Date | | Event | Category |
Dec 15, 1832 - Dec 27, 1923 | (-70.1) - 21.0 | Life of Gustave Eiffel | Personalities |
Jul 8, 1838 - Mar 8, 1917 | (-64.5) - 14.2 | Life of Ferdinand von Zeppelin | Personalities |
Dec 11, 1843 - May 27, 1910 | (-59.1) - 7.4 | Life of Robert Koch | Personalities |
Nov 25, 1844 - Apr 4, 1929 | (-58.1) - 26.3 | Life of Carl Benz | Personalities |
Feb 11, 1847 - Oct 18, 1931 | (-55.9) - 28.8 | Life of Thomas Alva Edison | Personalities |
Mar 3, 1847 - Aug 1, 1922 | (-55.9) - 19.6 | Life of Alexander Graham Bell | Personalities |
May 6, 1856 - Sep 23, 1939 | (-46.7) - 36.8 | Life of Sigmund Freud | Personalities |
Sep 23, 1861 - Mar 12, 1942 | (-41.3) - 39.2 | Life of Robert Bosch | Personalities |
Jul 30, 1863 - Apr 7, 1947 | (-39.4) - 44.3 | Life of Henry Ford | Personalities |
Oct 16, 1863 - Mar 17, 1937 | (-39.2) - 34.2 | Life of Joseph Austen Chamberlain | Personalities |
Apr 22, 1870 - Jan 21, 1924 | (-32.7) - 21.1 | Life of Vladimir Lenin | Personalities |
Nov 30, 1874 - Jan 24, 1965 | (-28.1) - 62.1 | Life of Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill | Personalities |
Jan 5, 1876 - Apr 19, 1967 | (-27.0) - 64.3 | Life of Konrad Adenauer | Personalities |
Mar 14, 1879 - Apr 18, 1955 | (-23.8) - 52.3 | Life of Albert Einstein | Personalities |
Aug 6, 1881 - Mar 11, 1955 | (-21.4) - 52.2 | Life of Alexander Fleming | Personalities |
Jan 21, 1884 - Dec 12, 1963 | (-19.0) - 61.0 | Life of Theodor Heuss | Personalities |
Jun 15, 1888 - Nov 9, 1918 | (-14.6) - 15.9 | German Emperor: Wilhelm II | Germany |
Apr 20, 1889 - Apr 30, 1945 | (-13.7) - 42.4 | Life of Adolf Hitler | Personalities |
Oct 14, 1890 - Mar 28, 1969 | (-12.2) - 66.3 | Life of Dwight David Eisenhower | Personalities |
Sep 14, 1901 - Mar 4, 1909 | (-1.3) - 6.2 | President of the United States of America: Theodore Roosevelt | USA - Presidents |
Dec 5, 1901 - Dec 15, 1966 | (-1.1) - 64.0 | Life of Walter Elias Disney | Personalities |
Jun 16, 1903 | 0.5 | Establishment of Ford Motor Company | Companies |
Dec 16, 1903 | 1.0 | First controlled powered human flight by the Wright brothers | Aviation History |
1904 - 1908 | 1.0 - 5.0 | Herero and Namaqua Uprising ('Herero and Namaqua Genocide') | Wars & Military Conflicts |
Apr 18, 1906 | 3.3 | San Francisco Earthquake of 1906 | Disasters |
1907 | 4.0 | First helicopter flight | Aviation History |
Sep 16, 1908 | 5.7 | Establishment of General Motors | Companies |
Sep 27, 1908 | 5.7 | Introduction of the Ford Model T | Automobile History |
1909 | 6.0 | Discovery of antibiotics | Medicine |
Mar 4, 1909 - Mar 4, 1913 | 6.2 - 10.2 | President of the United States of America: William Howard Taft | USA - Presidents |
May 30, 1911 | 8.4 | First 'Indy 500' race in Indianapolis | Automobile History |
May 30, 1911 | 8.4 | One in seven families in the US owns a car | Automobile History |
Oct 23, 1911 | 8.8 | First military use of an airplane | Aviation History |
Mar 4, 1913 - Mar 4, 1921 | 10.2 - 18.2 | President of the United States of America: Woodrow Wilson | USA - Presidents |
Jun 14, 1914 - Jun 15, 1914 | 11.5 | First transatlantic flight | Aviation History |
Jun 28, 1914 - Nov 11, 1918 | 11.5 - 15.9 | World War I | Wars & Military Conflicts |
