| 15 dec. 1832 - 27 dec. 1923 |
(-71.6) - 19.5 |
Life of Gustave Eiffel |
Personalities |
| 8 jul. 1838 - 8 mrt. 1917 |
(-66.0) - 12.6 |
Life of Ferdinand von Zeppelin |
Personalities |
| 11 dec. 1843 - 27 mei 1910 |
(-60.6) - 5.9 |
Life of Robert Koch |
Personalities |
| 25 nov. 1844 - 4 apr. 1929 |
(-59.6) - 24.7 |
Life of Carl Benz |
Personalities |
| 11 feb. 1847 - 18 okt. 1931 |
(-57.4) - 27.3 |
Life of Thomas Alva Edison |
Personalities |
| 3 mrt. 1847 - 1 aug. 1922 |
(-57.4) - 18.0 |
Life of Alexander Graham Bell |
Personalities |
| 6 mei 1856 - 23 sep. 1939 |
(-48.2) - 35.2 |
Life of Sigmund Freud |
Personalities |
| 23 sep. 1861 - 12 mrt. 1942 |
(-42.8) - 37.7 |
Life of Robert Bosch |
Personalities |
| 30 jul. 1863 - 7 apr. 1947 |
(-40.9) - 42.7 |
Life of Henry Ford |
Personalities |
| 16 okt. 1863 - 17 mrt. 1937 |
(-40.7) - 32.7 |
Life of Joseph Austen Chamberlain |
Personalities |
| 22 apr. 1870 - 21 jan. 1924 |
(-34.2) - 19.5 |
Life of Vladimir Lenin |
Personalities |
| 30 nov. 1874 - 24 jan. 1965 |
(-29.6) - 60.6 |
Life of Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill |
Personalities |
| 5 jan. 1876 - 19 apr. 1967 |
(-28.5) - 62.8 |
Life of Konrad Adenauer |
Personalities |
| 14 mrt. 1879 - 18 apr. 1955 |
(-25.3) - 50.8 |
Life of Albert Einstein |
Personalities |
| 6 aug. 1881 - 11 mrt. 1955 |
(-22.9) - 50.7 |
Life of Alexander Fleming |
Personalities |
| 21 jan. 1884 - 12 dec. 1963 |
(-20.5) - 59.4 |
Life of Theodor Heuss |
Personalities |
| 15 jun. 1888 - 9 nov. 1918 |
(-16.0) - 14.3 |
German Emperor: Wilhelm II |
Germany |
| 20 apr. 1889 - 30 apr. 1945 |
(-15.2) - 40.8 |
Life of Adolf Hitler |
Personalities |
| 14 okt. 1890 - 28 mrt. 1969 |
(-13.7) - 64.7 |
Life of Dwight David Eisenhower |
Personalities |
| 14 sep. 1901 - 4 mrt. 1909 |
(-2.8) - 4.6 |
President of the United States of America: Theodore Roosevelt |
USA - Presidents |
| 5 dec. 1901 - 15 dec. 1966 |
(-2.6) - 62.5 |
Life of Walter Elias Disney |
Personalities |
| 1904 - 1908 |
0 – 4.0 |
Herero and Namaqua Uprising ('Herero and Namaqua Genocide') |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 18 apr. 1906 |
1.8 |
San Francisco earthquake of 1906 |
Disasters |
| 1907 |
3.0 |
First helicopter flight |
Aviation History |
| 16 sep. 1908 |
4.2 |
Establishment of General Motors |
Companies |
| 27 sep. 1908 |
4.2 |
Introduction of the Ford Model T |
Automobile History |
| 4 mrt. 1909 - 4 mrt. 1913 |
4.6 - 8.6 |
President of the United States of America: William Howard Taft |
USA - Presidents |
| 1909 |
5.0 |
Discovery of antibiotics |
Medicine |
| 30 mei 1911 |
6.9 |
One in seven families in the US owns a car |
Automobile History |
| 30 mei 1911 |
6.9 |
First 'Indy 500' race in Indianapolis |
Automobile History |
| 23 okt. 1911 |
7.3 |
First military use of an airplane |
Aviation History |
| 4 mrt. 1913 - 4 mrt. 1921 |
8.6 - 16.6 |
President of the United States of America: Woodrow Wilson |
USA - Presidents |
| 14 jun. 1914 - 15 jun. 1914 |
9.9 |
First transatlantic flight |
