13. dec. 1816 - 6. dec. 1892 |
(-75.8) - 0.3 |
Life of Werner von Siemens |
Personalities |
15. dec. 1832 - 27. dec. 1923 |
(-59.8) - 31.3 |
Life of Gustave Eiffel |
Personalities |
17. mar. 1834 - 6. mar. 1900 |
(-58.5) - 7.5 |
Life of Gottlieb Wilhelm Daimler |
Personalities |
20. jun. 1837 - 22. jan. 1901 |
(-55.2) - 8.4 |
Queen of the United Kingdom: Victoria |
Great Britain |
8. jul. 1838 - 8. mar. 1917 |
(-54.2) - 24.5 |
Life of Ferdinand von Zeppelin |
Personalities |
11. dec. 1843 - 27. maj 1910 |
(-48.8) - 17.7 |
Life of Robert Koch |
Personalities |
25. nov. 1844 - 4. apr. 1929 |
(-47.8) - 36.6 |
Life of Carl Benz |
Personalities |
11. feb. 1847 - 18. okt. 1931 |
(-45.6) - 39.2 |
Life of Thomas Alva Edison |
Personalities |
3. mar. 1847 - 1. aug. 1922 |
(-45.5) - 29.9 |
Life of Alexander Graham Bell |
Personalities |
6. maj 1856 - 23. sep. 1939 |
(-36.3) - 47.1 |
Life of Sigmund Freud |
Personalities |
23. sep. 1861 - 12. mar. 1942 |
(-31.0) - 49.6 |
Life of Robert Bosch |
Personalities |
30. jul. 1863 - 7. apr. 1947 |
(-29.1) - 54.6 |
Life of Henry Ford |
Personalities |
16. okt. 1863 - 17. mar. 1937 |
(-28.9) - 44.6 |
Life of Joseph Austen Chamberlain |
Personalities |
22. apr. 1870 - 21. jan. 1924 |
(-22.4) - 31.4 |
Life of Vladimir Lenin |
Personalities |
30. nov. 1874 - 24. jan. 1965 |
(-17.8) - 72.4 |
Life of Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill |
Personalities |
5. jan. 1876 - 19. apr. 1967 |
(-16.7) - 74.7 |
Life of Konrad Adenauer |
Personalities |
14. mar. 1879 - 18. apr. 1955 |
(-13.5) - 62.7 |
Life of Albert Einstein |
Personalities |
6. aug. 1881 - 11. mar. 1955 |
(-11.1) - 62.6 |
Life of Alexander Fleming |
Personalities |
21. jan. 1884 - 12. dec. 1963 |
(-8.6) - 71.3 |
Life of Theodor Heuss |
Personalities |
15. jun. 1888 - 9. nov. 1918 |
(-4.2) - 26.2 |
German Emperor: Wilhelm II |
Germany |
4. mar. 1889 - 4. mar. 1893 |
(-3.5) - 0.5 |
President of the United States of America: Benjamin Harrison |
USA - Presidents |
7. apr. 1889 - 2. sep. 1898 |
(-3.4) - 6.0 |
President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints: Wilford Woodruff |
Mormon History |
20. apr. 1889 - 30. apr. 1945 |
(-3.4) - 52.7 |
Life of Adolf Hitler |
Personalities |
14. okt. 1890 - 28. mar. 1969 |
(-1.9) - 76.6 |
Life of Dwight David Eisenhower |
Personalities |
23. nov. 1890 - 4. sep. 1948 |
(-1.8) - 56.0 |
Queen of the Netherlands: Wilhelmina |
Netherlands |
4. mar. 1893 - 4. mar. 1897 |
0.5 - 4.5 |
President of the United States of America: Grover Cleveland |
USA - Presidents |
6. apr. 1893 |
0.6 |
Dedication of the Salt Lake Temple |
Mormon History |
1896 |
3.8 |
Establishment of IBM (International Business Machines Corp., formerly 'Computing Tabulating Recording Corp. (CTR)') |
Companies |
1896 - 1897 |
3.8 - 4.8 |
Matabele Wars ('Ndebele Matabele War') |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
4. mar. 1897 - 14. sep. 1901 |
4.5 - 9.0 |
President of the United States of America: William McKinley |
USA - Presidents |
13. sep. 1898 - 10. okt. 1901 |
6.0 - 9.1 |
President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints: Lorenzo Snow |
Mormon History |
11. okt. 1899 - 31. maj 1902 |
7.1 - 9.7 |
Second Boer War ('Second South African War') |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
8. sep. 1900 |
8.0 |
Galveston hurricane; destruction of the city of Galveston, Texas |
Disasters |
22. jan. 1901 - 6. maj 1910 |
8.4 - 17.7 |
King of the United Kingdom: Edward VII |
Great Britain |
14. sep. 1901 - 4. mar. 1909 |
9.0 - 16.5 |
