| Feb 12, 1809 - Apr 19, 1882 | (-71.4) - 1.8 | Life of Charles Robert Darwin | Personalities |
| Dec 13, 1816 - Dec 6, 1892 | (-63.6) - 12.4 | Life of Werner von Siemens | Personalities |
| Dec 30, 1819 - Sep 20, 1890 | (-60.5) - 10.2 | Life of Theodor Fontane | Personalities |
| Dec 15, 1832 - Dec 27, 1923 | (-47.6) - 43.5 | Life of Gustave Eiffel | Personalities |
| Mar 17, 1834 - Mar 6, 1900 | (-46.3) - 19.6 | Life of Gottlieb Wilhelm Daimler | Personalities |
| Jul 8, 1838 - Mar 8, 1917 | (-42.0) - 36.7 | Life of Ferdinand von Zeppelin | Personalities |
| Dec 11, 1843 - May 27, 1910 | (-36.6) - 29.9 | Life of Robert Koch | Personalities |
| Nov 25, 1844 - Apr 4, 1929 | (-35.6) - 48.7 | Life of Carl Benz | Personalities |
| Feb 11, 1847 - Oct 18, 1931 | (-33.4) - 51.3 | Life of Thomas Alva Edison | Personalities |
| Mar 3, 1847 - Aug 1, 1922 | (-33.4) - 42.1 | Life of Alexander Graham Bell | Personalities |
| May 6, 1856 - Sep 23, 1939 | (-24.2) - 59.2 | Life of Sigmund Freud | Personalities |
| Sep 23, 1861 - Mar 12, 1942 | (-18.8) - 61.7 | Life of Robert Bosch | Personalities |
| Jul 30, 1863 - Apr 7, 1947 | (-16.9) - 66.8 | Life of Henry Ford | Personalities |
| Oct 16, 1863 - Mar 17, 1937 | (-16.7) - 56.7 | Life of Joseph Austen Chamberlain | Personalities |
| Sep 5, 1869 - 1884 | (-10.8) - 4.0 | Construction period of Neuschwanstein Castle | Monuments |
| Apr 22, 1870 - Jan 21, 1924 | (-10.2) - 43.5 | Life of Vladimir Lenin | Personalities |
| Jan 18, 1871 - Mar 9, 1888 | (-9.5) - 7.6 | German Emperor: Wilhelm I | Germany |
| Nov 30, 1874 - Jan 24, 1965 | (-5.6) - 84.6 | Life of Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill | Personalities |
| Jan 5, 1876 - Apr 19, 1967 | (-4.5) - 86.8 | Life of Konrad Adenauer | Personalities |
| Mar 4, 1877 - Mar 4, 1881 | (-3.3) - 0.6 | President of the United States of America: Rutherford B. Hayes | USA - Presidents |
| 1878 - 1881 | (-2.0) - 1.0 | Second Anglo-Afghan War | Wars & Military Conflicts |
| Mar 14, 1879 - Apr 18, 1955 | (-1.3) - 74.8 | Life of Albert Einstein | Personalities |
| Dec 20, 1880 - Mar 23, 1881 | 0.4 - 0.7 | First Boer War ('First South African War') | Wars & Military Conflicts |
| Mar 4, 1881 - Sep 19, 1881 | 0.6 - 1.2 | President of the United States of America: James A. Garfield | USA - Presidents |
| Aug 6, 1881 - Mar 11, 1955 | 1.1 - 74.7 | Life of Alexander Fleming | Personalities |
| Sep 19, 1881 - Mar 4, 1885 | 1.2 - 4.6 | President of the United States of America: Chester A. Arthur | USA - Presidents |
| 1882 | 2.0 | Establishment of Peugeot | Companies |
| 1882 | 2.0 | Britain occupies Egypt | Discoveries & Colonization |
| Jan 21, 1884 - Dec 12, 1963 | 3.5 - 83.5 | Life of Theodor Heuss | Personalities |
| 1884 | 4.0 | First controlled flight of a Zeppelin | Aviation History |
| Nov 15, 1884 - Feb 26, 1885 | 4.3 - 4.6 | Berlin Conference ('Congo Conference') | Discoveries & Colonization |
| Mar 4, 1885 - Mar 4, 1889 | 4.6 - 8.6 | President of the United States of America: Grover Cleveland | USA - Presidents |