Aug 6, 1914 - Nov 25, 1918 | 11.6 - 15.9 | East African Campaign (World War I) | Wars & Military Conflicts |
Sep 13, 1914 - Jul 9, 1915 | 11.7 - 12.5 | South-West Africa Campaign (World War I) | Wars & Military Conflicts |
Oct 14, 1914 - Oct 24, 1914 | 11.8 | Maritz Rebellion | Wars & Military Conflicts |
1916 | 13.0 | Establishment of BMW (Bayerische Motoren Werke AG) | Companies |
Apr 24, 1916 - Apr 30, 1916 | 13.3 | Easter Rising | Great Britain |
1917 - 1923 | 14.0 - 20.0 | Russian Civil War | Wars & Military Conflicts |
Mar 8, 1917 - Mar 12, 1917 | 14.2 | Russian February Revolution | Russia |
May 29, 1917 - Nov 22, 1963 | 14.4 - 60.9 | Life of John F. Kennedy | Personalities |
Nov 7, 1917 | 14.9 | Founding of the Russian Socialist Federal Soviet Republic | Russia |
Nov 9, 1918 | 15.9 | German Revolution | Germany |
1919 | 16.0 | First trans-atlantic zeppelin flight | Aviation History |
Feb 11, 1919 - Feb 28, 1925 | 16.1 - 22.2 | President of Germany: Friedrich Ebert | Germany |
Feb 13, 1919 - Jun 20, 1919 | 16.1 - 16.5 | Chancellor of Germany: Philipp Scheidemann | Germany |
May 6, 1919 - Aug 8, 1919 | 16.4 - 16.6 | Third Anglo-Afghan War | Wars & Military Conflicts |
Aug 11, 1919 | 16.6 | Adoption of the Weimar Constitution | Germany |
Sep 10, 1919 | 16.7 | Treaty of Saint-Germain | Italy |
Mar 4, 1921 - Aug 2, 1923 | 18.2 - 20.6 | President of the United States of America: Warren G. Harding | USA - Presidents |
Dec 6, 1921 | 18.9 | Anglo-Irish Treaty | Great Britain |
Oct 28, 1922 | 19.8 | Benito Mussolini becomes Prime Minister of Italy | Italy |
Aug 2, 1923 - Mar 4, 1929 | 20.6 - 26.2 | President of the United States of America: Calvin Coolidge | USA - Presidents |
Aug 13, 1923 - Nov 23, 1923 | 20.6 - 20.9 | Chancellor of Germany: Gustav Stresemann | Germany |
Sep 13, 1923 | 20.7 | Establishing of the military dictatorship | Spain |
May 12, 1925 - Aug 2, 1934 | 22.4 - 31.6 | President of Germany: Paul von Hindenburg | Germany |
1928 | 25.0 | Discovery of penicillin | Medicine |
Jun 14, 1928 - Oct 9, 1967 | 25.5 - 64.8 | Life of Che Guevara | Personalities |
Jan 15, 1929 - Apr 4, 1968 | 26.1 - 65.3 | Life of Martin Luther King | Personalities |
Mar 4, 1929 - Mar 4, 1933 | 26.2 - 30.2 | President of the United States of America: Herbert Hoover | USA - Presidents |
Oct 25, 1929 | 26.8 | 'Black Friday' | USA |
Jan 22, 1930 - May 1, 1931 | 27.1 - 28.3 | Construction period of the Empire State Building | Monuments |
Mar 30, 1930 - May 30, 1932 | 27.3 - 29.4 | Chancellor of Germany: Heinrich Brüning | Germany |
Aug 5, 1930 - Today | 27.6 | Life of Neil Armstrong | Personalities |
1931 | 28.0 | Establishment of Porsche | Companies |
Apr 14, 1931 | 28.3 | Proclamation of the Second Spanish Republic | Spain |
Dec 11, 1931 | 29.0 | Statute of Westminster | Great Britain |
Jun 1, 1932 - Nov 17, 1932 | 29.4 - 29.9 | Chancellor of Germany: Franz von Papen | Germany |
Dec 3, 1932 - Jan 28, 1933 | 29.9 - 30.1 | Chancellor of Germany: Kurt von Schleicher | Germany |
Jan 30, 1933 - Apr 30, 1945 | 30.1 - 42.4 | Chancellor of Germany: Adolf Hitler | Germany |
Feb 28, 1933 - Mar 23, 1933 | 30.2 | 'Reichstag Fire Decree' and 'Enabling Act': De facto end of the Weimar Republic & Begin of Nazi Dictatorship | Germany |
