Dec 15, 1832 - Dec 27, 1923 | (-81.8) - 9.3 | Life of Gustave Eiffel | Personalities |
Jul 8, 1838 - Mar 8, 1917 | (-76.2) - 2.5 | Life of Ferdinand von Zeppelin | Personalities |
Nov 25, 1844 - Apr 4, 1929 | (-69.8) - 14.6 | Life of Carl Benz | Personalities |
Feb 11, 1847 - Oct 18, 1931 | (-67.6) - 17.1 | Life of Thomas Alva Edison | Personalities |
Mar 3, 1847 - Aug 1, 1922 | (-67.5) - 7.9 | Life of Alexander Graham Bell | Personalities |
May 6, 1856 - Sep 23, 1939 | (-58.4) - 25.0 | Life of Sigmund Freud | Personalities |
Sep 23, 1861 - Mar 12, 1942 | (-53.0) - 27.5 | Life of Robert Bosch | Personalities |
Jul 30, 1863 - Apr 7, 1947 | (-51.1) - 32.6 | Life of Henry Ford | Personalities |
Oct 16, 1863 - Mar 17, 1937 | (-50.9) - 22.5 | Life of Joseph Austen Chamberlain | Personalities |
Apr 22, 1870 - Jan 21, 1924 | (-44.4) - 9.3 | Life of Vladimir Lenin | Personalities |
Nov 30, 1874 - Jan 24, 1965 | (-39.8) - 50.4 | Life of Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill | Personalities |
Jan 5, 1876 - Apr 19, 1967 | (-38.7) - 52.6 | Life of Konrad Adenauer | Personalities |
Mar 14, 1879 - Apr 18, 1955 | (-35.5) - 40.6 | Life of Albert Einstein | Personalities |
Aug 6, 1881 - Mar 11, 1955 | (-33.1) - 40.5 | Life of Alexander Fleming | Personalities |
Jan 21, 1884 - Dec 12, 1963 | (-30.6) - 49.3 | Life of Theodor Heuss | Personalities |
Jun 15, 1888 - Nov 9, 1918 | (-26.2) - 4.1 | German Emperor: Wilhelm II | Germany |
Apr 20, 1889 - Apr 30, 1945 | (-25.4) - 30.6 | Life of Adolf Hitler | Personalities |
Oct 14, 1890 - Mar 28, 1969 | (-23.9) - 54.6 | Life of Dwight David Eisenhower | Personalities |
Dec 5, 1901 - Dec 15, 1966 | (-12.7) - 52.3 | Life of Walter Elias Disney | Personalities |
Mar 4, 1913 - Mar 4, 1921 | (-1.5) - 6.5 | President of the United States of America: Woodrow Wilson | USA - Presidents |
Jun 28, 1914 - Nov 11, 1918 | (-0.2) - 4.1 | World War I | Wars & Military Conflicts |
Aug 6, 1914 - Nov 25, 1918 | (-0.1) - 4.2 | East African Campaign (World War I) | Wars & Military Conflicts |
Sep 13, 1914 - Jul 9, 1915 | 0.0 - 0.8 | South-West Africa Campaign (World War I) | Wars & Military Conflicts |
Oct 14, 1914 - Oct 24, 1914 | 0.1 | Maritz Rebellion | Wars & Military Conflicts |
Apr 24, 1916 - Apr 30, 1916 | 1.6 | Easter Rising | Great Britain |
1916 | 1.8 | Establishment of BMW (Bayerische Motoren Werke AG) | Companies |
Mar 8, 1917 - Mar 12, 1917 | 2.5 | Russian February Revolution | Russia |
May 29, 1917 - Nov 22, 1963 | 2.7 - 49.2 | Life of John F. Kennedy | Personalities |
1917 - 1923 | 2.8 - 8.8 | Russian Civil War | Wars & Military Conflicts |
Nov 7, 1917 | 3.1 | Founding of the Russian Socialist Federal Soviet Republic | Russia |
Nov 9, 1918 | 4.1 | German Revolution | Germany |
Feb 11, 1919 - Feb 28, 1925 | 4.4 - 10.5 | President of Germany: Friedrich Ebert | Germany |
Feb 13, 1919 - Jun 20, 1919 | 4.4 - 4.8 | Chancellor of Germany: Philipp Scheidemann | Germany |
May 6, 1919 - Aug 8, 1919 | 4.6 - 4.9 | Third Anglo-Afghan War | Wars & Military Conflicts |
1919 | 4.8 | First transatlantic zeppelin flight | Aviation History |
Aug 11, 1919 | 4.9 | Adoption of the Weimar Constitution | Germany |
Sep 10, 1919 | 5.0 | Treaty of Saint-Germain | Italy |
Mar 4, 1921 - Aug 2, 1923 | 6.5 - 8.9 | President of the United States of America: Warren G. Harding | USA - Presidents |
Dec 6, 1921 | 7.2 | Anglo-Irish Treaty | Great Britain |