| 1886 | 6.0 | Establishment of Johnson & Johnson | Companies |
| 1886 | 6.0 | Establishment of the Coca Cola Company | Companies |
| Oct 28, 1886 | 6.3 | Construction period of the Statue of Liberty | Monuments |
| 1887 - 1889 | 7.0 - 9.0 | Construction period of the Eiffel Tower | Monuments |
| 1887 | 7.0 | Huang He flood | Disasters |
| Mar 9, 1888 - Jun 15, 1888 | 7.6 - 7.9 | German Emperor: Friedrich III | Germany |
| Jun 15, 1888 - Nov 9, 1918 | 7.9 - 38.3 | German Emperor: Wilhelm II | Germany |
| 1888 | 8.0 | First commercially manufactured automobile by Karl Benz | Automobile History |
| Mar 4, 1889 - Mar 4, 1893 | 8.6 - 12.6 | President of the United States of America: Benjamin Harrison | USA - Presidents |
| Apr 20, 1889 - Apr 30, 1945 | 8.8 - 64.8 | Life of Adolf Hitler | Personalities |
| 1890 | 10.0 | Establishment of Daimler | Companies |
| 1890 | 10.0 | Establishment of General Electric | Companies |
| Oct 14, 1890 - Mar 28, 1969 | 10.2 - 88.8 | Life of Dwight David Eisenhower | Personalities |
| Mar 4, 1893 - Mar 4, 1897 | 12.6 - 16.6 | President of the United States of America: Grover Cleveland | USA - Presidents |
| 1896 | 16.0 | Establishment of IBM (International Business Machines Corp., formerly 'Computing Tabulating Recording Corp. (CTR)') | Companies |
| 1896 - 1897 | 16.0 - 17.0 | Matabele Wars ('Ndebele Matabele War') | Wars & Military Conflicts |
| Mar 4, 1897 - Sep 14, 1901 | 16.6 - 21.2 | President of the United States of America: William McKinley | USA - Presidents |
| Oct 11, 1899 - May 31, 1902 | 19.2 - 21.9 | Second Boer War ('Second South African War') | Wars & Military Conflicts |
| Sep 8, 1900 | 20.2 | Galveston hurricane; destruction of the city of Galveston, Texas | Disasters |
| Sep 14, 1901 - Mar 4, 1909 | 21.2 - 28.6 | President of the United States of America: Theodore Roosevelt | USA - Presidents |
| Oct 19, 1901 | 21.3 | First motorized zeppelin flight | Aviation History |
| Dec 5, 1901 - Dec 15, 1966 | 21.4 - 86.5 | Life of Walter Elias Disney | Personalities |
| Jun 16, 1903 | 22.9 | Establishment of Ford Motor Company | Companies |
| Dec 16, 1903 | 23.4 | First controlled powered human flight by the Wright brothers | Aviation History |
| 1904 - 1908 | 24.0 - 28.0 | Herero and Namaqua Uprising ('Herero and Namaqua Genocide') | Wars & Military Conflicts |
| Apr 18, 1906 | 25.8 | San Francisco earthquake of 1906 | Disasters |
| 1907 | 27.0 | First helicopter flight | Aviation History |
| Sep 16, 1908 | 28.2 | Establishment of General Motors | Companies |
| Sep 27, 1908 | 28.2 | Introduction of the Ford Model T | Automobile History |
| Mar 4, 1909 - Mar 4, 1913 | 28.6 - 32.6 | President of the United States of America: William Howard Taft | USA - Presidents |
| 1909 | 29.0 | Discovery of antibiotics | Medicine |
| May 30, 1911 | 30.9 | First 'Indy 500' race in Indianapolis | Automobile History |
| May 30, 1911 | 30.9 | One in seven families in the US owns a car | Automobile History |
