German History

Thursday, May 30, 2013

 Historical Events

0013-11-16 - General Tiberius' (later Emperor) triumphant procession through Rome after siege of Germany
0089-01-01 - Gov Lucius Antonius Saturninus of Germany becomes emperor of Rome
0451-06-20 - Germans & Romans beat Atiila the Hun at Catalarinische Fields
0476-08-28 - German ruler Odoacer captures Pavia
0842-02-14 - Charles II & Louis the German sign treaty
0843-08-10 - Treaty of Verdun: Brothers Lotharius I, Louis the German & Charles the Bare divide France
0860-08-01 - Peace of Koblenz: Charles the Bare, Louis the German & Lotharius II
0870-08-08 - Kings Charles the Bare & Louis the German divide Lutherans
0911-11-08 - Duke Koenraad I chosen German king
0911-11-10 - Conrad I elecect German King
0933-03-15 - Battle at Riade: German King Henry I beats Magyaren
0936-08-07 - Otto I the Great becomes King of Germany
0936-08-08 - German king Otto I the Great, crowned
0961-05-26 - German King Otto II crowned
0962-02-02 - Pope John XII crowns German King Otto I the Great Emperor
0967-12-25 - John XIII crowned Otto II the Red German compassionate emperor
0996-05-21 - Pope Gregory V crowns his cousin Otto III German emperor
0996-06-21 - Pope Gregory V crowns Otto III Roman Catholic German emperor of Elzas
1002-06-06 - German king Henry II the Saint crowned
1014-02-14 - Pope Benedict VIII crowns Henry II, Roman German emperor
1024-09-04 - Conrad II the Sailor chosen German king
1024-09-08 - Duke Koenraad II chosen German king
1027-03-26 - John XIX crowns Conrad II the Salier Roman German emperor
1028-04-14 - German emperor Conrad II the Sailor crowns his son Henry III, king
1037-05-28 - German emperor Koenraad II removes "Constitutio the Feudis"
1046-12-20 - Synod of Sutri: German King Henry III removes Popes Gregory VI
1046-12-25 - Pope Clemens VI crowns Henry III RC-German emperor
1064-04-30 - German King Henry IV gives away Utrecht county of West Friesland
1075-06-09 - Battle at Homburg/Unstrut: German king Henry IV beats Saksen
1076-01-24 - Synod of Worms: German King Henry IV fires Pope Gregory VII
1077-01-21 - German King Heinrich IV petitions Pope Gregory VII for forgiveness
1077-01-28 - German King Henry IV is absolved by Holy Roman Emperor Pope Gregory VII after his penitent Walk to Canossa.
1077-01-30 - Pope Gregory VII pardons German emperor Henry IV
1077-10-30 - German king Henry IV gives away bisdom Utrecht county Staveren
1083-06-03 - Henry IV of Germany storms Rome, capturing St Peter's Cathedral
1084-03-31 - Anti-pope Clemens crowns German emperor Hendrik IV
1087-05-30 - German emperor Henry IV crowns his son Koenraad
1090-07-03 - Battle at Hagenoorde: German emperor beats earl Egbert II
1096-06-25 - 1st Crusade slaughter Jews of Werelinghofen Germany
1099-01-06 - Henry V crowned German king
1111-02-12 - German King Hendry V arrives at St Peter, Rome
1111-04-13 - Pope Paschalis II crowns Roman catholics-German king Hendrik II
1125-08-30 - Duke Lotharius of Supplinburg elected king of Germany
1125-09-13 - Duke Lotharius of Supplinburg crowned as German king Lotharius III
1133-06-04 - Rome-Innocentius II crowns Lotharius III Roman-German emperor
1138-03-07 - Conrad II von Hohenstaufen re-elected German king
1138-03-13 - German king Koenraad II von Hohenstaufen crowned
1147-10-25 - Seljuk Turks defeat German crusaders under Conrad III at the Battle of Dorylaeum.
