| 15 dec. 1832 - 27 dec. 1923 |
(-75.6) - 15.5 |
Life of Gustave Eiffel |
Personalities |
| 8 jul. 1838 - 8 mrt. 1917 |
(-70.0) - 8.6 |
Life of Ferdinand von Zeppelin |
Personalities |
| 11 dec. 1843 - 27 mei 1910 |
(-64.6) - 1.9 |
Life of Robert Koch |
Personalities |
| 25 nov. 1844 - 4 apr. 1929 |
(-63.6) - 20.7 |
Life of Carl Benz |
Personalities |
| 11 feb. 1847 - 18 okt. 1931 |
(-61.4) - 23.3 |
Life of Thomas Alva Edison |
Personalities |
| 3 mrt. 1847 - 1 aug. 1922 |
(-61.4) - 14.0 |
Life of Alexander Graham Bell |
Personalities |
| 6 mei 1856 - 23 sep. 1939 |
(-52.2) - 31.2 |
Life of Sigmund Freud |
Personalities |
| 23 sep. 1861 - 12 mrt. 1942 |
(-46.8) - 33.7 |
Life of Robert Bosch |
Personalities |
| 30 jul. 1863 - 7 apr. 1947 |
(-44.9) - 38.7 |
Life of Henry Ford |
Personalities |
| 16 okt. 1863 - 17 mrt. 1937 |
(-44.7) - 28.7 |
Life of Joseph Austen Chamberlain |
Personalities |
| 22 apr. 1870 - 21 jan. 1924 |
(-38.2) - 15.5 |
Life of Vladimir Lenin |
Personalities |
| 30 nov. 1874 - 24 jan. 1965 |
(-33.6) - 56.6 |
Life of Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill |
Personalities |
| 5 jan. 1876 - 19 apr. 1967 |
(-32.5) - 58.8 |
Life of Konrad Adenauer |
Personalities |
| 14 mrt. 1879 - 18 apr. 1955 |
(-29.3) - 46.8 |
Life of Albert Einstein |
Personalities |
| 6 aug. 1881 - 11 mrt. 1955 |
(-26.9) - 46.7 |
Life of Alexander Fleming |
Personalities |
| 21 jan. 1884 - 12 dec. 1963 |
(-24.5) - 55.4 |
Life of Theodor Heuss |
Personalities |
| 15 jun. 1888 - 9 nov. 1918 |
(-20.1) - 10.3 |
German Emperor: Wilhelm II |
Germany |
| 20 apr. 1889 - 30 apr. 1945 |
(-19.2) - 36.8 |
Life of Adolf Hitler |
Personalities |
| 14 okt. 1890 - 28 mrt. 1969 |
(-17.7) - 60.7 |
Life of Dwight David Eisenhower |
Personalities |
| 14 sep. 1901 - 4 mrt. 1909 |
(-6.8) - 0.6 |
President of the United States of America: Theodore Roosevelt |
USA - Presidents |
| 5 dec. 1901 - 15 dec. 1966 |
(-6.6) - 58.4 |
Life of Walter Elias Disney |
Personalities |
| 1904 - 1908 |
(-4.0) |
Herero and Namaqua Uprising ('Herero and Namaqua Genocide') |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 16 sep. 1908 |
0.2 |
Establishment of General Motors |
Companies |
| 27 sep. 1908 |
0.2 |
Introduction of the Ford Model T |
Automobile History |
| 4 mrt. 1909 - 4 mrt. 1913 |
0.6 - 4.6 |
President of the United States of America: William Howard Taft |
USA - Presidents |
| 1909 |
1.0 |
Discovery of antibiotics |
Medicine |
| 30 mei 1911 |
2.9 |
One in seven families in the US owns a car |
Automobile History |
| 30 mei 1911 |
2.9 |
First 'Indy 500' race in Indianapolis |
Automobile History |
| 23 okt. 1911 |
3.3 |
First military use of an airplane |
Aviation History |
| 4 mrt. 1913 - 4 mrt. 1921 |
4.6 - 12.6 |
President of the United States of America: Woodrow Wilson |
USA - Presidents |
| 14 jun. 1914 - 15 jun. 1914 |
5.9 |
First transatlantic flight |
Aviation History |
| 28 jun. 1914 - 11 nov. 1918 |
5.9 - 10.3 |
World War I |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 6 aug. 1914 - 25 nov. 1918 |
6.1 - 10.4 |
East African Campaign (World War I) |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 13 sep. 1914 - 9 jul. 1915 |
6.2 - 7.0 |
South-West Africa Campaign (World War I) |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 14 okt. 1914 - 24 okt. 1914 |
6.2 - 6.3 |
Maritz Rebellion |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 24 apr. 1916 - 30 apr. 1916 |
7.8 |
Easter Rising |
Great Britain |
| 1916 |
8.0 |
Establishment of BMW (Bayerische Motoren Werke AG) |
Companies |
| 8 mrt. 1917 - 12 mrt. 1917 |
8.6 - 8.7 |
Russian February Revolution |
Russia |
| 29 mei 1917 - 22 nov. 1963 |
8.9 - 55.4 |
Life of John F. Kennedy |
