| Dec 13, 1816 - Dec 6, 1892 | (-71.4) - 4.5 | Life of Werner von Siemens | Personalities |
| Dec 30, 1819 - Sep 20, 1890 | (-68.4) - 2.3 | Life of Theodor Fontane | Personalities |
| Dec 15, 1832 - Dec 27, 1923 | (-55.4) - 35.6 | Life of Gustave Eiffel | Personalities |
| Mar 17, 1834 - Mar 6, 1900 | (-54.2) - 11.8 | Life of Gottlieb Wilhelm Daimler | Personalities |
| Jul 8, 1838 - Mar 8, 1917 | (-49.9) - 28.8 | Life of Ferdinand von Zeppelin | Personalities |
| Dec 11, 1843 - May 27, 1910 | (-44.4) - 22.0 | Life of Robert Koch | Personalities |
| Nov 25, 1844 - Apr 4, 1929 | (-43.5) - 40.9 | Life of Carl Benz | Personalities |
| Feb 11, 1847 - Oct 18, 1931 | (-41.3) - 43.4 | Life of Thomas Alva Edison | Personalities |
| Mar 3, 1847 - Aug 1, 1922 | (-41.2) - 34.2 | Life of Alexander Graham Bell | Personalities |
| May 6, 1856 - Sep 23, 1939 | (-32.0) - 51.4 | Life of Sigmund Freud | Personalities |
| Sep 23, 1861 - Mar 12, 1942 | (-26.6) - 53.8 | Life of Robert Bosch | Personalities |
| Jul 30, 1863 - Apr 7, 1947 | (-24.8) - 58.9 | Life of Henry Ford | Personalities |
| Oct 16, 1863 - Mar 17, 1937 | (-24.6) - 48.8 | Life of Joseph Austen Chamberlain | Personalities |
| Apr 22, 1870 - Jan 21, 1924 | (-18.1) - 35.7 | Life of Vladimir Lenin | Personalities |
| Nov 30, 1874 - Jan 24, 1965 | (-13.4) - 76.7 | Life of Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill | Personalities |
| Jan 5, 1876 - Apr 19, 1967 | (-12.3) - 79.0 | Life of Konrad Adenauer | Personalities |
| Mar 14, 1879 - Apr 18, 1955 | (-9.2) - 66.9 | Life of Albert Einstein | Personalities |
| Aug 6, 1881 - Mar 11, 1955 | (-6.8) - 66.8 | Life of Alexander Fleming | Personalities |
| Jan 21, 1884 - Dec 12, 1963 | (-4.3) - 75.6 | Life of Theodor Heuss | Personalities |
| Mar 4, 1885 - Mar 4, 1889 | (-3.2) - 0.8 | President of the United States of America: Grover Cleveland | USA - Presidents |
| 1887 - 1889 | (-0.9) - 1.1 | Construction period of the Eiffel Tower | Monuments |
| Mar 9, 1888 - Jun 15, 1888 | (-0.2) - 0.1 | German Emperor: Friedrich III | Germany |
| Jun 15, 1888 - Nov 9, 1918 | 0.1 - 30.5 | German Emperor: Wilhelm II | Germany |
| 1888 | 0.1 | First commercially manufactured automobile by Karl Benz | Automobile History |
| Mar 4, 1889 - Mar 4, 1893 | 0.8 - 4.8 | President of the United States of America: Benjamin Harrison | USA - Presidents |
| Apr 20, 1889 - Apr 30, 1945 | 0.9 - 57.0 | Life of Adolf Hitler | Personalities |
| 1890 | 2.1 | Establishment of Daimler | Companies |
| 1890 | 2.1 | Establishment of General Electric | Companies |
| Oct 14, 1890 - Mar 28, 1969 | 2.4 - 80.9 | Life of Dwight David Eisenhower | Personalities |
| Mar 4, 1893 - Mar 4, 1897 | 4.8 - 8.8 | President of the United States of America: Grover Cleveland | USA - Presidents |
| 1896 | 8.1 | Establishment of IBM (International Business Machines Corp., formerly 'Computing Tabulating Recording Corp. (CTR)') | Companies |
| 1896 - 1897 | 8.1 - 9.1 | Matabele Wars ('Ndebele Matabele War') | Wars & Military Conflicts |
| Mar 4, 1897 - Sep 14, 1901 | 8.8 - 13.3 | President of the United States of America: William McKinley | USA - Presidents |
| Oct 11, 1899 - May 31, 1902 | 11.4 - 14.0 | Second Boer War ('Second South African War') | Wars & Military Conflicts |
| Sep 8, 1900 | 12.3 | Galveston hurricane; destruction of the city of Galveston, Texas | Disasters |
| Sep 14, 1901 - Mar 4, 1909 | 13.3 - 20.8 | President of the United States of America: Theodore Roosevelt | USA - Presidents |
| Oct 19, 1901 | 13.4 | First motorized zeppelin flight | Aviation History |
| Dec 5, 1901 - Dec 15, 1966 | 13.5 - 78.6 | Life of Walter Elias Disney | Personalities |
| Jun 16, 1903 | 15.1 | Establishment of Ford Motor Company | Companies |
