Feb 12, 1809 - Apr 19, 1882 | (-61.1) - 12.1 | Life of Charles Robert Darwin | Personalities |
Feb 7, 1812 - Jun 9, 1870 | (-58.1) - 0.2 | Life of Charles John Huffam Dickens | Personalities |
Dec 13, 1816 - Dec 6, 1892 | (-53.3) - 22.7 | Life of Werner von Siemens | Personalities |
Dec 30, 1819 - Sep 20, 1890 | (-50.2) - 20.5 | Life of Theodor Fontane | Personalities |
Dec 15, 1832 - Dec 27, 1923 | (-37.2) - 53.8 | Life of Gustave Eiffel | Personalities |
Mar 17, 1834 - Mar 6, 1900 | (-36.0) - 30.0 | Life of Gottlieb Wilhelm Daimler | Personalities |
Jul 8, 1838 - Mar 8, 1917 | (-31.7) - 47.0 | Life of Ferdinand von Zeppelin | Personalities |
Dec 11, 1843 - May 27, 1910 | (-26.3) - 40.2 | Life of Robert Koch | Personalities |
Nov 25, 1844 - Apr 4, 1929 | (-25.3) - 59.1 | Life of Carl Benz | Personalities |
Feb 11, 1847 - Oct 18, 1931 | (-23.1) - 61.6 | Life of Thomas Alva Edison | Personalities |
Mar 3, 1847 - Aug 1, 1922 | (-23.0) - 52.4 | Life of Alexander Graham Bell | Personalities |
Dec 2, 1852 - Sep 4, 1870 | (-17.3) - 0.4 | Emperor of France: Napoleon III | France |
May 6, 1856 - Sep 23, 1939 | (-13.8) - 69.5 | Life of Sigmund Freud | Personalities |
Sep 23, 1861 - Mar 12, 1942 | (-8.5) - 72.0 | Life of Robert Bosch | Personalities |
Jul 30, 1863 - Apr 7, 1947 | (-6.6) - 77.1 | Life of Henry Ford | Personalities |
Oct 16, 1863 - Mar 17, 1937 | (-6.4) - 67.0 | Life of Joseph Austen Chamberlain | Personalities |
1868 - 1878 | (-1.7) - 8.3 | Ten Years' War ('Great War') | Wars & Military Conflicts |
Mar 4, 1869 - Mar 4, 1877 | (-1.0) - 6.9 | President of the United States of America: Ulysses S. Grant | USA - Presidents |
Sep 5, 1869 - 1884 | (-0.5) - 14.3 | Construction period of Neuschwanstein Castle | Monuments |
Apr 22, 1870 - Jan 21, 1924 | 0.1 - 53.9 | Life of Vladimir Lenin | Personalities |
1870 | 0.3 | Start of the 3rd French Republic | France |
Jul 19, 1870 - May 10, 1871 | 0.3 - 1.1 | Franco-Prussian War | Germany |
Jan 18, 1871 - Mar 9, 1888 | 0.8 - 18.0 | German Emperor: Wilhelm I | Germany |
Nov 9, 1871 | 1.6 | Founding of the German Empire | Germany |
Nov 30, 1874 - Jan 24, 1965 | 4.7 - 94.9 | Life of Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill | Personalities |
Jan 5, 1876 - Apr 19, 1967 | 5.8 - 97.1 | Life of Konrad Adenauer | Personalities |
Mar 4, 1877 - Mar 4, 1881 | 6.9 - 11.0 | President of the United States of America: Rutherford B. Hayes | USA - Presidents |
1878 | 8.3 | Establishment of Bell Telephone Company | Companies |
1878 - 1881 | 8.3 - 11.3 | Second Anglo-Afghan War | Wars & Military Conflicts |
Dec 31, 1878 | 8.8 | First two-stroke internal combustion gas engine | Automobile History |
Mar 14, 1879 - Apr 18, 1955 | 9.0 - 85.1 | Life of Albert Einstein | Personalities |
1879 | 9.3 | Discovery of cholera vaccine | Medicine |
1879 | 9.3 | Anglo-Zulu War | Wars & Military Conflicts |
1879 | 9.3 | Discovery of plague vaccine | Medicine |