1152-03-04 - Frederik I Barbarossa elected Roman-German king
1155-06-18 - Pope Adrian IV crowns Frederick I Barbarossa Roman-German Emperor
1165-11-25 - RC German emperor Frederik I Barbarossa visits Utrecht
1198-09-05 - Philips van Zwaben Hohenstaufen crowned king of Roman Catholic Germany
1205-03-06 - Aken, [Philips van Zwaben], crowned Roman-Catholic German King
1208-11-11 - Otto van Wittelsbach chosen German king
1209-10-04 - Pope Innocent II crowns German king Otto of Wittelsbach
1215-07-25 - Frederick II (20) crowned king of the Romans
1220-04-26 - German king Frederick II grants bishops sovereign rights
1221-11-22 - Frederik II Hohenstaufen crowned Roman-German Emperor
1227-09-29 - Pope Gregory IX excommunicate German emperor Frederik II
1229-03-18 - German emperor Frederick II crowns himself king of Jerusalem
1230-07-27 - Treaty of San-Germano between Emperor Frederik II & Pope Gregory IX
1241-04-09 - Battle of Liegnitz - Mongol armies defeat Poles & Germans
1241-05-25 - 1st attack on Jewish community of Frankfort-on-the-Main Germany
1247-10-03 - Willem II of Holland elected Roman Catholic German emperor
1248-11-01 - Earl Willem II of Holland crowned as RC German emperor
1264-08-05 - Anti-Jewish riots break out in Arnstadt Germany
1268-10-29 - Conradin, the last legitimate male heir of the Hohenstaufen dynasty of Kings of Germany and Holy Roman Emperors, is executed along with his companion Frederick I, Margrave of Baden by Charles I of Sicily, a political rival and ally to the hostile Roman Catholic church.
1273-10-01 - Earl Rudolf van Habsburg becomes Roman Catholics-German king
1285-10-12 - 180 Jews refuse baptism in Munich Germany, they are set on fire
1298-06-23 - Duke Albrecht von Habsburg chosen Roman Catholic German king
1298-06-25 - Rindfleish Persecutions-250 Jews killed in Rothenburg Germany
1298-07-02 - Battle on Hasenbuhl (Gollheim) between German kings Adolf & Albrecht I
1298-07-23 - Rindfleish Persecutions - Jewish community in Wurzburg Germany massacred
1298-10-19 - Rindfleish-140 Jews of Heilbron Germany are murdered
1307-01-18 - German king Albrecht I makes his son Rudolf king of Bohemia
1310-08-31 - German king Heinrich VII makes his son Johan king of Bohemia
1312-06-29 - Roman Catholics German King Henry VII crowned
1338-06-16 - German monarch declares pope & king's decree redundant
1338-07-16 - German monarch signs Treaty of Rense
1346-04-13 - Pope Clemens VI declares German emperor Louis of Bavaria, envoy
1347-07-11 - Bohemia heir to the throne elected German anti-king Charles IV
1349-01-30 - Gunther of Schwarzburg chosen German anti-king
1349-01-30 - Jews of Freilsburg Germany are massacred
1349-03-21 - 3,000 Jews killed in Black Death riots in Efurt Germany
1349-03-22 - Townspeople of Fulda Germany massacre Jews (blamed for black death)
1349-04-30 - Jewish community at Radolszell Germany, exterminated
1349-08-24 - Jews of Cologne Germany set themselves on fire to avoid baptism
1349-09-10 - Jews who survived a massacre in Constance Germany are burned to death
1349-11-29 - Jews of Augsburg Germany massacred
1356-01-10 - German emperor Charles I delegates Golden Degree
1362-01-16 - A great storm tide in the North Sea destroys the German island of Strand and the city of Rungholt.
1370-02-17 - Battle at Rudau: Germany beats Lithuania
1374-06-24 - A sudden outbreak of St. John's Dance causes people in the streets of Aachen, Germany, to experience hallucinations and begin to jump and twitch uncontrollably until they collapse from exhaustion.
1430-05-05 - Jews are expelled from Speyer Germany
1436-07-05 - German emperor Sigismund signs peace with Hussieten
1438-03-18 - Albrecht II von Habsburg becomes king of Germany
1452-03-09 - Pope Nicolaas I crowns Frederik III RC-German emperor
1452-03-19 - Frederick III of Hapsburg crowned Roman German Emperor
1488-02-05 - Roman catholic German emperor Maximilian I caught in Belgium
1492-05-15 - Cheese & Bread rebellion: German mercenaries kills 232 Alkmaarse
1914-07-05 - Germany offers Austria war aid to fight against Russia in Serbia
1914-07-25 - Germany soc-democrat "No German blood for Austrian tyrant"
1914-07-26 - German chief of staff/gen von Moltke states ultimatum on Belgium
1914-07-30 - French troops withdraw 10 km from German border
1914-07-31 - German Emperor Wilhelm II threatens war, orders Russia to demobilize
1914-08-01 - France & Germany mobilize
1914-08-01 - Trois Vierges: German 69th infantry regiment enter Luxembourg Germany declares war on Russia in WW I
1914-08-02 - Belgian government receives German ultimatum
1914-08-02 - German press falsely reports that French bombed Nuremberg
1914-08-02 - German troops overthrows Luxembourg
1914-08-02 - Germany & Turkey signs secret treaty