President of the United States of America: Theodore Roosevelt |
USA - Presidents |
17. okt. 1901 - 19. nov. 1918 |
9.1 - 26.2 |
President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints: Joseph F. Smith Sr. |
Mormon History |
19. okt. 1901 |
9.1 |
First motorized zeppelin flight |
Aviation History |
5. dec. 1901 - 15. dec. 1966 |
9.3 - 74.3 |
Life of Walter Elias Disney |
Personalities |
16. jun. 1903 |
10.8 |
Establishment of Ford Motor Company |
Companies |
16. dec. 1903 |
11.3 |
First controlled powered human flight by the Wright brothers |
Aviation History |
1904 - 1908 |
11.8 - 15.8 |
Herero and Namaqua Uprising ('Herero and Namaqua Genocide') |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
18. apr. 1906 |
13.6 |
San Francisco earthquake of 1906 |
Disasters |
1907 |
14.8 |
First helicopter flight |
Aviation History |
16. sep. 1908 |
16.0 |
Establishment of General Motors |
Companies |
27. sep. 1908 |
16.1 |
Introduction of the Ford Model T |
Automobile History |
4. mar. 1909 - 4. mar. 1913 |
16.5 - 20.5 |
President of the United States of America: William Howard Taft |
USA - Presidents |
1909 |
16.8 |
Discovery of antibiotics |
Medicine |
6. maj 1910 - 20. jan. 1936 |
17.7 - 43.4 |
King of the United Kingdom: George V |
Great Britain |
30. maj 1911 |
18.8 |
First 'Indy 500' race in Indianapolis |
Automobile History |
30. maj 1911 |
18.8 |
One in seven families in the US owns a car |
Automobile History |
23. okt. 1911 |
19.2 |
First military use of an airplane |
Aviation History |
4. mar. 1913 - 4. mar. 1921 |
20.5 - 28.5 |
President of the United States of America: Woodrow Wilson |
USA - Presidents |
14. jun. 1914 - 15. jun. 1914 |
21.8 |
First transatlantic flight |
Aviation History |
28. jun. 1914 - 11. nov. 1918 |
21.8 - 26.2 |
World War I |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
6. aug. 1914 - 25. nov. 1918 |
21.9 - 26.2 |
East African Campaign (World War I) |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
13. sep. 1914 - 9. jul. 1915 |
22.0 - 22.9 |
South-West Africa Campaign (World War I) |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
14. okt. 1914 - 24. okt. 1914 |
22.1 - 22.2 |
Maritz Rebellion |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
24. apr. 1916 - 30. apr. 1916 |
23.7 |
Easter Rising |
Great Britain |
1916 |
23.8 |
Establishment of BMW (Bayerische Motoren Werke AG) |
Companies |
8. mar. 1917 - 12. mar. 1917 |
24.5 |
Russian February Revolution |
Russia |
29. maj 1917 - 22. nov. 1963 |
24.8 - 71.3 |
Life of John F. Kennedy |
Personalities |
1917 - 1923 |
24.8 - 30.8 |
Russian Civil War |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
7. nov. 1917 |
25.2 |
Founding of the Russian Socialist Federal Soviet Republic |
Russia |
9. nov. 1918 |
26.2 |
German Revolution |
Germany |
23. nov. 1918 - 14. maj 1945 |
26.2 - 52.7 |
President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints: Heber J. Grant |
Mormon History |
11. feb. 1919 - 28. feb. 1925 |
26.5 - 32.5 |
President of Germany: Friedrich Ebert |
Germany |
13. feb. 1919 - 20. jun. 1919 |
26.5 - 26.8 |
Chancellor of Germany: Philipp Scheidemann |
Germany |
6. maj 1919 - 8. aug. 1919 |
26.7 - 26.9 |
Third Anglo-Afghan War |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
1919 |
26.8 |
First transatlantic zeppelin flight |
Aviation History |
11. aug. 1919 |
27.0 |
Adoption of the Weimar Constitution |
Germany |
10. sep. 1919 |
27.0 |
Treaty of Saint-Germain |
Italy |
4. mar. 1921 - 2. aug. 1923 |
28.5 - 30.9 |
President of the United States of America: Warren G. Harding |
USA - Presidents |
6. dec. 1921 |
