| 12 feb. 1809 - 19 apr. 1882 |
(-67.4) - 5.8 |
Life of Charles Robert Darwin |
Personalities |
| 13 dec. 1816 - 6 dec. 1892 |
(-59.6) - 16.4 |
Life of Werner von Siemens |
Personalities |
| 30 dec. 1819 - 20 sep. 1890 |
(-56.5) - 14.2 |
Life of Theodor Fontane |
Personalities |
| 15 dec. 1832 - 27 dec. 1923 |
(-43.6) - 47.5 |
Life of Gustave Eiffel |
Personalities |
| 17 mrt. 1834 - 6 mrt. 1900 |
(-42.3) - 23.6 |
Life of Gottlieb Wilhelm Daimler |
Personalities |
| 8 jul. 1838 - 8 mrt. 1917 |
(-38.0) - 40.7 |
Life of Ferdinand von Zeppelin |
Personalities |
| 11 dec. 1843 - 27 mei 1910 |
(-32.6) - 33.9 |
Life of Robert Koch |
Personalities |
| 25 nov. 1844 - 4 apr. 1929 |
(-31.6) - 52.7 |
Life of Carl Benz |
Personalities |
| 11 feb. 1847 - 18 okt. 1931 |
(-29.4) - 55.3 |
Life of Thomas Alva Edison |
Personalities |
| 3 mrt. 1847 - 1 aug. 1922 |
(-29.3) - 46.1 |
Life of Alexander Graham Bell |
Personalities |
| 6 mei 1856 - 23 sep. 1939 |
(-20.2) - 63.2 |
Life of Sigmund Freud |
Personalities |
| 23 sep. 1861 - 12 mrt. 1942 |
(-14.8) - 65.7 |
Life of Robert Bosch |
Personalities |
| 30 jul. 1863 - 7 apr. 1947 |
(-12.9) - 70.8 |
Life of Henry Ford |
Personalities |
| 16 okt. 1863 - 17 mrt. 1937 |
(-12.7) - 60.7 |
Life of Joseph Austen Chamberlain |
Personalities |
| 1868 - 1878 |
(-8.0) - 2.0 |
Ten Years' War ('Great War') |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 4 mrt. 1869 - 4 mrt. 1877 |
(-7.3) - 0.6 |
President of the United States of America: Ulysses S. Grant |
USA - Presidents |
| 5 sep. 1869 - 1884 |
(-6.8) - 8.0 |
Construction period of Neuschwanstein Castle |
Monuments |
| 22 apr. 1870 - 21 jan. 1924 |
(-6.2) - 47.5 |
Life of Vladimir Lenin |
Personalities |
| 18 jan. 1871 - 9 mrt. 1888 |
(-5.5) - 11.6 |
German Emperor: Wilhelm I |
Germany |
| 30 nov. 1874 - 24 jan. 1965 |
(-1.6) - 88.6 |
Life of Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill |
Personalities |
| 5 jan. 1876 - 19 apr. 1967 |
(-0.5) - 90.8 |
Life of Konrad Adenauer |
Personalities |
| 4 mrt. 1877 - 4 mrt. 1881 |
0.6 - 4.6 |
President of the United States of America: Rutherford B. Hayes |
USA - Presidents |
| 1878 |
2.0 |
Establishment of Bell Telephone Company |
Companies |
| 1878 - 1881 |
2.0 - 5.0 |
Second Anglo-Afghan War |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 31 dec. 1878 |
2.5 |
First two-stroke internal combustion gas engine |
Automobile History |
| 14 mrt. 1879 - 18 apr. 1955 |
2.7 - 78.8 |
Life of Albert Einstein |
Personalities |
| 1879 |
3.0 |
Anglo-Zulu War |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 1879 |
3.0 |
Discovery of cholera vaccine |
Medicine |
| 1879 |
3.0 |
Discovery of plague vaccine |
Medicine |
| 20 dec. 1880 - 23 mrt. 1881 |
4.4 - 4.7 |
First Boer War ('First South African War') |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 4 mrt. 1881 - 19 sep. 1881 |
4.6 - 5.2 |
President of the United States of America: James A. Garfield |
USA - Presidents |
| 6 aug. 1881 - 11 mrt. 1955 |
