Date | | Event | Category |
Dec 15, 1832 - Dec 27, 1923 | (-90.1) - 1.0 | Life of Gustave Eiffel | Personalities |
Nov 25, 1844 - Apr 4, 1929 | (-78.2) - 6.3 | Life of Carl Benz | Personalities |
Feb 11, 1847 - Oct 18, 1931 | (-75.9) - 8.8 | Life of Thomas Alva Edison | Personalities |
May 6, 1856 - Sep 23, 1939 | (-66.7) - 16.7 | Life of Sigmund Freud | Personalities |
Sep 23, 1861 - Mar 12, 1942 | (-61.3) - 19.2 | Life of Robert Bosch | Personalities |
Jul 30, 1863 - Apr 7, 1947 | (-59.5) - 24.3 | Life of Henry Ford | Personalities |
Oct 16, 1863 - Mar 17, 1937 | (-59.2) - 14.2 | Life of Joseph Austen Chamberlain | Personalities |
Apr 22, 1870 - Jan 21, 1924 | (-52.7) - 1.1 | Life of Vladimir Lenin | Personalities |
Nov 30, 1874 - Jan 24, 1965 | (-48.1) - 42.1 | Life of Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill | Personalities |
Jan 5, 1876 - Apr 19, 1967 | (-47.0) - 44.3 | Life of Konrad Adenauer | Personalities |
Mar 14, 1879 - Apr 18, 1955 | (-43.8) - 32.3 | Life of Albert Einstein | Personalities |
Aug 6, 1881 - Mar 11, 1955 | (-41.4) - 32.2 | Life of Alexander Fleming | Personalities |
Jan 21, 1884 - Dec 12, 1963 | (-39.0) - 41.0 | Life of Theodor Heuss | Personalities |
Apr 20, 1889 - Apr 30, 1945 | (-33.7) - 22.3 | Life of Adolf Hitler | Personalities |
Oct 14, 1890 - Mar 28, 1969 | (-32.2) - 46.3 | Life of Dwight David Eisenhower | Personalities |
Dec 5, 1901 - Dec 15, 1966 | (-21.1) - 44.0 | Life of Walter Elias Disney | Personalities |
1917 - 1923 | (-6.0) | Russian Civil War | Wars & Military Conflicts |
May 29, 1917 - Nov 22, 1963 | (-5.6) - 40.9 | Life of John F. Kennedy | Personalities |
Feb 11, 1919 - Feb 28, 1925 | (-3.9) - 2.2 | President of Germany: Friedrich Ebert | Germany |
Mar 4, 1921 - Aug 2, 1923 | (-1.8) - 0.6 | President of the United States of America: Warren G. Harding | USA - Presidents |
Aug 2, 1923 - Mar 4, 1929 | 0.6 - 6.2 | President of the United States of America: Calvin Coolidge | USA - Presidents |
Aug 13, 1923 - Nov 23, 1923 | 0.6 - 0.9 | Chancellor of Germany: Gustav Stresemann | Germany |
Sep 13, 1923 | 0.7 | Establishing of the military dictatorship | Spain |
May 12, 1925 - Aug 2, 1934 | 2.4 - 11.6 | President of Germany: Paul von Hindenburg | Germany |
1928 | 5.0 | Discovery of penicillin | Medicine |
Jun 14, 1928 - Oct 9, 1967 | 5.5 - 44.8 | Life of Che Guevara | Personalities |
Jan 15, 1929 - Apr 4, 1968 | 6.0 - 45.3 | Life of Martin Luther King | Personalities |
Mar 4, 1929 - Mar 4, 1933 | 6.2 - 10.2 | President of the United States of America: Herbert Hoover | USA - Presidents |
Oct 25, 1929 | 6.8 | 'Black Friday' | USA |
Jan 22, 1930 - May 1, 1931 | 7.1 - 8.3 | Construction period of the Empire State Building | Monuments |
Mar 30, 1930 - May 30, 1932 | 7.2 - 9.4 | Chancellor of Germany: Heinrich Brüning | Germany |
Aug 5, 1930 - Today | 7.6 | Life of Neil Armstrong | Personalities |
1931 | 8.0 | Establishment of Porsche | Companies |
Apr 14, 1931 | 8.3 | Proclamation of the Second Spanish Republic | Spain |