Dec 20, 1880 - Mar 23, 1881 | 10.7 - 11.0 | First Boer War ('First South African War') | Wars & Military Conflicts |
Mar 4, 1881 - Sep 19, 1881 | 11.0 - 11.5 | President of the United States of America: James A. Garfield | USA - Presidents |
Aug 6, 1881 - Mar 11, 1955 | 11.4 - 85.0 | Life of Alexander Fleming | Personalities |
Sep 19, 1881 - Mar 4, 1885 | 11.5 - 15.0 | President of the United States of America: Chester A. Arthur | USA - Presidents |
1882 | 12.3 | Establishment of Peugeot | Companies |
1882 | 12.3 | Britain occupies Egypt | Discoveries & Colonization |
Jan 21, 1884 - Dec 12, 1963 | 13.8 - 93.8 | Life of Theodor Heuss | Personalities |
1884 | 14.3 | First controlled flight of a Zeppelin | Aviation History |
Nov 15, 1884 - Feb 26, 1885 | 14.7 - 14.9 | Berlin Conference ('Congo Conference') | Discoveries & Colonization |
Mar 4, 1885 - Mar 4, 1889 | 15.0 - 19.0 | President of the United States of America: Grover Cleveland | USA - Presidents |
1886 | 16.3 | Establishment of Johnson & Johnson | Companies |
1886 | 16.3 | Establishment of the Coca Cola Company | Companies |
Oct 28, 1886 | 16.6 | Construction period of the Statue of Liberty | Monuments |
1887 | 17.3 | Huang He flood | Disasters |
1887 - 1889 | 17.3 - 19.3 | Construction period of the Eiffel Tower | Monuments |
Mar 9, 1888 - Jun 15, 1888 | 18.0 - 18.2 | German Emperor: Friedrich III | Germany |
Jun 15, 1888 - Nov 9, 1918 | 18.2 - 48.7 | German Emperor: Wilhelm II | Germany |
1888 | 18.3 | First commercially manufactured automobile by Karl Benz | Automobile History |
Mar 4, 1889 - Mar 4, 1893 | 19.0 - 23.0 | President of the United States of America: Benjamin Harrison | USA - Presidents |
Apr 20, 1889 - Apr 30, 1945 | 19.1 - 75.1 | Life of Adolf Hitler | Personalities |
1890 | 20.3 | Establishment of Daimler | Companies |
1890 | 20.3 | Establishment of General Electric | Companies |
Oct 14, 1890 - Mar 28, 1969 | 20.6 - 99.1 | Life of Dwight David Eisenhower | Personalities |
Mar 4, 1893 - Mar 4, 1897 | 23.0 - 27.0 | President of the United States of America: Grover Cleveland | USA - Presidents |
1896 - 1897 | 26.3 - 27.3 | Matabele Wars ('Ndebele Matabele War') | Wars & Military Conflicts |
1896 | 26.3 | Establishment of IBM (International Business Machines Corp., formerly 'Computing Tabulating Recording Corp. (CTR)') | Companies |
Mar 4, 1897 - Sep 14, 1901 | 27.0 - 31.5 | President of the United States of America: William McKinley | USA - Presidents |
Oct 11, 1899 - May 31, 1902 | 29.6 - 32.2 | Second Boer War ('Second South African War') | Wars & Military Conflicts |
Sep 8, 1900 | 30.5 | Galveston hurricane; destruction of the city of Galveston, Texas | Disasters |
Sep 14, 1901 - Mar 4, 1909 | 31.5 - 39.0 | President of the United States of America: Theodore Roosevelt | USA - Presidents |
Oct 19, 1901 | 31.6 | First motorized zeppelin flight | Aviation History |
Dec 5, 1901 - Dec 15, 1966 | 31.7 - 96.8 | Life of Walter Elias Disney | Personalities |
