| 15 Dec 1832 - 27 Dec 1923 |
(-85.6) - 5.4 |
Life of Gustave Eiffel |
Personalities |
| 25 Nov 1844 - 4 Apr 1929 |
(-73.6) - 10.7 |
Life of Carl Benz |
Personalities |
| 11 Feb 1847 - 18 Oct 1931 |
(-71.4) - 13.3 |
Life of Thomas Alva Edison |
Personalities |
| 3 Mar 1847 - 1 Aug 1922 |
(-71.4) - 4.0 |
Life of Alexander Graham Bell |
Personalities |
| 6 May 1856 - 23 Sep 1939 |
(-62.2) - 21.2 |
Life of Sigmund Freud |
Personalities |
| 23 Sep 1861 - 12 Mar 1942 |
(-56.8) - 23.7 |
Life of Robert Bosch |
Personalities |
| 30 Jul 1863 - 7 Apr 1947 |
(-55.0) - 28.7 |
Life of Henry Ford |
Personalities |
| 16 Oct 1863 - 17 Mar 1937 |
(-54.7) - 18.7 |
Life of Joseph Austen Chamberlain |
Personalities |
| 22 Apr 1870 - 21 Jan 1924 |
(-48.2) - 5.5 |
Life of Vladimir Lenin |
Personalities |
| 30 Nov 1874 - 24 Jan 1965 |
(-43.6) - 46.6 |
Life of Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill |
Personalities |
| 5 Jan 1876 - 19 Apr 1967 |
(-42.5) - 48.8 |
Life of Konrad Adenauer |
Personalities |
| 14 Mar 1879 - 18 Apr 1955 |
(-39.3) - 36.8 |
Life of Albert Einstein |
Personalities |
| 6 Aug 1881 - 11 Mar 1955 |
(-36.9) - 36.7 |
Life of Alexander Fleming |
Personalities |
| 21 Jan 1884 - 12 Dec 1963 |
(-34.5) - 45.4 |
Life of Theodor Heuss |
Personalities |
| 15 Jun 1888 - 9 Nov 1918 |
(-30.1) - 0.3 |
German Emperor: Wilhelm II |
Germany |
| 20 Apr 1889 - 30 Apr 1945 |
(-29.2) - 26.8 |
Life of Adolf Hitler |
Personalities |
| 14 Oct 1890 - 28 Mar 1969 |
(-27.7) - 50.7 |
Life of Dwight David Eisenhower |
Personalities |
| 5 Dec 1901 - 15 Dec 1966 |
(-16.6) - 48.4 |
Life of Walter Elias Disney |
Personalities |
| 4 Mar 1913 - 4 Mar 1921 |
(-5.3) - 2.6 |
President of the United States of America: Woodrow Wilson |
USA - Presidents |
| 28 Jun 1914 - 11 Nov 1918 |
(-4.0) - 0.3 |
World War I |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 6 Aug 1914 - 25 Nov 1918 |
(-3.9) - 0.4 |
East African Campaign (World War I) |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 29 May 1917 - 22 Nov 1963 |
(-1.1) - 45.4 |
Life of John F. Kennedy |
Personalities |
| 1917 - 1923 |
(-1.0) - 5.0 |
Russian Civil War |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 9 Nov 1918 |
0.3 |
German Revolution |
Germany |
| 11 Feb 1919 - 28 Feb 1925 |
0.6 - 6.6 |
President of Germany: Friedrich Ebert |
Germany |
| 13 Feb 1919 - 20 Jun 1919 |
0.6 - 0.9 |
Chancellor of Germany: Philipp Scheidemann |
Germany |
| 6 May 1919 - 8 Aug 1919 |
0.8 - 1.1 |
Third Anglo-Afghan War |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 1919 |
1.0 |
First transatlantic zeppelin flight |
Aviation History |
| 11 Aug 1919 |
1.1 |
Adoption of the Weimar Constitution |
Germany |
| 10 Sep 1919 |
1.1 |
Treaty of Saint-Germain |
Italy |
| 4 Mar 1921 - 2 Aug 1923 |
2.6 - 5.0 |
President of the United States of America: Warren G. Harding |
USA - Presidents |
| 6 Dec 1921 |
3.4 |
Anglo-Irish Treaty |
Great Britain |
| 28 Oct 1922 |
4.3 |
Benito Mussolini becomes Prime Minister of Italy |
Italy |
| 2 Aug 1923 - 4 Mar 1929 |
5.0 - 10.6 |