1914-08-03 - Belgium rejects demand to allow free crossing for German army
1914-08-03 - German battle cruiser Goeben leaves Messina
1914-08-03 - Germany invades Belgium & declares war on France in WW I
1914-08-03 - Great Britain declares war on Germany
1914-08-03 - Turkey signs military pact with Germany
1914-08-04 - German army shoots Belgian priests/burns down village of Battice
1914-08-04 - German fleet under admiral Souchon fire on Algerian coast
1914-08-04 - Germany declares war on Belgium; Britain declares war on Germany
1914-08-05 - Massive German assault on forts around Luik
1914-08-05 - Westerschelde leaves due to German invasion in Belgium
1914-08-06 - German Zeppelin bombs Liege City, 9 killed
1914-08-06 - Serbia declares war against Germany
1914-08-07 - British Gloucester vs German Breslau/Goeben off Greece
1914-08-07 - German army occupies city of Liege Belgium
1914-08-08 - Montenegro declares war on Germany
1914-08-09 - German submarine U-15 sinks British cruiser
1914-08-10 - At Luik, German 12"/16.5" guns reach Belgian boundary
1914-08-10 - German battle cruiser Goeben reaches Dardanellen/Turkey joins Germany
1914-08-10 - German troops reconquer Mulhouse in Elzas
1914-08-12 - German 16.5"/12" guns fires on forts round Luik
1914-08-13 - -14] German army occupies forts at Luik
1914-08-16 - German army occupies last fort at Luik, Belgian general Leman caught
1914-08-17 - Lithuiana surrenders to Germans
1914-08-19 - German army executed 150 Belgians by firing squad
1914-08-19 - German fleet bombs English coast
1914-08-20 - German General von Bulow executes 211 Belgians
1914-08-20 - Battle at Gumbinnen, East-Prussia: Russian beat Germans
1914-08-20 - Battle at Morhange: German troops chase French, killing 1000s
1914-08-20 - German army captured Brussels as the Belgian army retreated to Antwerp
1914-08-21 - Belgium: German troops occupy Tamines
1914-08-22 - 1st encounter between British & German troops (in Belgium)
1914-08-22 - German troops execute 384 inhabitants of Tamines Belgium
1914-08-23 - -24] German troops plunder Belgium
1914-08-23 - Japan declares war on Germany in World War I
1914-08-24 - Battle at Bergen: Germans defeat Belgian/British troops
1914-08-24 - German troops occupy Namur Belgium
1914-08-25 - Belgium: German army begins 6 week plundering of Leuven Belgium
1914-08-25 - German Zeppelins bomb Antwerp Belgium, 10 die
1914-08-25 - German troops march into France pushes French army to the Sedan
1914-08-26 - Battle of Tannenberg - 8th German army defeats Russian Narev army
1914-08-27 - 2nd day of battle at Tannenberg: German bombs Usdau
1914-08-28 - 3rd day of battle at Tannenberg: violent German/Russian battles
1914-08-28 - Battle at Helgoland: British fleet beats German, 1100 killed
1914-08-30 - 1st German plane bombs above Paris, 2 killed
1914-08-31 - German troops reconquer Soldau/Neidenburg East-Prussia
1914-08-31 - Germany defeats Russia (battle at Tannenberg/30,000 Russians die)
1914-09-04 - British, French & Russian government sign Pact of London, against Germany
1914-09-04 - General von Moltke ceases German advance in France
1914-09-05 - Battle of Marne (WW I) begins: Germans chase out Russians
1914-09-06 - Battle of Marne; Germans prevented from occupying Paris
1914-09-09 - Battle of Marne (German advance stalls, Paris saved)
1914-09-11 - Australia invades New Britain, defeating a German contingent there.
1914-09-14 - German staff-chief von Moltke replaces von Falkenhayn
1914-09-14 - German troops withdraw from Aisne/invent trenches
1914-09-15 - Battle of Aisne begins between Germans & French during WW I
1914-09-18 - Battle of Aisne ends with Germans beating French during WW I
1914-09-18 - Gen von Hindenburgs named commander of German armies on Eastern Front
1914-09-18 - South African troops land in German South West Africa
1914-09-22 - 1 German submarine sinks 3 British ironclads, 1,459 die
1914-09-26 - Germans arrest A Max, mayor of Brussels
1914-09-28 - German forces move into Antwerp Belgium (WW I)
1914-10-09 - German troops take Antwerp in World War I
1914-10-10 - German forces route Belgians in Antwerp Belgium (WW I)
1914-10-11 - German troops occupy Gent
1914-10-13 - Pro-German Boers begin opposition of British authority in South Africa
1914-10-14 - German troops occupy Brug
1914-10-18 - The Schoenstatt Movement is founded in Germany.
1914-10-21 - Battle of Warsaw ends with German defeat
1914-10-28 - German battle cruiser Goeben enters Black Sea
1914-11-01 - German-British fleet battle at Coronel, Chile
1914-11-07 - Japan attack German concession on Chinese peninsula of Shanghai
1914-11-07 - The German colony of Kiaochow Bay and its centre at Tsingtao are captured by Japanese forces.