Jun 16, 1903 | 33.2 | Establishment of Ford Motor Company | Companies |
Dec 16, 1903 | 33.7 | First controlled powered human flight by the Wright brothers | Aviation History |
1904 - 1908 | 34.3 - 38.3 | Herero and Namaqua Uprising ('Herero and Namaqua Genocide') | Wars & Military Conflicts |
Apr 18, 1906 | 36.1 | San Francisco earthquake of 1906 | Disasters |
1907 | 37.3 | First helicopter flight | Aviation History |
Sep 16, 1908 | 38.5 | Establishment of General Motors | Companies |
Sep 27, 1908 | 38.5 | Introduction of the Ford Model T | Automobile History |
Mar 4, 1909 - Mar 4, 1913 | 39.0 - 43.0 | President of the United States of America: William Howard Taft | USA - Presidents |
1909 | 39.3 | Discovery of antibiotics | Medicine |
May 30, 1911 | 41.2 | One in seven families in the US owns a car | Automobile History |
May 30, 1911 | 41.2 | First 'Indy 500' race in Indianapolis | Automobile History |
Oct 23, 1911 | 41.6 | First military use of an airplane | Aviation History |
Mar 4, 1913 - Mar 4, 1921 | 43.0 - 51.0 | President of the United States of America: Woodrow Wilson | USA - Presidents |
Jun 14, 1914 - Jun 15, 1914 | 44.2 - 44.3 | First transatlantic flight | Aviation History |
Jun 28, 1914 - Nov 11, 1918 | 44.3 - 48.7 | World War I | Wars & Military Conflicts |
Aug 6, 1914 - Nov 25, 1918 | 44.4 - 48.7 | East African Campaign (World War I) | Wars & Military Conflicts |
Sep 13, 1914 - Jul 9, 1915 | 44.5 - 45.3 | South-West Africa Campaign (World War I) | Wars & Military Conflicts |
Oct 14, 1914 - Oct 24, 1914 | 44.6 | Maritz Rebellion | Wars & Military Conflicts |
Apr 24, 1916 - Apr 30, 1916 | 46.1 | Easter Rising | Great Britain |
1916 | 46.3 | Establishment of BMW (Bayerische Motoren Werke AG) | Companies |
Mar 8, 1917 - Mar 12, 1917 | 47.0 | Russian February Revolution | Russia |
May 29, 1917 - Nov 22, 1963 | 47.2 - 93.7 | Life of John F. Kennedy | Personalities |
1917 - 1923 | 47.3 - 53.3 | Russian Civil War | Wars & Military Conflicts |
Nov 7, 1917 | 47.7 | Founding of the Russian Socialist Federal Soviet Republic | Russia |
Nov 9, 1918 | 48.7 | German Revolution | Germany |
Feb 11, 1919 - Feb 28, 1925 | 48.9 - 55.0 | President of Germany: Friedrich Ebert | Germany |
Feb 13, 1919 - Jun 20, 1919 | 48.9 - 49.3 | Chancellor of Germany: Philipp Scheidemann | Germany |
May 6, 1919 - Aug 8, 1919 | 49.1 - 49.4 | Third Anglo-Afghan War | Wars & Military Conflicts |
1919 | 49.3 | First transatlantic zeppelin flight | Aviation History |
Aug 11, 1919 | 49.4 | Adoption of the Weimar Constitution | Germany |
Sep 10, 1919 | 49.5 | Treaty of Saint-Germain | Italy |
Mar 4, 1921 - Aug 2, 1923 | 51.0 - 53.4 | President of the United States of America: Warren G. Harding | USA - Presidents |
Dec 6, 1921 | 51.7 | Anglo-Irish Treaty | Great Britain |
Oct 28, 1922 | 52.6 | Benito Mussolini becomes Prime Minister of Italy | Italy |
Aug 2, 1923 - Mar 4, 1929 | 53.4 - 59.0 | President of the United States of America: Calvin Coolidge | USA - Presidents |
