 |
President of the United States of America: Millard Fillmore |
USA - Presidents |
| 2-dec.-1852 - 4-sep.-1870 |
0.1 - 17.9 |
Emperor of France: Napoleon III |
France |
| 4-mrt.-1853 - 4-mrt.-1857 |
0.4 - 4.4 |
President of the United States of America: Franklin Pierce |
USA - Presidents |
| 1853 |
0.7 |
Establishment of Levi Strauss & Co |
Companies |
| 6-mei-1856 - 23-sep.-1939 |
3.6 - 87.0 |
Life of Sigmund Freud |
Personalities |
| 4-mrt.-1857 - 4-mrt.-1861 |
4.4 - 8.4 |
President of the United States of America: James Buchanan |
USA - Presidents |
| 1859 |
6.7 |
Construction period of Big Ben |
Monuments |
| 4-mrt.-1861 - 15-apr.-1865 |
8.4 - 12.5 |
President of the United States of America: Abraham Lincoln |
USA - Presidents |
| 17-mrt.-1861 |
8.4 |
Victor Emmanuel II proclaimed as King of Italy, the first king of a united Italy |
Italy |
| 23-sep.-1861 - 12-mrt.-1942 |
9.0 - 89.5 |
Life of Robert Bosch |
Personalities |
| 30-jul.-1863 - 7-apr.-1947 |
10.8 - 94.6 |
Life of Henry Ford |
Personalities |
| 16-okt.-1863 - 17-mrt.-1937 |
11.0 - 84.5 |
Life of Joseph Austen Chamberlain |
Personalities |
| 15-apr.-1865 - 4-mrt.-1869 |
12.5 - 16.4 |
President of the United States of America: Andrew Johnson |
USA - Presidents |
| 9-jun.-1866 - 26-jul.-1866 |
13.7 - 13.8 |
Austro-Prussian War ('German War') |
Germany |
| 10-mrt.-1867 |
14.4 |
First telephone voice transmission |
Technology |
| 1868 - 1878 |
15.7 - 25.7 |
Ten Years' War ('Great War') |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 4-mrt.-1869 - 4-mrt.-1877 |
16.4 - 24.4 |
President of the United States of America: Ulysses S. Grant |
USA - Presidents |
| 5-sep.-1869 - 1884 |
16.9 - 31.7 |
Construction period of Neuschwanstein Castle |
Monuments |
| 22-apr.-1870 - 21-jan.-1924 |
17.5 - 71.3 |
Life of Vladimir Lenin |
Personalities |
| 1870 |
17.7 |
Start of the 3rd French Republic |
France |
| 19-jul.-1870 - 10-mei-1871 |
17.8 - 18.6 |
Franco-Prussian War |
Germany |
| 18-jan.-1871 - 9-mrt.-1888 |
18.3 - 35.4 |
German Emperor: Wilhelm I |
Germany |
| 9-nov.-1871 |
19.1 |
Founding of the German Empire |
Germany |
| 30-nov.-1874 - 24-jan.-1965 |
22.2 - 112.4 |
Life of Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill |
Personalities |
| 5-jan.-1876 - 19-apr.-1967 |
23.3 - 114.6 |
Life of Konrad Adenauer |
Personalities |
| 4-mrt.-1877 - 4-mrt.-1881 |
24.4 - 28.4 |
President of the United States of America: Rutherford B. Hayes |
USA - Presidents |
| 1878 |
25.7 |
Establishment of Bell Telephone Company |
Companies |
| 1878 - 1881 |
25.7 - 28.7 |
Second Anglo-Afghan War |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 31-dec.-1878 |
26.2 |
First two-stroke internal combustion gas engine |
Automobile History |
| 14-mrt.-1879 - 18-apr.-1955 |
26.4 - 102.6 |
Life of Albert Einstein |
Personalities |
| 1879 |
26.7 |
Discovery of plague vaccine |
Medicine |
| 1879 |
26.7 |
Discovery of cholera vaccine |
Medicine |
| 1879 |
26.7 |
Anglo-Zulu War |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 20-dec.-1880 - 23-mrt.-1881 |
28.2 - 28.5 |
First Boer War ('First South African War') |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 4-mrt.-1881 - 19-sep.-1881 |
28.4 - 29.0 |
President of the United States of America: James A. Garfield |
USA - Presidents |
| 6-aug.-1881 - 11-mrt.-1955 |
28.8 - 102.5 |