| Oct 23, 1911 | 31.3 | First military use of an airplane | Aviation History |
| Mar 4, 1913 - Mar 4, 1921 | 32.6 - 40.7 | President of the United States of America: Woodrow Wilson | USA - Presidents |
| Jun 14, 1914 - Jun 15, 1914 | 33.9 | First transatlantic flight | Aviation History |
| Jun 28, 1914 - Nov 11, 1918 | 34.0 - 38.3 | World War I | Wars & Military Conflicts |
| Aug 6, 1914 - Nov 25, 1918 | 34.1 - 38.4 | East African Campaign (World War I) | Wars & Military Conflicts |
| Sep 13, 1914 - Jul 9, 1915 | 34.2 - 35.0 | South-West Africa Campaign (World War I) | Wars & Military Conflicts |
| Oct 14, 1914 - Oct 24, 1914 | 34.3 | Maritz Rebellion | Wars & Military Conflicts |
| Apr 24, 1916 - Apr 30, 1916 | 35.8 | Easter Rising | Great Britain |
| 1916 | 36.0 | Establishment of BMW (Bayerische Motoren Werke AG) | Companies |
| Mar 8, 1917 - Mar 12, 1917 | 36.7 | Russian February Revolution | Russia |
| May 29, 1917 - Nov 22, 1963 | 36.9 - 83.4 | Life of John F. Kennedy | Personalities |
| 1917 - 1923 | 37.0 - 43.0 | Russian Civil War | Wars & Military Conflicts |
| Nov 7, 1917 | 37.3 | Founding of the Russian Socialist Federal Soviet Republic | Russia |
| Nov 9, 1918 | 38.3 | German Revolution | Germany |
| Feb 11, 1919 - Feb 28, 1925 | 38.6 - 44.6 | President of Germany: Friedrich Ebert | Germany |
| Feb 13, 1919 - Jun 20, 1919 | 38.6 - 38.9 | Chancellor of Germany: Philipp Scheidemann | Germany |
| May 6, 1919 - Aug 8, 1919 | 38.8 - 39.1 | Third Anglo-Afghan War | Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 1919 | 39.0 | First transatlantic zeppelin flight | Aviation History |
| Aug 11, 1919 | 39.1 | Adoption of the Weimar Constitution | Germany |
| Sep 10, 1919 | 39.2 | Treaty of Saint-Germain | Italy |
| Mar 4, 1921 - Aug 2, 1923 | 40.7 - 43.1 | President of the United States of America: Warren G. Harding | USA - Presidents |
| Dec 6, 1921 | 41.4 | Anglo-Irish Treaty | Great Britain |
| Oct 28, 1922 | 42.3 | Benito Mussolini becomes Prime Minister of Italy | Italy |
| Aug 2, 1923 - Mar 4, 1929 | 43.1 - 48.7 | President of the United States of America: Calvin Coolidge | USA - Presidents |
| Aug 13, 1923 - Nov 23, 1923 | 43.1 - 43.4 | Chancellor of Germany: Gustav Stresemann | Germany |
| Sep 13, 1923 | 43.2 | Establishment of the military dictatorship | Spain |
| May 12, 1925 - Aug 2, 1934 | 44.8 - 54.1 | President of Germany: Paul von Hindenburg | Germany |
| Jun 14, 1928 - Oct 9, 1967 | 47.9 - 87.3 | Life of Che Guevara | Personalities |
| 1928 | 48.0 | Discovery of penicillin | Medicine |
| Jan 15, 1929 - Apr 4, 1968 | 48.5 - 87.8 | Life of Martin Luther King | Personalities |
| Mar 4, 1929 - Mar 4, 1933 | 48.7 - 52.7 | President of the United States of America: Herbert Hoover | USA - Presidents |
| Oct 25, 1929 | 49.3 | 'Black Friday' | USA |
| Jan 22, 1930 - May 1, 1931 | 49.5 - 50.8 | Construction period of the Empire State Building | Monuments |
| Mar 30, 1930 - May 30, 1932 | 49.7 - 51.9 | Chancellor of Germany: Heinrich Brüning | Germany |
| Aug 5, 1930 - Aug 25, 2012 | 50.1 - 132.2 | Life of Neil Armstrong | Personalities |