Aug 13, 1923 - Nov 23, 1923 | 53.4 - 53.7 | Chancellor of Germany: Gustav Stresemann | Germany |
Sep 13, 1923 | 53.5 | Establishment of the military dictatorship | Spain |
May 12, 1925 - Aug 2, 1934 | 55.2 - 64.4 | President of Germany: Paul von Hindenburg | Germany |
Jun 14, 1928 - Oct 9, 1967 | 58.3 - 97.6 | Life of Che Guevara | Personalities |
1928 | 58.3 | Discovery of penicillin | Medicine |
Jan 15, 1929 - Apr 4, 1968 | 58.8 - 98.1 | Life of Martin Luther King | Personalities |
Mar 4, 1929 - Mar 4, 1933 | 59.0 - 63.0 | President of the United States of America: Herbert Hoover | USA - Presidents |
Oct 25, 1929 | 59.6 | 'Black Friday' | USA |
Jan 22, 1930 - May 1, 1931 | 59.9 - 61.1 | Construction period of the Empire State Building | Monuments |
Mar 30, 1930 - May 30, 1932 | 60.1 - 62.2 | Chancellor of Germany: Heinrich BrĂ¼ning | Germany |
Aug 5, 1930 - Aug 25, 2012 | 60.4 - 142.5 | Life of Neil Armstrong | Personalities |
Apr 14, 1931 | 61.1 | Proclamation of the Second Spanish Republic | Spain |
1931 | 61.3 | Establishment of Porsche | Companies |
Dec 11, 1931 | 61.8 | Statute of Westminster | Great Britain |
Jun 1, 1932 - Nov 17, 1932 | 62.2 - 62.7 | Chancellor of Germany: Franz von Papen | Germany |
Dec 3, 1932 - Jan 28, 1933 | 62.7 - 62.9 | Chancellor of Germany: Kurt von Schleicher | Germany |
Jan 30, 1933 - Apr 30, 1945 | 62.9 - 75.1 | Chancellor of Germany: Adolf Hitler | Germany |
Feb 28, 1933 - Mar 23, 1933 | 63.0 | 'Reichstag Fire Decree' and 'Enabling Act': De facto end of the Weimar Republic & beginning of Nazi dictatorship | Germany |
Mar 4, 1933 - Apr 12, 1945 | 63.0 - 75.1 | President of the United States of America: Franklin D. Roosevelt | USA - Presidents |
1935 | 65.3 | Italy occupies Ethiopia, the last remaining free territory in Africa. | Discoveries & Colonization |
Dec 11, 1936 - Feb 6, 1952 | 66.8 - 81.9 | Queen consort of the United Kingdom: Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon 'Queen Mum' | Great Britain |
May 6, 1937 | 67.2 | Hindenburg disaster | Aviation History |
1937 | 67.3 | Construction period of the Golden Gate Bridge | Monuments |
Aug 27, 1939 | 69.5 | First flight of turbine-equipped jet plane | Aviation History |
Sep 1, 1939 - Sep 2, 1945 | 69.5 - 75.5 | World War II | Wars & Military Conflicts |
May 14, 1940 | 70.2 | Establishment of McDonald's | Companies |
Dec 7, 1941 | 71.8 | Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor | USA |
Apr 12, 1945 - Jan 20, 1953 | 75.1 - 82.9 | President of the United States of America: Harry S. Truman | USA - Presidents |
Apr 25, 1945 | 75.1 | Establishment of the United Nations | World |
May 8, 1945 | 75.2 | Unconditional surrender of the German Empire | Germany |
Aug 6, 1945 - Aug 9, 1945 | 75.4 | Nuclear bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki | USA |
Oct 14, 1946 | 76.6 | Start of the 4th French Republic | France |
Oct 14, 1947 | 77.6 | First supersonic flight of the Bell X-1 | Aviation History |
