| 1809.02.12. - 1882.04.19. |
(-40.4) - 32.8 |
Life of Charles Robert Darwin |
Personalities |
| 1809.02.12. - 1865.04.15. |
(-40.4) - 15.8 |
Life of Abraham Lincoln |
Personalities |
| 1812.02.07. - 1870.06.09. |
(-37.4) - 21.0 |
Life of Charles John Huffam Dickens |
Personalities |
| 1816.12.13. - 1892.12.06. |
(-32.6) - 43.5 |
Life of Werner von Siemens |
Personalities |
| 1819.12.30. - 1890.09.20. |
(-29.5) - 41.3 |
Life of Theodor Fontane |
Personalities |
| 1832.12.15. - 1923.12.27. |
(-16.6) - 74.5 |
Life of Gustave Eiffel |
Personalities |
| 1834.03.17. - 1900.03.06. |
(-15.3) - 50.7 |
Life of Gottlieb Wilhelm Daimler |
Personalities |
| 1838.07.08. - 1917.03.08. |
(-11.0) - 67.7 |
Life of Ferdinand von Zeppelin |
Personalities |
| 1843.12.11. - 1910.05.27. |
(-5.6) - 60.9 |
Life of Robert Koch |
Personalities |
| 1844.11.25. - 1929.04.04. |
(-4.6) - 79.8 |
Life of Carl Benz |
Personalities |
| 1847.02.11. - 1931.10.18. |
(-2.4) - 82.4 |
Life of Thomas Alva Edison |
Personalities |
| 1847.03.03. - 1922.08.01. |
(-2.3) - 73.1 |
Life of Alexander Graham Bell |
Personalities |
| 1848.03.01. - 1849.09.30. |
(-1.3) - 0.3 |
Revolutions of 1848/1849 in the German Confederation |
Germany |
| 1849.03.04. - 1850.07.09. |
(-0.3) - 1.0 |
President of the United States of America: Zachary Taylor |
USA - Presidents |
| 1849 |
|
Establishment of Pfizer |
Companies |
| 1850 |
1.0 |
Establishment of the American Express Company |
Companies |
| 1850.07.09. - 1853.03.04. |
1.0 - 3.7 |
President of the United States of America: Millard Fillmore |
USA - Presidents |
| 1851 |
2.0 |
Western Union established |
Companies |
| 1851 |
2.0 |
Establishment of Reuters |
Companies |
| 1851 |
2.0 |
Establishment of the New York Times |
Companies |
| 1852.12.02. - 1870.09.04. |
3.4 - 21.2 |
Emperor of France: Napoleon III |
France |
| 1853.03.04. - 1857.03.04. |
3.7 - 7.7 |
President of the United States of America: Franklin Pierce |
USA - Presidents |
| 1853 |
4.0 |
Establishment of Levi Strauss & Co |
Companies |
| 1856.05.06. - 1939.09.23. |
6.9 - 90.3 |
Life of Sigmund Freud |
Personalities |
| 1857.03.04. - 1861.03.04. |
7.7 - 11.7 |
President of the United States of America: James Buchanan |
USA - Presidents |
| 1859 |
10.0 |
Construction period of Big Ben |
Monuments |
| 1861.03.04. - 1865.04.15. |
11.7 - 15.8 |
President of the United States of America: Abraham Lincoln |
USA - Presidents |
| 1861.03.17. |
11.7 |
Victor Emmanuel II proclaimed as King of Italy, the first king of a united Italy |
Italy |
| 1861.09.23. - 1942.03.12. |
12.2 - 92.8 |
Life of Robert Bosch |
Personalities |
| 1863.07.30. - 1947.04.07. |
14.1 - 97.8 |
Life of Henry Ford |
Personalities |
| 1863.10.16. - 1937.03.17. |
14.3 - 87.8 |
Life of Joseph Austen Chamberlain |
Personalities |
| 1865.04.15. - 1869.03.04. |
15.8 - 19.7 |
President of the United States of America: Andrew Johnson |
USA - Presidents |
| 1866.06.09. - 1866.07.26. |
17.0 - 17.1 |
Austro-Prussian War ('German War') |
Germany |
| 1867.03.10. |
17.7 |
First telephone voice transmission |
Technology |
| 1868 - 1878 |
19.0 - 29.0 |
Ten Years' War ('Great War') |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 1869.03.04. - 1877.03.04. |
19.7 - 27.7 |
President of the United States of America: Ulysses S. Grant |
USA - Presidents |
| 1869.09.05. - 1884 |
20.2 - 35.0 |
Construction period of the Neuschwanstein Castle |
Monuments |
| 1870.04.22. - 1924.01.21. |
20.8 - 74.6 |
Life of Vladimir Lenin |
Personalities |
| 1870 |
21.0 |
Begin of the 3rd French Republic |