Aviation History |
| 28 jun. 1914 - 11 nov. 1918 |
10.0 - 14.3 |
World War I |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 6 aug. 1914 - 25 nov. 1918 |
10.1 - 14.4 |
East African Campaign (World War I) |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 13 sep. 1914 - 9 jul. 1915 |
10.2 - 11.0 |
South-West Africa Campaign (World War I) |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 14 okt. 1914 - 24 okt. 1914 |
10.2 - 10.3 |
Maritz Rebellion |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 24 apr. 1916 - 30 apr. 1916 |
11.8 |
Easter Rising |
Great Britain |
| 1916 |
12.0 |
Establishment of BMW (Bayerische Motoren Werke AG) |
Companies |
| 8 mrt. 1917 - 12 mrt. 1917 |
12.6 - 12.7 |
Russian February Revolution |
Russia |
| 29 mei 1917 - 22 nov. 1963 |
12.9 - 59.4 |
Life of John F. Kennedy |
Personalities |
| 1917 - 1923 |
13.0 - 19.0 |
Russian Civil War |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 7 nov. 1917 |
13.3 |
Founding of the Russian Socialist Federal Soviet Republic |
Russia |
| 9 nov. 1918 |
14.3 |
German Revolution |
Germany |
| 11 feb. 1919 - 28 feb. 1925 |
14.6 - 20.6 |
President of Germany: Friedrich Ebert |
Germany |
| 13 feb. 1919 - 20 jun. 1919 |
14.6 - 14.9 |
Chancellor of Germany: Philipp Scheidemann |
Germany |
| 6 mei 1919 - 8 aug. 1919 |
14.8 - 15.1 |
Third Anglo-Afghan War |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 1919 |
15.0 |
First transatlantic zeppelin flight |
Aviation History |
| 11 aug. 1919 |
15.1 |
Adoption of the Weimar Constitution |
Germany |
| 10 sep. 1919 |
15.2 |
Treaty of Saint-Germain |
Italy |
| 4 mrt. 1921 - 2 aug. 1923 |
16.6 - 19.1 |
President of the United States of America: Warren G. Harding |
USA - Presidents |
| 6 dec. 1921 |
17.4 |
Anglo-Irish Treaty |
Great Britain |
| 28 okt. 1922 |
18.3 |
Benito Mussolini becomes Prime Minister of Italy |
Italy |
| 2 aug. 1923 - 4 mrt. 1929 |
19.1 - 24.6 |
President of the United States of America: Calvin Coolidge |
USA - Presidents |
| 13 aug. 1923 - 23 nov. 1923 |
19.1 - 19.4 |
Chancellor of Germany: Gustav Stresemann |
Germany |
| 13 sep. 1923 |
19.2 |
Establishment of the military dictatorship |
Spain |
| 12 mei 1925 - 2 aug. 1934 |
20.8 - 30.1 |
President of Germany: Paul von Hindenburg |
Germany |
| 14 jun. 1928 - 9 okt. 1967 |
23.9 - 63.3 |
Life of Che Guevara |
Personalities |
| 1928 |
24.0 |
Discovery of penicillin |
Medicine |
| 15 jan. 1929 - 4 apr. 1968 |
24.5 - 63.8 |
Life of Martin Luther King |
Personalities |
| 4 mrt. 1929 - 4 mrt. 1933 |
24.6 - 28.6 |
President of the United States of America: Herbert Hoover |
USA - Presidents |
| 25 okt. 1929 |
25.3 |
'Black Friday' |
USA |
| 22 jan. 1930 - 1 mei 1931 |
25.5 - 26.8 |
Construction period of the Empire State Building |
Monuments |
| 30 mrt. 1930 - 30 mei 1932 |
25.7 - 27.9 |
Chancellor of Germany: Heinrich Brüning |
Germany |
| 5 aug. 1930 - 25 aug. 2012 |
26.1 - 108.2 |
Life of Neil Armstrong |
Personalities |
| 14 apr. 1931 |
26.8 |
Proclamation of the Second Spanish Republic |