Oct 28, 1922 | 8.1 | Benito Mussolini becomes Prime Minister of Italy | Italy |
Aug 2, 1923 - Mar 4, 1929 | 8.9 - 14.5 | President of the United States of America: Calvin Coolidge | USA - Presidents |
Aug 13, 1923 - Nov 23, 1923 | 8.9 - 9.2 | Chancellor of Germany: Gustav Stresemann | Germany |
Sep 13, 1923 | 9.0 | Establishment of the military dictatorship | Spain |
May 12, 1925 - Aug 2, 1934 | 10.7 - 19.9 | President of Germany: Paul von Hindenburg | Germany |
Jun 14, 1928 - Oct 9, 1967 | 13.7 - 53.1 | Life of Che Guevara | Personalities |
1928 | 13.8 | Discovery of penicillin | Medicine |
Jan 15, 1929 - Apr 4, 1968 | 14.3 - 53.6 | Life of Martin Luther King | Personalities |
Mar 4, 1929 - Mar 4, 1933 | 14.5 - 18.5 | President of the United States of America: Herbert Hoover | USA - Presidents |
Oct 25, 1929 | 15.1 | 'Black Friday' | USA |
Jan 22, 1930 - May 1, 1931 | 15.4 - 16.6 | Construction period of the Empire State Building | Monuments |
Mar 30, 1930 - May 30, 1932 | 15.5 - 17.7 | Chancellor of Germany: Heinrich Brüning | Germany |
Aug 5, 1930 - Aug 25, 2012 | 15.9 - 98.0 | Life of Neil Armstrong | Personalities |
Apr 14, 1931 | 16.6 | Proclamation of the Second Spanish Republic | Spain |
1931 | 16.8 | Establishment of Porsche | Companies |
Dec 11, 1931 | 17.2 | Statute of Westminster | Great Britain |
Jun 1, 1932 - Nov 17, 1932 | 17.7 - 18.2 | Chancellor of Germany: Franz von Papen | Germany |
Dec 3, 1932 - Jan 28, 1933 | 18.2 - 18.4 | Chancellor of Germany: Kurt von Schleicher | Germany |
Jan 30, 1933 - Apr 30, 1945 | 18.4 - 30.6 | Chancellor of Germany: Adolf Hitler | Germany |
Feb 28, 1933 - Mar 23, 1933 | 18.5 | 'Reichstag Fire Decree' and 'Enabling Act': De facto end of the Weimar Republic & beginning of Nazi dictatorship | Germany |
Mar 4, 1933 - Apr 12, 1945 | 18.5 - 30.6 | President of the United States of America: Franklin D. Roosevelt | USA - Presidents |
1935 | 20.8 | Italy occupies Ethiopia, the last remaining free territory in Africa. | Discoveries & Colonization |
Dec 11, 1936 - Feb 6, 1952 | 22.2 - 37.4 | Queen consort of the United Kingdom: Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon 'Queen Mum' | Great Britain |
May 6, 1937 | 22.6 | Hindenburg disaster | Aviation History |
1937 | 22.8 | Construction period of the Golden Gate Bridge | Monuments |
Aug 27, 1939 | 25.0 | First flight of turbine-equipped jet plane | Aviation History |
Sep 1, 1939 - Sep 2, 1945 | 25.0 - 31.0 | World War II | Wars & Military Conflicts |
May 14, 1940 | 25.7 | Establishment of McDonald's | Companies |
Dec 7, 1941 | 27.2 | Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor | USA |
Apr 12, 1945 - Jan 20, 1953 | 30.6 - 38.4 | President of the United States of America: Harry S. Truman | USA - Presidents |
Apr 25, 1945 | 30.6 | Establishment of the United Nations | World |
May 8, 1945 | 30.7 | Unconditional surrender of the German Empire | Germany |
Aug 6, 1945 - Aug 9, 1945 | 30.9 | Nuclear bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki | USA |
Oct 14, 1946 | 32.1 | Start of the 4th French Republic | France |
Oct 14, 1947 | 33.1 | First supersonic flight of the Bell X-1 | Aviation History |
Dec 21, 1948 | 34.3 | Republic of Ireland Act | Great Britain |
May 23, 1949 | 34.7 | Establishment of the Federal Republic of Germany | Germany |
1949 | 34.8 | Establishment of Circuit City | Companies |