Mar 4, 1933 - Apr 12, 1945 | 30.2 - 42.3 | President of the United States of America: Franklin D. Roosevelt | USA - Presidents |
1935 | 32.0 | Italy occupies Ethiopia, the last remainaing free territory in Africa. | Discoveries & Colonization |
Dec 11, 1936 - Feb 6, 1952 | 34.0 - 49.1 | Queen consort of the United Kingdom: Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon 'Queen Mum' | Great Britain |
1937 | 34.0 | Construction period of the Golden Gate Bridge | Monuments |
May 6, 1937 | 34.4 | Hindenburg disaster | Aviation History |
Aug 27, 1939 | 36.7 | First flight of turbine-equipped jetplane | Aviation History |
Sep 1, 1939 - 1945 | 36.7 - 42.0 | World War II | Wars & Military Conflicts |
May 14, 1940 | 37.4 | Establishment of McDonald's | Companies |
Dec 7, 1941 | 39.0 | Japanese Attack on Pearl Harbor | USA |
Apr 12, 1945 - Jan 20, 1953 | 42.3 - 50.1 | President of the United States of America: Harry S. Truman | USA - Presidents |
Apr 25, 1945 | 42.3 | Establishment of the United Nations | World |
May 8, 1945 | 42.4 | Unconditional Surrender of the German Empire | Germany |
Aug 6, 1945 - Aug 9, 1945 | 42.6 | Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki | USA |
Oct 14, 1946 | 43.8 | Begin of the 4th French Republic | France |
Oct 14, 1947 | 44.8 | First supersonic flight of the Bell X-1 | Aviation History |
Dec 21, 1948 | 46.0 | Republic of Ireland Act | Great Britain |
1949 | 46.0 | Establishment of Circuit City | Companies |
May 23, 1949 | 46.4 | Establishment of the Federal Republic of Germany | Germany |
Sep 15, 1949 - Oct 16, 1963 | 46.7 - 60.8 | Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany: Konrad Adenauer | Germany - Chancellors |
Oct 7, 1949 | 46.8 | Establishment of the German Democratic Repulbic | Germany |
Oct 11, 1949 - Sep 7, 1960 | 46.8 - 57.7 | Wilhelm Pieck - State President of the GDR | GDR |
1950 - 1953 | 47.0 - 50.0 | Korean War | Wars & Military Conflicts |
Jun 17, 1950 | 47.5 | First successful organ transplant | Medicine |
Jan 22, 1952 | 49.1 | First jet airliner in regular commercial use | Aviation History |
Feb 6, 1952 - Today | 49.1 | Queen of the United Kingdom: Elizabeth II | Great Britain |
Jan 20, 1953 - Jan 20, 1961 | 50.1 - 58.1 | President of the United States of America: Dwight D. Eisenhower | USA - Presidents |
Jun 17, 1953 | 50.5 | Uprising of June 17, 1953 in East Germany | Germany |
Feb 24, 1955 - Today | 52.2 | Life of Steven 'Steve' Paul Jobs | Personalities |
Oct 4, 1957 | 54.8 | Sputnik launched: first artificial satellite in Earth's orbit | Technology |
Oct 5, 1958 | 55.8 | Begin of the 5th French Republic | France |
1959 - Apr 30, 1975 | 56.0 - 72.4 | Vietnam War | Wars & Military Conflicts |
1960 - 1973 | 57.0 - 70.0 | Walter Ulbricht - Chairman of the Council of State of the GDR | GDR |
Jan 20, 1961 - Nov 22, 1963 | 58.1 - 60.9 | President of the United States of America: John F. Kennedy | USA - Presidents |
Apr 12, 1961 | 58.3 | First human in space | Technology |
May 25, 1961 - Jul 24, 1975 | 58.4 - 72.6 | Apollo Space Program | Technology |
Aug 13, 1961 | 58.7 | Construction of the Berlin Wall | Germany |
Oct 11, 1962 - Dec 8, 1965 | 59.8 - 63.0 | Second Vatican Council | World |
Oct 16, 1962 - Oct 28, 1962 | 59.8 - 59.9 | Cuban Missile Crisis ('October Crisis') | USA |
