| 12 Feb 1809 - 19 Apr 1882 |
(-61.4) - 11.8 |
Life of Charles Robert Darwin |
Personalities |
| 13 Dec 1816 - 6 Dec 1892 |
(-53.6) - 22.4 |
Life of Werner von Siemens |
Personalities |
| 30 Dec 1819 - 20 Sep 1890 |
(-50.5) - 20.2 |
Life of Theodor Fontane |
Personalities |
| 15 Dec 1832 - 27 Dec 1923 |
(-37.6) - 53.5 |
Life of Gustave Eiffel |
Personalities |
| 17 Mar 1834 - 6 Mar 1900 |
(-36.3) - 29.7 |
Life of Gottlieb Wilhelm Daimler |
Personalities |
| 8 Jul 1838 - 8 Mar 1917 |
(-32.0) - 46.7 |
Life of Ferdinand von Zeppelin |
Personalities |
| 11 Dec 1843 - 27 May 1910 |
(-26.6) - 39.9 |
Life of Robert Koch |
Personalities |
| 25 Nov 1844 - 4 Apr 1929 |
(-25.6) - 58.8 |
Life of Carl Benz |
Personalities |
| 11 Feb 1847 - 18 Oct 1931 |
(-23.4) - 61.3 |
Life of Thomas Alva Edison |
Personalities |
| 3 Mar 1847 - 1 Aug 1922 |
(-23.3) - 52.1 |
Life of Alexander Graham Bell |
Personalities |
| 2 Dec 1852 - 4 Sep 1870 |
(-17.6) - 0.1 |
Emperor of France: Napoleon III |
France |
| 6 May 1856 - 23 Sep 1939 |
(-14.2) - 69.2 |
Life of Sigmund Freud |
Personalities |
| 23 Sep 1861 - 12 Mar 1942 |
(-8.8) - 71.7 |
Life of Robert Bosch |
Personalities |
| 30 Jul 1863 - 7 Apr 1947 |
(-6.9) - 76.8 |
Life of Henry Ford |
Personalities |
| 16 Oct 1863 - 17 Mar 1937 |
(-6.7) - 66.7 |
Life of Joseph Austen Chamberlain |
Personalities |
| 1868 - 1878 |
(-2.0) - 8.0 |
Ten Years' War ('Great War') |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 4 Mar 1869 - 4 Mar 1877 |
(-1.3) - 6.6 |
President of the United States of America: Ulysses S. Grant |
USA - Presidents |
| 5 Sep 1869 - 1884 |
(-0.8) - 14.0 |
Construction period of Neuschwanstein Castle |
Monuments |
| 22 Apr 1870 - 21 Jan 1924 |
(-0.2) - 53.5 |
Life of Vladimir Lenin |
Personalities |
| 1870 |
|
Start of the 3rd French Republic |
France |
| 19 Jul 1870 - 10 May 1871 |
0.0 - 0.8 |
Franco-Prussian War |
Germany |
| 18 Jan 1871 - 9 Mar 1888 |
0.5 - 17.7 |
German Emperor: Wilhelm I |
Germany |
| 9 Nov 1871 |
1.3 |
Founding of the German Empire |
Germany |
| 30 Nov 1874 - 24 Jan 1965 |
4.4 - 94.6 |
Life of Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill |
Personalities |
| 5 Jan 1876 - 19 Apr 1967 |
5.5 - 96.8 |
Life of Konrad Adenauer |
Personalities |
| 4 Mar 1877 - 4 Mar 1881 |
6.6 - 10.6 |
President of the United States of America: Rutherford B. Hayes |
USA - Presidents |
| 1878 - 1881 |
8.0 - 11.0 |
Second Anglo-Afghan War |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 1878 |
8.0 |
Establishment of Bell Telephone Company |
Companies |
| 31 Dec 1878 |
8.5 |
First two-stroke internal combustion gas engine |
Automobile History |
| 14 Mar 1879 - 18 Apr 1955 |
8.7 - 84.8 |
Life of Albert Einstein |
Personalities |
| 1879 |
9.0 |
Anglo-Zulu War |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 1879 |
9.0 |
Discovery of plague vaccine |
Medicine |
| 1879 |
9.0 |
Discovery of cholera vaccine |
Medicine |
| 20 Dec 1880 - 23 Mar 1881 |
10.4 - 10.7 |
First Boer War ('First South African War') |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 4 Mar 1881 - 19 Sep 1881 |
10.6 - 11.2 |
President of the United States of America: James A. Garfield |
USA - Presidents |
| 6 Aug 1881 - 11 Mar 1955 |
11.1 - 84.7 |
Life of Alexander Fleming |
Personalities |
| 19 Sep 1881 - 4 Mar 1885 |
11.2 - 14.6 |
President of the United States of America: Chester A. Arthur |
USA - Presidents |
| 1882 |
12.0 |
Britain occupies Egypt |
Discoveries & Colonization |
| 1882 |
12.0 |
Establishment of Peugeot |
Companies |
| 21 Jan 1884 - 12 Dec 1963 |
13.5 - 93.5 |
Life of Theodor Heuss |
Personalities |
| 1884 |
14.0 |
First controlled flight of a Zeppelin |
Aviation History |
| 15 Nov 1884 - 26 Feb 1885 |
14.3 - 14.6 |
Berlin Conference ('Congo Conference') |
Discoveries & Colonization |
