| 12. feb. 1809 - 19. apr. 1882 |
(-63.4) - 9.8 |
Life of Charles Robert Darwin |
Personalities |
| 13. dec. 1816 - 6. dec. 1892 |
(-55.6) - 20.4 |
Life of Werner von Siemens |
Personalities |
| 30. dec. 1819 - 20. sep. 1890 |
(-52.5) - 18.2 |
Life of Theodor Fontane |
Personalities |
| 15. dec. 1832 - 27. dec. 1923 |
(-39.6) - 51.5 |
Life of Gustave Eiffel |
Personalities |
| 17. mar. 1834 - 6. mar. 1900 |
(-38.3) - 27.7 |
Life of Gottlieb Wilhelm Daimler |
Personalities |
| 20. jun. 1837 - 22. jan. 1901 |
(-35.1) - 28.6 |
Queen of the United Kingdom: Victoria |
Great Britain |
| 8. jul. 1838 - 8. mar. 1917 |
(-34.0) - 44.7 |
Life of Ferdinand von Zeppelin |
Personalities |
| 11. dec. 1843 - 27. maj 1910 |
(-28.6) - 37.9 |
Life of Robert Koch |
Personalities |
| 25. nov. 1844 - 4. apr. 1929 |
(-27.6) - 56.8 |
Life of Carl Benz |
Personalities |
| 11. feb. 1847 - 18. okt. 1931 |
(-25.4) - 59.3 |
Life of Thomas Alva Edison |
Personalities |
| 3. mar. 1847 - 1. aug. 1922 |
(-25.3) - 50.1 |
Life of Alexander Graham Bell |
Personalities |
| 27. dec. 1847 - 29. aug. 1877 |
(-24.5) - 5.2 |
President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints: Brigham Young |
Mormon History |
| 17. mar. 1849 - 23. nov. 1890 |
(-23.3) - 18.4 |
King of the Netherlands: Willem III |
Netherlands |
| 6. maj 1856 - 23. sep. 1939 |
(-16.2) - 67.3 |
Life of Sigmund Freud |
Personalities |
| 23. sep. 1861 - 12. mar. 1942 |
(-10.8) - 69.7 |
Life of Robert Bosch |
Personalities |
| 30. jul. 1863 - 7. apr. 1947 |
(-8.9) - 74.8 |
Life of Henry Ford |
Personalities |
| 16. okt. 1863 - 17. mar. 1937 |
(-8.7) - 64.8 |
Life of Joseph Austen Chamberlain |
Personalities |
| 1868 - 1878 |
(-4.0) - 6.0 |
Ten Years' War ('Great War') |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 4. mar. 1869 - 4. mar. 1877 |
(-3.3) - 4.7 |
President of the United States of America: Ulysses S. Grant |
USA - Presidents |
| 5. sep. 1869 - 1884 |
(-2.8) - 12.0 |
Construction period of Neuschwanstein Castle |
Monuments |
| 22. apr. 1870 - 21. jan. 1924 |
(-2.2) - 51.6 |
Life of Vladimir Lenin |
Personalities |
| 18. jan. 1871 - 9. mar. 1888 |
(-1.4) - 15.7 |
German Emperor: Wilhelm I |
Germany |
| 4. maj 1871 - 20. mar. 1890 |
(-1.2) - 17.7 |
Chancellor of the German Empire: Otto von Bismarck |
Germany |
| 30. nov. 1874 - 24. jan. 1965 |
2.4 - 92.6 |
Life of Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill |
Personalities |
| 5. jan. 1876 - 19. apr. 1967 |
3.5 - 94.9 |
Life of Konrad Adenauer |
Personalities |
| 4. mar. 1877 - 4. mar. 1881 |
4.7 - 8.7 |
President of the United States of America: Rutherford B. Hayes |
USA - Presidents |
| 1878 - 1881 |
6.0 - 9.0 |
Second Anglo-Afghan War |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 1878 |
6.0 |
Establishment of Bell Telephone Company |
Companies |
| 31. dec. 1878 |
6.5 |
First two-stroke internal combustion gas engine |
Automobile History |
| 14. mar. 1879 - 18. apr. 1955 |
6.7 - 82.9 |
Life of Albert Einstein |
Personalities |
| 1879 |
7.0 |
Discovery of plague vaccine |
Medicine |
| 1879 |
7.0 |
Anglo-Zulu War |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 1879 |
7.0 |
Discovery of cholera vaccine |
Medicine |
| 10. okt. 1880 - 25. jul. 1887 |
8.3 - 15.1 |
President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints: John Taylor |
Mormon History |
| 20. dec. 1880 - 23. mar. 1881 |
8.5 - 8.7 |
First Boer War ('First South African War') |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 4. mar. 1881 - 19. sep. 1881 |
8.7 - 9.2 |
President of the United States of America: James A. Garfield |
USA - Presidents |