Dec 21, 1948 | 78.8 | Republic of Ireland Act | Great Britain |
May 23, 1949 | 79.2 | Establishment of the Federal Republic of Germany | Germany |
1949 | 79.3 | Establishment of Circuit City | Companies |
Sep 15, 1949 - Oct 16, 1963 | 79.5 - 93.6 | Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany: Konrad Adenauer | Germany - Chancellors |
Oct 7, 1949 | 79.6 | Establishment of the German Democratic Republic | Germany |
Oct 11, 1949 - Sep 7, 1960 | 79.6 - 90.5 | Wilhelm Pieck - State President of the GDR | GDR |
Jun 17, 1950 | 80.3 | First successful organ transplant | Medicine |
1950 - 1953 | 80.3 - 83.3 | Korean War | Wars & Military Conflicts |
Jan 22, 1952 | 81.9 | First jet airliner in regular commercial use | Aviation History |
Feb 6, 1952 - Today | 81.9 | Queen of the United Kingdom: Elizabeth II | Great Britain |
Jan 20, 1953 - Jan 20, 1961 | 82.9 - 90.9 | President of the United States of America: Dwight D. Eisenhower | USA - Presidents |
Jun 17, 1953 | 83.3 | Uprising of June 17, 1953 in East Germany | Germany |
Feb 24, 1955 - Oct 5, 2011 | 85.0 - 141.6 | Life of Steven 'Steve' Paul Jobs | Personalities |
Oct 4, 1957 | 87.6 | Sputnik launched: first artificial satellite in Earth's orbit | Technology |
Oct 5, 1958 | 88.6 | Start of the 5th French Republic | France |
1959 - Apr 30, 1975 | 89.3 - 105.2 | Vietnam War | Wars & Military Conflicts |
1960 - 1973 | 90.3 - 103.3 | Walter Ulbricht - Chairman of the State Council of the GDR | GDR |
Jan 20, 1961 - Nov 22, 1963 | 90.9 - 93.7 | President of the United States of America: John F. Kennedy | USA - Presidents |
Apr 12, 1961 | 91.1 | First human in space | Technology |
May 25, 1961 - Jul 24, 1975 | 91.2 - 105.4 | Apollo Space Program | Technology |
Aug 13, 1961 | 91.4 | Construction of the Berlin Wall | Germany |
Oct 11, 1962 - Dec 8, 1965 | 92.6 - 95.8 | Second Vatican Council | World |
Oct 16, 1962 - Oct 28, 1962 | 92.6 - 92.7 | Cuban Missile Crisis ('October Crisis') | USA |
Oct 16, 1963 - Dec 1, 1966 | 93.6 - 96.8 | Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany: Ludwig Erhard | Germany - Chancellors |
Nov 22, 1963 - Jan 20, 1969 | 93.7 - 98.9 | President of the United States of America: Lyndon B. Johnson | USA - Presidents |
1966 - 1973 | 96.3 - 103.3 | Construction period of the World Trade Center | Monuments |
Dec 1, 1966 - Oct 21, 1969 | 96.8 - 99.6 | Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany: Kurt Georg Kiesinger | Germany - Chancellors |
1967 | 97.3 | Founding of the European Community (EC) | European Union |
Jan 20, 1969 - Aug 9, 1974 | 98.9 - 104.4 | President of the United States of America: Richard Nixon | USA - Presidents |
Jul 20, 1969 | 99.4 | First man on the moon | Technology |
Oct 21, 1969 - May 7, 1974 | 99.6 - 104.2 | Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany: Willy Brandt | Germany - Chancellors |
Oct 31, 1969 | 99.7 | Establishment of Wal Mart | Companies |