France |
| 1870.07.19. - 1871.05.10. |
21.1 - 21.9 |
Franco-Prussian War |
Germany |
| 1871.01.18. - 1888.03.09. |
21.6 - 38.7 |
German Emperor: Wilhelm I |
Germany |
| 1871.11.09. |
22.4 |
Founding of the German Empire |
Germany |
| 1874.11.30. - 1965.01.24. |
25.4 - 115.6 |
Life of Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill |
Personalities |
| 1876.01.05. - 1967.04.19. |
26.5 - 117.9 |
Life of Konrad Adenauer |
Personalities |
| 1877.03.04. - 1881.03.04. |
27.7 - 31.7 |
President of the United States of America: Rutherford B. Hayes |
USA - Presidents |
| 1878 |
29.0 |
Establishment of Bell Telephone Company |
Companies |
| 1878 - 1881 |
29.0 - 32.0 |
Second Anglo-Afghan War |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 1878.12.31. |
29.5 |
First two-stroke internal combustion gas engine |
Automobile History |
| 1879.03.14. - 1955.04.18. |
29.7 - 105.9 |
Life of Albert Einstein |
Personalities |
| 1879 |
30.0 |
Discovery of plague vaccine |
Medicine |
| 1879 |
30.0 |
Discovery of cholera vaccine |
Medicine |
| 1879 |
30.0 |
Anglo-Zulu War |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 1880.12.20. - 1881.03.23. |
31.5 - 31.8 |
First Boer War ('First South African War') |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 1881.03.04. - 1881.09.19. |
31.7 - 32.2 |
President of the United States of America: James A. Garfield |
USA - Presidents |
| 1881.08.06. - 1955.03.11. |
32.1 - 105.8 |
Life of Alexander Fleming |
Personalities |
| 1881.09.19. - 1885.03.04. |
32.2 - 35.7 |
President of the United States of America: Chester A. Arthur |
USA - Presidents |
| 1882 |
33.0 |
Britain occupies Egypt |
Discoveries & Colonization |
| 1882 |
33.0 |
Establishment of Peugeot |
Companies |
| 1884.01.21. - 1963.12.12. |
34.6 - 114.5 |
Life of Theodor Heuss |
Personalities |
| 1884 |
35.0 |
First controlled flight of a Zeppelin |
Aviation History |
| 1884.11.15. - 1885.02.26. |
35.4 - 35.7 |
Berlin Conference ('Congo Conference') |
Discoveries & Colonization |
| 1885.03.04. - 1889.03.04. |
35.7 - 39.7 |
President of the United States of America: Grover Cleveland |
USA - Presidents |
| 1886 |
37.0 |
Establishment of Johnson & Johnson |
Companies |
| 1886 |
37.0 |
Establishment of the Coca Cola Company |
Companies |
| 1886.10.28. |
37.4 |
Construction period of the Statue of Liberty |
Monuments |
| 1887 |
38.0 |
Huang He Flood |
Disasters |
| 1887 - 1889 |
38.0 - 40.0 |
Construction period of the Eiffel Tower |
Monuments |
| 1888.03.09. - 1888.06.15. |
38.7 - 39.0 |
German Emperor: Friedrich III |
Germany |
| 1888.06.15. - 1918.11.09. |
39.0 - 69.4 |
German Emperor: Wilhelm II |
Germany |
| 1888 |
39.0 |
First commercially manufactured automobile by Karl Benz |
Automobile History |
| 1889.03.04. - 1893.03.04. |
39.7 - 43.7 |
President of the United States of America: Benjamin Harrison |
USA - Presidents |
| 1889.04.20. - 1945.04.30. |
39.8 - 95.9 |
Life of Adolf Hitler |
Personalities |
| 1890 |
41.0 |
Establishment of Daimler |
Companies |
| 1890 |
41.0 |
Establishment of General Electric |
Companies |
| 1890.10.14. - 1969.03.28. |
41.3 - 119.8 |
Life of Dwight David Eisenhower |
Personalities |
| 1893.03.04. - 1897.03.04. |
43.7 - 47.7 |
President of the United States of America: Grover Cleveland |
USA - Presidents |
| 1896 |
47.0 |
Establishment of IBM (International Business Machines Corp., formerly 'Computing Tabulating Recording Corp. (CTR)') |
Companies |
| 1896 - 1897 |
47.0 - 48.0 |
Matabele Wars ('Ndebele-Matabele-Krieg') |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 1897.03.04. - 1901.09.14. |