| Dec 16, 1903 | 15.6 | First controlled powered human flight by the Wright brothers | Aviation History |
| 1904 - 1908 | 16.1 - 20.1 | Herero and Namaqua Uprising ('Herero and Namaqua Genocide') | Wars & Military Conflicts |
| Apr 18, 1906 | 17.9 | San Francisco earthquake of 1906 | Disasters |
| 1907 | 19.1 | First helicopter flight | Aviation History |
| Sep 16, 1908 | 20.3 | Establishment of General Motors | Companies |
| Sep 27, 1908 | 20.4 | Introduction of the Ford Model T | Automobile History |
| Mar 4, 1909 - Mar 4, 1913 | 20.8 - 24.8 | President of the United States of America: William Howard Taft | USA - Presidents |
| 1909 | 21.1 | Discovery of antibiotics | Medicine |
| May 30, 1911 | 23.0 | First 'Indy 500' race in Indianapolis | Automobile History |
| May 30, 1911 | 23.0 | One in seven families in the US owns a car | Automobile History |
| Oct 23, 1911 | 23.4 | First military use of an airplane | Aviation History |
| Mar 4, 1913 - Mar 4, 1921 | 24.8 - 32.8 | President of the United States of America: Woodrow Wilson | USA - Presidents |
| Jun 14, 1914 - Jun 15, 1914 | 26.1 | First transatlantic flight | Aviation History |
| Jun 28, 1914 - Nov 11, 1918 | 26.1 - 30.5 | World War I | Wars & Military Conflicts |
| Aug 6, 1914 - Nov 25, 1918 | 26.2 - 30.5 | East African Campaign (World War I) | Wars & Military Conflicts |
| Sep 13, 1914 - Jul 9, 1915 | 26.3 - 27.1 | South-West Africa Campaign (World War I) | Wars & Military Conflicts |
| Oct 14, 1914 - Oct 24, 1914 | 26.4 | Maritz Rebellion | Wars & Military Conflicts |
| Apr 24, 1916 - Apr 30, 1916 | 27.9 | Easter Rising | Great Britain |
| 1916 | 28.1 | Establishment of BMW (Bayerische Motoren Werke AG) | Companies |
| Mar 8, 1917 - Mar 12, 1917 | 28.8 | Russian February Revolution | Russia |
| May 29, 1917 - Nov 22, 1963 | 29.0 - 75.5 | Life of John F. Kennedy | Personalities |
| 1917 - 1923 | 29.1 - 35.1 | Russian Civil War | Wars & Military Conflicts |
| Nov 7, 1917 | 29.5 | Founding of the Russian Socialist Federal Soviet Republic | Russia |
| Nov 9, 1918 | 30.5 | German Revolution | Germany |
| Feb 11, 1919 - Feb 28, 1925 | 30.7 - 36.8 | President of Germany: Friedrich Ebert | Germany |
| Feb 13, 1919 - Jun 20, 1919 | 30.7 - 31.1 | Chancellor of Germany: Philipp Scheidemann | Germany |
| May 6, 1919 - Aug 8, 1919 | 31.0 - 31.2 | Third Anglo-Afghan War | Wars & Military Conflicts |
| 1919 | 31.1 | First transatlantic zeppelin flight | Aviation History |
| Aug 11, 1919 | 31.2 | Adoption of the Weimar Constitution | Germany |
| Sep 10, 1919 | 31.3 | Treaty of Saint-Germain | Italy |
| Mar 4, 1921 - Aug 2, 1923 | 32.8 - 35.2 | President of the United States of America: Warren G. Harding | USA - Presidents |
| Dec 6, 1921 | 33.6 | Anglo-Irish Treaty | Great Britain |
| Oct 28, 1922 | 34.4 | Benito Mussolini becomes Prime Minister of Italy | Italy |
| Aug 2, 1923 - Mar 4, 1929 | 35.2 - 40.8 | President of the United States of America: Calvin Coolidge | USA - Presidents |
| Aug 13, 1923 - Nov 23, 1923 | 35.2 - 35.5 | Chancellor of Germany: Gustav Stresemann | Germany |
| Sep 13, 1923 | 35.3 | Establishment of the military dictatorship | Spain |
| May 12, 1925 - Aug 2, 1934 | 37.0 - 46.2 | President of Germany: Paul von Hindenburg | Germany |
| Jun 14, 1928 - Oct 9, 1967 | 40.1 - 79.4 | Life of Che Guevara | Personalities |
| 1928 | 40.1 | Discovery of penicillin | Medicine |
| Jan 15, 1929 - Apr 4, 1968 | 40.7 - 79.9 | Life of Martin Luther King | Personalities |
| Mar 4, 1929 - Mar 4, 1933 | 40.8 - 44.8 | President of the United States of America: Herbert Hoover | USA - Presidents |
| Oct 25, 1929 | 41.4 | 'Black Friday' | USA |
| Jan 22, 1930 - May 1, 1931 | 41.7 - 43.0 | Construction period of the Empire State Building | Monuments |
