regional history

history of germany




Timeline of Events
YearMonthDayEvent
842 Feb 14 French And German Leaders Swear Oaths
1241 Apr 09 Liegnitz: Mongols Defeat Polish And Germans
1630 Jul 06 Landing Of 4000 Swedish Troops In Pomerania
1758 Jun 23 Krefeld: British Defeat French
1805 Oct 20 Mack's Army Surrender To Napoleon I
1848 Mar 18 Struggle In Berlin During March Revolution
1863 Jan 04 New Apostolic Church Established In Germany
1880 Aug 14 Cologne Cathedral, Is Completed
1882 May 20 The Triple Alliance Is Formed
1900 Mar 07 German Liner Sends Wireless Signals To Shore
1911 Jul 01 German Gunship Sent To Morocco Sparks Agadir Crisis
1914 Aug 23 Japan Declares War, Bombs China
1914 Nov 07 Japanese Capture Kiachow Bay, And Tsingato, Germany
1917 Apr 02 Woodrow Wilson Asks For War Declaration
1917 Oct 04 Brits, Germans Fight Flander's Battle Of Broodseinde
1918 Feb 23 Monarch Of Grand Duke Of Mecklenburg-Strelitz Commits Suicide
1918 Aug 13 BMW Established In Germany
1933 Apr 26 Gestapo - Secret Nazi German Police Formed
1933 May 10 Nazis Burnt Books Publicly In Germany
1933 Oct 14 Nazi Germany Withdraws From League
1937 Nov 05 Hitler ]holds A Secret Meeting
1938 Mar 12 German Occupation Austria, Anschluss
1938 Dec 13 Neuengamme Concentration Camp Opens In Hamburg
1939 Mar 15 Germany Dissolves The Czechoslovakian Nation
1939 May 22 Germany And Italy Sign Pact (WWII)
1939 Jul 06 Holocaust Forces Closure Of Jewish German Businesses
1939 Sep 01 Poland Invaded; World War II Enters Europe
1939 Sep 28 Germany And Soviet Union Divide Poland Post WW2
1939 Oct 16 First German Air Attack On Brits
1940 Apr 15 Allies Begin Norwegian Attack In Narvik
1940 May 10 Accidental Bombing In Freiburg, Germany WWII
1940 May 28 Belgium Surrenders To Nazis Ending Battle Of Belgium
1940 Jul 25 Swiss Army Ordered To Resist German Advance
1940 Aug 08 Keitel Signs ""Aufbau Ost'
1941 May 12 Zuse Unveils Programmable Computer
1941 Aug 05 Germany Ends Battle And Captures Soviet Prisoners
1941 Sep 04 WWII: German Sub Attacks USS Greer
1941 Sep 30 World War 2 In Kiev, Einsatzgruppe C Complete Babi Yar Massacre
1942 Jan 13 First Aircraft Ejection Seat Used
1942 Jun 28 Nazi Germany Started Summer Offensive
1943 Oct 13 Italy Sides With Allies, Declares War On Germany
1943 Nov 03 500 US Aircraft Devastate Wilhelmshaven
1943 Dec 05 Allied Air Campaign Attacks Secret German Base
1944 Feb 07 German Forces Launch A Counteroffensive
1944 Apr 05 Germans Execute 270 In Kleisoura, Greece
1944 Sep 11 Allied Troops From US Army Crossed Western Germany In World War II
1944 Sep 19 Hürtgen Forest Battle: US Vs. Nazis Begins
1944 Dec 31 Hungary Declared War On Germany
1944 Dec 31 Last German Offensive Operation Nordwind Begins
1945 Mar 29 WWII: Soviet Red Army Destroy German 4th
1945 Apr 04 Americans Liberate Ohrdruf In Germany During WWII
1945 Apr 20 Leipzig Given To USSR By US
1945 Apr 21 Soviets Attack German High Command
1945 May 08 Germans Sign Unconditional Surrender In France
1945 Jul 26 Potsdam Declaration Is Signed
1945 Nov 20 Nazi War Criminal Trials At Nuremberg
1949 Oct 07 East Germany Forms Communist Democratic Republic
1949 Oct 16 Soviet And German Diplomatic Relations Established
1955 Jan 25 The Soviet Union Ends War
1961 Aug 22 Siekmann Dies Trying To Cross Berlin Wall
1963 Nov 07 In Germany 14 Miners Are Rescued
1990 Jun 30 East And West Germany Merge Economies
1991 Sep 19 German Tourists Discover Otzi The Iceman
1992 Sep 17 Political Militants Killed Iranian Kurdish Leader
2014 Jul 08 Brazil Dismantled By Germany 1-7. Labeled Mineirazo