Oct 16, 1963 - Dec 1, 1966 | 60.8 - 64.0 | Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany: Ludwig Erhard | Germany - Chancellors |
Nov 22, 1963 - Jan 20, 1969 | 60.9 - 66.1 | President of the United States of America: Lyndon B. Johnson | USA - Presidents |
1966 - 1973 | 63.0 - 70.0 | Construction period of the World Trade Center | Monuments |
Dec 1, 1966 - Oct 21, 1969 | 64.0 - 66.8 | Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany: Kurt Georg Kiesinger | Germany - Chancellors |
1967 | 64.0 | Founding of the European Community (EC) | Europian Union |
Jan 20, 1969 - Aug 9, 1974 | 66.1 - 71.7 | President of the United States of America: Richard Nixon | USA - Presidents |
Jul 20, 1969 | 66.6 | First Man on the Moon | Technology |
Oct 21, 1969 - May 7, 1974 | 66.8 - 71.4 | Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany: Willy Brandt | Germany - Chancellors |
Oct 31, 1969 | 66.9 | Establishment of Wal Mart | Companies |
Jul 21, 1972 | 69.6 | Bloody Friday | Great Britain |
1973 - 1976 | 70.0 - 73.0 | Willi Stoph - Chairman of the Council of State of the GDR | GDR |
May 16, 1974 - Oct 1, 1982 | 71.4 - 79.8 | Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany: Helmut Schmidt | Germany - Chancellors |
Aug 9, 1974 - Jan 20, 1977 | 71.7 - 74.1 | President of the United States of America: Gerald Ford | USA - Presidents |
Nov 20, 1975 | 72.9 | Franco's Death, end of the Francoist regime | Spain |
1976 - 1989 | 73.0 - 86.1 | Erich Honecker - Chairman of the Council of State of the GDR | GDR |
Apr 1, 1976 | 73.3 | Apple Computer is established | Apple Inc. - Corporate History |
Jan 20, 1977 - Jan 20, 1981 | 74.1 - 78.1 | President of the United States of America: Jimmy Carter | USA - Presidents |
Apr 16, 1977 | 74.3 | Introduction of the Apple II | Apple Inc. - Corporate History |
Dec 27, 1979 - Feb 15, 1989 | 77.0 - 86.2 | Soviet-Afghan War (1979-1989) | Wars & Military Conflicts |
Sep 22, 1980 - Aug 20, 1988 | 77.8 - 85.7 | First Gulf War ('Iran-Iraq War') | Wars & Military Conflicts |
Jan 20, 1981 - Jan 20, 1989 | 78.1 - 86.1 | President of the United States of America: Ronald Reagan | USA - Presidents |
Apr 2, 1982 - Jun 14, 1982 | 79.3 - 79.5 | Falklands War | Wars & Military Conflicts |
Oct 1, 1982 - Oct 27, 1998 | 79.8 - 95.9 | Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany: Helmut Kohl | Germany - Chancellors |
1983 | 80.1 | Discovery of HIV | Medicine |
Jan 19, 1983 | 80.1 | Introduction of the Apple Lisa | Apple Inc. - Corporate History |
Jan 24, 1984 | 81.1 | Introduction of the Macintosh | Apple Inc. - Corporate History |
Jan 20, 1989 - Jan 20, 1993 | 86.1 - 90.1 | President of the United States of America: George H. W. Bush | USA - Presidents |
Oct 18, 1989 - Dec 3, 1989 | 86.9 - 87.0 | Egon Krenz - Chairman of the Council of State of the GDR | GDR |
Aug 2, 1990 - Feb 28, 1991 | 87.6 - 88.2 | Second Gulf War ('Operation Desert Shield', 'Operation Desert Storm') | Wars & Military Conflicts |
Oct 3, 1990 | 87.8 | German reunification | Germany |
Dec 8, 1991 | 89.0 | Signing of the Belavezha Accords, declaring the Soviet Union dissolved | Russia |
1992 - 1996 | 89.1 - 93.1 | Afghan Civil War | Wars & Military Conflicts |