5.1 - 78.7 |
Life of Alexander Fleming |
Personalities |
| 19 sep. 1881 - 4 mrt. 1885 |
5.2 - 8.6 |
President of the United States of America: Chester A. Arthur |
USA - Presidents |
| 1882 |
6.0 |
Britain occupies Egypt |
Discoveries & Colonization |
| 1882 |
6.0 |
Establishment of Peugeot |
Companies |
| 21 jan. 1884 - 12 dec. 1963 |
7.5 - 87.5 |
Life of Theodor Heuss |
Personalities |
| 1884 |
8.0 |
First controlled flight of a Zeppelin |
Aviation History |
| 15 nov. 1884 - 26 feb. 1885 |
8.3 - 8.6 |
Berlin Conference ('Congo Conference') |
Discoveries & Colonization |
| 4 mrt. 1885 - 4 mrt. 1889 |
8.6 - 12.6 |
President of the United States of America: Grover Cleveland |
USA - Presidents |
| 1886 |
10.0 |
Establishment of the Coca Cola Company |
Companies |
| 1886 |
10.0 |
Establishment of Johnson & Johnson |
Companies |
| 28 okt. 1886 |
10.3 |
Construction period of the Statue of Liberty |
Monuments |
| 1887 |
11.0 |
Huang He flood |
Disasters |
| 1887 - 1889 |
11.0 - 13.0 |
Construction period of the Eiffel Tower |
Monuments |
| 9 mrt. 1888 - 15 jun. 1888 |
11.6 - 11.9 |
German Emperor: Friedrich III |
Germany |
| 15 jun. 1888 - 9 nov. 1918 |
11.9 - 42.3 |
German Emperor: Wilhelm II |
Germany |
| 1888 |
12.0 |
First commercially manufactured automobile by Karl Benz |
Automobile History |
| 4 mrt. 1889 - 4 mrt. 1893 |
12.6 - 16.6 |
President of the United States of America: Benjamin Harrison |
USA - Presidents |
| 20 apr. 1889 - 30 apr. 1945 |
12.8 - 68.8 |
Life of Adolf Hitler |
Personalities |
| 1890 |
14.0 |
Establishment of Daimler |
Companies |
| 1890 |
14.0 |
Establishment of General Electric |
Companies |
| 14 okt. 1890 - 28 mrt. 1969 |
14.2 - 92.8 |
Life of Dwight David Eisenhower |
Personalities |
| 4 mrt. 1893 - 4 mrt. 1897 |
16.6 - 20.6 |
President of the United States of America: Grover Cleveland |
USA - Presidents |
| 1896 - 1897 |
20.0 - 21.0 |
Matabele Wars ('Ndebele Matabele War') |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 1896 |
20.0 |
Establishment of IBM (International Business Machines Corp., formerly 'Computing Tabulating Recording Corp. (CTR)') |
Companies |
| 4 mrt. 1897 - 14 sep. 1901 |
20.6 - 25.2 |
President of the United States of America: William McKinley |
USA - Presidents |
| 11 okt. 1899 - 31 mei 1902 |
23.2 - 25.9 |
Second Boer War ('Second South African War') |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 8 sep. 1900 |
24.2 |
Galveston hurricane; destruction of the city of Galveston, Texas |
Disasters |
| 14 sep. 1901 - 4 mrt. 1909 |
25.2 - 32.6 |
President of the United States of America: Theodore Roosevelt |
USA - Presidents |
| 19 okt. 1901 |
25.3 |
First motorized zeppelin flight |
Aviation History |
| 5 dec. 1901 - 15 dec. 1966 |
25.4 - 90.5 |
Life of Walter Elias Disney |
Personalities |
| 16 jun. 1903 |
26.9 |
Establishment of Ford Motor Company |
Companies |
| 16 dec. 1903 |
27.4 |
First controlled powered human flight by the Wright brothers |