| 6. aug. 1881 - 11. mar. 1955 |
9.1 - 82.7 |
Life of Alexander Fleming |
Personalities |
| 19. sep. 1881 - 4. mar. 1885 |
9.2 - 12.7 |
President of the United States of America: Chester A. Arthur |
USA - Presidents |
| 1882 |
10.0 |
Britain occupies Egypt |
Discoveries & Colonization |
| 1882 |
10.0 |
Establishment of Peugeot |
Companies |
| 21. jan. 1884 - 12. dec. 1963 |
11.6 - 91.5 |
Life of Theodor Heuss |
Personalities |
| 1884 |
12.0 |
First controlled flight of a Zeppelin |
Aviation History |
| 15. nov. 1884 - 26. feb. 1885 |
12.4 - 12.7 |
Berlin Conference ('Congo Conference') |
Discoveries & Colonization |
| 4. mar. 1885 - 4. mar. 1889 |
12.7 - 16.7 |
President of the United States of America: Grover Cleveland |
USA - Presidents |
| 1886 |
14.0 |
Establishment of Johnson & Johnson |
Companies |
| 1886 |
14.0 |
Establishment of the Coca Cola Company |
Companies |
| 28. okt. 1886 |
14.3 |
Construction period of the Statue of Liberty |
Monuments |
| 1887 - 1889 |
15.0 - 17.0 |
Construction period of the Eiffel Tower |
Monuments |
| 1887 |
15.0 |
Huang He flood |
Disasters |
| 9. mar. 1888 - 15. jun. 1888 |
15.7 - 16.0 |
German Emperor: Friedrich III |
Germany |
| 15. jun. 1888 - 9. nov. 1918 |
16.0 - 46.4 |
German Emperor: Wilhelm II |
Germany |
| 1888 |
16.0 |
First commercially manufactured automobile by Karl Benz |
Automobile History |
| 4. mar. 1889 - 4. mar. 1893 |
16.7 - 20.7 |
President of the United States of America: Benjamin Harrison |
USA - Presidents |
| 7. apr. 1889 - 2. sep. 1898 |
16.8 - 26.2 |
President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints: Wilford Woodruff |
Mormon History |
| 20. apr. 1889 - 30. apr. 1945 |
16.8 - 72.9 |
Life of Adolf Hitler |
Personalities |
| 1890 |
18.0 |
Establishment of Daimler |
Companies |
| 1890 |
18.0 |
Establishment of General Electric |
Companies |
| 14. okt. 1890 - 28. mar. 1969 |
18.3 - 96.8 |
Life of Dwight David Eisenhower |
Personalities |
| 23. nov. 1890 - 4. sep. 1948 |
18.4 - 76.2 |
Queen of the Netherlands: Wilhelmina |
Netherlands |
| 4. mar. 1893 - 4. mar. 1897 |
20.7 - 24.7 |
President of the United States of America: Grover Cleveland |
USA - Presidents |
| 6. apr. 1893 |
20.8 |
Dedication of the Salt Lake Temple |
Mormon History |
| 1896 |
24.0 |
Establishment of IBM (International Business Machines Corp., formerly 'Computing Tabulating Recording Corp. (CTR)') |
Companies |
| 1896 - 1897 |
24.0 - 25.0 |
Matabele Wars ('Ndebele Matabele War') |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 4. mar. 1897 - 14. sep. 1901 |
24.7 - 29.2 |
President of the United States of America: William McKinley |
USA - Presidents |
| 13. sep. 1898 - 10. okt. 1901 |
26.2 - 29.3 |
President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints: Lorenzo Snow |
Mormon History |
| 11. okt. 1899 - 31. maj 1902 |
27.3 - 29.9 |
Second Boer War ('Second South African War') |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 8. sep. 1900 |
28.2 |
Galveston hurricane; destruction of the city of Galveston, Texas |
Disasters |
| 22. jan. 1901 - 6. maj 1910 |
28.6 - 37.9 |
King of the United Kingdom: Edward VII |
Great Britain |
| 14. sep. 1901 - 4. mar. 1909 |
29.2 - 36.7 |
President of the United States of America: Theodore Roosevelt |
USA - Presidents |
| 17. okt. 1901 - 19. nov. 1918 |
29.3 - 46.4 |
President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints: Joseph F. Smith Sr. |
Mormon History |
| 19. okt. 1901 |
29.3 |
First motorized zeppelin flight |
Aviation History |
| 5. dec. 1901 - 15. dec. 1966 |
29.4 - 94.5 |
Life of Walter Elias Disney |