Personalities |
| 1917 - 1923 |
9.0 - 15.0 |
Russian Civil War |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 7 nov. 1917 |
9.3 |
Founding of the Russian Socialist Federal Soviet Republic |
Russia |
| 9 nov. 1918 |
10.3 |
German Revolution |
Germany |
| 11 feb. 1919 - 28 feb. 1925 |
10.6 - 16.6 |
President of Germany: Friedrich Ebert |
Germany |
| 13 feb. 1919 - 20 jun. 1919 |
10.6 - 10.9 |
Chancellor of Germany: Philipp Scheidemann |
Germany |
| 6 mei 1919 - 8 aug. 1919 |
10.8 - 11.1 |
Third Anglo-Afghan War |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 1919 |
11.0 |
First transatlantic zeppelin flight |
Aviation History |
| 11 aug. 1919 |
11.1 |
Adoption of the Weimar Constitution |
Germany |
| 10 sep. 1919 |
11.2 |
Treaty of Saint-Germain |
Italy |
| 4 mrt. 1921 - 2 aug. 1923 |
12.6 - 15.0 |
President of the United States of America: Warren G. Harding |
USA - Presidents |
| 6 dec. 1921 |
13.4 |
Anglo-Irish Treaty |
Great Britain |
| 28 okt. 1922 |
14.3 |
Benito Mussolini becomes Prime Minister of Italy |
Italy |
| 2 aug. 1923 - 4 mrt. 1929 |
15.0 - 20.6 |
President of the United States of America: Calvin Coolidge |
USA - Presidents |
| 13 aug. 1923 - 23 nov. 1923 |
15.1 - 15.4 |
Chancellor of Germany: Gustav Stresemann |
Germany |
| 13 sep. 1923 |
15.2 |
Establishment of the military dictatorship |
Spain |
| 12 mei 1925 - 2 aug. 1934 |
16.8 - 26.1 |
President of Germany: Paul von Hindenburg |
Germany |
| 14 jun. 1928 - 9 okt. 1967 |
19.9 - 59.3 |
Life of Che Guevara |
Personalities |
| 1928 |
20.0 |
Discovery of penicillin |
Medicine |
| 15 jan. 1929 - 4 apr. 1968 |
20.5 - 59.8 |
Life of Martin Luther King |
Personalities |
| 4 mrt. 1929 - 4 mrt. 1933 |
20.6 - 24.6 |
President of the United States of America: Herbert Hoover |
USA - Presidents |
| 25 okt. 1929 |
21.3 |
'Black Friday' |
USA |
| 22 jan. 1930 - 1 mei 1931 |
21.5 - 22.8 |
Construction period of the Empire State Building |
Monuments |
| 30 mrt. 1930 - 30 mei 1932 |
21.7 - 23.9 |
Chancellor of Germany: Heinrich BrĂ¼ning |
Germany |
| 5 aug. 1930 - 25 aug. 2012 |
22.1 - 104.2 |
Life of Neil Armstrong |
Personalities |
| 14 apr. 1931 |
22.8 |
Proclamation of the Second Spanish Republic |
Spain |
| 1931 |
23.0 |
Establishment of Porsche |
Companies |
| 11 dec. 1931 |
23.4 |
Statute of Westminster |
Great Britain |
| 1 jun. 1932 - 17 nov. 1932 |
23.9 - 24.4 |
Chancellor of Germany: Franz von Papen |
Germany |
| 3 dec. 1932 - 28 jan. 1933 |
24.4 - 24.5 |
Chancellor of Germany: Kurt von Schleicher |
Germany |
| 30 jan. 1933 - 30 apr. 1945 |
24.6 - 36.8 |
Chancellor of Germany: Adolf Hitler |
Germany |
| 28 feb. 1933 - 23 mrt. 1933 |
24.6 - 24.7 |
'Reichstag Fire Decree' and 'Enabling Act': De facto end of the Weimar Republic & beginning of Nazi dictatorship |
Germany |
| 4 mrt. 1933 - 12 apr. 1945 |
24.6 - 36.8 |
President of the United States of America: Franklin D. Roosevelt |
USA - Presidents |
| 1935 |
27.0 |
Italy occupies Ethiopia, the last remaining free territory in Africa. |
Discoveries & Colonization |
| 11 dec. 1936 - 6 feb. 1952 |
28.4 - 43.6 |
Queen consort of the United Kingdom: Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon 'Queen Mum' |
Great Britain |
| 6 mei 1937 |
28.8 |
Hindenburg disaster |
Aviation History |
| 1937 |
29.0 |
Construction period of the Golden Gate Bridge |
Monuments |
| 27 aug. 1939 |
31.1 |
First flight of turbine-equipped jet plane |
Aviation History |
| 1 sep. 1939 - 2 sep. 1945 |
31.1 - 37.1 |
World War II |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 14 mei 1940 |
31.8 |
Establishment of McDonald's |
Companies |
| 7 dec. 1941 |
33.4 |
Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor |
USA |