Spain |
| 1931 |
27.0 |
Establishment of Porsche |
Companies |
| 11 dec. 1931 |
27.4 |
Statute of Westminster |
Great Britain |
| 1 jun. 1932 - 17 nov. 1932 |
27.9 - 28.4 |
Chancellor of Germany: Franz von Papen |
Germany |
| 3 dec. 1932 - 28 jan. 1933 |
28.4 - 28.6 |
Chancellor of Germany: Kurt von Schleicher |
Germany |
| 30 jan. 1933 - 30 apr. 1945 |
28.6 - 40.8 |
Chancellor of Germany: Adolf Hitler |
Germany |
| 28 feb. 1933 - 23 mrt. 1933 |
28.6 - 28.7 |
'Reichstag Fire Decree' and 'Enabling Act': De facto end of the Weimar Republic & beginning of Nazi dictatorship |
Germany |
| 4 mrt. 1933 - 12 apr. 1945 |
28.6 - 40.8 |
President of the United States of America: Franklin D. Roosevelt |
USA - Presidents |
| 1935 |
31.0 |
Italy occupies Ethiopia, the last remaining free territory in Africa. |
Discoveries & Colonization |
| 11 dec. 1936 - 6 feb. 1952 |
32.4 - 47.6 |
Queen consort of the United Kingdom: Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon 'Queen Mum' |
Great Britain |
| 6 mei 1937 |
32.8 |
Hindenburg disaster |
Aviation History |
| 1937 |
33.0 |
Construction period of the Golden Gate Bridge |
Monuments |
| 27 aug. 1939 |
35.1 |
First flight of turbine-equipped jet plane |
Aviation History |
| 1 sep. 1939 - 2 sep. 1945 |
35.1 - 41.2 |
World War II |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 14 mei 1940 |
35.8 |
Establishment of McDonald's |
Companies |
| 7 dec. 1941 |
37.4 |
Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor |
USA |
| 12 apr. 1945 - 20 jan. 1953 |
40.8 - 48.5 |
President of the United States of America: Harry S. Truman |
USA - Presidents |
| 25 apr. 1945 |
40.8 |
Establishment of the United Nations |
World |
| 8 mei 1945 |
40.8 |
Unconditional surrender of the German Empire |
Germany |
| 6 aug. 1945 - 9 aug. 1945 |
41.1 |
Nuclear bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki |
USA |
| 14 okt. 1946 |
42.3 |
Start of the 4th French Republic |
France |
| 14 okt. 1947 |
43.3 |
First supersonic flight of the Bell X-1 |
Aviation History |
| 21 dec. 1948 |
44.5 |
Republic of Ireland Act |
Great Britain |
| 23 mei 1949 |
44.9 |
Establishment of the Federal Republic of Germany |
Germany |
| 1949 |
45.0 |
Establishment of Circuit City |
Companies |
| 15 sep. 1949 - 16 okt. 1963 |
45.2 - 59.3 |
Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany: Konrad Adenauer |
Germany - Chancellors |
| 7 okt. 1949 |
45.3 |
Establishment of the German Democratic Republic |
Germany |
| 11 okt. 1949 - 7 sep. 1960 |
45.3 - 56.2 |
Wilhelm Pieck - State President of the GDR |
GDR |
| 17 jun. 1950 |
45.9 |
First successful organ transplant |
Medicine |
| 1950 - 1953 |
46.0 - 49.0 |
Korean War |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 22 jan. 1952 |
47.5 |
First jet airliner in regular commercial use |
Aviation History |
| 6 feb. 1952 - Heden |
47.6 |
Queen of the United Kingdom: Elizabeth II |
Great Britain |
| 20 jan. 1953 - 20 jan. 1961 |
48.5 - 56.5 |
President of the United States of America: Dwight D. Eisenhower |