Personalities |
| 16. jun. 1903 |
31.0 |
Establishment of Ford Motor Company |
Companies |
| 16. dec. 1903 |
31.5 |
First controlled powered human flight by the Wright brothers |
Aviation History |
| 1904 - 1908 |
32.0 - 36.0 |
Herero and Namaqua Uprising ('Herero and Namaqua Genocide') |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 18. apr. 1906 |
33.8 |
San Francisco earthquake of 1906 |
Disasters |
| 1907 |
35.0 |
First helicopter flight |
Aviation History |
| 16. sep. 1908 |
36.2 |
Establishment of General Motors |
Companies |
| 27. sep. 1908 |
36.3 |
Introduction of the Ford Model T |
Automobile History |
| 4. mar. 1909 - 4. mar. 1913 |
36.7 - 40.7 |
President of the United States of America: William Howard Taft |
USA - Presidents |
| 1909 |
37.0 |
Discovery of antibiotics |
Medicine |
| 6. maj 1910 - 20. jan. 1936 |
37.9 - 63.6 |
King of the United Kingdom: George V |
Great Britain |
| 30. maj 1911 |
38.9 |
First 'Indy 500' race in Indianapolis |
Automobile History |
| 30. maj 1911 |
38.9 |
One in seven families in the US owns a car |
Automobile History |
| 23. okt. 1911 |
39.3 |
First military use of an airplane |
Aviation History |
| 4. mar. 1913 - 4. mar. 1921 |
40.7 - 48.7 |
President of the United States of America: Woodrow Wilson |
USA - Presidents |
| 14. jun. 1914 - 15. jun. 1914 |
42.0 |
First transatlantic flight |
Aviation History |
| 28. jun. 1914 - 11. nov. 1918 |
42.0 - 46.4 |
World War I |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 6. aug. 1914 - 25. nov. 1918 |
42.1 - 46.4 |
East African Campaign (World War I) |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 13. sep. 1914 - 9. jul. 1915 |
42.2 - 43.0 |
South-West Africa Campaign (World War I) |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 14. okt. 1914 - 24. okt. 1914 |
42.3 |
Maritz Rebellion |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 24. apr. 1916 - 30. apr. 1916 |
43.8 - 43.9 |
Easter Rising |
Great Britain |
| 1916 |
44.0 |
Establishment of BMW (Bayerische Motoren Werke AG) |
Companies |
| 8. mar. 1917 - 12. mar. 1917 |
44.7 |
Russian February Revolution |
Russia |
| 29. maj 1917 - 22. nov. 1963 |
44.9 - 91.5 |
Life of John F. Kennedy |
Personalities |
| 1917 - 1923 |
45.0 - 51.0 |
Russian Civil War |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 7. nov. 1917 |
45.4 |
Founding of the Russian Socialist Federal Soviet Republic |
Russia |
| 9. nov. 1918 |
46.4 |
German Revolution |
Germany |
| 23. nov. 1918 - 14. maj 1945 |
46.4 - 72.9 |
President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints: Heber J. Grant |
Mormon History |
| 11. feb. 1919 - 28. feb. 1925 |
46.6 - 52.7 |
President of Germany: Friedrich Ebert |
Germany |
| 13. feb. 1919 - 20. jun. 1919 |
46.7 - 47.0 |
Chancellor of Germany: Philipp Scheidemann |
Germany |
| 6. maj 1919 - 8. aug. 1919 |
46.9 - 47.1 |
Third Anglo-Afghan War |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 1919 |
47.0 |
First transatlantic zeppelin flight |
Aviation History |
| 11. aug. 1919 |
47.1 |
Adoption of the Weimar Constitution |
Germany |
| 10. sep. 1919 |
47.2 |
Treaty of Saint-Germain |
Italy |
| 4. mar. 1921 - 2. aug. 1923 |
48.7 - 51.1 |
President of the United States of America: Warren G. Harding |
USA - Presidents |
| 6. dec. 1921 |
49.5 |
Anglo-Irish Treaty |
Great Britain |
| 28. okt. 1922 |
50.4 |
Benito Mussolini becomes Prime Minister of Italy |
Italy |
| 2. aug. 1923 - 4. mar. 1929 |
51.1 - 56.7 |
President of the United States of America: Calvin Coolidge |
USA - Presidents |
| 13. aug. 1923 - 23. nov. 1923 |
51.2 - 51.4 |
Chancellor of Germany: Gustav Stresemann |
