| Dec 13, 1816 - Dec 6, 1892 | (-72.2) - 3.8 | Life of Werner von Siemens | Personalities |
| Dec 30, 1819 - Sep 20, 1890 | (-69.1) - 1.6 | Life of Theodor Fontane | Personalities |
| Dec 15, 1832 - Dec 27, 1923 | (-56.1) - 34.9 | Life of Gustave Eiffel | Personalities |
| Mar 17, 1834 - Mar 6, 1900 | (-54.9) - 11.1 | Life of Gottlieb Wilhelm Daimler | Personalities |
| Jul 8, 1838 - Mar 8, 1917 | (-50.6) - 28.1 | Life of Ferdinand von Zeppelin | Personalities |
| Dec 11, 1843 - May 27, 1910 | (-45.1) - 21.3 | Life of Robert Koch | Personalities |
| Nov 25, 1844 - Apr 4, 1929 | (-44.2) - 40.2 | Life of Carl Benz | Personalities |
| Feb 11, 1847 - Oct 18, 1931 | (-42.0) - 42.7 | Life of Thomas Alva Edison | Personalities |
| Mar 3, 1847 - Aug 1, 1922 | (-41.9) - 33.5 | Life of Alexander Graham Bell | Personalities |
| May 6, 1856 - Sep 23, 1939 | (-32.7) - 50.7 | Life of Sigmund Freud | Personalities |
| Sep 23, 1861 - Mar 12, 1942 | (-27.3) - 53.1 | Life of Robert Bosch | Personalities |
| Jul 30, 1863 - Apr 7, 1947 | (-25.5) - 58.2 | Life of Henry Ford | Personalities |
| Oct 16, 1863 - Mar 17, 1937 | (-25.3) - 48.1 | Life of Joseph Austen Chamberlain | Personalities |
| Apr 22, 1870 - Jan 21, 1924 | (-18.8) - 35.0 | Life of Vladimir Lenin | Personalities |
| Nov 30, 1874 - Jan 24, 1965 | (-14.2) - 76.0 | Life of Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill | Personalities |
| Jan 5, 1876 - Apr 19, 1967 | (-13.1) - 78.2 | Life of Konrad Adenauer | Personalities |
| Mar 14, 1879 - Apr 18, 1955 | (-9.9) - 66.2 | Life of Albert Einstein | Personalities |
| Aug 6, 1881 - Mar 11, 1955 | (-7.5) - 66.1 | Life of Alexander Fleming | Personalities |
| Jan 21, 1884 - Dec 12, 1963 | (-5.0) - 74.9 | Life of Theodor Heuss | Personalities |
| Mar 4, 1885 - Mar 4, 1889 | (-3.9) - 0.1 | President of the United States of America: Grover Cleveland | USA - Presidents |
| 1887 - 1889 | (-1.6) - 0.4 | Construction period of the Eiffel Tower | Monuments |
| Jun 15, 1888 - Nov 9, 1918 | (-0.6) - 29.8 | German Emperor: Wilhelm II | Germany |
| Mar 4, 1889 - Mar 4, 1893 | 0.1 - 4.1 | President of the United States of America: Benjamin Harrison | USA - Presidents |
| Apr 20, 1889 - Apr 30, 1945 | 0.2 - 56.3 | Life of Adolf Hitler | Personalities |
| 1890 | 1.4 | Establishment of Daimler | Companies |
| 1890 | 1.4 | Establishment of General Electric | Companies |
| Oct 14, 1890 - Mar 28, 1969 | 1.7 - 80.2 | Life of Dwight David Eisenhower | Personalities |
| Mar 4, 1893 - Mar 4, 1897 | 4.1 - 8.1 | President of the United States of America: Grover Cleveland | USA - Presidents |
| 1896 | 7.4 | Establishment of IBM (International Business Machines Corp., formerly 'Computing Tabulating Recording Corp. (CTR)') | Companies |
| 1896 - 1897 | 7.4 - 8.4 | Matabele Wars ('Ndebele Matabele War') | Wars & Military Conflicts |
| Mar 4, 1897 - Sep 14, 1901 | 8.1 - 12.6 | President of the United States of America: William McKinley | USA - Presidents |