Life of Alexander Fleming |
Personalities |
| 19-sep.-1881 - 4-mrt.-1885 |
29.0 - 32.4 |
President of the United States of America: Chester A. Arthur |
USA - Presidents |
| 1882 |
29.7 |
Establishment of Peugeot |
Companies |
| 1882 |
29.7 |
Britain occupies Egypt |
Discoveries & Colonization |
| 21-jan.-1884 - 12-dec.-1963 |
31.3 - 111.2 |
Life of Theodor Heuss |
Personalities |
| 1884 |
31.7 |
First controlled flight of a Zeppelin |
Aviation History |
| 15-nov.-1884 - 26-feb.-1885 |
32.1 - 32.4 |
Berlin Conference ('Congo Conference') |
Discoveries & Colonization |
| 4-mrt.-1885 - 4-mrt.-1889 |
32.4 - 36.4 |
President of the United States of America: Grover Cleveland |
USA - Presidents |
| 1886 |
33.7 |
Establishment of Johnson & Johnson |
Companies |
| 1886 |
33.7 |
Establishment of the Coca Cola Company |
Companies |
| 28-okt.-1886 |
34.1 |
Construction period of the Statue of Liberty |
Monuments |
| 1887 |
34.7 |
Huang He flood |
Disasters |
| 1887 - 1889 |
34.7 - 36.7 |
Construction period of the Eiffel Tower |
Monuments |
| 9-mrt.-1888 - 15-jun.-1888 |
35.4 - 35.7 |
German Emperor: Friedrich III |
Germany |
| 15-jun.-1888 - 9-nov.-1918 |
35.7 - 66.1 |
German Emperor: Wilhelm II |
Germany |
| 1888 |
35.7 |
First commercially manufactured automobile by Karl Benz |
Automobile History |
| 4-mrt.-1889 - 4-mrt.-1893 |
36.4 - 40.4 |
President of the United States of America: Benjamin Harrison |
USA - Presidents |
| 20-apr.-1889 - 30-apr.-1945 |
36.6 - 92.6 |
Life of Adolf Hitler |
Personalities |
| 1890 |
37.7 |
Establishment of Daimler |
Companies |
| 1890 |
37.7 |
Establishment of General Electric |
Companies |
| 14-okt.-1890 - 28-mrt.-1969 |
38.0 - 116.5 |
Life of Dwight David Eisenhower |
Personalities |
| 4-mrt.-1893 - 4-mrt.-1897 |
40.4 - 44.4 |
President of the United States of America: Grover Cleveland |
USA - Presidents |
| 1896 - 1897 |
43.8 - 44.8 |
Matabele Wars ('Ndebele Matabele War') |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 1896 |
43.8 |
Establishment of IBM (International Business Machines Corp., formerly 'Computing Tabulating Recording Corp. (CTR)') |
Companies |
| 4-mrt.-1897 - 14-sep.-1901 |
44.4 - 49.0 |
President of the United States of America: William McKinley |
USA - Presidents |
| 11-okt.-1899 - 31-mei-1902 |
47.0 - 49.7 |
Second Boer War ('Second South African War') |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 8-sep.-1900 |
47.9 |
Galveston hurricane; destruction of the city of Galveston, Texas |
Disasters |
| 14-sep.-1901 - 4-mrt.-1909 |
49.0 - 56.4 |
President of the United States of America: Theodore Roosevelt |
USA - Presidents |
| 19-okt.-1901 |
49.1 |
First motorized zeppelin flight |
Aviation History |
| 5-dec.-1901 - 15-dec.-1966 |
49.2 - 114.3 |
Life of Walter Elias Disney |
Personalities |
| 16-jun.-1903 |
50.7 |
Establishment of Ford Motor Company |
Companies |
| 16-dec.-1903 |
51.2 |
First controlled powered human flight by the Wright brothers |
Aviation History |
| 1904 - 1908 |
51.8 - 55.8 |
Herero and Namaqua Uprising ('Herero and Namaqua Genocide') |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 18-apr.-1906 |
53.6 |
San Francisco earthquake of 1906 |
Disasters |
| 1907 |
54.8 |
First helicopter flight |
Aviation History |
| 16-sep.-1908 |
56.0 |
Establishment of General Motors |
Companies |
| 27-sep.-1908 |