1914-11-12 - Turks sultan Jamal Pasja declares a German holy war
1914-11-22 - Ypres Belgium burned by German bombing
1914-12-06 - German troops over run Lodz
1914-12-08 - British & German fleets battle at Falkland Island
1914-12-15 - British fleet forfeits chance to destroy German fleet in North Sea
1914-12-16 - World War I: German battleships under Franz Von Hipper bombard the English ports of Hartlepool and Scarborough.
1914-12-24 - German plane drops bombs on Dover England
1914-12-25 - Legendary/unofficial "Christmas Truce" takes place (Brits & Germans)
1915-01-19 - 1st German Zeppelin attack over Great Britain, 4 die
1915-01-24 - German-British sea battle at Doggersbank & Helgoland
1915-01-30 - German submarine attack on Le Havre
1915-01-31 - 1st (German) poison gas attack, against Russians
1915-02-03 - Turkish & German army reach Suez Canal
1915-02-07 - 2nd Battle of Masurian Lakes: German armies surrounded a Russian army
1915-02-18 - Germany begins a blockade of Britain
1933-10-17 - Albert Einstein arrives in US, a refugee from Nazi Germany
1933-11-12 - Nazis receive 92% of vote in Germany
1934-01-01 - Nazi Germany passes the "Law for the Prevention of Genetically Diseased Offspring".
1934-01-26 - Nazi Germany & Poland sign non-attack treaty for 10 years
1934-01-26 - German-Polish Non-Aggression Pact is signed.
1934-01-30 - Hitler proclamation on German unified states
1934-03-20 - Rudolf Kuhnold demonstrates radar in Kiel Germany
1934-03-20 - Test of practical radar apparatus made by Rudolf Kuhnold in Germany
1934-04-06 - 418 Lutheran ministers arrested in Germany
1934-05-02 - Nazi-Germany begins People's court
1934-07-09 - SS-Reichs Fuhrer Himmler takes command of German Concentration Camps
1934-08-02 - Adolph Hitler becomes commander-in-chief of Germany
1934-10-01 - Adolph Hitler expands German army & navy & creates an air force, violating Treaty of Versailles
1934-11-26 - German theologist Karl Barth surrenders to nazi
1934-11-28 - Churchill tells Premier Baldwin not to under estimate German air power
1935-01-13 - Plebiscite in Saar, indicates a desire (90.3%) to join Nazi Germany
1935-02-26 - Germany begin Luftwaffe operation, under Reichsmarshall H Goering
1935-03-07 - Saar incorporated into Germany
1935-03-11 - Hermann Goering officially creates German Air Force, the Luftwaffe
1935-03-16 - Hitler orders German rearmament, violating Versailles Treaty
1935-04-12 - Germany prohibits publishing "not-Arian" writers
1935-06-26 - Work service for recent graduate obligatory in Germany
1935-08-11 - Nazi mass demonstration against German Jews
1935-09-15 - Nuremberg Laws deprives German Jews of citizenship & makes swastika official symbol of Nazi Germany
1935-11-14 - Nazi's deprive German Jews of their citizenship
1936-02-06 - 4th Winter Olympic games open in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany
1936-02-16 - 4th Winter Olympic games close at Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany
1936-03-04 - 1st flight of airship Hindenburg, Germany
1936-03-11 - British Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin pardons five convicted Irish militants who promise to join growing conflict with Germany.
1936-03-29 - Nazi propaganda claims 99% of Germans voted for Nazi candidates
1936-06-19 - Dutch Premier Colijn denies relation with German call-girl
1936-06-19 - German boxer Max Schmeling World Champion KOs Joe Louis
1936-09-08 - Princess Juliana & German prince Bernard Lippe-Biesterfeld get engaged
1936-11-01 - Benito Mussolini describes alliance between Italy & Germany as an "axis"
1936-11-15 - Nazi-Germany & Japan sign Anti-Komintern pact
1936-11-16 - German air force begins bombing of Madrid
1936-11-18 - Germany & Italy recognized Spanish government of Francisco Franco
1936-11-25 - Germany & Japan sign anti-Komintern pact
1937-04-26 - German Luftwaffe destroys Basque town of Guernica in Spain
1937-05-31 - German battleships bomb Almeria Spain
1937-07-01 - Rev Martin Niemöller (Bekennende Kirche) arrested in Germany
1937-11-05 - World War II: Adolf Hitler holds a secret meeting and states his plans for acquiring "living space" for the German people.