President of the United States of America: Calvin Coolidge |
USA - Presidents |
| 13 Aug 1923 - 23 Nov 1923 |
5.1 - 5.4 |
Chancellor of Germany: Gustav Stresemann |
Germany |
| 13 Sep 1923 |
5.2 |
Establishment of the military dictatorship |
Spain |
| 12 May 1925 - 2 Aug 1934 |
6.8 - 16.1 |
President of Germany: Paul von Hindenburg |
Germany |
| 14 Jun 1928 - 9 Oct 1967 |
9.9 - 49.3 |
Life of Che Guevara |
Personalities |
| 1928 |
10.0 |
Discovery of penicillin |
Medicine |
| 15 Jan 1929 - 4 Apr 1968 |
10.5 - 49.7 |
Life of Martin Luther King |
Personalities |
| 4 Mar 1929 - 4 Mar 1933 |
10.6 - 14.6 |
President of the United States of America: Herbert Hoover |
USA - Presidents |
| 25 Oct 1929 |
11.3 |
'Black Friday' |
USA |
| 22 Jan 1930 - 1 May 1931 |
11.5 - 12.8 |
Construction period of the Empire State Building |
Monuments |
| 30 Mar 1930 - 30 May 1932 |
11.7 - 13.9 |
Chancellor of Germany: Heinrich Brüning |
Germany |
| 5 Aug 1930 - 25 Aug 2012 |
12.1 - 94.2 |
Life of Neil Armstrong |
Personalities |
| 14 Apr 1931 |
12.7 |
Proclamation of the Second Spanish Republic |
Spain |
| 1931 |
13.0 |
Establishment of Porsche |
Companies |
| 11 Dec 1931 |
13.4 |
Statute of Westminster |
Great Britain |
| 1 Jun 1932 - 17 Nov 1932 |
13.9 - 14.3 |
Chancellor of Germany: Franz von Papen |
Germany |
| 3 Dec 1932 - 28 Jan 1933 |
14.4 - 14.5 |
Chancellor of Germany: Kurt von Schleicher |
Germany |
| 30 Jan 1933 - 30 Apr 1945 |
14.5 - 26.8 |
Chancellor of Germany: Adolf Hitler |
Germany |
| 28 Feb 1933 - 23 Mar 1933 |
14.6 - 14.7 |
'Reichstag Fire Decree' and 'Enabling Act': De facto end of the Weimar Republic & beginning of Nazi dictatorship |
Germany |
| 4 Mar 1933 - 12 Apr 1945 |
14.6 - 26.8 |
President of the United States of America: Franklin D. Roosevelt |
USA - Presidents |
| 1935 |
17.0 |
Italy occupies Ethiopia, the last remaining free territory in Africa. |
Discoveries & Colonization |
| 11 Dec 1936 - 6 Feb 1952 |
18.4 - 33.6 |
Queen consort of the United Kingdom: Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon 'Queen Mum' |
Great Britain |
| 6 May 1937 |
18.8 |
Hindenburg disaster |
Aviation History |
| 1937 |
19.0 |
Construction period of the Golden Gate Bridge |
Monuments |
| 27 Aug 1939 |
21.1 |
First flight of turbine-equipped jet plane |
Aviation History |
| 1 Sep 1939 - 2 Sep 1945 |
21.1 - 27.1 |
World War II |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 14 May 1940 |
21.8 |
Establishment of McDonald's |
Companies |
| 7 Dec 1941 |
23.4 |
Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor |
USA |
| 12 Apr 1945 - 20 Jan 1953 |
26.8 - 34.5 |
President of the United States of America: Harry S. Truman |
USA - Presidents |
| 25 Apr 1945 |
26.8 |
Establishment of the United Nations |
World |
| 8 May 1945 |
26.8 |
Unconditional surrender of the German Empire |
Germany |
| 6 Aug 1945 - 9 Aug 1945 |
27.1 |
Nuclear bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki |
USA |
| 14 Oct 1946 |
28.3 |
Start of the 4th French Republic |
France |
| 14 Oct 1947 |
29.3 |
First supersonic flight of the Bell X-1 |