| 4 Mar 1885 - 4 Mar 1889 |
14.6 - 18.6 |
President of the United States of America: Grover Cleveland |
USA - Presidents |
| 1886 |
16.0 |
Establishment of the Coca Cola Company |
Companies |
| 1886 |
16.0 |
Establishment of Johnson & Johnson |
Companies |
| 28 Oct 1886 |
16.3 |
Construction period of the Statue of Liberty |
Monuments |
| 1887 - 1889 |
17.0 - 19.0 |
Construction period of the Eiffel Tower |
Monuments |
| 1887 |
17.0 |
Huang He flood |
Disasters |
| 9 Mar 1888 - 15 Jun 1888 |
17.7 - 17.9 |
German Emperor: Friedrich III |
Germany |
| 15 Jun 1888 - 9 Nov 1918 |
17.9 - 48.3 |
German Emperor: Wilhelm II |
Germany |
| 1888 |
18.0 |
First commercially manufactured automobile by Karl Benz |
Automobile History |
| 4 Mar 1889 - 4 Mar 1893 |
18.6 - 22.6 |
President of the United States of America: Benjamin Harrison |
USA - Presidents |
| 20 Apr 1889 - 30 Apr 1945 |
18.8 - 74.8 |
Life of Adolf Hitler |
Personalities |
| 1890 |
20.0 |
Establishment of General Electric |
Companies |
| 1890 |
20.0 |
Establishment of Daimler |
Companies |
| 14 Oct 1890 - 28 Mar 1969 |
20.3 - 98.8 |
Life of Dwight David Eisenhower |
Personalities |
| 4 Mar 1893 - 4 Mar 1897 |
22.6 - 26.6 |
President of the United States of America: Grover Cleveland |
USA - Presidents |
| 1896 |
26.0 |
Establishment of IBM (International Business Machines Corp., formerly 'Computing Tabulating Recording Corp. (CTR)') |
Companies |
| 1896 - 1897 |
26.0 - 27.0 |
Matabele Wars ('Ndebele Matabele War') |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 4 Mar 1897 - 14 Sep 1901 |
26.6 - 31.2 |
President of the United States of America: William McKinley |
USA - Presidents |
| 11 Oct 1899 - 31 May 1902 |
29.3 - 31.9 |
Second Boer War ('Second South African War') |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 8 Sep 1900 |
30.2 |
Galveston hurricane; destruction of the city of Galveston, Texas |
Disasters |
| 14 Sep 1901 - 4 Mar 1909 |
31.2 - 38.7 |
President of the United States of America: Theodore Roosevelt |
USA - Presidents |
| 19 Oct 1901 |
31.3 |
First motorized zeppelin flight |
Aviation History |
| 5 Dec 1901 - 15 Dec 1966 |
31.4 - 96.5 |
Life of Walter Elias Disney |
Personalities |
| 16 Jun 1903 |
32.9 |
Establishment of Ford Motor Company |
Companies |
| 16 Dec 1903 |
33.4 |
First controlled powered human flight by the Wright brothers |
Aviation History |
| 1904 - 1908 |
34.0 - 38.0 |
Herero and Namaqua Uprising ('Herero and Namaqua Genocide') |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 18 Apr 1906 |
35.8 |
San Francisco earthquake of 1906 |
Disasters |
| 1907 |
37.0 |
First helicopter flight |
Aviation History |
| 16 Sep 1908 |
38.2 |
Establishment of General Motors |
Companies |
| 27 Sep 1908 |
38.2 |
Introduction of the Ford Model T |
Automobile History |
| 4 Mar 1909 - 4 Mar 1913 |
38.7 - 42.7 |
President of the United States of America: William Howard Taft |
USA - Presidents |
| 1909 |
39.0 |
Discovery of antibiotics |
Medicine |
| 30 May 1911 |
40.9 |
One in seven families in the US owns a car |
Automobile History |
| 30 May 1911 |
40.9 |
First 'Indy 500' race in Indianapolis |
Automobile History |
| 23 Oct 1911 |
41.3 |
First military use of an airplane |
Aviation History |
| 4 Mar 1913 - 4 Mar 1921 |
42.7 - 50.7 |
President of the United States of America: Woodrow Wilson |
USA - Presidents |
| 14 Jun 1914 - 15 Jun 1914 |
43.9 |
First transatlantic flight |
Aviation History |
| 28 Jun 1914 - 11 Nov 1918 |
44.0 - 48.3 |
World War I |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 6 Aug 1914 - 25 Nov 1918 |
44.1 - 48.4 |
East African Campaign (World War I) |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 13 Sep 1914 - 9 Jul 1915 |
44.2 - 45.0 |