Dec 11, 1931 | 8.9 | Statute of Westminster | Great Britain |
Jun 1, 1932 - Nov 17, 1932 | 9.4 - 9.9 | Chancellor of Germany: Franz von Papen | Germany |
Dec 3, 1932 - Jan 28, 1933 | 9.9 - 10.1 | Chancellor of Germany: Kurt von Schleicher | Germany |
Jan 30, 1933 - Apr 30, 1945 | 10.1 - 22.3 | Chancellor of Germany: Adolf Hitler | Germany |
Feb 28, 1933 - Mar 23, 1933 | 10.2 | 'Reichstag Fire Decree' and 'Enabling Act': De facto end of the Weimar Republic & Begin of Nazi Dictatorship | Germany |
Mar 4, 1933 - Apr 12, 1945 | 10.2 - 22.3 | President of the United States of America: Franklin D. Roosevelt | USA - Presidents |
1935 | 12.0 | Italy occupies Ethiopia, the last remainaing free territory in Africa. | Discoveries & Colonization |
Dec 11, 1936 - Feb 6, 1952 | 14.0 - 29.1 | Queen consort of the United Kingdom: Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon 'Queen Mum' | Great Britain |
1937 | 14.0 | Construction period of the Golden Gate Bridge | Monuments |
May 6, 1937 | 14.4 | Hindenburg disaster | Aviation History |
Aug 27, 1939 | 16.7 | First flight of turbine-equipped jetplane | Aviation History |
Sep 1, 1939 - 1945 | 16.7 - 22.0 | World War II | Wars & Military Conflicts |
May 14, 1940 | 17.4 | Establishment of McDonald's | Companies |
Dec 7, 1941 | 18.9 | Japanese Attack on Pearl Harbor | USA |
Apr 12, 1945 - Jan 20, 1953 | 22.3 - 30.1 | President of the United States of America: Harry S. Truman | USA - Presidents |
Apr 25, 1945 | 22.3 | Establishment of the United Nations | World |
May 8, 1945 | 22.4 | Unconditional Surrender of the German Empire | Germany |
Aug 6, 1945 - Aug 9, 1945 | 22.6 | Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki | USA |
Oct 14, 1946 | 23.8 | Begin of the 4th French Republic | France |
Oct 14, 1947 | 24.8 | First supersonic flight of the Bell X-1 | Aviation History |
Dec 21, 1948 | 26.0 | Republic of Ireland Act | Great Britain |
1949 | 26.0 | Establishment of Circuit City | Companies |
May 23, 1949 | 26.4 | Establishment of the Federal Republic of Germany | Germany |
Sep 15, 1949 - Oct 16, 1963 | 26.7 - 40.8 | Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany: Konrad Adenauer | Germany - Chancellors |
Oct 7, 1949 | 26.8 | Establishment of the German Democratic Repulbic | Germany |
Oct 11, 1949 - Sep 7, 1960 | 26.8 - 37.7 | Wilhelm Pieck - State President of the GDR | GDR |
1950 - 1953 | 27.0 - 30.0 | Korean War | Wars & Military Conflicts |
Jun 17, 1950 | 27.5 | First successful organ transplant | Medicine |
Jan 22, 1952 | 29.1 | First jet airliner in regular commercial use | Aviation History |
Feb 6, 1952 - Today | 29.1 | Queen of the United Kingdom: Elizabeth II | Great Britain |
Jan 20, 1953 - Jan 20, 1961 | 30.1 - 38.1 | President of the United States of America: Dwight D. Eisenhower | USA - Presidents |
Jun 17, 1953 | 30.5 | Uprising of June 17, 1953 in East Germany | Germany |
Feb 24, 1955 - Today | 32.2 | Life of Steven 'Steve' Paul Jobs | Personalities |