| Oct 11, 1899 - May 31, 1902 | 10.7 - 13.3 | Second Boer War ('Second South African War') | Wars & Military Conflicts |
| Sep 8, 1900 | 11.6 | Galveston hurricane; destruction of the city of Galveston, Texas | Disasters |
| Sep 14, 1901 - Mar 4, 1909 | 12.6 - 20.1 | President of the United States of America: Theodore Roosevelt | USA - Presidents |
| Oct 19, 1901 | 12.7 | First motorized zeppelin flight | Aviation History |
| Dec 5, 1901 - Dec 15, 1966 | 12.8 - 77.9 | Life of Walter Elias Disney | Personalities |
| Jun 16, 1903 | 14.4 | Establishment of Ford Motor Company | Companies |
| Dec 16, 1903 | 14.9 | First controlled powered human flight by the Wright brothers | Aviation History |
| 1904 - 1908 | 15.4 - 19.4 | Herero and Namaqua Uprising ('Herero and Namaqua Genocide') | Wars & Military Conflicts |
| Apr 18, 1906 | 17.2 | San Francisco earthquake of 1906 | Disasters |
| 1907 | 18.4 | First helicopter flight | Aviation History |
| Sep 16, 1908 | 19.6 | Establishment of General Motors | Companies |
| Sep 27, 1908 | 19.6 | Introduction of the Ford Model T | Automobile History |
| Mar 4, 1909 - Mar 4, 1913 | 20.1 - 24.1 | President of the United States of America: William Howard Taft | USA - Presidents |
| 1909 | 20.4 | Discovery of antibiotics | Medicine |
| May 30, 1911 | 22.3 | First 'Indy 500' race in Indianapolis | Automobile History |
| May 30, 1911 | 22.3 | One in seven families in the US owns a car | Automobile History |
| Oct 23, 1911 | 22.7 | First military use of an airplane | Aviation History |
| Mar 4, 1913 - Mar 4, 1921 | 24.1 - 32.1 | President of the United States of America: Woodrow Wilson | USA - Presidents |
| Jun 14, 1914 - Jun 15, 1914 | 25.4 | First transatlantic flight | Aviation History |
| Jun 28, 1914 - Nov 11, 1918 | 25.4 - 29.8 | World War I | Wars & Military Conflicts |
| Aug 6, 1914 - Nov 25, 1918 | 25.5 - 29.8 | East African Campaign (World War I) | Wars & Military Conflicts |
| Sep 13, 1914 - Jul 9, 1915 | 25.6 - 26.4 | South-West Africa Campaign (World War I) | Wars & Military Conflicts |
| Oct 14, 1914 - Oct 24, 1914 | 25.7 | Maritz Rebellion | Wars & Military Conflicts |
| Apr 24, 1916 - Apr 30, 1916 | 27.2 | Easter Rising | Great Britain |
| 1916 | 27.4 | Establishment of BMW (Bayerische Motoren Werke AG) | Companies |
| Mar 8, 1917 - Mar 12, 1917 | 28.1 | Russian February Revolution | Russia |
| May 29, 1917 - Nov 22, 1963 | 28.3 - 74.8 | Life of John F. Kennedy | Personalities |
| 1917 - 1923 | 28.4 - 34.4 | Russian Civil War | Wars & Military Conflicts |
| Nov 7, 1917 | 28.8 | Founding of the Russian Socialist Federal Soviet Republic | Russia |
| Nov 9, 1918 | 29.8 | German Revolution | Germany |
| Feb 11, 1919 - Feb 28, 1925 | 30.0 - 36.1 | President of Germany: Friedrich Ebert | Germany |
| Feb 13, 1919 - Jun 20, 1919 | 30.0 - 30.4 | Chancellor of Germany: Philipp Scheidemann | Germany |
| May 6, 1919 - Aug 8, 1919 | 30.3 - 30.5 | Third Anglo-Afghan War | Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 1919 | 30.4 | First transatlantic zeppelin flight | Aviation History |