Germany |
| 13. sep. 1923 |
51.2 |
Establishment of the military dictatorship |
Spain |
| 12. maj 1925 - 2. aug. 1934 |
52.9 - 62.1 |
President of Germany: Paul von Hindenburg |
Germany |
| 14. jun. 1928 - 9. okt. 1967 |
56.0 - 95.3 |
Life of Che Guevara |
Personalities |
| 1928 |
56.0 |
Discovery of penicillin |
Medicine |
| 15. jan. 1929 - 4. apr. 1968 |
56.6 - 95.8 |
Life of Martin Luther King |
Personalities |
| 4. mar. 1929 - 4. mar. 1933 |
56.7 - 60.7 |
President of the United States of America: Herbert Hoover |
USA - Presidents |
| 25. okt. 1929 |
57.4 |
'Black Friday' |
USA |
| 22. jan. 1930 - 1. maj 1931 |
57.6 - 58.9 |
Construction period of the Empire State Building |
Monuments |
| 30. mar. 1930 - 30. maj 1932 |
57.8 - 60.0 |
Chancellor of Germany: Heinrich Brüning |
Germany |
| 5. aug. 1930 - 25. aug. 2012 |
58.1 - 140.2 |
Life of Neil Armstrong |
Personalities |
| 14. apr. 1931 |
58.8 |
Proclamation of the Second Spanish Republic |
Spain |
| 1931 |
59.0 |
Establishment of Porsche |
Companies |
| 11. dec. 1931 |
59.5 |
Statute of Westminster |
Great Britain |
| 1. jun. 1932 - 17. nov. 1932 |
60.0 - 60.4 |
Chancellor of Germany: Franz von Papen |
Germany |
| 3. dec. 1932 - 28. jan. 1933 |
60.5 - 60.6 |
Chancellor of Germany: Kurt von Schleicher |
Germany |
| 30. jan. 1933 - 30. apr. 1945 |
60.6 - 72.9 |
Chancellor of Germany: Adolf Hitler |
Germany |
| 28. feb. 1933 - 23. mar. 1933 |
60.7 - 60.8 |
'Reichstag Fire Decree' and 'Enabling Act': De facto end of the Weimar Republic & beginning of Nazi dictatorship |
Germany |
| 4. mar. 1933 - 12. apr. 1945 |
60.7 - 72.8 |
President of the United States of America: Franklin D. Roosevelt |
USA - Presidents |
| 1935 |
63.0 |
Italy occupies Ethiopia, the last remaining free territory in Africa. |
Discoveries & Colonization |
| 20. jan. 1936 - 11. dec. 1936 |
63.6 - 64.5 |
King of the United Kingdom: Edward VIII |
Great Britain |
| 11. dec. 1936 - 6. feb. 1952 |
64.5 - 79.7 |
King of the United Kingdom: George VI |
Great Britain |
| 11. dec. 1936 - 6. feb. 1952 |
64.5 - 79.7 |
Queen consort of the United Kingdom: Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon 'Queen Mum' |
Great Britain |
| 6. maj 1937 |
64.9 |
Hindenburg disaster |
Aviation History |
| 1937 |
65.0 |
Construction period of the Golden Gate Bridge |
Monuments |
| 27. aug. 1939 |
67.2 |
First flight of turbine-equipped jet plane |
Aviation History |
| 1. sep. 1939 - 2. sep. 1945 |
67.2 - 73.2 |
World War II |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 14. maj 1940 |
67.9 |
Establishment of McDonald's |
Companies |
| 7. dec. 1941 |
69.5 |
Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor |
USA |
| 12. apr. 1945 - 20. jan. 1953 |
72.8 - 80.6 |
President of the United States of America: Harry S. Truman |
USA - Presidents |
| 25. apr. 1945 |
72.9 |
Establishment of the United Nations |
World |
| 8. maj 1945 |
72.9 |
Unconditional surrender of the German Empire |
Germany |
| 21. maj 1945 - 4. apr. 1951 |
72.9 - 78.8 |
President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints: George Albert Smith |
Mormon History |
| 6. aug. 1945 - 9. aug. 1945 |
73.1 - 73.2 |
Nuclear bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki |
USA |
| 14. okt. 1946 |
74.3 |
Start of the 4th French Republic |
France |
| 14. okt. 1947 |
75.3 |
First supersonic flight of the Bell X-1 |
Aviation History |
| 4. sep. 1948 - 30. apr. 1980 |
76.2 - 107.9 |
Queen of the Netherlands: Juliana |
Netherlands |
| 21. dec. 1948 |
76.5 |
Republic of Ireland Act |
Great Britain |
| 23. maj 1949 |
76.9 |