Oct 4, 1957 | 34.8 | Sputnik launched: first artificial satellite in Earth's orbit | Technology |
Oct 5, 1958 | 35.8 | Begin of the 5th French Republic | France |
1959 - Apr 30, 1975 | 36.0 - 52.4 | Vietnam War | Wars & Military Conflicts |
1960 - 1973 | 37.0 - 50.0 | Walter Ulbricht - Chairman of the Council of State of the GDR | GDR |
Jan 20, 1961 - Nov 22, 1963 | 38.1 - 40.9 | President of the United States of America: John F. Kennedy | USA - Presidents |
Apr 12, 1961 | 38.3 | First human in space | Technology |
May 25, 1961 - Jul 24, 1975 | 38.4 - 52.6 | Apollo Space Program | Technology |
Aug 13, 1961 | 38.6 | Construction of the Berlin Wall | Germany |
Oct 11, 1962 - Dec 8, 1965 | 39.8 - 43.0 | Second Vatican Council | World |
Oct 16, 1962 - Oct 28, 1962 | 39.8 | Cuban Missile Crisis ('October Crisis') | USA |
Oct 16, 1963 - Dec 1, 1966 | 40.8 - 43.9 | Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany: Ludwig Erhard | Germany - Chancellors |
Nov 22, 1963 - Jan 20, 1969 | 40.9 - 46.1 | President of the United States of America: Lyndon B. Johnson | USA - Presidents |
1966 - 1973 | 43.0 - 50.0 | Construction period of the World Trade Center | Monuments |
Dec 1, 1966 - Oct 21, 1969 | 43.9 - 46.8 | Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany: Kurt Georg Kiesinger | Germany - Chancellors |
1967 | 44.0 | Founding of the European Community (EC) | Europian Union |
Jan 20, 1969 - Aug 9, 1974 | 46.1 - 51.6 | President of the United States of America: Richard Nixon | USA - Presidents |
Jul 20, 1969 | 46.6 | First Man on the Moon | Technology |
Oct 21, 1969 - May 7, 1974 | 46.8 - 51.4 | Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany: Willy Brandt | Germany - Chancellors |
Oct 31, 1969 | 46.9 | Establishment of Wal Mart | Companies |
Jul 21, 1972 | 49.6 | Bloody Friday | Great Britain |
1973 - 1976 | 50.0 - 53.0 | Willi Stoph - Chairman of the Council of State of the GDR | GDR |
May 16, 1974 - Oct 1, 1982 | 51.4 - 59.8 | Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany: Helmut Schmidt | Germany - Chancellors |
Aug 9, 1974 - Jan 20, 1977 | 51.6 - 54.1 | President of the United States of America: Gerald Ford | USA - Presidents |
Nov 20, 1975 | 52.9 | Franco's Death, end of the Francoist regime | Spain |
1976 - 1989 | 53.0 - 66.0 | Erich Honecker - Chairman of the Council of State of the GDR | GDR |
Apr 1, 1976 | 53.3 | Apple Computer is established | Apple Inc. - Corporate History |
Jan 20, 1977 - Jan 20, 1981 | 54.1 - 58.1 | President of the United States of America: Jimmy Carter | USA - Presidents |
Apr 16, 1977 | 54.3 | Introduction of the Apple II | Apple Inc. - Corporate History |
Dec 27, 1979 - Feb 15, 1989 | 57.0 - 66.2 | Soviet-Afghan War (1979-1989) | Wars & Military Conflicts |
Sep 22, 1980 - Aug 20, 1988 | 57.8 - 65.7 | First Gulf War ('Iran-Iraq War') | Wars & Military Conflicts |
Jan 20, 1981 - Jan 20, 1989 | 58.1 - 66.1 | President of the United States of America: Ronald Reagan | USA - Presidents |