29.3 |
Anglo-Irish Treaty |
Great Britain |
28. okt. 1922 |
30.2 |
Benito Mussolini becomes Prime Minister of Italy |
Italy |
2. aug. 1923 - 4. mar. 1929 |
30.9 - 36.5 |
President of the United States of America: Calvin Coolidge |
USA - Presidents |
13. aug. 1923 - 23. nov. 1923 |
31.0 - 31.2 |
Chancellor of Germany: Gustav Stresemann |
Germany |
13. sep. 1923 |
31.0 |
Establishment of the military dictatorship |
Spain |
12. maj 1925 - 2. aug. 1934 |
32.7 - 41.9 |
President of Germany: Paul von Hindenburg |
Germany |
14. jun. 1928 - 9. okt. 1967 |
35.8 - 75.2 |
Life of Che Guevara |
Personalities |
1928 |
35.8 |
Discovery of penicillin |
Medicine |
15. jan. 1929 - 4. apr. 1968 |
36.4 - 75.6 |
Life of Martin Luther King |
Personalities |
4. mar. 1929 - 4. mar. 1933 |
36.5 - 40.5 |
President of the United States of America: Herbert Hoover |
USA - Presidents |
25. okt. 1929 |
37.2 |
'Black Friday' |
USA |
22. jan. 1930 - 1. maj 1931 |
37.4 - 38.7 |
Construction period of the Empire State Building |
Monuments |
30. mar. 1930 - 30. maj 1932 |
37.6 - 39.8 |
Chancellor of Germany: Heinrich Brüning |
Germany |
5. aug. 1930 - 25. aug. 2012 |
37.9 - 120.1 |
Life of Neil Armstrong |
Personalities |
14. apr. 1931 |
38.6 |
Proclamation of the Second Spanish Republic |
Spain |
1931 |
38.8 |
Establishment of Porsche |
Companies |
11. dec. 1931 |
39.3 |
Statute of Westminster |
Great Britain |
1. jun. 1932 - 17. nov. 1932 |
39.8 - 40.2 |
Chancellor of Germany: Franz von Papen |
Germany |
3. dec. 1932 - 28. jan. 1933 |
40.3 - 40.4 |
Chancellor of Germany: Kurt von Schleicher |
Germany |
30. jan. 1933 - 30. apr. 1945 |
40.4 - 52.7 |
Chancellor of Germany: Adolf Hitler |
Germany |
28. feb. 1933 - 23. mar. 1933 |
40.5 - 40.6 |
'Reichstag Fire Decree' and 'Enabling Act': De facto end of the Weimar Republic & beginning of Nazi dictatorship |
Germany |
4. mar. 1933 - 12. apr. 1945 |
40.5 - 52.6 |
President of the United States of America: Franklin D. Roosevelt |
USA - Presidents |
1935 |
42.9 |
Italy occupies Ethiopia, the last remaining free territory in Africa. |
Discoveries & Colonization |
20. jan. 1936 - 11. dec. 1936 |
43.4 - 44.3 |
King of the United Kingdom: Edward VIII |
Great Britain |
11. dec. 1936 - 6. feb. 1952 |
44.3 - 59.5 |
King of the United Kingdom: George VI |
Great Britain |
11. dec. 1936 - 6. feb. 1952 |
44.3 - 59.5 |
Queen consort of the United Kingdom: Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon 'Queen Mum' |
Great Britain |
6. maj 1937 |
44.7 |
Hindenburg disaster |
Aviation History |
1937 |
44.9 |
Construction period of the Golden Gate Bridge |
Monuments |
27. aug. 1939 |
47.0 |
First flight of turbine-equipped jet plane |
Aviation History |
1. sep. 1939 - 2. sep. 1945 |
47.0 - 53.0 |
World War II |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
14. maj 1940 |
47.7 |
Establishment of McDonald's |
Companies |
7. dec. 1941 |
49.3 |
Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor |
USA |
12. apr. 1945 - 20. jan. 1953 |
52.6 - 60.4 |
President of the United States of America: Harry S. Truman |
USA - Presidents |
25. apr. 1945 |
52.7 |
Establishment of the United Nations |
World |
8. maj 1945 |
52.7 |
Unconditional surrender of the German Empire |
Germany |
21. maj 1945 - 4. apr. 1951 |
52.8 - 58.6 |
President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints: George Albert Smith |
Mormon History |
6. aug. 1945 - 9. aug. 1945 |
53.0 |
Nuclear bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki |
USA |
14. okt. 1946 |
54.2 |
Start of the 4th French Republic |
France |