| Aug 11, 1919 | 30.5 | Adoption of the Weimar Constitution | Germany |
| Sep 10, 1919 | 30.6 | Treaty of Saint-Germain | Italy |
| Mar 4, 1921 - Aug 2, 1923 | 32.1 - 34.5 | President of the United States of America: Warren G. Harding | USA - Presidents |
| Dec 6, 1921 | 32.8 | Anglo-Irish Treaty | Great Britain |
| Oct 28, 1922 | 33.7 | Benito Mussolini becomes Prime Minister of Italy | Italy |
| Aug 2, 1923 - Mar 4, 1929 | 34.5 - 40.1 | President of the United States of America: Calvin Coolidge | USA - Presidents |
| Aug 13, 1923 - Nov 23, 1923 | 34.5 - 34.8 | Chancellor of Germany: Gustav Stresemann | Germany |
| Sep 13, 1923 | 34.6 | Establishment of the military dictatorship | Spain |
| May 12, 1925 - Aug 2, 1934 | 36.3 - 45.5 | President of Germany: Paul von Hindenburg | Germany |
| Jun 14, 1928 - Oct 9, 1967 | 39.4 - 78.7 | Life of Che Guevara | Personalities |
| 1928 | 39.4 | Discovery of penicillin | Medicine |
| Jan 15, 1929 - Apr 4, 1968 | 40.0 - 79.2 | Life of Martin Luther King | Personalities |
| Mar 4, 1929 - Mar 4, 1933 | 40.1 - 44.1 | President of the United States of America: Herbert Hoover | USA - Presidents |
| Oct 25, 1929 | 40.7 | 'Black Friday' | USA |
| Jan 22, 1930 - May 1, 1931 | 41.0 - 42.2 | Construction period of the Empire State Building | Monuments |
| Mar 30, 1930 - May 30, 1932 | 41.2 - 43.3 | Chancellor of Germany: Heinrich Brüning | Germany |
| Aug 5, 1930 - Aug 25, 2012 | 41.5 - 123.6 | Life of Neil Armstrong | Personalities |
| Apr 14, 1931 | 42.2 | Proclamation of the Second Spanish Republic | Spain |
| 1931 | 42.4 | Establishment of Porsche | Companies |
| Dec 11, 1931 | 42.9 | Statute of Westminster | Great Britain |
| Jun 1, 1932 - Nov 17, 1932 | 43.3 - 43.8 | Chancellor of Germany: Franz von Papen | Germany |
| Dec 3, 1932 - Jan 28, 1933 | 43.8 - 44.0 | Chancellor of Germany: Kurt von Schleicher | Germany |
| Jan 30, 1933 - Apr 30, 1945 | 44.0 - 56.3 | Chancellor of Germany: Adolf Hitler | Germany |
| Feb 28, 1933 - Mar 23, 1933 | 44.1 | 'Reichstag Fire Decree' and 'Enabling Act': De facto end of the Weimar Republic & beginning of Nazi dictatorship | Germany |
| Mar 4, 1933 - Apr 12, 1945 | 44.1 - 56.2 | President of the United States of America: Franklin D. Roosevelt | USA - Presidents |
| 1935 | 46.4 | Italy occupies Ethiopia, the last remaining free territory in Africa. | Discoveries & Colonization |
| Dec 11, 1936 - Feb 6, 1952 | 47.9 - 63.0 | Queen consort of the United Kingdom: Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon 'Queen Mum' | Great Britain |
| May 6, 1937 | 48.3 | Hindenburg disaster | Aviation History |
| 1937 | 48.4 | Construction period of the Golden Gate Bridge | Monuments |
| Aug 27, 1939 | 50.6 | First flight of turbine-equipped jet plane | Aviation History |
| Sep 1, 1939 - Sep 2, 1945 | 50.6 - 56.6 | World War II | Wars & Military Conflicts |
| May 14, 1940 | 51.3 | Establishment of McDonald's | Companies |