Sep 15, 1949 - Oct 16, 1963 | 35.0 - 49.1 | Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany: Konrad Adenauer | Germany - Chancellors |
Oct 7, 1949 | 35.1 | Establishment of the German Democratic Republic | Germany |
Oct 11, 1949 - Sep 7, 1960 | 35.1 - 46.0 | Wilhelm Pieck - State President of the GDR | GDR |
Jun 17, 1950 | 35.8 | First successful organ transplant | Medicine |
1950 - 1953 | 35.8 - 38.8 | Korean War | Wars & Military Conflicts |
Jan 22, 1952 | 37.4 | First jet airliner in regular commercial use | Aviation History |
Feb 6, 1952 - Today | 37.4 | Queen of the United Kingdom: Elizabeth II | Great Britain |
Jan 20, 1953 - Jan 20, 1961 | 38.4 - 46.4 | President of the United States of America: Dwight D. Eisenhower | USA - Presidents |
Jun 17, 1953 | 38.8 | Uprising of June 17, 1953 in East Germany | Germany |
Feb 24, 1955 - Oct 5, 2011 | 40.5 - 97.1 | Life of Steven 'Steve' Paul Jobs | Personalities |
Oct 4, 1957 | 43.1 | Sputnik launched: first artificial satellite in Earth's orbit | Technology |
Oct 5, 1958 | 44.1 | Start of the 5th French Republic | France |
1959 - Apr 30, 1975 | 44.8 - 60.7 | Vietnam War | Wars & Military Conflicts |
1960 - 1973 | 45.8 - 58.8 | Walter Ulbricht - Chairman of the State Council of the GDR | GDR |
Jan 20, 1961 - Nov 22, 1963 | 46.4 - 49.2 | President of the United States of America: John F. Kennedy | USA - Presidents |
Apr 12, 1961 | 46.6 | First human in space | Technology |
May 25, 1961 - Jul 24, 1975 | 46.7 - 60.9 | Apollo Space Program | Technology |
Aug 13, 1961 | 46.9 | Construction of the Berlin Wall | Germany |
Oct 11, 1962 - Dec 8, 1965 | 48.1 - 51.3 | Second Vatican Council | World |
Oct 16, 1962 - Oct 28, 1962 | 48.1 | Cuban Missile Crisis ('October Crisis') | USA |
Oct 16, 1963 - Dec 1, 1966 | 49.1 - 52.2 | Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany: Ludwig Erhard | Germany - Chancellors |
Nov 22, 1963 - Jan 20, 1969 | 49.2 - 54.4 | President of the United States of America: Lyndon B. Johnson | USA - Presidents |
1966 - 1973 | 51.8 - 58.8 | Construction period of the World Trade Center | Monuments |
Dec 1, 1966 - Oct 21, 1969 | 52.2 - 55.1 | Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany: Kurt Georg Kiesinger | Germany - Chancellors |
1967 | 52.8 | Founding of the European Community (EC) | European Union |
Jan 20, 1969 - Aug 9, 1974 | 54.4 - 59.9 | President of the United States of America: Richard Nixon | USA - Presidents |
Jul 20, 1969 | 54.9 | First man on the moon | Technology |
Oct 21, 1969 - May 7, 1974 | 55.1 - 59.7 | Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany: Willy Brandt | Germany - Chancellors |
Oct 31, 1969 | 55.2 | Establishment of Wal Mart | Companies |
Jul 21, 1972 | 57.9 | Bloody Friday | Great Britain |
1973 - 1976 | 58.8 - 61.8 | Willi Stoph - Chairman of the Council of State of the GDR | GDR |
May 16, 1974 - Oct 1, 1982 | 59.7 - 68.1 | Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany: Helmut Schmidt | Germany - Chancellors |
Aug 9, 1974 - Jan 20, 1977 | 59.9 - 62.4 | President of the United States of America: Gerald Ford | USA - Presidents |
Nov 20, 1975 | 61.2 | Franco's Death, end of the Francoist regime | Spain |
Apr 1, 1976 | 61.6 | Apple Computer is established | Apple Inc. - Corporate History |
1976 - 1989 | 61.8 - 74.8 | Erich Honecker - Chairman of the Council of State of the GDR | GDR |
Jan 20, 1977 - Jan 20, 1981 | 62.4 - 66.4 | President of the United States of America: Jimmy Carter | USA - Presidents |
