Date | | Event | Category |
Dec 15, 1832 - Dec 27, 1923 | (-73.1) - 18.0 | Life of Gustave Eiffel | Personalities |
Jul 8, 1838 - Mar 8, 1917 | (-67.5) - 11.2 | Life of Ferdinand von Zeppelin | Personalities |
Dec 11, 1843 - May 27, 1910 | (-62.1) - 4.4 | Life of Robert Koch | Personalities |
Nov 25, 1844 - Apr 4, 1929 | (-61.1) - 23.3 | Life of Carl Benz | Personalities |
Feb 11, 1847 - Oct 18, 1931 | (-58.9) - 25.8 | Life of Thomas Alva Edison | Personalities |
Mar 3, 1847 - Aug 1, 1922 | (-58.9) - 16.6 | Life of Alexander Graham Bell | Personalities |
May 6, 1856 - Sep 23, 1939 | (-49.7) - 33.7 | Life of Sigmund Freud | Personalities |
Sep 23, 1861 - Mar 12, 1942 | (-44.3) - 36.2 | Life of Robert Bosch | Personalities |
Jul 30, 1863 - Apr 7, 1947 | (-42.5) - 41.3 | Life of Henry Ford | Personalities |
Oct 16, 1863 - Mar 17, 1937 | (-42.2) - 31.2 | Life of Joseph Austen Chamberlain | Personalities |
Apr 22, 1870 - Jan 21, 1924 | (-35.7) - 18.1 | Life of Vladimir Lenin | Personalities |
Nov 30, 1874 - Jan 24, 1965 | (-31.1) - 59.1 | Life of Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill | Personalities |
Jan 5, 1876 - Apr 19, 1967 | (-30.0) - 61.3 | Life of Konrad Adenauer | Personalities |
Mar 14, 1879 - Apr 18, 1955 | (-26.8) - 49.3 | Life of Albert Einstein | Personalities |
Aug 6, 1881 - Mar 11, 1955 | (-24.4) - 49.2 | Life of Alexander Fleming | Personalities |
Jan 21, 1884 - Dec 12, 1963 | (-22.0) - 58.0 | Life of Theodor Heuss | Personalities |
Jun 15, 1888 - Nov 9, 1918 | (-17.6) - 12.9 | German Emperor: Wilhelm II | Germany |
Apr 20, 1889 - Apr 30, 1945 | (-16.7) - 39.4 | Life of Adolf Hitler | Personalities |
Oct 14, 1890 - Mar 28, 1969 | (-15.2) - 63.3 | Life of Dwight David Eisenhower | Personalities |
Sep 14, 1901 - Mar 4, 1909 | (-4.3) - 3.2 | President of the United States of America: Theodore Roosevelt | USA - Presidents |
Dec 5, 1901 - Dec 15, 1966 | (-4.1) - 61.0 | Life of Walter Elias Disney | Personalities |
1904 - 1908 | (-2.0) - 2.0 | Herero and Namaqua Uprising ('Herero and Namaqua Genocide') | Wars & Military Conflicts |
Apr 18, 1906 | 0.3 | San Francisco Earthquake of 1906 | Disasters |
1907 | 1.0 | First helicopter flight | Aviation History |
Sep 16, 1908 | 2.7 | Establishment of General Motors | Companies |
Sep 27, 1908 | 2.7 | Introduction of the Ford Model T | Automobile History |
1909 | 3.0 | Discovery of antibiotics | Medicine |
Mar 4, 1909 - Mar 4, 1913 | 3.2 - 7.2 | President of the United States of America: William Howard Taft | USA - Presidents |
May 30, 1911 | 5.4 | First 'Indy 500' race in Indianapolis | Automobile History |
May 30, 1911 | 5.4 | One in seven families in the US owns a car | Automobile History |
Oct 23, 1911 | 5.8 | First military use of an airplane | Aviation History |
Mar 4, 1913 - Mar 4, 1921 | 7.2 - 15.2 | President of the United States of America: Woodrow Wilson | USA - Presidents |
Jun 14, 1914 - Jun 15, 1914 | 8.5 | First transatlantic flight | Aviation History |
Jun 28, 1914 - Nov 11, 1918 | 8.5 - 12.9 | World War I | Wars & Military Conflicts |
Aug 6, 1914 - Nov 25, 1918 | 8.6 - 12.9 | East African Campaign (World War I) | Wars & Military Conflicts |
Sep 13, 1914 - Jul 9, 1915 | 8.7 - 9.5 | South-West Africa Campaign (World War I) | Wars & Military Conflicts |
Oct 14, 1914 - Oct 24, 1914 | 8.8 | Maritz Rebellion | Wars & Military Conflicts |
1916 | 10.0 | Establishment of BMW (Bayerische Motoren Werke AG) | Companies |
Apr 24, 1916 - Apr 30, 1916 | 10.3 | Easter Rising | Great Britain |
1917 - 1923 | 11.0 - 17.0 | Russian Civil War | Wars & Military Conflicts |