14. okt. 1947 |
55.2 |
First supersonic flight of the Bell X-1 |
Aviation History |
4. sep. 1948 - 30. apr. 1980 |
56.0 - 87.7 |
Queen of the Netherlands: Juliana |
Netherlands |
21. dec. 1948 |
56.3 |
Republic of Ireland Act |
Great Britain |
23. maj 1949 |
56.8 |
Establishment of the Federal Republic of Germany |
Germany |
1949 |
56.9 |
Establishment of Circuit City |
Companies |
15. sep. 1949 - 16. okt. 1963 |
57.1 - 71.2 |
Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany: Konrad Adenauer |
Germany - Chancellors |
7. okt. 1949 |
57.1 |
Establishment of the German Democratic Republic |
Germany |
11. okt. 1949 - 7. sep. 1960 |
57.1 - 68.1 |
Wilhelm Pieck - State President of the GDR |
GDR |
17. jun. 1950 |
57.8 |
First successful organ transplant |
Medicine |
1950 - 1953 |
57.9 - 60.9 |
Korean War |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
9. apr. 1951 - 18. jan. 1970 |
58.6 - 77.4 |
President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints: David O. McKay |
Mormon History |
22. jan. 1952 |
59.4 |
First jet airliner in regular commercial use |
Aviation History |
6. feb. 1952 - I dag |
59.5 |
Queen of the United Kingdom: Elizabeth II |
Great Britain |
20. jan. 1953 - 20. jan. 1961 |
60.4 - 68.4 |
President of the United States of America: Dwight D. Eisenhower |
USA - Presidents |
17. jun. 1953 |
60.8 |
Uprising of June 17, 1953 in East Germany |
Germany |
4. jul. 1954 |
61.9 |
FIFA World Cup Champion 1954: Germany |
Germany |
24. feb. 1955 - 5. okt. 2011 |
62.5 - 119.2 |
Life of Steven 'Steve' Paul Jobs |
Personalities |
4. okt. 1957 |
65.1 |
Sputnik launched: first artificial satellite in Earth's orbit |
Technology |
5. okt. 1958 |
66.1 |
Start of the 5th French Republic |
France |
8. jan. 1959 - 28. apr. 1969 |
66.4 - 76.7 |
President of France: Charles de Gaulle |
France |
1959 - 30. apr. 1975 |
66.9 - 82.7 |
Vietnam War |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
1960 - 1973 |
67.9 - 80.9 |
Walter Ulbricht - Chairman of the State Council of the GDR |
GDR |
20. jan. 1961 - 22. nov. 1963 |
68.4 - 71.3 |
President of the United States of America: John F. Kennedy |
USA - Presidents |
12. apr. 1961 |
68.7 |
First human in space |
Technology |
25. maj 1961 - 24. jul. 1975 |
68.8 - 82.9 |
Apollo Space Program |
Technology |
13. aug. 1961 |
69.0 |
Construction of the Berlin Wall |
Germany |
11. okt. 1962 - 8. dec. 1965 |
70.2 - 73.3 |
Second Vatican Council |
World |
16. okt. 1962 - 28. okt. 1962 |
70.2 |
Cuban Missile Crisis ('October Crisis') |
USA |
16. okt. 1963 - 1. dec. 1966 |
71.2 - 74.3 |
Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany: Ludwig Erhard |
Germany - Chancellors |
22. nov. 1963 - 20. jan. 1969 |
71.3 - 76.4 |
President of the United States of America: Lyndon B. Johnson |
USA - Presidents |
1966 - 1973 |
73.9 - 80.9 |
Construction period of the World Trade Center |
Monuments |
1. dec. 1966 - 21. okt. 1969 |
74.3 - 77.2 |
Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany: Kurt Georg Kiesinger |
Germany - Chancellors |
1967 |
74.9 |
Founding of the European Community (EC) |
European Union |
20. jan. 1969 - 9. aug. 1974 |
76.4 - 82.0 |
President of the United States of America: Richard Nixon |
USA - Presidents |
20. jun. 1969 - 2. apr. 1974 |
76.8 - 81.6 |
President of France: Georges Pompidou |
France |
20. jul. 1969 |
76.9 |
First man on the moon |
Technology |
21. okt. 1969 - 7. maj 1974 |
77.2 - 81.7 |
Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany: Willy Brandt |
Germany - Chancellors |
31. okt. 1969 |
77.2 |
Establishment of Wal Mart |