Apr 16, 1977 | 62.6 | Introduction of the Apple II | Apple Inc. - Corporate History |
Dec 27, 1979 - Feb 15, 1989 | 65.3 - 74.5 | Soviet-Afghan War (1979-1989) | Wars & Military Conflicts |
Sep 22, 1980 - Aug 20, 1988 | 66.1 - 74.0 | First Gulf War ('Iran-Iraq War') | Wars & Military Conflicts |
Jan 20, 1981 - Jan 20, 1989 | 66.4 - 74.4 | President of the United States of America: Ronald Reagan | USA - Presidents |
Apr 2, 1982 - Jun 14, 1982 | 67.6 - 67.8 | Falklands War | Wars & Military Conflicts |
Oct 1, 1982 - Oct 27, 1998 | 68.1 - 84.2 | Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany: Helmut Kohl | Germany - Chancellors |
Jan 19, 1983 | 68.4 | Introduction of the Apple Lisa | Apple Inc. - Corporate History |
1983 | 68.8 | Discovery of HIV | Medicine |
Jan 24, 1984 | 69.4 | Introduction of the Macintosh | Apple Inc. - Corporate History |
Jan 20, 1989 - Jan 20, 1993 | 74.4 - 78.4 | President of the United States of America: George H. W. Bush | USA - Presidents |
Oct 18, 1989 - Dec 3, 1989 | 75.1 - 75.3 | Egon Krenz - Chairman of the Council of State of the GDR | GDR |
Aug 2, 1990 - Feb 28, 1991 | 75.9 - 76.5 | Second Gulf War ('Operation Desert Shield', 'Operation Desert Storm') | Wars & Military Conflicts |
Oct 3, 1990 | 76.1 | German reunification | Germany |
Dec 8, 1991 | 77.3 | Signing of the Belavezha Accords, declaring the Soviet Union dissolved | Russia |
1992 - 1996 | 77.8 - 81.8 | Afghan Civil War | Wars & Military Conflicts |
Jan 20, 1993 - Jan 20, 2001 | 78.4 - 86.4 | President of the United States of America: Bill Clinton | USA - Presidents |
Aug 4, 1993 | 78.9 | Introduction of the Apple Newton | Apple Inc. - Corporate History |
Nov 1, 1993 | 79.2 | Founding of the European Union (EU) | European Union |
1994 - 1996 | 79.8 - 81.8 | First Chechen War ('War in Chechnya') | Wars & Military Conflicts |
Jan 17, 1995 | 80.4 | Kobe earthquake | Disasters |
1998 - 1999 | 83.8 - 84.8 | Kosovo War ('Kosovo Conflict') | Wars & Military Conflicts |
1998 - 2003 | 83.8 - 88.8 | Second Congo War ('Great War of Africa') | Wars & Military Conflicts |
Aug 15, 1998 | 84.0 | Introduction of the Apple iMac | Apple Inc. - Corporate History |
Oct 27, 1998 - Nov 22, 2005 | 84.2 - 91.2 | Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany: Gerhard Schröder | Germany - Chancellors |
Jan 1, 1999 | 84.3 | ECU as an internal accounting unit in the European Community | European Union |
Jan 20, 2001 - Jan 20, 2009 | 86.4 - 94.4 | President of the United States of America: George W. Bush | USA - Presidents |
Sep 11, 2001 | 87.0 | September 11 attacks ('9/11') | USA |
Oct 7, 2001 - Today | 87.1 | Afghanistan War | Wars & Military Conflicts |
Oct 23, 2001 | 87.2 | Apple iPod introduced | Apple Inc. - Corporate History |
Jan 1, 2002 | 87.3 | Introduction of the Euro | European Union |
Mar 20, 2003 - May 1, 2003 | 88.6 - 88.7 | Third Gulf War ('Iraq War') | Wars & Military Conflicts |
Dec 26, 2004 | 90.3 | Indian Ocean tsunami | Disasters |
Jun 6, 2005 | 90.8 | Apple switches to Intel CPU architecture | Apple Inc. - Corporate History |
Nov 22, 2005 - Today | 91.2 | Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany: Angela Merkel | Germany - Chancellors |
Jan 9, 2007 | 92.4 | Introduction of the Apple iPhone | Apple Inc. - Corporate History |
Jan 20, 2009 - Today | 94.4 | President of the United States of America: Barack Obama | USA - Presidents |