Establishment of the Federal Republic of Germany |
Germany |
| 1949 |
77.0 |
Establishment of Circuit City |
Companies |
| 15. sep. 1949 - 16. okt. 1963 |
77.3 - 91.4 |
Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany: Konrad Adenauer |
Germany - Chancellors |
| 7. okt. 1949 |
77.3 |
Establishment of the German Democratic Republic |
Germany |
| 11. okt. 1949 - 7. sep. 1960 |
77.3 - 88.2 |
Wilhelm Pieck - State President of the GDR |
GDR |
| 17. jun. 1950 |
78.0 |
First successful organ transplant |
Medicine |
| 1950 - 1953 |
78.0 - 81.1 |
Korean War |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 9. apr. 1951 - 18. jan. 1970 |
78.8 - 97.6 |
President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints: David O. McKay |
Mormon History |
| 22. jan. 1952 |
79.6 |
First jet airliner in regular commercial use |
Aviation History |
| 6. feb. 1952 - I dag |
79.7 |
Queen of the United Kingdom: Elizabeth II |
Great Britain |
| 20. jan. 1953 - 20. jan. 1961 |
80.6 - 88.6 |
President of the United States of America: Dwight D. Eisenhower |
USA - Presidents |
| 17. jun. 1953 |
81.0 |
Uprising of June 17, 1953 in East Germany |
Germany |
| 4. jul. 1954 |
82.1 |
FIFA World Cup Champion 1954: Germany |
Germany |
| 24. feb. 1955 - 5. okt. 2011 |
82.7 - 139.4 |
Life of Steven 'Steve' Paul Jobs |
Personalities |
| 4. okt. 1957 |
85.3 |
Sputnik launched: first artificial satellite in Earth's orbit |
Technology |
| 5. okt. 1958 |
86.3 |
Start of the 5th French Republic |
France |
| 8. jan. 1959 - 28. apr. 1969 |
86.6 - 96.9 |
President of France: Charles de Gaulle |
France |
| 1959 - 30. apr. 1975 |
87.1 - 102.9 |
Vietnam War |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 1960 - 1973 |
88.1 - 101.1 |
Walter Ulbricht - Chairman of the State Council of the GDR |
GDR |
| 20. jan. 1961 - 22. nov. 1963 |
88.6 - 91.5 |
President of the United States of America: John F. Kennedy |
USA - Presidents |
| 12. apr. 1961 |
88.8 |
First human in space |
Technology |
| 25. maj 1961 - 24. jul. 1975 |
89.0 - 103.1 |
Apollo Space Program |
Technology |
| 13. aug. 1961 |
89.2 |
Construction of the Berlin Wall |
Germany |
| 11. okt. 1962 - 8. dec. 1965 |
90.3 - 93.5 |
Second Vatican Council |
World |
| 16. okt. 1962 - 28. okt. 1962 |
90.4 |
Cuban Missile Crisis ('October Crisis') |
USA |
| 16. okt. 1963 - 1. dec. 1966 |
91.4 - 94.5 |
Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany: Ludwig Erhard |
Germany - Chancellors |
| 22. nov. 1963 - 20. jan. 1969 |
91.5 - 96.6 |
President of the United States of America: Lyndon B. Johnson |
USA - Presidents |
| 1966 - 1973 |
94.1 - 101.1 |
Construction period of the World Trade Center |
Monuments |
| 1. dec. 1966 - 21. okt. 1969 |
94.5 - 97.4 |
Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany: Kurt Georg Kiesinger |
Germany - Chancellors |
| 1967 |
95.1 |
Founding of the European Community (EC) |
European Union |
| 20. jan. 1969 - 9. aug. 1974 |
96.6 - 102.2 |
President of the United States of America: Richard Nixon |
USA - Presidents |
| 20. jun. 1969 - 2. apr. 1974 |
97.0 - 101.8 |
President of France: Georges Pompidou |
France |
| 20. jul. 1969 |
97.1 |
First man on the moon |
Technology |
| 21. okt. 1969 - 7. maj 1974 |
97.4 - 101.9 |
Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany: Willy Brandt |
Germany - Chancellors |
| 31. okt. 1969 |
97.4 |
Establishment of Wal Mart |
Companies |
| 23. jan. 1970 - 2. jul. 1972 |
97.6 - 100.1 |
President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints: Joseph Fielding Smith |
Mormon History |
Tilliv Lynge
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