56.0 |
Introduction of the Ford Model T |
Automobile History |
| 4-mrt.-1909 - 4-mrt.-1913 |
56.4 - 60.4 |
President of the United States of America: William Howard Taft |
USA - Presidents |
| 1909 |
56.8 |
Discovery of antibiotics |
Medicine |
| 30-mei-1911 |
58.7 |
One in seven families in the US owns a car |
Automobile History |
| 30-mei-1911 |
58.7 |
First 'Indy 500' race in Indianapolis |
Automobile History |
| 23-okt.-1911 |
59.1 |
First military use of an airplane |
Aviation History |
| 4-mrt.-1913 - 4-mrt.-1921 |
60.4 - 68.4 |
President of the United States of America: Woodrow Wilson |
USA - Presidents |
| 14-jun.-1914 - 15-jun.-1914 |
61.7 |
First transatlantic flight |
Aviation History |
| 28-jun.-1914 - 11-nov.-1918 |
61.8 - 66.1 |
World War I |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 6-aug.-1914 - 25-nov.-1918 |
61.9 - 66.2 |
East African Campaign (World War I) |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 13-sep.-1914 - 9-jul.-1915 |
62.0 - 62.8 |
South-West Africa Campaign (World War I) |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 14-okt.-1914 - 24-okt.-1914 |
62.1 |
Maritz Rebellion |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 24-apr.-1916 - 30-apr.-1916 |
63.6 |
Easter Rising |
Great Britain |
| 1916 |
63.8 |
Establishment of BMW (Bayerische Motoren Werke AG) |
Companies |
| 8-mrt.-1917 - 12-mrt.-1917 |
64.5 |
Russian February Revolution |
Russia |
| 29-mei-1917 - 22-nov.-1963 |
64.7 - 111.2 |
Life of John F. Kennedy |
Personalities |
| 1917 - 1923 |
64.8 - 70.8 |
Russian Civil War |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 7-nov.-1917 |
65.1 |
Founding of the Russian Socialist Federal Soviet Republic |
Russia |
| 9-nov.-1918 |
66.1 |
German Revolution |
Germany |
| 11-feb.-1919 - 28-feb.-1925 |
66.4 - 72.4 |
President of Germany: Friedrich Ebert |
Germany |
| 13-feb.-1919 - 20-jun.-1919 |
66.4 - 66.7 |
Chancellor of Germany: Philipp Scheidemann |
Germany |
| 6-mei-1919 - 8-aug.-1919 |
66.6 - 66.9 |
Third Anglo-Afghan War |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 1919 |
66.8 |
First transatlantic zeppelin flight |
Aviation History |
| 11-aug.-1919 |
66.9 |
Adoption of the Weimar Constitution |
Germany |
| 10-sep.-1919 |
67.0 |
Treaty of Saint-Germain |
Italy |
| 4-mrt.-1921 - 2-aug.-1923 |
68.4 - 70.9 |
President of the United States of America: Warren G. Harding |
USA - Presidents |
| 6-dec.-1921 |
69.2 |
Anglo-Irish Treaty |
Great Britain |
| 28-okt.-1922 |
70.1 |
Benito Mussolini becomes Prime Minister of Italy |
Italy |
| 2-aug.-1923 - 4-mrt.-1929 |
70.9 - 76.4 |
President of the United States of America: Calvin Coolidge |
USA - Presidents |
| 13-aug.-1923 - 23-nov.-1923 |
70.9 - 71.2 |
Chancellor of Germany: Gustav Stresemann |
Germany |
| 13-sep.-1923 |
71.0 |
Establishment of the military dictatorship |
Spain |
| 12-mei-1925 - 2-aug.-1934 |
72.6 - 81.9 |
President of Germany: Paul von Hindenburg |
Germany |
| 14-jun.-1928 - 9-okt.-1967 |
75.7 - 115.1 |
Life of Che Guevara |
Personalities |
| 1928 |
75.8 |
Discovery of penicillin |
Medicine |
| 15-jan.-1929 - 4-apr.-1968 |
76.3 - 115.6 |
Life of Martin Luther King |
Personalities |
| 4-mrt.-1929 - 4-mrt.-1933 |
76.4 - 80.5 |
President of the United States of America: Herbert Hoover |
USA - Presidents |
| 25-okt.-1929 |
77.1 |
'Black Friday' |