1937-11-17 - Britains Lord Halifax visits Germany, beginning of appeasement
1937-12-27 - German immigration officials with no explanation bar Juan Carlos Zabala (Arg), 1932 Olympic marathon champion, from entering Germany
1938-02-04 - Hitler seizes control of German army & puts Nazi in key posts
1938-02-12 - German troops entered Austria
1938-02-20 - UK Foreign Sec Eden resigns, says PM Chamberlain appeased Germany
1938-03-11 - Artur Seyss-Inquart replaces Kurt von Schuschnigg as Chancellor of Austria; German troops also entered the country
1938-03-12 - Nazi Germany invades Austria (Anschluss)
1938-03-13 - Anschluá-Austria annexed by Nazi Germany
1938-04-10 - Austria becomes a state of Germany
1938-04-23 - Sudeten Germans in Czechoslovakia demand self government
1938-05-07 - Dutch Minister of Justice Goseling calls fugitives of nazi-Germany "undesired strangers"
1938-05-14 - English soccer team beats Nazi-Germany, 6-3
1938-06-03 - German law on "Entartete Art" legalizes art robbery
1938-06-09 - Second Chamber agrees to return Jews to nazi-Germany
1938-07-25 - Jewish artisans not allowed in Germany
1938-09-12 - Adolph Hitler demands self-determination for Sudeten Germans in Czech
1938-09-27 - Jewish lawyers forbidden to practice in Germany
1938-09-30 - Munich Agreement-forced Czechoslovakia to give territory to Germany
1938-10-01 - Germany annexes Sudetenland (1/3 of Czechoslovakia)
1938-10-07 - Germany demands all Jewish passports stamped with letter J
1938-10-10 - Germany completed annexation of Czechoslovakia's Sudetenland
1938-11-01 - German colonel-general Gerd von Runstedt retires
1938-11-08 - A pogrom against the Jews of Germany and Austria takes place in response to the assassination of a German diplomat in Paris.
1938-11-09 - Kristallnacht, Nazi Germany's first large-scale physical act of anti-Jewish violence, begins.
1938-11-11 - German & Austrian Jewish suffer 1 billion Mark damage in nazi
1938-11-21 - Nazi forces occupy western Czech & declared them German citizens
1938-11-29 - Mayor Oud of Rotterdam forbids soccer match between Neth-Germany
1938-11-30 - Germany bans Jews being lawyers
1938-12-06 - French/German non-attack treaty drawn (Ribbentrop-Bonnet Pact)
1939-01-20 - Hitler proclaims to German parliament to exterminate all European Jews
1939-02-15 - German battleship Bismarck was launched
1939-03-14 - Nazi Germany dissolves Republic of Czechoslovakia
1939-03-16 - Germany occupies Czechoslovakia
1939-03-20 - 7,000 Jews flee German occupied Memel Lithuania
1939-03-21 - Nazi-Germany demands Gdansk (Danzig) from Poland
1939-03-22 - Lithuania state, forced to give Memel territory to Germany
1939-03-31 - Britain & France agree to support Poland if invaded by Germany
1939-04-10 - Colijn's Dutch government opens camp Westerbork for German Jews
1939-04-18 - Franz von Papen becomes German ambassador in Turkey
1939-04-28 - Hitler claims German-Polish non-attack treaty still in effect
1939-05-07 - Germany & Italy announced an alliance known as the Rome-Berlin Axis
1939-06-01 - Retired German Col-gen Gerd von Runstedt returns to service
1939-07-06 - German Nazi's close last Jewish enterprises
1939-08-22 - Dutch border guards take positions for German invasion
1939-08-23 - USSR & Germany sign a non-agression pact
1939-08-24 - Germany & USSR sign 10-year non-aggression pact
1939-08-27 - Nazi Germany demands Danzig & Polish corridor
1939-08-27 - Queen Wilhelmina receives German ambassador Grave Zech
1939-09-01 - WW II starts, Germany invades Poland, takes Danzig
1939-09-03 - German U-boat sinks British passenger ship Athenia
1939-09-03 - Great Britain & France declare war on Germany after invasion of Poland
1939-09-03 - Britain declares war on Germany. France follows 6 hours later quickly joined by Australia, NZ, South Africa & Canada
1939-09-04 - German submarine U-30 sinks British passenger ship Athenia
1939-09-04 - German troops move into Danzig
1939-09-06 - 1st German air attack on Great-Britain in WW II
1939-09-06 - South Africa declares war on nazi-Germany
1939-09-10 - Canada declares war on Germany
1941-08-18 - German concentration camp Amersfoort opens
1941-08-25 - English & Russian troops attack pro-German Iran
1941-08-25 - German troops conquer Nowgorod, Leningrad
1941-08-29 - German Einsatzkommando in Russia kills 1,469 Jewish children
1941-09-01 - Jews living in Germany are required to wear a yellow Jewish star
1941-09-04 - US destroyer Greer fires on German submarine U-652
1941-09-06 - All Jews over age 6 in German territories ordered to wear a star
1941-09-08 - Blockade of Leningrad (St Petersburg) by Germany begins
1941-09-11 - World War II: The U.S. Navy is ordered to attack German U-boats.