Apr 2, 1982 - Jun 14, 1982 | 59.3 - 59.5 | Falklands War | Wars & Military Conflicts |
Oct 1, 1982 - Oct 27, 1998 | 59.8 - 75.9 | Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany: Helmut Kohl | Germany - Chancellors |
1983 | 60.0 | Discovery of HIV | Medicine |
Jan 19, 1983 | 60.1 | Introduction of the Apple Lisa | Apple Inc. - Corporate History |
Jan 24, 1984 | 61.1 | Introduction of the Macintosh | Apple Inc. - Corporate History |
Jan 20, 1989 - Jan 20, 1993 | 66.1 - 70.1 | President of the United States of America: George H. W. Bush | USA - Presidents |
Oct 18, 1989 - Dec 3, 1989 | 66.8 - 67.0 | Egon Krenz - Chairman of the Council of State of the GDR | GDR |
Aug 2, 1990 - Feb 28, 1991 | 67.6 - 68.2 | Second Gulf War ('Operation Desert Shield', 'Operation Desert Storm') | Wars & Military Conflicts |
Oct 3, 1990 | 67.8 | German reunification | Germany |
Dec 8, 1991 | 69.0 | Signing of the Belavezha Accords, declaring the Soviet Union dissolved | Russia |
1992 - 1996 | 69.0 - 73.0 | Afghan Civil War | Wars & Military Conflicts |
Jan 20, 1993 - Jan 20, 2001 | 70.1 - 78.1 | President of the United States of America: Bill Clinton | USA - Presidents |
Aug 4, 1993 | 70.6 | Introduction of the Apple Newton | Apple Inc. - Corporate History |
Nov 1, 1993 | 70.9 | Founding of the European Union (EU) | Europian Union |
1994 - 1996 | 71.0 - 73.0 | First Chechen War ('War in Chechnya') | Wars & Military Conflicts |
Jan 17, 1995 | 72.1 | Kobe Earthquake | Disasters |
1998 - 2003 | 75.1 - 80.1 | Second Congo War ('Great War of Africa') | Wars & Military Conflicts |
1998 - 1999 | 75.1 - 76.1 | Kosovo War ('Kosovo Conflict') | Wars & Military Conflicts |
Aug 15, 1998 | 75.7 | Introduction of the Apple iMac | Apple Inc. - Corporate History |
Oct 27, 1998 - Nov 22, 2005 | 75.9 - 82.9 | Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany: Gerhard Schröder | Germany - Chancellors |
Jan 1, 1999 | 76.1 | ECU as an internal accounting unit in the European Community | Europian Union |
Jan 20, 2001 - Jan 20, 2009 | 78.1 - 86.1 | President of the United States of America: George W. Bush | USA - Presidents |
Sep 11, 2001 | 78.7 | September 11 attacks ('9/11') | USA |
Oct 7, 2001 - Today | 78.8 | Afghanistan War | Wars & Military Conflicts |
Oct 23, 2001 | 78.9 | Apple iPod introduced | Apple Inc. - Corporate History |
Jan 1, 2002 | 79.1 | Introduction of the Euro | Europian Union |
Mar 20, 2003 - Today | 80.3 | Third Gulf War ('Iraq War') | Wars & Military Conflicts |
Dec 26, 2004 | 82.0 | Indian Ocean Tsunami | Disasters |
Jun 6, 2005 | 82.5 | Apple switches to Intel CPU architecture | Apple Inc. - Corporate History |
Nov 22, 2005 - Today | 82.9 | Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany: Angela Merkel | Germany - Chancellors |
Jan 9, 2007 | 84.1 | Introduction of the Apple iPhone | Apple Inc. - Corporate History |
Jan 20, 2009 - Today | 86.1 | President of the United States of America: Barack Obama | USA - Presidents |