| Mar 30, 1930 - May 30, 1932 | 41.9 - 44.0 | Chancellor of Germany: Heinrich Brüning | Germany |
| Aug 5, 1930 - Aug 25, 2012 | 42.2 - 124.3 | Life of Neil Armstrong | Personalities |
| Apr 14, 1931 | 42.9 | Proclamation of the Second Spanish Republic | Spain |
| 1931 | 43.1 | Establishment of Porsche | Companies |
| Dec 11, 1931 | 43.6 | Statute of Westminster | Great Britain |
| Jun 1, 1932 - Nov 17, 1932 | 44.0 - 44.5 | Chancellor of Germany: Franz von Papen | Germany |
| Dec 3, 1932 - Jan 28, 1933 | 44.6 - 44.7 | Chancellor of Germany: Kurt von Schleicher | Germany |
| Jan 30, 1933 - Apr 30, 1945 | 44.7 - 57.0 | Chancellor of Germany: Adolf Hitler | Germany |
| Feb 28, 1933 - Mar 23, 1933 | 44.8 - 44.9 | 'Reichstag Fire Decree' and 'Enabling Act': De facto end of the Weimar Republic & beginning of Nazi dictatorship | Germany |
| Mar 4, 1933 - Apr 12, 1945 | 44.8 - 56.9 | President of the United States of America: Franklin D. Roosevelt | USA - Presidents |
| 1935 | 47.1 | Italy occupies Ethiopia, the last remaining free territory in Africa. | Discoveries & Colonization |
| Dec 11, 1936 - Feb 6, 1952 | 48.6 - 63.7 | Queen consort of the United Kingdom: Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon 'Queen Mum' | Great Britain |
| May 6, 1937 | 49.0 | Hindenburg disaster | Aviation History |
| 1937 | 49.1 | Construction period of the Golden Gate Bridge | Monuments |
| Aug 27, 1939 | 51.3 | First flight of turbine-equipped jet plane | Aviation History |
| Sep 1, 1939 - Sep 2, 1945 | 51.3 - 57.3 | World War II | Wars & Military Conflicts |
| May 14, 1940 | 52.0 | Establishment of McDonald's | Companies |
| Dec 7, 1941 | 53.6 | Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor | USA |
| Apr 12, 1945 - Jan 20, 1953 | 56.9 - 64.7 | President of the United States of America: Harry S. Truman | USA - Presidents |
| Apr 25, 1945 | 57.0 | Establishment of the United Nations | World |
| May 8, 1945 | 57.0 | Unconditional surrender of the German Empire | Germany |
| Aug 6, 1945 - Aug 9, 1945 | 57.2 | Nuclear bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki | USA |
| Oct 14, 1946 | 58.4 | Start of the 4th French Republic | France |
| Oct 14, 1947 | 59.4 | First supersonic flight of the Bell X-1 | Aviation History |
| Dec 21, 1948 | 60.6 | Republic of Ireland Act | Great Britain |
| May 23, 1949 | 61.0 | Establishment of the Federal Republic of Germany | Germany |
| 1949 | 61.1 | Establishment of Circuit City | Companies |
| Sep 15, 1949 - Oct 16, 1963 | 61.3 - 75.4 | Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany: Konrad Adenauer | Germany - Chancellors |
| Oct 7, 1949 | 61.4 | Establishment of the German Democratic Republic | Germany |
| Oct 11, 1949 - Sep 7, 1960 | 61.4 - 72.3 | Wilhelm Pieck - State President of the GDR | GDR |
| Jun 17, 1950 | 62.1 | First successful organ transplant | Medicine |
| 1950 - 1953 | 62.1 - 65.1 | Korean War | Wars & Military Conflicts |
| Jan 22, 1952 | 63.7 | First jet airliner in regular commercial use | Aviation History |
| Feb 6, 1952 - Today | 63.7 | Queen of the United Kingdom: Elizabeth II | Great Britain |
| Jan 20, 1953 - Jan 20, 1961 | 64.7 - 72.7 | President of the United States of America: Dwight D. Eisenhower | USA - Presidents |
| Jun 17, 1953 | 65.1 | Uprising of June 17, 1953 in East Germany | Germany |
| Feb 24, 1955 - Oct 5, 2011 | 66.8 - 123.4 | Life of Steven 'Steve' Paul Jobs | Personalities |
| Oct 4, 1957 | 69.4 | Sputnik launched: first artificial satellite in Earth's orbit | Technology |
| Oct 5, 1958 | 70.4 | Start of the 5th French Republic | France |
| 1959 - Apr 30, 1975 | 71.1 - 87.0 | Vietnam War | Wars & Military Conflicts |
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