1941-09-12 - 1st German ship in WW II captured by US ship (Busko)
1941-09-16 - German armour troops surround Kiev Ukraine
1941-09-16 - Hitler orders for every dead German, 100 Yugoslavian be killed
1941-09-19 - German army conquerors Kiev
1941-09-19 - Nazi's force German Jews, 6 & over to wear Jewish stars
1941-09-23 - German air raid on Russ naval base Kronstadt (battleship Marat sinks)
1941-09-24 - Bomb explosion in German headquarter in Hotel Continental in Kiev
1941-09-30 - German assault on Moscow: operation-Taifun, begins
1941-10-02 - Germans launch attack on Moscow
1941-10-06 - German army occupies Briansk, USSR
1941-10-07 - German army occupies Viarma, USSR
1941-10-10 - German U-boat torpedoes US destroyer Kearney
1941-10-15 - 1st mass deportation of German Jews to Eastern Europe
1941-10-16 - Germany advances within 60 miles (96 K) of Moscow
1941-10-25 - Germany attacks Moscow
1941-10-30 - USS Reuben James torpedoed by Germans, even though US is not in war
1941-10-31 - Prior to US in WW II, Germany torpedoes US destroyer Reuben James
1941-11-02 - German troops occupy Rostov
1941-11-12 - Germany's drive to take Moscow halted
1941-11-13 - German Abweht consults with Chetnikleider Draza Mihailovic
1941-11-16 - German troops conquer Kertsh (probably)
1941-11-20 - German Q/pirate ship Kormoran sinks near Australia
1941-11-22 - British cruiser Devonshire sinks German auxiliary cruiser Atlantis
1941-11-23 - German troops conquer Klin, at NW of Moscow
1941-11-24 - Indian infantry attacks German tanks at Sidi Omar
1941-11-25 - German Jews in Netherlands declared stateless (lose of nationality)
1941-11-27 - USSR begins a counter offensive causes Germany to retreat
1941-11-28 - German troops vacate Rostov
1941-12-01 - British cruiser Devonshire sinks German sub Python
1941-12-07 - German siege of Tobruk after 8 months ends
1941-12-09 - China declares war on Japan, Germany & Italy
1941-12-11 - Germany & Italy declare war on US
1941-12-12 - German occupying army do a house search in Paris looking for Jews
1941-12-13 - German occupiers forbid National Front & Netherland Union
1941-12-15 - German submarine U-127 sinks
1941-12-17 - German submarine U-31 sunk
1941-12-17 - German troops led by Rommel begin retreating in North Africa
1941-12-18 - German submarine U-434 sinks
1941-12-19 - German submarine U-574 sinks
1941-12-19 - Hitler takes complete command of German Army
1941-12-21 - German submarine U-567 sinks
1942-01-02 - German troops in Bardia surrender
1942-01-05 - 55 German tanks reach North-Africa
1942-01-13 - German U-boats begin harassing shipping on US east coast
1942-01-13 - World War II: First use of aircraft ejection seat by a German test pilot in a Heinkel He 280 jet fighter.
1942-01-19 - Titus Brandsma arrested by German occupiers
1942-01-26 - Italian supreme command demands dismissal of German marshal Rommel
1942-01-28 - German troops occupy Benghazi Libya
1942-01-29 - German & Italian troops occupy Banghazi
1942-02-12 - 3 German battle cruisers escape via Channel to Brest N Germany
1942-02-15 - German U-boat shells at Antillian oil refinery
1942-02-16 - German submarines attack Aruba oil refinery
1942-02-24 - Voice of America begins broadcasting (in German)
1942-02-26 - German battle cruiser Gneisenau deactivated by bomb
1942-02-27 - 1st transport of French Jews to nazi-Germany
1942-03-20 - Major German assault on Malta
1942-03-21 - Heavy German assault on Malta
1942-03-22 - Heavy German assault on Malta
1942-03-26 - German offensive in North-Africa under Col-general Rommel
1942-03-27 - -28] Allies raid German submarine base in St Nazaire
1942-03-29 - British destroyer Campbeltown explodes in St-Nazaire: 400 Germans die
1942-03-29 - German submarine U-585 sinks
1942-03-29 - The Bombing of Lübeck in World War II was the first major success for the RAF Bomber Command against Germany and a German city.