| Apr 14, 1931 | 50.8 | Proclamation of the Second Spanish Republic | Spain |
| 1931 | 51.0 | Establishment of Porsche | Companies |
| Dec 11, 1931 | 51.4 | Statute of Westminster | Great Britain |
| Jun 1, 1932 - Nov 17, 1932 | 51.9 - 52.4 | Chancellor of Germany: Franz von Papen | Germany |
| Dec 3, 1932 - Jan 28, 1933 | 52.4 - 52.6 | Chancellor of Germany: Kurt von Schleicher | Germany |
| Jan 30, 1933 - Apr 30, 1945 | 52.6 - 64.8 | Chancellor of Germany: Adolf Hitler | Germany |
| Feb 28, 1933 - Mar 23, 1933 | 52.6 - 52.7 | 'Reichstag Fire Decree' and 'Enabling Act': De facto end of the Weimar Republic & beginning of Nazi dictatorship | Germany |
| Mar 4, 1933 - Apr 12, 1945 | 52.7 - 64.8 | President of the United States of America: Franklin D. Roosevelt | USA - Presidents |
| 1935 | 55.0 | Italy occupies Ethiopia, the last remaining free territory in Africa. | Discoveries & Colonization |
| Dec 11, 1936 - Feb 6, 1952 | 56.4 - 71.6 | Queen consort of the United Kingdom: Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon 'Queen Mum' | Great Britain |
| May 6, 1937 | 56.8 | Hindenburg disaster | Aviation History |
| 1937 | 57.0 | Construction period of the Golden Gate Bridge | Monuments |
| Aug 27, 1939 | 59.1 | First flight of turbine-equipped jet plane | Aviation History |
| Sep 1, 1939 - Sep 2, 1945 | 59.2 - 65.2 | World War II | Wars & Military Conflicts |
| May 14, 1940 | 59.9 | Establishment of McDonald's | Companies |
| Dec 7, 1941 | 61.4 | Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor | USA |
| Apr 12, 1945 - Jan 20, 1953 | 64.8 - 72.6 | President of the United States of America: Harry S. Truman | USA - Presidents |
| Apr 25, 1945 | 64.8 | Establishment of the United Nations | World |
| May 8, 1945 | 64.8 | Unconditional surrender of the German Empire | Germany |
| Aug 6, 1945 - Aug 9, 1945 | 65.1 | Nuclear bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki | USA |
| Oct 14, 1946 | 66.3 | Start of the 4th French Republic | France |
| Oct 14, 1947 | 67.3 | First supersonic flight of the Bell X-1 | Aviation History |
| Dec 21, 1948 | 68.5 | Republic of Ireland Act | Great Britain |
| May 23, 1949 | 68.9 | Establishment of the Federal Republic of Germany | Germany |
| 1949 | 69.0 | Establishment of Circuit City | Companies |
| Sep 15, 1949 - Oct 16, 1963 | 69.2 - 83.3 | Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany: Konrad Adenauer | Germany - Chancellors |
| Oct 7, 1949 | 69.3 | Establishment of the German Democratic Republic | Germany |
| Oct 11, 1949 - Sep 7, 1960 | 69.3 - 80.2 | Wilhelm Pieck - State President of the GDR | GDR |
| Jun 17, 1950 | 70.0 | First successful organ transplant | Medicine |
| 1950 - 1953 | 70.0 - 73.0 | Korean War | Wars & Military Conflicts |
| Jan 22, 1952 | 71.6 | First jet airliner in regular commercial use | Aviation History |
| Feb 6, 1952 - Today | 71.6 | Queen of the United Kingdom: Elizabeth II | Great Britain |
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