Aviation History |
| 1904 - 1908 |
28.0 - 32.0 |
Herero and Namaqua Uprising ('Herero and Namaqua Genocide') |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 18 apr. 1906 |
29.8 |
San Francisco earthquake of 1906 |
Disasters |
| 1907 |
31.0 |
First helicopter flight |
Aviation History |
| 16 sep. 1908 |
32.2 |
Establishment of General Motors |
Companies |
| 27 sep. 1908 |
32.2 |
Introduction of the Ford Model T |
Automobile History |
| 4 mrt. 1909 - 4 mrt. 1913 |
32.6 - 36.6 |
President of the United States of America: William Howard Taft |
USA - Presidents |
| 1909 |
33.0 |
Discovery of antibiotics |
Medicine |
| 30 mei 1911 |
34.9 |
One in seven families in the US owns a car |
Automobile History |
| 30 mei 1911 |
34.9 |
First 'Indy 500' race in Indianapolis |
Automobile History |
| 23 okt. 1911 |
35.3 |
First military use of an airplane |
Aviation History |
| 4 mrt. 1913 - 4 mrt. 1921 |
36.6 - 44.7 |
President of the United States of America: Woodrow Wilson |
USA - Presidents |
| 14 jun. 1914 - 15 jun. 1914 |
37.9 |
First transatlantic flight |
Aviation History |
| 28 jun. 1914 - 11 nov. 1918 |
38.0 - 42.3 |
World War I |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 6 aug. 1914 - 25 nov. 1918 |
38.1 - 42.4 |
East African Campaign (World War I) |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 13 sep. 1914 - 9 jul. 1915 |
38.2 - 39.0 |
South-West Africa Campaign (World War I) |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 14 okt. 1914 - 24 okt. 1914 |
38.3 |
Maritz Rebellion |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 24 apr. 1916 - 30 apr. 1916 |
39.8 |
Easter Rising |
Great Britain |
| 1916 |
40.0 |
Establishment of BMW (Bayerische Motoren Werke AG) |
Companies |
| 8 mrt. 1917 - 12 mrt. 1917 |
40.7 |
Russian February Revolution |
Russia |
| 29 mei 1917 - 22 nov. 1963 |
40.9 - 87.4 |
Life of John F. Kennedy |
Personalities |
| 1917 - 1923 |
41.0 - 47.0 |
Russian Civil War |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 7 nov. 1917 |
41.3 |
Founding of the Russian Socialist Federal Soviet Republic |
Russia |
| 9 nov. 1918 |
42.3 |
German Revolution |
Germany |
| 11 feb. 1919 - 28 feb. 1925 |
42.6 - 48.6 |
President of Germany: Friedrich Ebert |
Germany |
| 13 feb. 1919 - 20 jun. 1919 |
42.6 - 42.9 |
Chancellor of Germany: Philipp Scheidemann |
Germany |
| 6 mei 1919 - 8 aug. 1919 |
42.8 - 43.1 |
Third Anglo-Afghan War |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 1919 |
43.0 |
First transatlantic zeppelin flight |
Aviation History |
| 11 aug. 1919 |
43.1 |
Adoption of the Weimar Constitution |
Germany |
| 10 sep. 1919 |
43.2 |
Treaty of Saint-Germain |
Italy |
| 4 mrt. 1921 - 2 aug. 1923 |
44.7 - 47.1 |
President of the United States of America: Warren G. Harding |
USA - Presidents |
| 6 dec. 1921 |
45.4 |
Anglo-Irish Treaty |
Great Britain |
| 28 okt. 1922 |
46.3 |
Benito Mussolini becomes Prime Minister of Italy |
Italy |
| 2 aug. 1923 - 4 mrt. 1929 |
47.1 - 52.7 |
