Timeline of German history

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History of Germany 

This is a timeline of German history. To read about the background to these events, see History of Germany. See also List of German monarchs, Lists of office-holders and List of years in Germany.

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[edit] 1000 BC–1 BC

• 1000 BC - 500 BC, the Germanic tribes appear in northern Germany, see the Nordic Bronze Age and the Pre-Roman Iron Age.
• 600 - 300 BC (approximately) East Germanic tribes move from Scandinavia into the area between the Oder and Vistula rivers
• 113 BC - 439 AD Germanic Wars between Germanic tribes and the Romans
• 109 BC Confederation of the Cimbri, Teutoni and Helvetii formed
• 57 BC Julius Caesar's Gallic Wars; Caesar invades region which becomes Germania Inferior
• 53 BC Eburones, Nervii, Menapii and Morinii tribes revolt but are put down by Caesar.
• 50 BC (approximately) Ingvaeones become Frisians, Saxons, Jutes and Angles by about now
• 8 BC Marcomanni and Quadi drive the Boii out of Bohemia
• 10 BC (approximately) differentiation of localized Teutonic tribes (Alamanni, Hermunduri, Marcomanni, Quadi, Suebi) in area formerly occupied by Irminones
• 8 Confederation of Marcomanni, Lugier, Semnones, Lombards and others

[edit] 1 AD–800 AD

• 9 AD Battle of the Teutoburg Forest establishes the boundary between Romans and Germanic peoples.
  • Upper Germanic Limes begun
• 16 AD Battle of the Weser River (Battle of Minden) between Romans (Germanicus) and Arminius, chief of the Cherusci
• 68 Year of the four emperors
• 69 Batavian rebellion of the Batavians led by Civilis against the Roman Empire
• 90 Germania Superior and Germania Inferior established as Imperial Roman provinces (Germania)
• 268 Battle of Lake Benacus between the Alamanni and Claudius II
  • Battle of Naissus between the Goths and Gallienus
• 300 - 900 (approximately) Völkerwanderung
• 496 Battle of Tolbiac between the Franks and the Alamanni
• 530 Pope Boniface II consecrated
• 5th - 9th century High German consonant shift distinguishes High German languages from other West Germanic languages
• 715 Saint Boniface begins his work as a missionary

[edit] 800–1000

• 800 Charlemagne crowned Imperator Romanorum (Emperor of the Romans); Holy Roman Empire formed
• 804 Saxons finally conquered by Charlemagne
• 843 Treaty of Verdun
• 870 Treaty of Mersen divides the Carolingian Empire
• 955 Otto I, Holy Roman Emperor defeats Hungarians at Battle of Lechfeld
• 996 Pope Gregory V consecrated

[edit] 1000–1500

• 11th - 13th centuries Crusades
• 1046 Pope Clement II consecrated
• 1048 Pope Damasus II consecrated
• 1049 Pope Leo IX consecrated
• 1055 Pope Victor II consecrated
• 1057 Pope Stephen IX consecrated
• 1075 start of Investiture Controversy
• 1096 German Crusade, 1096
• 1098 Hildegard of Bingen born
• 12th - 14th centuries Minnesänger singers
• 1122 Concordat of Worms
• 1147 - sixteenth century Northern Crusades (Baltic Crusades) against people of North Eastern Europe around the Baltic Sea
• 1190 Teutonic Knights formed after Third Crusade
• 1190 or 1200 Nibelungenlied written
• 1214 Battle of Bouvines
• 14th to 16th centuries Meistersinger lyric poets
• 1356 Golden Bull of 1356
  
  • Hanseatic League officially founded
• 1370 Treaty of Stralsund ends war between Hanseatic League and the Danes
• 1392 Victual Brothers hired by the Dukes of Mecklenburg to fight against Denmark
• 1410 Battle of Grunwald
• 1455 Gutenberg Bible first printed by Johann Gutenberg
• 1471 Albrecht Dürer born
• 1495 Imperial Reform; Reichskammergericht formed
• 1517 Martin Luther's 95 Theses
• 1521 Diet of Worms addresses Martin Luther and the effects on the Protestant Reformation
• 1522 Pope Adrian VI consecrated
• 1524 - 1526 Peasants' War
• 1555 Peace of Augsburg