Companies |
23. jan. 1970 - 2. jul. 1972 |
77.4 - 79.9 |
President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints: Joseph Fielding Smith |
Mormon History |
7. jul. 1972 - 26. dec. 1973 |
79.9 - 81.4 |
President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints: Joseph Fielding Smith |
Mormon History |
21. jul. 1972 |
79.9 |
Bloody Friday |
Great Britain |
1973 - 1976 |
80.9 - 83.9 |
Willi Stoph - Chairman of the Council of State of the GDR |
GDR |
30. dec. 1973 - 5. nov. 1985 |
81.4 - 93.2 |
President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints: Spencer W. Kimball |
Mormon History |
16. maj 1974 - 1. okt. 1982 |
81.8 - 90.1 |
Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany: Helmut Schmidt |
Germany - Chancellors |
27. maj 1974 - 21. maj 1981 |
81.8 - 88.8 |
President of France: Valéry Giscard d'Estaing |
France |
7. jul. 1974 |
81.9 |
FIFA World Cup Champion 1974: Germany |
Germany |
8. jul. 1974 - 8. jul. 1990 |
81.9 - 97.9 |
FIFA World Cup Champion 1990: Germany |
Germany |
13. jul. 1974 - 13. jul. 2014 |
81.9 - 121.9 |
FIFA World Cup Champion 2014: Germany |
Germany |
9. aug. 1974 - 20. jan. 1977 |
82.0 - 84.4 |
President of the United States of America: Gerald Ford |
USA - Presidents |
20. nov. 1975 |
83.3 |
Franco's Death, end of the Francoist regime |
Spain |
1. apr. 1976 |
83.6 |
Apple Computer is established |
Apple Inc. - Corporate History |
1976 - 1989 |
83.9 - 96.9 |
Erich Honecker - Chairman of the Council of State of the GDR |
GDR |
20. jan. 1977 - 20. jan. 1981 |
84.4 - 88.4 |
President of the United States of America: Jimmy Carter |
USA - Presidents |
16. apr. 1977 |
84.7 |
Introduction of the Apple II |
Apple Inc. - Corporate History |
27. dec. 1979 - 15. feb. 1989 |
87.4 - 96.5 |
Soviet-Afghan War (1979-1989) |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
30. apr. 1980 - 30. apr. 2013 |
87.7 - 120.7 |
Queen of the Netherlands: Beatrix |
Netherlands |
22. sep. 1980 - 20. aug. 1988 |
88.1 - 96.0 |
First Gulf War ('Iran-Iraq War') |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
20. jan. 1981 - 20. jan. 1989 |
88.4 - 96.4 |
President of the United States of America: Ronald Reagan |
USA - Presidents |
21. maj 1981 - 17. maj 1995 |
88.8 - 102.8 |
President of France: François Mitterrand |
France |
2. apr. 1982 - 14. jun. 1982 |
89.6 - 89.8 |
Falklands War |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
1. okt. 1982 - 27. okt. 1998 |
90.1 - 106.2 |
Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany: Helmut Kohl |
Germany - Chancellors |
19. jan. 1983 |
90.4 |
Introduction of the Apple Lisa |
Apple Inc. - Corporate History |
1983 |
90.9 |
Discovery of HIV |
Medicine |
24. jan. 1984 |
91.5 |
Introduction of the Macintosh |
Apple Inc. - Corporate History |
10. nov. 1985 - 30. maj 1994 |
93.3 - 101.8 |
President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints: Ezra Taft Benson |
Mormon History |
20. jan. 1989 - 20. jan. 1993 |
96.4 - 100.5 |
President of the United States of America: George H. W. Bush |
USA - Presidents |
18. okt. 1989 - 3. dec. 1989 |
97.2 - 97.3 |
Egon Krenz - Chairman of the Council of State of the GDR |
GDR |
2. aug. 1990 - 28. feb. 1991 |
98.0 - 98.6 |
Second Gulf War ('Operation Desert Shield', 'Operation Desert Storm') |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
3. okt. 1990 |
98.2 |
German reunification |
Germany |
8. dec. 1991 |
99.3 |
Signing of the Belavezha Accords, declaring the Soviet Union dissolved |
Russia |
1992 - 1996 |
99.9 - 103.9 |
Afghan Civil War |
Wars & Military Conflicts |