47.7 - 52.2 |
President of the United States of America: William McKinley |
USA - Presidents |
| 1899.10.11. - 1902.05.31. |
50.3 - 53.0 |
Second Boer War ('Second South African War') |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 1900.09.08. |
51.2 |
Galveston hurricane; destruction of the city of Galveston, Texas |
Disasters |
| 1901.09.14. - 1909.03.04. |
52.2 - 59.7 |
President of the United States of America: Theodore Roosevelt |
USA - Presidents |
| 1901.10.19. |
52.3 |
First motorized zeppelin flight |
Aviation History |
| 1901.12.05. - 1966.12.15. |
52.5 - 117.5 |
Life of Walter Elias Disney |
Personalities |
| 1903.06.16. |
54.0 |
Establishment of Ford Motor Company |
Companies |
| 1903.12.16. |
54.5 |
First controlled powered human flight by the Wright brothers |
Aviation History |
| 1904 - 1908 |
55.0 - 59.0 |
Herero and Namaqua Uprising ('Herero and Namaqua Genocide') |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 1906.04.18. |
56.8 |
San Francisco Earthquake of 1906 |
Disasters |
| 1907 |
58.0 |
First helicopter flight |
Aviation History |
| 1908.09.16. |
59.3 |
Establishment of General Motors |
Companies |
| 1908.09.27. |
59.3 |
Introduction of the Ford Model T |
Automobile History |
| 1909.03.04. - 1913.03.04. |
59.7 - 63.7 |
President of the United States of America: William Howard Taft |
USA - Presidents |
| 1909 |
60.0 |
Discovery of antibiotics |
Medicine |
| 1911.05.30. |
62.0 |
One in seven families in the US owns a car |
Automobile History |
| 1911.05.30. |
62.0 |
First 'Indy 500' race in Indianapolis |
Automobile History |
| 1911.10.23. |
62.4 |
First military use of an airplane |
Aviation History |
| 1913.03.04. - 1921.03.04. |
63.7 - 71.7 |
President of the United States of America: Woodrow Wilson |
USA - Presidents |
| 1914.06.14. - 1914.06.15. |
65.0 |
First transatlantic flight |
Aviation History |
| 1914.06.28. - 1918.11.11. |
65.0 - 69.4 |
World War I |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 1914.08.06. - 1918.11.25. |
65.1 - 69.4 |
East African Campaign (World War I) |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 1914.09.13. - 1915.07.09. |
65.2 - 66.1 |
South-West Africa Campaign (World War I) |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 1914.10.14. - 1914.10.24. |
65.3 - 65.4 |
Maritz Rebellion |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 1916.04.24. - 1916.04.30. |
66.9 |
Easter Rising |
Great Britain |
| 1916 |
67.0 |
Establishment of BMW (Bayerische Motoren Werke AG) |
Companies |
| 1917.03.08. - 1917.03.12. |
67.7 |
Russian February Revolution |
Russia |
| 1917.05.29. - 1963.11.22. |
68.0 - 114.5 |
Life of John F. Kennedy |
Personalities |
| 1917 - 1923 |
68.0 - 74.0 |
Russian Civil War |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 1917.11.07. |
68.4 |
Founding of the Russian Socialist Federal Soviet Republic |
Russia |
| 1918.11.09. |
69.4 |
German Revolution |
Germany |
| 1919.02.11. - 1925.02.28. |
69.7 - 75.7 |
President of Germany: Friedrich Ebert |
Germany |
| 1919.02.13. - 1919.06.20. |
69.7 - 70.0 |
Chancellor of Germany: Philipp Scheidemann |
Germany |
| 1919.05.06. - 1919.08.08. |
69.9 - 70.2 |
Third Anglo-Afghan War |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 1919 |
70.0 |
First trans-atlantic zeppelin flight |
Aviation History |
| 1919.08.11. |
70.2 |
Adoption of the Weimar Constitution |
Germany |
| 1919.09.10. |
70.2 |
Treaty of Saint-Germain |
Italy |
| 1921.03.04. - 1923.08.02. |
71.7 - 74.1 |