| Dec 7, 1941 | 52.9 | Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor | USA |
| Apr 12, 1945 - Jan 20, 1953 | 56.2 - 64.0 | President of the United States of America: Harry S. Truman | USA - Presidents |
| Apr 25, 1945 | 56.2 | Establishment of the United Nations | World |
| May 8, 1945 | 56.3 | Unconditional surrender of the German Empire | Germany |
| Aug 6, 1945 - Aug 9, 1945 | 56.5 | Nuclear bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki | USA |
| Oct 14, 1946 | 57.7 | Start of the 4th French Republic | France |
| Oct 14, 1947 | 58.7 | First supersonic flight of the Bell X-1 | Aviation History |
| Dec 21, 1948 | 59.9 | Republic of Ireland Act | Great Britain |
| May 23, 1949 | 60.3 | Establishment of the Federal Republic of Germany | Germany |
| 1949 | 60.4 | Establishment of Circuit City | Companies |
| Sep 15, 1949 - Oct 16, 1963 | 60.6 - 74.7 | Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany: Konrad Adenauer | Germany - Chancellors |
| Oct 7, 1949 | 60.7 | Establishment of the German Democratic Republic | Germany |
| Oct 11, 1949 - Sep 7, 1960 | 60.7 - 71.6 | Wilhelm Pieck - State President of the GDR | GDR |
| Jun 17, 1950 | 61.4 | First successful organ transplant | Medicine |
| 1950 - 1953 | 61.4 - 64.4 | Korean War | Wars & Military Conflicts |
| Jan 22, 1952 | 63.0 | First jet airliner in regular commercial use | Aviation History |
| Feb 6, 1952 - Today | 63.0 | Queen of the United Kingdom: Elizabeth II | Great Britain |
| Jan 20, 1953 - Jan 20, 1961 | 64.0 - 72.0 | President of the United States of America: Dwight D. Eisenhower | USA - Presidents |
| Jun 17, 1953 | 64.4 | Uprising of June 17, 1953 in East Germany | Germany |
| Feb 24, 1955 - Oct 5, 2011 | 66.1 - 122.7 | Life of Steven 'Steve' Paul Jobs | Personalities |
| Oct 4, 1957 | 68.7 | Sputnik launched: first artificial satellite in Earth's orbit | Technology |
| Oct 5, 1958 | 69.7 | Start of the 5th French Republic | France |
| 1959 - Apr 30, 1975 | 70.4 - 86.3 | Vietnam War | Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 1960 - 1973 | 71.4 - 84.4 | Walter Ulbricht - Chairman of the State Council of the GDR | GDR |
| Jan 20, 1961 - Nov 22, 1963 | 72.0 - 74.8 | President of the United States of America: John F. Kennedy | USA - Presidents |
| Apr 12, 1961 | 72.2 | First human in space | Technology |
| May 25, 1961 - Jul 24, 1975 | 72.3 - 86.5 | Apollo Space Program | Technology |
| Aug 13, 1961 | 72.6 | Construction of the Berlin Wall | Germany |
| Oct 11, 1962 - Dec 8, 1965 | 73.7 - 76.9 | Second Vatican Council | World |
| Oct 16, 1962 - Oct 28, 1962 | 73.7 - 73.8 | Cuban Missile Crisis ('October Crisis') | USA |
| Oct 16, 1963 - Dec 1, 1966 | 74.7 - 77.9 | Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany: Ludwig Erhard | Germany - Chancellors |
| Nov 22, 1963 - Jan 20, 1969 | 74.8 - 80.0 | President of the United States of America: Lyndon B. Johnson | USA - Presidents |
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