| 15 Dec 1832 - 27 Dec 1923 |
(-69.6) - 21.5 |
Life of Gustave Eiffel |
Personalities |
| 8 Jul 1838 - 8 Mar 1917 |
(-64.0) - 14.6 |
Life of Ferdinand von Zeppelin |
Personalities |
| 11 Dec 1843 - 27 May 1910 |
(-58.6) - 7.9 |
Life of Robert Koch |
Personalities |
| 25 Nov 1844 - 4 Apr 1929 |
(-57.6) - 26.7 |
Life of Carl Benz |
Personalities |
| 11 Feb 1847 - 18 Oct 1931 |
(-55.4) - 29.3 |
Life of Thomas Alva Edison |
Personalities |
| 3 Mar 1847 - 1 Aug 1922 |
(-55.4) - 20.1 |
Life of Alexander Graham Bell |
Personalities |
| 6 May 1856 - 23 Sep 1939 |
(-46.2) - 37.2 |
Life of Sigmund Freud |
Personalities |
| 23 Sep 1861 - 12 Mar 1942 |
(-40.8) - 39.7 |
Life of Robert Bosch |
Personalities |
| 30 Jul 1863 - 7 Apr 1947 |
(-38.9) - 44.7 |
Life of Henry Ford |
Personalities |
| 16 Oct 1863 - 17 Mar 1937 |
(-38.7) - 34.7 |
Life of Joseph Austen Chamberlain |
Personalities |
| 22 Apr 1870 - 21 Jan 1924 |
(-32.2) - 21.5 |
Life of Vladimir Lenin |
Personalities |
| 30 Nov 1874 - 24 Jan 1965 |
(-27.6) - 62.6 |
Life of Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill |
Personalities |
| 5 Jan 1876 - 19 Apr 1967 |
(-26.5) - 64.8 |
Life of Konrad Adenauer |
Personalities |
| 14 Mar 1879 - 18 Apr 1955 |
(-23.3) - 52.8 |
Life of Albert Einstein |
Personalities |
| 6 Aug 1881 - 11 Mar 1955 |
(-20.9) - 52.7 |
Life of Alexander Fleming |
Personalities |
| 21 Jan 1884 - 12 Dec 1963 |
(-18.4) - 61.4 |
Life of Theodor Heuss |
Personalities |
| 15 Jun 1888 - 9 Nov 1918 |
(-14.0) - 16.3 |
German Emperor: Wilhelm II |
Germany |
| 20 Apr 1889 - 30 Apr 1945 |
(-13.2) - 42.8 |
Life of Adolf Hitler |
Personalities |
| 14 Oct 1890 - 28 Mar 1969 |
(-11.7) - 66.7 |
Life of Dwight David Eisenhower |
Personalities |
| 14 Sep 1901 - 4 Mar 1909 |
(-0.8) - 6.6 |
President of the United States of America: Theodore Roosevelt |
USA - Presidents |
| 5 Dec 1901 - 15 Dec 1966 |
(-0.6) - 64.5 |
Life of Walter Elias Disney |
Personalities |
| 16 Jun 1903 |
0.9 |
Establishment of Ford Motor Company |
Companies |
| 16 Dec 1903 |
1.4 |
First controlled powered human flight by the Wright brothers |
Aviation History |
| 1904 - 1908 |
2.0 - 6.0 |
Herero and Namaqua Uprising ('Herero and Namaqua Genocide') |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 18 Apr 1906 |
3.8 |
San Francisco earthquake of 1906 |
Disasters |
| 1907 |
5.0 |
First helicopter flight |
Aviation History |
| 16 Sep 1908 |
6.2 |
Establishment of General Motors |
Companies |
| 27 Sep 1908 |
6.2 |
Introduction of the Ford Model T |
Automobile History |
| 4 Mar 1909 - 4 Mar 1913 |
6.6 - 10.6 |
President of the United States of America: William Howard Taft |
USA - Presidents |
| 1909 |
7.0 |
Discovery of antibiotics |
Medicine |
| 30 May 1911 |
8.9 |
One in seven families in the US owns a car |
Automobile History |
| 30 May 1911 |
8.9 |
First 'Indy 500' race in Indianapolis |
Automobile History |
| 23 Oct 1911 |
9.3 |
First military use of an airplane |
Aviation History |
| 4 Mar 1913 - 4 Mar 1921 |
10.6 - 18.6 |
President of the United States of America: Woodrow Wilson |
USA - Presidents |
| 14 Jun 1914 - 15 Jun 1914 |
11.9 |