President of the United States of America: Warren G. Harding |
USA - Presidents |
| 1921.12.06. |
72.5 |
Anglo-Irish Treaty |
Great Britain |
| 1922.10.28. |
73.4 |
Benito Mussolini becomes Prime Minister of Italy |
Italy |
| 1923.08.02. - 1929.03.04. |
74.1 - 79.7 |
President of the United States of America: Calvin Coolidge |
USA - Presidents |
| 1923.08.13. - 1923.11.23. |
74.2 - 74.4 |
Chancellor of Germany: Gustav Stresemann |
Germany |
| 1923.09.13. |
74.3 |
Establishing of the military dictatorship |
Spain |
| 1925.05.12. - 1934.08.02. |
75.9 - 85.1 |
President of Germany: Paul von Hindenburg |
Germany |
| 1928.06.14. - 1967.10.09. |
79.0 - 118.4 |
Life of Che Guevara |
Personalities |
| 1928 |
79.1 |
Discovery of penicillin |
Medicine |
| 1929.01.15. - 1968.04.04. |
79.6 - 118.8 |
Life of Martin Luther King |
Personalities |
| 1929.03.04. - 1933.03.04. |
79.7 - 83.7 |
President of the United States of America: Herbert Hoover |
USA - Presidents |
| 1929.10.25. |
80.4 |
'Black Friday' |
USA |
| 1930.01.22. - 1931.05.01. |
80.6 - 81.9 |
Construction period of the Empire State Building |
Monuments |
| 1930.03.30. - 1932.05.30. |
80.8 - 83.0 |
Chancellor of Germany: Heinrich Brüning |
Germany |
| 1930.08.05. - 2012.08.25. |
81.2 - 163.3 |
Life of Neil Armstrong |
Personalities |
| 1931.04.14. |
81.8 |
Proclamation of the Second Spanish Republic |
Spain |
| 1931 |
82.1 |
Establishment of Porsche |
Companies |
| 1931.12.11. |
82.5 |
Statute of Westminster |
Great Britain |
| 1932.06.01. - 1932.11.17. |
83.0 - 83.4 |
Chancellor of Germany: Franz von Papen |
Germany |
| 1932.12.03. - 1933.01.28. |
83.5 - 83.6 |
Chancellor of Germany: Kurt von Schleicher |
Germany |
| 1933.01.30. - 1945.04.30. |
83.6 - 95.9 |
Chancellor of Germany: Adolf Hitler |
Germany |
| 1933.02.28. - 1933.03.23. |
83.7 - 83.8 |
'Reichstag Fire Decree' and 'Enabling Act': De facto end of the Weimar Republic & Begin of Nazi Dictatorship |
Germany |
| 1933.03.04. - 1945.04.12. |
83.7 - 95.8 |
President of the United States of America: Franklin D. Roosevelt |
USA - Presidents |
| 1935 |
86.1 |
Italy occupies Ethiopia, the last remainaing free territory in Africa. |
Discoveries & Colonization |
| 1936.12.11. - 1952.02.06. |
87.5 - 102.7 |
Queen consort of the United Kingdom: Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon 'Queen Mum' |
Great Britain |
| 1937.05.06. |
87.9 |
Hindenburg disaster |
Aviation History |
| 1937 |
88.1 |
Construction period of the Golden Gate Bridge |
Monuments |
| 1939.08.27. |
90.2 |
First flight of turbine-equipped jetplane |
Aviation History |
| 1939.09.01. - 1945.09.02. |
90.2 - 96.2 |
World War II |
Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 1940.05.14. |
90.9 |
Establishment of McDonald's |
Companies |
| 1941.12.07. |
92.5 |
Japanese Attack on Pearl Harbor |
USA |
| 1945.04.12. - 1953.01.20. |
95.8 - 103.6 |
President of the United States of America: Harry S. Truman |
USA - Presidents |
| 1945.04.25. |
95.9 |
Establishment of the United Nations |
World |
| 1945.05.08. |
95.9 |
Unconditional Surrender of the German Empire |
Germany |
| 1945.08.06. - 1945.08.09. |
96.2 |
Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki |
USA |
| 1946.10.14. |
97.4 |
Begin of the 4th French Republic |
France |
| 1947.10.14. |
98.4 |
First supersonic flight of the Bell X-1 |
Aviation History |
| 1948.12.21. |
99.5 |
Republic of Ireland Act |
Great Britain |
| 1949.05.23. |
100.0 |
Establishment of the Federal Republic of Germany |
Germany |
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