1942-04-07 - Heavy German assault on Malta
1942-04-14 - Destroyer Roper sinks German U-85 of US east coast
1942-04-20 - German occupiers forbids Dutch access to their beach
1942-04-20 - Heavy German assault on Malta
1942-05-04 - German occupiers imprison 450 prominent Dutch as hostages
1942-05-08 - German summer offensive opens in Crimea
1942-05-22 - Mexico declares war on nazi-Germany & Japan
1942-05-27 - Top German Nazi Reinhard Heydrich is shot & mortally wounded in Prague
1942-06-07 - Germany Armys march into Sebastopol
1942-06-09 - German-Neth press reports, 3 million Dutch sent to East-Europe
1942-06-11 - German army defeated at El-Alamein North Africa
1942-06-13 - 1st V-2 rocket launch, Peenemunde, Germany; reached 1.3 km
1942-06-13 - Germany puts 4 saboteurs on Long Island
1942-06-20 - German troops conquer Tobruk, North Africa
1942-06-23 - World War II: Germany's latest fighter, a Focke-Wulf FW190 is captured intact when it mistakenly lands at RAF Pembrey in Wales.
1942-06-25 - British RAF staged a 1,000 bomb raid on Bremen Germany (WW II)
1942-06-26 - German assault on British at Mersa Matruh
1942-07-01 - German troops conquer Sebastopol
1942-07-03 - Germany troop march into Sebastopol
1942-07-04 - US air offensive against nazi-Germany begins
1942-07-07 - Germany troop march into Woronezj
1942-07-13 - German occupiers imprison 800 prominent Dutch as hostages
1942-07-17 - Transport nr 6 departs with French Jews to nazi-Germany
1942-07-18 - World War II: the Germans test fly the Messerschmitt Me-262 using only its jet engines for the first time.
1942-07-19 - German occupiers confiscate bicycles in Rotterdam & Hague
1942-07-23 - German troops conquer Rostow
1942-07-25 - German troops occupy Rostov
1942-07-25 - German troops strike at Tsym Lyanskaja
1944-12-31 - World War II: Hungary declares war on Germany.
1945-01-01 - German air raid on allied airports at Eindhoven/Saint-Trond/Brussels
1945-01-04 - Germans execute resistance fighters in Amsterdam
1945-01-07 - Lord Haw-Haw reports total German victory at Ardennen
1945-01-12 - German forces in Belgium retreat in Battle of Bulge
1945-02-09 - -Feb 10] Germany destroys Ruhrdammen
1945-02-13 - Allied planes bomb Dresden Germany; 135,000 die
1945-02-13 - USSR captures Budapest, after 49-day battle with Germany; 159,000 die
1945-02-16 - Venezuela declares war on nazi-Germany
1945-02-24 - Egypt & Syria declares war on nazi-Germany
1945-02-25 - World War II: Turkey declares war on Germany.
1945-03-04 - Finland declares war on nazi-Germany
1945-03-07 - US 9th Armoured Division attacks Remagen Germany, crosses Rhine
1945-03-10 - Germany blows-up Wessel Bridge on Rhine
1945-03-16 - Würzburg, Germany is 90% destroyed, with 5,000 dead, in only 20 minutes by British bombers.
1945-03-19 - Adolf Hitler issues Nero Decree to destroy all German factories
1945-03-21 - During WW II Allied bombers begin 4-day raid over Germany
1945-03-24 - Gen Eisenhower, Montgomery & Bradley discuss advance in Germany
1945-03-27 - Gen Eisenhower declares German defenses on Western Front broken
1945-03-28 - Last German V-1 (buzz bomb) attack on London
1945-03-30 - World War II: a defecting German pilot delivers a Messerschmitt Me 262A-1 to Americans.
1945-04-04 - US forces liberated the Nazi death camp Ohrdruf in Germany
1945-04-07 - 1st & last assault of German Rammkommando on US bombers
1945-04-10 - German troops attack Ijsselbrug
1945-04-10 - US troops liberate Nazi concentration camp at Buchenwald, Germany
1945-04-14 - US 7th Army & allies forces captured Nuremberg & Stuttgart in Germany
1945-04-16 - German troops in Groningen surrender
1945-04-16 - US troops enter Nuremberg, Germany, during WW II
1945-04-17 - German occupiers flood Wieringermeer Neth
1945-04-18 - Clandestine Radio 1212, after broadcasting pro-nazi propoganda for months used their influence to trap 350,000 German army group B troops
1945-04-20 - German occupiers flood Beemster & Fencer
1945-04-20 - US 7th army captured German city of Nuremberg
1945-04-21 - Allied troops occupy German nuclear laboratory
1945-04-25 - Clandestine Radio 1212, used to hoax Nazi Germany's final transmission
1945-04-25 - Last Boeing B-17 attack against Nazi Germany
1945-04-25 - US & Soviet forces meet at Torgau Germany on Elbe River
1945-04-26 - World War II: Battle of Bautzen - last successful German tank-offensive of the war and last noteworthy victory of the Wehrmacht.