South-West Africa Campaign (World War I) |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 14 Oct 1914 - 24 Oct 1914 |
44.3 |
Maritz Rebellion |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 24 Apr 1916 - 30 Apr 1916 |
45.8 |
Easter Rising |
Great Britain |
| 1916 |
46.0 |
Establishment of BMW (Bayerische Motoren Werke AG) |
Companies |
| 8 Mar 1917 - 12 Mar 1917 |
46.7 |
Russian February Revolution |
Russia |
| 29 May 1917 - 22 Nov 1963 |
46.9 - 93.4 |
Life of John F. Kennedy |
Personalities |
| 1917 - 1923 |
47.0 - 53.0 |
Russian Civil War |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 7 Nov 1917 |
47.3 |
Founding of the Russian Socialist Federal Soviet Republic |
Russia |
| 9 Nov 1918 |
48.3 |
German Revolution |
Germany |
| 11 Feb 1919 - 28 Feb 1925 |
48.6 - 54.7 |
President of Germany: Friedrich Ebert |
Germany |
| 13 Feb 1919 - 20 Jun 1919 |
48.6 - 49.0 |
Chancellor of Germany: Philipp Scheidemann |
Germany |
| 6 May 1919 - 8 Aug 1919 |
48.8 - 49.1 |
Third Anglo-Afghan War |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 1919 |
49.0 |
First transatlantic zeppelin flight |
Aviation History |
| 11 Aug 1919 |
49.1 |
Adoption of the Weimar Constitution |
Germany |
| 10 Sep 1919 |
49.2 |
Treaty of Saint-Germain |
Italy |
| 4 Mar 1921 - 2 Aug 1923 |
50.7 - 53.1 |
President of the United States of America: Warren G. Harding |
USA - Presidents |
| 6 Dec 1921 |
51.4 |
Anglo-Irish Treaty |
Great Britain |
| 28 Oct 1922 |
52.3 |
Benito Mussolini becomes Prime Minister of Italy |
Italy |
| 2 Aug 1923 - 4 Mar 1929 |
53.1 - 58.7 |
President of the United States of America: Calvin Coolidge |
USA - Presidents |
| 13 Aug 1923 - 23 Nov 1923 |
53.1 - 53.4 |
Chancellor of Germany: Gustav Stresemann |
Germany |
| 13 Sep 1923 |
53.2 |
Establishment of the military dictatorship |
Spain |
| 12 May 1925 - 2 Aug 1934 |
54.9 - 64.1 |
President of Germany: Paul von Hindenburg |
Germany |
| 14 Jun 1928 - 9 Oct 1967 |
57.9 - 97.3 |
Life of Che Guevara |
Personalities |
| 1928 |
58.0 |
Discovery of penicillin |
Medicine |
| 15 Jan 1929 - 4 Apr 1968 |
58.5 - 97.8 |
Life of Martin Luther King |
Personalities |
| 4 Mar 1929 - 4 Mar 1933 |
58.7 - 62.7 |
President of the United States of America: Herbert Hoover |
USA - Presidents |
| 25 Oct 1929 |
59.3 |
'Black Friday' |
USA |
| 22 Jan 1930 - 1 May 1931 |
59.6 - 60.8 |
Construction period of the Empire State Building |
Monuments |
| 30 Mar 1930 - 30 May 1932 |
59.7 - 61.9 |
Chancellor of Germany: Heinrich Brüning |
Germany |
| 5 Aug 1930 - 25 Aug 2012 |
60.1 - 142.2 |
Life of Neil Armstrong |
Personalities |
| 14 Apr 1931 |
60.8 |
Proclamation of the Second Spanish Republic |
Spain |
| 1931 |
61.0 |
Establishment of Porsche |
Companies |
| 11 Dec 1931 |
61.4 |
Statute of Westminster |
Great Britain |
| 1 Jun 1932 - 17 Nov 1932 |
61.9 - 62.4 |
Chancellor of Germany: Franz von Papen |
Germany |
| 3 Dec 1932 - 28 Jan 1933 |
62.4 - 62.6 |
Chancellor of Germany: Kurt von Schleicher |
Germany |
| 30 Jan 1933 - 30 Apr 1945 |
62.6 - 74.8 |
Chancellor of Germany: Adolf Hitler |
Germany |
| 28 Feb 1933 - 23 Mar 1933 |
62.7 |
'Reichstag Fire Decree' and 'Enabling Act': De facto end of the Weimar Republic & beginning of Nazi dictatorship |
Germany |
| 4 Mar 1933 - 12 Apr 1945 |
62.7 - 74.8 |
President of the United States of America: Franklin D. Roosevelt |
USA - Presidents |
| 1935 |
65.0 |
Italy occupies Ethiopia, the last remaining free territory in Africa. |
Discoveries & Colonization |
| 11 Dec 1936 - 6 Feb 1952 |
66.4 - 81.6 |
Queen consort of the United Kingdom: Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon 'Queen Mum' |
Great Britain |
| 6 May 1937 |
66.8 |
Hindenburg disaster |
Aviation History |
| 1937 |
67.0 |
Construction period of the Golden Gate Bridge |
Monuments |
James Smethurst Till
Catherine (Kitty) Till
Birth