Aviation History |
| 21 Dec 1948 |
30.4 |
Republic of Ireland Act |
Great Britain |
| 23 May 1949 |
30.9 |
Establishment of the Federal Republic of Germany |
Germany |
| 1949 |
31.0 |
Establishment of Circuit City |
Companies |
| 15 Sep 1949 - 16 Oct 1963 |
31.2 - 45.3 |
Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany: Konrad Adenauer |
Germany - Chancellors |
| 7 Oct 1949 |
31.2 |
Establishment of the German Democratic Republic |
Germany |
| 11 Oct 1949 - 7 Sep 1960 |
31.3 - 42.2 |
Wilhelm Pieck - State President of the GDR |
GDR |
| 17 Jun 1950 |
31.9 |
First successful organ transplant |
Medicine |
| 1950 - 1953 |
32.0 - 35.0 |
Korean War |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 22 Jan 1952 |
33.5 |
First jet airliner in regular commercial use |
Aviation History |
| 6 Feb 1952 - Today |
33.6 |
Queen of the United Kingdom: Elizabeth II |
Great Britain |
| 20 Jan 1953 - 20 Jan 1961 |
34.5 - 42.5 |
President of the United States of America: Dwight D. Eisenhower |
USA - Presidents |
| 17 Jun 1953 |
34.9 |
Uprising of June 17, 1953 in East Germany |
Germany |
| 24 Feb 1955 - 5 Oct 2011 |
36.6 - 93.3 |
Life of Steven 'Steve' Paul Jobs |
Personalities |
| 4 Oct 1957 |
39.2 |
Sputnik launched: first artificial satellite in Earth's orbit |
Technology |
| 5 Oct 1958 |
40.2 |
Start of the 5th French Republic |
France |
| 1959 - 30 Apr 1975 |
41.0 - 56.8 |
Vietnam War |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 1960 - 1973 |
42.0 - 55.0 |
Walter Ulbricht - Chairman of the State Council of the GDR |
GDR |
| 20 Jan 1961 - 22 Nov 1963 |
42.5 - 45.4 |
President of the United States of America: John F. Kennedy |
USA - Presidents |
| 12 Apr 1961 |
42.8 |
First human in space |
Technology |
| 25 May 1961 - 24 Jul 1975 |
42.9 - 57.1 |
Apollo Space Program |
Technology |
| 13 Aug 1961 |
43.1 |
Construction of the Berlin Wall |
Germany |
| 11 Oct 1962 - 8 Dec 1965 |
44.3 - 47.4 |
Second Vatican Council |
World |
| 16 Oct 1962 - 28 Oct 1962 |
44.3 |
Cuban Missile Crisis ('October Crisis') |
USA |
| 16 Oct 1963 - 1 Dec 1966 |
45.3 - 48.4 |
Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany: Ludwig Erhard |
Germany - Chancellors |
| 22 Nov 1963 - 20 Jan 1969 |
45.4 - 50.5 |
President of the United States of America: Lyndon B. Johnson |
USA - Presidents |
| 1966 - 1973 |
48.0 - 55.0 |
Construction period of the World Trade Center |
Monuments |
| 1 Dec 1966 - 21 Oct 1969 |
48.4 - 51.3 |
Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany: Kurt Georg Kiesinger |
Germany - Chancellors |
| 1967 |
49.0 |
Founding of the European Community (EC) |
European Union |
| 20 Jan 1969 - 9 Aug 1974 |
50.5 - 56.1 |
President of the United States of America: Richard Nixon |
USA - Presidents |
| 20 Jul 1969 |
51.0 |
First man on the moon |
Technology |
| 21 Oct 1969 - 7 May 1974 |
51.3 - 55.8 |
Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany: Willy Brandt |
Germany - Chancellors |
| 31 Oct 1969 |
51.3 |
Establishment of Wal Mart |
Companies |
| 21 Jul 1972 |
54.0 |
Bloody Friday |
Great Britain |