First transatlantic flight |
Aviation History |
| 28 Jun 1914 - 11 Nov 1918 |
12.0 - 16.3 |
World War I |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 6 Aug 1914 - 25 Nov 1918 |
12.1 - 16.4 |
East African Campaign (World War I) |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 13 Sep 1914 - 9 Jul 1915 |
12.2 - 13.0 |
South-West Africa Campaign (World War I) |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 14 Oct 1914 - 24 Oct 1914 |
12.2 - 12.3 |
Maritz Rebellion |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 24 Apr 1916 - 30 Apr 1916 |
13.8 |
Easter Rising |
Great Britain |
| 1916 |
14.0 |
Establishment of BMW (Bayerische Motoren Werke AG) |
Companies |
| 8 Mar 1917 - 12 Mar 1917 |
14.6 - 14.7 |
Russian February Revolution |
Russia |
| 29 May 1917 - 22 Nov 1963 |
14.9 - 61.4 |
Life of John F. Kennedy |
Personalities |
| 1917 - 1923 |
15.0 - 21.0 |
Russian Civil War |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 7 Nov 1917 |
15.3 |
Founding of the Russian Socialist Federal Soviet Republic |
Russia |
| 9 Nov 1918 |
16.3 |
German Revolution |
Germany |
| 11 Feb 1919 - 28 Feb 1925 |
16.6 - 22.6 |
President of Germany: Friedrich Ebert |
Germany |
| 13 Feb 1919 - 20 Jun 1919 |
16.6 - 16.9 |
Chancellor of Germany: Philipp Scheidemann |
Germany |
| 6 May 1919 - 8 Aug 1919 |
16.8 - 17.1 |
Third Anglo-Afghan War |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 1919 |
17.0 |
First transatlantic zeppelin flight |
Aviation History |
| 11 Aug 1919 |
17.1 |
Adoption of the Weimar Constitution |
Germany |
| 10 Sep 1919 |
17.2 |
Treaty of Saint-Germain |
Italy |
| 4 Mar 1921 - 2 Aug 1923 |
18.6 - 21.1 |
President of the United States of America: Warren G. Harding |
USA - Presidents |
| 6 Dec 1921 |
19.4 |
Anglo-Irish Treaty |
Great Britain |
| 28 Oct 1922 |
20.3 |
Benito Mussolini becomes Prime Minister of Italy |
Italy |
| 2 Aug 1923 - 4 Mar 1929 |
21.1 - 26.6 |
President of the United States of America: Calvin Coolidge |
USA - Presidents |
| 13 Aug 1923 - 23 Nov 1923 |
21.1 - 21.4 |
Chancellor of Germany: Gustav Stresemann |
Germany |
| 13 Sep 1923 |
21.2 |
Establishment of the military dictatorship |
Spain |
| 12 May 1925 - 2 Aug 1934 |
22.8 - 32.1 |
President of Germany: Paul von Hindenburg |
Germany |
| 14 Jun 1928 - 9 Oct 1967 |
25.9 - 65.3 |
Life of Che Guevara |
Personalities |
| 1928 |
26.0 |
Discovery of penicillin |
Medicine |
| 15 Jan 1929 - 4 Apr 1968 |
26.5 - 65.8 |
Life of Martin Luther King |
Personalities |
| 4 Mar 1929 - 4 Mar 1933 |
26.6 - 30.6 |
President of the United States of America: Herbert Hoover |
USA - Presidents |
| 25 Oct 1929 |
27.3 |
'Black Friday' |
USA |
| 22 Jan 1930 - 1 May 1931 |
27.5 - 28.8 |
Construction period of the Empire State Building |
Monuments |
| 30 Mar 1930 - 30 May 1932 |
27.7 - 29.9 |
Chancellor of Germany: Heinrich Brüning |
Germany |
| 5 Aug 1930 - 25 Aug 2012 |
28.1 - 110.2 |
Life of Neil Armstrong |
Personalities |
| 14 Apr 1931 |
28.8 |
Proclamation of the Second Spanish Republic |
Spain |
| 1931 |
29.0 |
Establishment of Porsche |
Companies |
| 11 Dec 1931 |
29.4 |
Statute of Westminster |