Mar 8, 1917 - Mar 12, 1917 | 11.2 | Russian February Revolution | Russia |
May 29, 1917 - Nov 22, 1963 | 11.4 - 57.9 | Life of John F. Kennedy | Personalities |
Nov 7, 1917 | 11.9 | Founding of the Russian Socialist Federal Soviet Republic | Russia |
Nov 9, 1918 | 12.9 | German Revolution | Germany |
1919 | 13.0 | First trans-atlantic zeppelin flight | Aviation History |
Feb 11, 1919 - Feb 28, 1925 | 13.1 - 19.2 | President of Germany: Friedrich Ebert | Germany |
Feb 13, 1919 - Jun 20, 1919 | 13.1 - 13.5 | Chancellor of Germany: Philipp Scheidemann | Germany |
May 6, 1919 - Aug 8, 1919 | 13.4 - 13.6 | Third Anglo-Afghan War | Wars & Military Conflicts |
Aug 11, 1919 | 13.6 | Adoption of the Weimar Constitution | Germany |
Sep 10, 1919 | 13.7 | Treaty of Saint-Germain | Italy |
Mar 4, 1921 - Aug 2, 1923 | 15.2 - 17.6 | President of the United States of America: Warren G. Harding | USA - Presidents |
Dec 6, 1921 | 15.9 | Anglo-Irish Treaty | Great Britain |
Oct 28, 1922 | 16.8 | Benito Mussolini becomes Prime Minister of Italy | Italy |
Aug 2, 1923 - Mar 4, 1929 | 17.6 - 23.2 | President of the United States of America: Calvin Coolidge | USA - Presidents |
Aug 13, 1923 - Nov 23, 1923 | 17.6 - 17.9 | Chancellor of Germany: Gustav Stresemann | Germany |
Sep 13, 1923 | 17.7 | Establishing of the military dictatorship | Spain |
May 12, 1925 - Aug 2, 1934 | 19.4 - 28.6 | President of Germany: Paul von Hindenburg | Germany |
1928 | 22.0 | Discovery of penicillin | Medicine |
Jun 14, 1928 - Oct 9, 1967 | 22.5 - 61.8 | Life of Che Guevara | Personalities |
Jan 15, 1929 - Apr 4, 1968 | 23.1 - 62.3 | Life of Martin Luther King | Personalities |
Mar 4, 1929 - Mar 4, 1933 | 23.2 - 27.2 | President of the United States of America: Herbert Hoover | USA - Presidents |
Oct 25, 1929 | 23.8 | 'Black Friday' | USA |
Jan 22, 1930 - May 1, 1931 | 24.1 - 25.3 | Construction period of the Empire State Building | Monuments |
Mar 30, 1930 - May 30, 1932 | 24.3 - 26.4 | Chancellor of Germany: Heinrich BrĂ¼ning | Germany |
Aug 5, 1930 - Today | 24.6 | Life of Neil Armstrong | Personalities |
1931 | 25.0 | Establishment of Porsche | Companies |
Apr 14, 1931 | 25.3 | Proclamation of the Second Spanish Republic | Spain |
Dec 11, 1931 | 26.0 | Statute of Westminster | Great Britain |
Jun 1, 1932 - Nov 17, 1932 | 26.4 - 26.9 | Chancellor of Germany: Franz von Papen | Germany |
Dec 3, 1932 - Jan 28, 1933 | 26.9 - 27.1 | Chancellor of Germany: Kurt von Schleicher | Germany |
Jan 30, 1933 - Apr 30, 1945 | 27.1 - 39.4 | Chancellor of Germany: Adolf Hitler | Germany |
Feb 28, 1933 - Mar 23, 1933 | 27.2 | 'Reichstag Fire Decree' and 'Enabling Act': De facto end of the Weimar Republic & Begin of Nazi Dictatorship | Germany |
Mar 4, 1933 - Apr 12, 1945 | 27.2 - 39.3 | President of the United States of America: Franklin D. Roosevelt | USA - Presidents |
1935 | 29.0 | Italy occupies Ethiopia, the last remainaing free territory in Africa. | Discoveries & Colonization |
Dec 11, 1936 - Feb 6, 1952 | 31.0 - 46.1 | Queen consort of the United Kingdom: Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon 'Queen Mum' | Great Britain |
1937 | 31.0 | Construction period of the Golden Gate Bridge | Monuments |
May 6, 1937 | 31.4 | Hindenburg disaster | Aviation History |
Aug 27, 1939 | 33.7 | First flight of turbine-equipped jetplane | Aviation History |
Sep 1, 1939 - 1945 | 33.7 - 39.0 | World War II | Wars & Military Conflicts |
May 14, 1940 | 34.4 | Establishment of McDonald's | Companies |
Dec 7, 1941 | 36.0 | Japanese Attack on Pearl Harbor | USA |