USA - Presidents |
| 17 jun. 1953 |
48.9 |
Uprising of June 17, 1953 in East Germany |
Germany |
| 24 feb. 1955 - 5 okt. 2011 |
50.6 - 107.3 |
Life of Steven 'Steve' Paul Jobs |
Personalities |
| 4 okt. 1957 |
53.2 |
Sputnik launched: first artificial satellite in Earth's orbit |
Technology |
| 5 okt. 1958 |
54.3 |
Start of the 5th French Republic |
France |
| 1959 - 30 apr. 1975 |
55.0 - 70.8 |
Vietnam War |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 1960 - 1973 |
56.0 - 69.0 |
Walter Ulbricht - Chairman of the State Council of the GDR |
GDR |
| 20 jan. 1961 - 22 nov. 1963 |
56.5 - 59.4 |
President of the United States of America: John F. Kennedy |
USA - Presidents |
| 12 apr. 1961 |
56.8 |
First human in space |
Technology |
| 25 mei 1961 - 24 jul. 1975 |
56.9 - 71.1 |
Apollo Space Program |
Technology |
| 13 aug. 1961 |
57.1 |
Construction of the Berlin Wall |
Germany |
| 11 okt. 1962 - 8 dec. 1965 |
58.3 - 61.4 |
Second Vatican Council |
World |
| 16 okt. 1962 - 28 okt. 1962 |
58.3 |
Cuban Missile Crisis ('October Crisis') |
USA |
| 16 okt. 1963 - 1 dec. 1966 |
59.3 - 62.4 |
Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany: Ludwig Erhard |
Germany - Chancellors |
| 22 nov. 1963 - 20 jan. 1969 |
59.4 - 64.6 |
President of the United States of America: Lyndon B. Johnson |
USA - Presidents |
| 1966 - 1973 |
62.0 - 69.0 |
Construction period of the World Trade Center |
Monuments |
| 1 dec. 1966 - 21 okt. 1969 |
62.4 - 65.3 |
Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany: Kurt Georg Kiesinger |
Germany - Chancellors |
| 1967 |
63.0 |
Founding of the European Community (EC) |
European Union |
| 20 jan. 1969 - 9 aug. 1974 |
64.6 - 70.1 |
President of the United States of America: Richard Nixon |
USA - Presidents |
| 20 jul. 1969 |
65.0 |
First man on the moon |
Technology |
| 21 okt. 1969 - 7 mei 1974 |
65.3 - 69.8 |
Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany: Willy Brandt |
Germany - Chancellors |
| 31 okt. 1969 |
65.3 |
Establishment of Wal Mart |
Companies |
| 21 jul. 1972 |
68.1 |
Bloody Friday |
Great Britain |
| 1973 - 1976 |
69.0 - 72.0 |
Willi Stoph - Chairman of the Council of State of the GDR |
GDR |
| 16 mei 1974 - 1 okt. 1982 |
69.9 - 78.3 |
Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany: Helmut Schmidt |
Germany - Chancellors |
| 9 aug. 1974 - 20 jan. 1977 |
70.1 - 72.6 |
President of the United States of America: Gerald Ford |
USA - Presidents |
| 20 nov. 1975 |
71.4 |
Franco's Death, end of the Francoist regime |
Spain |
| 1 apr. 1976 |
71.8 |
Apple Computer is established |
Apple Inc. - Corporate History |
| 1976 - 1989 |
72.0 - 85.0 |
Erich Honecker - Chairman of the Council of State of the GDR |
GDR |
| 20 jan. 1977 - 20 jan. 1981 |
72.6 - 76.6 |
President of the United States of America: Jimmy Carter |
USA - Presidents |
| 16 apr. 1977 |
72.8 |
Introduction of the Apple II |
Apple Inc. - Corporate History |
| 27 dec. 1979 - 15 feb. 1989 |
75.5 - 84.6 |