[edit] 1800s

• 1803 Napoleon imposes the Convention of Artlenburg
  • All of the Imperial Free Cities but six eliminated
  • All ecclesiastic land holdings in Germany abolished
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• 1804 - 1815 Napoleonic Wars
• Austria joins the Third Coalition
• 1806 Collapse of Holy Roman Empire
  • Confederation of the Rhine formed
  • Prussia joins the Fourth Coalition
• 1807 Peace of Tilsit
• 1812 Brothers Grimm publish first collection of fairy tales
• 1812 - 1814 Sixth Coalition includes German states
• 1813 Wilhelm Richard Wagner born
  • Battle of the Nations at Leipzig: Napoleon defeated
• 1815 Congress of Vienna
  • German Confederation formed
• 1818 Karl Marx born
• 1832 Wilhelm Busch born
• 1834 Zollverein formed
• 1840 First kindergarten opened by Froebel
• 1844 Friedrich Nietzsche born
• 1848 - 1849 TheRevolutions of 1848 in the German statesImage:Maerz1848 berlin.jpg
• 1848 Frankfurt Parliament convenes
• 1850 Dreiklassenwahlrecht introduced in Prussia
• 1856 Neanderthal remains found at the Neander valley
• 1858 Max Planck born
• 1863 Social Democratic Party of Germany formed
• 1866 Austro-Prussian War; Battle of Königgrätz
• 1867 North German Confederation formed after collapse of German Confederation
• 1870 Franco-Prussian War
• 1871 German Empire proclaimed from North German Confederation.
• 1875 Thomas Mann born
• 1879 Albert Einstein born
• 1886 automobiles with gasoline-powered internal combustion engines produced independently by Carl Benz and Gottlieb Daimler
• 1888 Year of Three Emperors
• 1892 Rudolf Diesel invents Diesel engine

[edit] 1900s

• 1900 Bürgerliches Gesetzbuch comes into effect
• 1914 Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand
  • 1914 - 1918 World War I
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• 1918 End of Dreiklassenwahlrecht; universal suffrage introduced (women get the vote for the first time)
• 1919 Treaty of Versailles
  • 1919–1933 Weimar Republic
• 1923 Ruhr Crisis
• 1925 - Joins the League of Nations
• 1933 Adolf Hitler appointed Chancellor of Germany; Gleichschaltung
  • 1933 - 1945 Nazi Germany (Third Reich)
• 1939 - 1945 World War II (see also Timeline of World War II)
  • Causes of World War II
  • Events preceding World War II in Europe
  • European Theatre of World War II
  • The Holocaust
  • End of World War II in Europe
  • German exodus from Eastern Europe
    
  • History of Germany since 1945
• 1941 Konrad Zuse builds the first computer, Z3
• 1945 Potsdam Conference
• 1946 Party of Democratic Socialism formed
• 1948 Deutsche Mark introduced
  • Free Democratic Party formed
  • 1948 - 1949 Berlin Blockade
• 1949 German Democratic Republic and Federal Republic of Germany formed (see History of East Germany, Constitution of the German Democratic Republic and Basic Law for the Federal Republic of Germany)
  • Christian Democratic Union of Germany founded
  • Konrad Adenauer becomes first post-war Chancellor of Germany
• 1950s Wirtschaftswunder
• 1953 Uprising of 1953 in East Germany
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• 1954 West Germany wins Football World Cup - The Miracle of Bern
• 1955 Federal Republic joins NATO; GDR joins Warsaw Pact
• 1958 - West Germany becomes 1 of the 6 founding members of the European Coal and Steel Community, later known as the European Union
• 1961 Berlin Wall and rest of GDR border system built
• 1964 National Democratic Party of Germany (NPD) formed
• 1967 - 1968 German student movement
• 1970 Voting age lowered from 21 to 18
• 1970s - 1998 Red Army Faction operates
• 1972 West Germany hosts the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich. Palestinian terrorists cause Munich Massacre
• 1973 East and West Germany join United Nations
• 1974 West Germany hosts and wins Football World Cup
• 1987 First ever official visit by Erich Honecker to the Federal Republic of Germany
• 1989 Monday demonstrations in Leipzig
  • Berlin Wall falls
• 1990 Treaty on the Final Settlement With Respect to Germany, Germany wins Football World Cup
  • German reunification
• 1991 Berlin named new capital
• 1993 Alliance '90/The Greens merge
  • Germany signs Maastricht Treaty leading to the creation of the European Union
• 1994 Federal Constitutional Court says Bundeswehr can take part in UN peacekeeping outside NATO territory
• 1999 The NATO war on Yugoslavia is the first non-defensive war the Bundeswehr actively takes part in

[edit] Since 2000

• 2000 Hanover hosts Expo 2000
• 2001 Women join Bundeswehr for the first time
• 2002 Euro notes and coins introduced and replace Deutsche Mark as everyday currency
• 2005 Pope Benedict XVI consecrated
• 2005 Angela Merkel elected as the chancellor, marking the first woman chancellor of the government.

[edit] See also

• List of German presidents since 1919 for a list of presidents of the German Reich, heads of state of the German Democratic Republic and presidents of the Federal Republic of Germany (1949-present)
• Chancellor of Germany for a list of chancellors since 1871.

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