USA |
| 22-jan.-1930 - 1-mei-1931 |
77.3 - 78.6 |
Construction period of the Empire State Building |
Monuments |
| 30-mrt.-1930 - 30-mei-1932 |
77.5 - 79.7 |
Chancellor of Germany: Heinrich Brüning |
Germany |
| 5-aug.-1930 - 25-aug.-2012 |
77.9 - 160.0 |
Life of Neil Armstrong |
Personalities |
| 14-apr.-1931 |
78.6 |
Proclamation of the Second Spanish Republic |
Spain |
| 1931 |
78.8 |
Establishment of Porsche |
Companies |
| 11-dec.-1931 |
79.2 |
Statute of Westminster |
Great Britain |
| 1-jun.-1932 - 17-nov.-1932 |
79.7 - 80.2 |
Chancellor of Germany: Franz von Papen |
Germany |
| 3-dec.-1932 - 28-jan.-1933 |
80.2 - 80.4 |
Chancellor of Germany: Kurt von Schleicher |
Germany |
| 30-jan.-1933 - 30-apr.-1945 |
80.4 - 92.6 |
Chancellor of Germany: Adolf Hitler |
Germany |
| 28-feb.-1933 - 23-mrt.-1933 |
80.4 - 80.5 |
'Reichstag Fire Decree' and 'Enabling Act': De facto end of the Weimar Republic & beginning of Nazi dictatorship |
Germany |
| 4-mrt.-1933 - 12-apr.-1945 |
80.5 - 92.6 |
President of the United States of America: Franklin D. Roosevelt |
USA - Presidents |
| 1935 |
82.8 |
Italy occupies Ethiopia, the last remaining free territory in Africa. |
Discoveries & Colonization |
| 11-dec.-1936 - 6-feb.-1952 |
84.2 - 99.4 |
Queen consort of the United Kingdom: Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon 'Queen Mum' |
Great Britain |
| 6-mei-1937 |
84.6 |
Hindenburg disaster |
Aviation History |
| 1937 |
84.8 |
Construction period of the Golden Gate Bridge |
Monuments |
| 27-aug.-1939 |
86.9 |
First flight of turbine-equipped jet plane |
Aviation History |
| 1-sep.-1939 - 2-sep.-1945 |
87.0 - 93.0 |
World War II |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 14-mei-1940 |
87.7 |
Establishment of McDonald's |
Companies |
| 7-dec.-1941 |
89.2 |
Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor |
USA |
| 12-apr.-1945 - 20-jan.-1953 |
92.6 - 100.3 |
President of the United States of America: Harry S. Truman |
USA - Presidents |
| 25-apr.-1945 |
92.6 |
Establishment of the United Nations |
World |
| 8-mei-1945 |
92.6 |
Unconditional surrender of the German Empire |
Germany |
| 6-aug.-1945 - 9-aug.-1945 |
92.9 |
Nuclear bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki |
USA |
| 14-okt.-1946 |
94.1 |
Start of the 4th French Republic |
France |
| 14-okt.-1947 |
95.1 |
First supersonic flight of the Bell X-1 |
Aviation History |
| 21-dec.-1948 |
96.3 |
Republic of Ireland Act |
Great Britain |
| 23-mei-1949 |
96.7 |
Establishment of the Federal Republic of Germany |
Germany |
| 1949 |
96.8 |
Establishment of Circuit City |
Companies |
| 15-sep.-1949 - 16-okt.-1963 |
97.0 - 111.1 |
Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany: Konrad Adenauer |
Germany - Chancellors |
| 7-okt.-1949 |
97.1 |
Establishment of the German Democratic Republic |
Germany |
| 11-okt.-1949 - 7-sep.-1960 |
97.1 - 108.0 |
Wilhelm Pieck - State President of the GDR |
GDR |
| 17-jun.-1950 |
97.8 |
First successful organ transplant |
Medicine |
| 1950 - 1953 |
97.8 - 100.8 |
Korean War |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 22-jan.-1952 |
99.4 |
First jet airliner in regular commercial use |
Aviation History |
| 6-feb.-1952 - Heden |
99.4 |
Queen of the United Kingdom: Elizabeth II |
Great Britain |
Henri Charles Goudesenne
Sophie Joseph Tahon
Birth