| 1973 - 1976 |
55.0 - 58.0 |
Willi Stoph - Chairman of the Council of State of the GDR |
GDR |
| 16 May 1974 - 1 Oct 1982 |
55.9 - 64.2 |
Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany: Helmut Schmidt |
Germany - Chancellors |
| 9 Aug 1974 - 20 Jan 1977 |
56.1 - 58.6 |
President of the United States of America: Gerald Ford |
USA - Presidents |
| 20 Nov 1975 |
57.4 |
Franco's Death, end of the Francoist regime |
Spain |
| 1 Apr 1976 |
57.7 |
Apple Computer is established |
Apple Inc. - Corporate History |
| 1976 - 1989 |
58.0 - 71.0 |
Erich Honecker - Chairman of the Council of State of the GDR |
GDR |
| 20 Jan 1977 - 20 Jan 1981 |
58.6 - 62.6 |
President of the United States of America: Jimmy Carter |
USA - Presidents |
| 16 Apr 1977 |
58.8 |
Introduction of the Apple II |
Apple Inc. - Corporate History |
| 27 Dec 1979 - 15 Feb 1989 |
61.5 - 70.6 |
Soviet-Afghan War (1979-1989) |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 22 Sep 1980 - 20 Aug 1988 |
62.2 - 70.1 |
First Gulf War ('Iran-Iraq War') |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 20 Jan 1981 - 20 Jan 1989 |
62.6 - 70.6 |
President of the United States of America: Ronald Reagan |
USA - Presidents |
| 2 Apr 1982 - 14 Jun 1982 |
63.8 - 64.0 |
Falklands War |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 1 Oct 1982 - 27 Oct 1998 |
64.2 - 80.3 |
Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany: Helmut Kohl |
Germany - Chancellors |
| 19 Jan 1983 |
64.6 |
Introduction of the Apple Lisa |
Apple Inc. - Corporate History |
| 1983 |
65.0 |
Discovery of HIV |
Medicine |
| 24 Jan 1984 |
65.6 |
Introduction of the Macintosh |
Apple Inc. - Corporate History |
| 20 Jan 1989 - 20 Jan 1993 |
70.6 - 74.6 |
President of the United States of America: George H. W. Bush |
USA - Presidents |
| 18 Oct 1989 - 3 Dec 1989 |
71.3 - 71.4 |
Egon Krenz - Chairman of the Council of State of the GDR |
GDR |
| 2 Aug 1990 - 28 Feb 1991 |
72.1 - 72.7 |
Second Gulf War ('Operation Desert Shield', 'Operation Desert Storm') |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 3 Oct 1990 |
72.3 |
German reunification |
Germany |
| 8 Dec 1991 |
73.4 |
Signing of the Belavezha Accords, declaring the Soviet Union dissolved |
Russia |
| 1992 - 1996 |
74.0 - 78.0 |
Afghan Civil War |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 20 Jan 1993 - 20 Jan 2001 |
74.6 - 82.6 |
President of the United States of America: Bill Clinton |
USA - Presidents |
| 4 Aug 1993 |
75.1 |
Introduction of the Apple Newton |
Apple Inc. - Corporate History |
| 1 Nov 1993 |
75.3 |
Founding of the European Union (EU) |
European Union |
| 1994 - 1996 |
76.0 - 78.0 |
First Chechen War ('War in Chechnya') |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 17 Jan 1995 |
76.6 |
Kobe earthquake |
Disasters |
| 1998 - 2003 |
80.0 - 85.0 |
Second Congo War ('Great War of Africa') |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 1998 - 1999 |
80.0 - 81.0 |
Kosovo War ('Kosovo Conflict') |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
Janet Walsham Backhouse
Birth