Apr 12, 1945 - Jan 20, 1953 | 39.3 - 47.1 | President of the United States of America: Harry S. Truman | USA - Presidents |
Apr 25, 1945 | 39.3 | Establishment of the United Nations | World |
May 8, 1945 | 39.4 | Unconditional Surrender of the German Empire | Germany |
Aug 6, 1945 - Aug 9, 1945 | 39.6 | Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki | USA |
Oct 14, 1946 | 40.8 | Begin of the 4th French Republic | France |
Oct 14, 1947 | 41.8 | First supersonic flight of the Bell X-1 | Aviation History |
Dec 21, 1948 | 43.0 | Republic of Ireland Act | Great Britain |
1949 | 43.0 | Establishment of Circuit City | Companies |
May 23, 1949 | 43.4 | Establishment of the Federal Republic of Germany | Germany |
Sep 15, 1949 - Oct 16, 1963 | 43.7 - 57.8 | Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany: Konrad Adenauer | Germany - Chancellors |
Oct 7, 1949 | 43.8 | Establishment of the German Democratic Repulbic | Germany |
Oct 11, 1949 - Sep 7, 1960 | 43.8 - 54.7 | Wilhelm Pieck - State President of the GDR | GDR |
1950 - 1953 | 44.0 - 47.0 | Korean War | Wars & Military Conflicts |
Jun 17, 1950 | 44.5 | First successful organ transplant | Medicine |
Jan 22, 1952 | 46.1 | First jet airliner in regular commercial use | Aviation History |
Feb 6, 1952 - Today | 46.1 | Queen of the United Kingdom: Elizabeth II | Great Britain |
Jan 20, 1953 - Jan 20, 1961 | 47.1 - 55.1 | President of the United States of America: Dwight D. Eisenhower | USA - Presidents |
Jun 17, 1953 | 47.5 | Uprising of June 17, 1953 in East Germany | Germany |
Feb 24, 1955 - Today | 49.2 | Life of Steven 'Steve' Paul Jobs | Personalities |
Oct 4, 1957 | 51.8 | Sputnik launched: first artificial satellite in Earth's orbit | Technology |
Oct 5, 1958 | 52.8 | Begin of the 5th French Republic | France |
1959 - Apr 30, 1975 | 53.0 - 69.4 | Vietnam War | Wars & Military Conflicts |
1960 - 1973 | 54.0 - 67.0 | Walter Ulbricht - Chairman of the Council of State of the GDR | GDR |
Jan 20, 1961 - Nov 22, 1963 | 55.1 - 57.9 | President of the United States of America: John F. Kennedy | USA - Presidents |
Apr 12, 1961 | 55.3 | First human in space | Technology |
May 25, 1961 - Jul 24, 1975 | 55.4 - 69.6 | Apollo Space Program | Technology |
Aug 13, 1961 | 55.7 | Construction of the Berlin Wall | Germany |
Oct 11, 1962 - Dec 8, 1965 | 56.8 - 60.0 | Second Vatican Council | World |
Oct 16, 1962 - Oct 28, 1962 | 56.8 - 56.9 | Cuban Missile Crisis ('October Crisis') | USA |
Oct 16, 1963 - Dec 1, 1966 | 57.8 - 61.0 | Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany: Ludwig Erhard | Germany - Chancellors |
Nov 22, 1963 - Jan 20, 1969 | 57.9 - 63.1 | President of the United States of America: Lyndon B. Johnson | USA - Presidents |
1966 - 1973 | 60.0 - 67.0 | Construction period of the World Trade Center | Monuments |
Dec 1, 1966 - Oct 21, 1969 | 61.0 - 63.8 | Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany: Kurt Georg Kiesinger | Germany - Chancellors |
1967 | 61.0 | Founding of the European Community (EC) | Europian Union |
Jan 20, 1969 - Aug 9, 1974 | 63.1 - 68.6 | President of the United States of America: Richard Nixon | USA - Presidents |
Jul 20, 1969 | 63.6 | First Man on the Moon | Technology |
Oct 21, 1969 - May 7, 1974 | 63.8 - 68.4 | Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany: Willy Brandt | Germany - Chancellors |
Oct 31, 1969 | 63.9 | Establishment of Wal Mart | Companies |
Jul 21, 1972 | 66.6 | Bloody Friday | Great Britain |
1973 - 1976 | 67.0 - 70.0 | Willi Stoph - Chairman of the Council of State of the GDR | GDR |