Great Britain |
| 1 Jun 1932 - 17 Nov 1932 |
29.9 - 30.4 |
Chancellor of Germany: Franz von Papen |
Germany |
| 3 Dec 1932 - 28 Jan 1933 |
30.4 - 30.6 |
Chancellor of Germany: Kurt von Schleicher |
Germany |
| 30 Jan 1933 - 30 Apr 1945 |
30.6 - 42.8 |
Chancellor of Germany: Adolf Hitler |
Germany |
| 28 Feb 1933 - 23 Mar 1933 |
30.6 - 30.7 |
'Reichstag Fire Decree' and 'Enabling Act': De facto end of the Weimar Republic & beginning of Nazi dictatorship |
Germany |
| 4 Mar 1933 - 12 Apr 1945 |
30.6 - 42.8 |
President of the United States of America: Franklin D. Roosevelt |
USA - Presidents |
| 1935 |
33.0 |
Italy occupies Ethiopia, the last remaining free territory in Africa. |
Discoveries & Colonization |
| 11 Dec 1936 - 6 Feb 1952 |
34.4 - 49.6 |
Queen consort of the United Kingdom: Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon 'Queen Mum' |
Great Britain |
| 6 May 1937 |
34.8 |
Hindenburg disaster |
Aviation History |
| 1937 |
35.0 |
Construction period of the Golden Gate Bridge |
Monuments |
| 27 Aug 1939 |
37.1 |
First flight of turbine-equipped jet plane |
Aviation History |
| 1 Sep 1939 - 2 Sep 1945 |
37.1 - 43.2 |
World War II |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 14 May 1940 |
37.8 |
Establishment of McDonald's |
Companies |
| 7 Dec 1941 |
39.4 |
Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor |
USA |
| 12 Apr 1945 - 20 Jan 1953 |
42.8 - 50.5 |
President of the United States of America: Harry S. Truman |
USA - Presidents |
| 25 Apr 1945 |
42.8 |
Establishment of the United Nations |
World |
| 8 May 1945 |
42.8 |
Unconditional surrender of the German Empire |
Germany |
| 6 Aug 1945 - 9 Aug 1945 |
43.1 |
Nuclear bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki |
USA |
| 14 Oct 1946 |
44.3 |
Start of the 4th French Republic |
France |
| 14 Oct 1947 |
45.3 |
First supersonic flight of the Bell X-1 |
Aviation History |
| 21 Dec 1948 |
46.5 |
Republic of Ireland Act |
Great Britain |
| 23 May 1949 |
46.9 |
Establishment of the Federal Republic of Germany |
Germany |
| 1949 |
47.0 |
Establishment of Circuit City |
Companies |
| 15 Sep 1949 - 16 Oct 1963 |
47.2 - 61.3 |
Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany: Konrad Adenauer |
Germany - Chancellors |
| 7 Oct 1949 |
47.3 |
Establishment of the German Democratic Republic |
Germany |
| 11 Oct 1949 - 7 Sep 1960 |
47.3 - 58.2 |
Wilhelm Pieck - State President of the GDR |
GDR |
| 17 Jun 1950 |
47.9 |
First successful organ transplant |
Medicine |
| 1950 - 1953 |
48.0 - 51.0 |
Korean War |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 22 Jan 1952 |
49.5 |
First jet airliner in regular commercial use |
Aviation History |
| 6 Feb 1952 - Today |
49.6 |
Queen of the United Kingdom: Elizabeth II |
Great Britain |
| 20 Jan 1953 - 20 Jan 1961 |
50.5 - 58.6 |
President of the United States of America: Dwight D. Eisenhower |
USA - Presidents |
| 17 Jun 1953 |
50.9 |
Uprising of June 17, 1953 in East Germany |
Germany |
| 24 Feb 1955 - 5 Oct 2011 |
52.6 - 109.3 |
Life of Steven 'Steve' Paul Jobs |
Personalities |
Edwin Backhouse
Ann Elizabeth Barber
Birth