Soviet-Afghan War (1979-1989) |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 22 sep. 1980 - 20 aug. 1988 |
76.2 - 84.1 |
First Gulf War ('Iran-Iraq War') |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 20 jan. 1981 - 20 jan. 1989 |
76.6 - 84.6 |
President of the United States of America: Ronald Reagan |
USA - Presidents |
| 2 apr. 1982 - 14 jun. 1982 |
77.8 - 78.0 |
Falklands War |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 1 okt. 1982 - 27 okt. 1998 |
78.3 - 94.3 |
Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany: Helmut Kohl |
Germany - Chancellors |
| 19 jan. 1983 |
78.6 |
Introduction of the Apple Lisa |
Apple Inc. - Corporate History |
| 1983 |
79.0 |
Discovery of HIV |
Medicine |
| 24 jan. 1984 |
79.6 |
Introduction of the Macintosh |
Apple Inc. - Corporate History |
| 20 jan. 1989 - 20 jan. 1993 |
84.6 - 88.6 |
President of the United States of America: George H. W. Bush |
USA - Presidents |
| 18 okt. 1989 - 3 dec. 1989 |
85.3 - 85.4 |
Egon Krenz - Chairman of the Council of State of the GDR |
GDR |
| 2 aug. 1990 - 28 feb. 1991 |
86.1 - 86.7 |
Second Gulf War ('Operation Desert Shield', 'Operation Desert Storm') |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 3 okt. 1990 |
86.3 |
German reunification |
Germany |
| 8 dec. 1991 |
87.4 |
Signing of the Belavezha Accords, declaring the Soviet Union dissolved |
Russia |
| 1992 - 1996 |
88.0 - 92.0 |
Afghan Civil War |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 20 jan. 1993 - 20 jan. 2001 |
88.6 - 96.6 |
President of the United States of America: Bill Clinton |
USA - Presidents |
| 4 aug. 1993 |
89.1 |
Introduction of the Apple Newton |
Apple Inc. - Corporate History |
| 1 nov. 1993 |
89.3 |
Founding of the European Union (EU) |
European Union |
| 1994 - 1996 |
90.0 - 92.0 |
First Chechen War ('War in Chechnya') |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 17 jan. 1995 |
90.6 |
Kobe earthquake |
Disasters |
| 1998 - 2003 |
94.0 - 99.0 |
Second Congo War ('Great War of Africa') |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 1998 - 1999 |
94.0 - 95.0 |
Kosovo War ('Kosovo Conflict') |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 15 aug. 1998 |
94.1 |
Introduction of the Apple iMac |
Apple Inc. - Corporate History |
| 27 okt. 1998 - 22 nov. 2005 |
94.3 - 101.4 |
Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany: Gerhard Schröder |
Germany - Chancellors |
| 1 jan. 1999 |
94.5 |
ECU as an internal accounting unit in the European Community |
European Union |
| 20 jan. 2001 - 20 jan. 2009 |
96.6 - 104.6 |
President of the United States of America: George W. Bush |
USA - Presidents |
| 11 sep. 2001 |
97.2 |
September 11 attacks ('9/11') |
USA |
| 7 okt. 2001 - Heden |
97.3 |
Afghanistan War |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 23 okt. 2001 |
97.3 |
Apple iPod introduced |
Apple Inc. - Corporate History |
| 1 jan. 2002 |
97.5 |
Introduction of the Euro |
European Union |
| 20 mrt. 2003 - 1 mei 2003 |
98.7 - 98.9 |
Third Gulf War ('Iraq War') |
Wars & Military Conflicts |