President of the United States of America: Calvin Coolidge |
USA - Presidents |
| 13 aug. 1923 - 23 nov. 1923 |
47.1 - 47.4 |
Chancellor of Germany: Gustav Stresemann |
Germany |
| 13 sep. 1923 |
47.2 |
Establishment of the military dictatorship |
Spain |
| 12 mei 1925 - 2 aug. 1934 |
48.8 - 58.1 |
President of Germany: Paul von Hindenburg |
Germany |
| 14 jun. 1928 - 9 okt. 1967 |
51.9 - 91.3 |
Life of Che Guevara |
Personalities |
| 1928 |
52.0 |
Discovery of penicillin |
Medicine |
| 15 jan. 1929 - 4 apr. 1968 |
52.5 - 91.8 |
Life of Martin Luther King |
Personalities |
| 4 mrt. 1929 - 4 mrt. 1933 |
52.7 - 56.7 |
President of the United States of America: Herbert Hoover |
USA - Presidents |
| 25 okt. 1929 |
53.3 |
'Black Friday' |
USA |
| 22 jan. 1930 - 1 mei 1931 |
53.5 - 54.8 |
Construction period of the Empire State Building |
Monuments |
| 30 mrt. 1930 - 30 mei 1932 |
53.7 - 55.9 |
Chancellor of Germany: Heinrich Brüning |
Germany |
| 5 aug. 1930 - 25 aug. 2012 |
54.1 - 136.2 |
Life of Neil Armstrong |
Personalities |
| 14 apr. 1931 |
54.8 |
Proclamation of the Second Spanish Republic |
Spain |
| 1931 |
55.0 |
Establishment of Porsche |
Companies |
| 11 dec. 1931 |
55.4 |
Statute of Westminster |
Great Britain |
| 1 jun. 1932 - 17 nov. 1932 |
55.9 - 56.4 |
Chancellor of Germany: Franz von Papen |
Germany |
| 3 dec. 1932 - 28 jan. 1933 |
56.4 - 56.6 |
Chancellor of Germany: Kurt von Schleicher |
Germany |
| 30 jan. 1933 - 30 apr. 1945 |
56.6 - 68.8 |
Chancellor of Germany: Adolf Hitler |
Germany |
| 28 feb. 1933 - 23 mrt. 1933 |
56.7 |
'Reichstag Fire Decree' and 'Enabling Act': De facto end of the Weimar Republic & beginning of Nazi dictatorship |
Germany |
| 4 mrt. 1933 - 12 apr. 1945 |
56.7 - 68.8 |
President of the United States of America: Franklin D. Roosevelt |
USA - Presidents |
| 1935 |
59.0 |
Italy occupies Ethiopia, the last remaining free territory in Africa. |
Discoveries & Colonization |
| 11 dec. 1936 - 6 feb. 1952 |
60.4 - 75.6 |
Queen consort of the United Kingdom: Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon 'Queen Mum' |
Great Britain |
| 6 mei 1937 |
60.8 |
Hindenburg disaster |
Aviation History |
| 1937 |
61.0 |
Construction period of the Golden Gate Bridge |
Monuments |
| 27 aug. 1939 |
63.1 |
First flight of turbine-equipped jet plane |
Aviation History |
| 1 sep. 1939 - 2 sep. 1945 |
63.2 - 69.2 |
World War II |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 14 mei 1940 |
63.9 |
Establishment of McDonald's |
Companies |
| 7 dec. 1941 |
65.4 |
Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor |
USA |
| 12 apr. 1945 - 20 jan. 1953 |
68.8 - 76.6 |
President of the United States of America: Harry S. Truman |
USA - Presidents |
| 25 apr. 1945 |
68.8 |
Establishment of the United Nations |
World |
| 8 mei 1945 |
68.8 |
Unconditional surrender of the German Empire |
Germany |
| 6 aug. 1945 - 9 aug. 1945 |
69.1 |
Nuclear bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki |
USA |