1945-04-29 - Terms of surrender of German armies in Italy signed
1945-04-29 - US liberates 31,601 in Nazi concentration camp in Dachau Germany
1945-04-30 - Red Army opens attack on German Reichstag building in Berlin
1945-05-01 - Admiral Karl Doenitz forms German government
1945-05-02 - German Army in Italy surrenders
1945-05-03 - Allies arrests German nuclear physics Werner Heisenberg
1945-05-03 - German ship "Cap Arcona" sinks in East Sea, 5,800 killed
1945-05-04 - German troops in Netherlands, Denmark & Norway surrender
1945-05-05 - World War II: Admiral Karl Dönitz, leader of Germany after Hitler's death, orders all U-boats to cease offensive operations and return to their bases.
1945-05-06 - Gen J Blaskowitz surrenders German troops in Netherlands
1945-05-07 - Formal undertaking of complete German surrender
1945-05-08 - V-E Day; Germany signs unconditional surrender, WW II ends in Europe
1945-05-21 - German war criminal Heinrich Himmler captured
1945-05-23 - German island of Helgoland in North Sea surrenders to British
1945-05-23 - Heinrich Himmler, German Nazi leader & Gestapo leader, commits suicide in prison at 44
1945-06-04 - US, Russia, England & France agree to split occupied Germany
1945-06-05 - USA, UK, USSR, France declare supreme authority over Germany
1945-06-17 - Day of Unity in West Germany (National Day)
1945-09-20 - German rocket engineers begin work in US
1945-11-20 - 24 Nazi leaders put on trial at Nuremberg, Germany
1946-04-03 - Neth-German postal relations resume
1946-04-21 - SED, Socialistic Einheitspartei Germany forms in East Germany
1946-08-23 - Ordinance No. 46 of the British Military Government constitutes the German Land (state) of Schleswig-Holstein.
1946-10-28 - German rocket engineers begin work in USSR
1946-11-01 - German "Country" Nedersaksen forms
1946-11-01 - West German state of Niedersachsen formed
1948-06-20 - Deutsche Mark introduced in West-Germany
1948-07-28 - I G Farben chemical plant explodes in Ludwigshafen, Germany, 182 die
1949-05-08 - West German constitution approved
1949-05-23 - Federal Republic of [West] Germany proclaimed (Republic Day)
1949-05-30 - East Germans constitution approved
1949-07-29 - Airlift in West-Germany to West-Berlin ends
1949-09-12 - Theodor Heuss elected 1st pres/Conrad Adenauer 1st PM of German FR
1949-09-21 - Federal Republic of [West] Germany created under 3-power occupation
1949-10-07 - German Dem Rep formed from Russian occupation zone (National Day)
1949-10-07 - Otto Greatwohl becomes 1st premier of German DR
1949-10-07 - Wilhelm Pieck becomes 1st president of German DR
1949-11-29 - Uranium mine explosions in East Germany kills 3,700
1950-06-06 - German DR & Poland sign treaty about Oder-Neisse border
1950-06-10 - Germany doesn't annex Oder-Neissegrens
1950-07-06 - German DR recognizes Oder-Neisse borders with Poland
1950-07-12 - ILTF re-admit Germany & Japan in Davis Cup, Poland & Hungary withdraws
1950-07-12 - Hague Council of Annulment convicts German war criminals W Lages, FH Van de Funten & F Fischer to death
1950-08-23 - West Germany & Japan readmitted to Intl Amateur Athletic Federation
1950-08-29 - Intl Olympic Committee votes admission to West Germany & Japan in '52
1950-09-14 - Western allies rearm West Germany
1950-09-15 - East German premier Grotewohl pleads for German reunification
1950-09-19 - Great Three acknowledge Bond government as only German government
1951-01-13 - German general F Christian freed early from Dutch prison
1951-02-01 - Alfred Krupp & 28 other German war criminals freed
1951-03-13 - Israel demands DM 6.2 billion compensation from Germany
1951-03-14 - Earthquake at Euskirchen, Germany
1951-04-18 - France, West Germany & Benelux form European Steel & Coal Community
1951-05-01 - 600,000 march for peace & freedom in Germany
1951-07-09 - Pres Harry Truman asked Congress to formally end state of war with Germany
1951-07-26 - Netherlands ends state of war with Germany
1951-10-19 - Pres Harry Truman formally ends state of war with Germany
1952-02-29 - The island of Heligoland is restored to German authority.
1952-03-01 - Helgoland, in North Sea, returned to West Germany by Britain
1952-03-27 - Failed assassination attempt of German Chancellor Adenauer
1952-04-25 - German "Country" Bathe-Wurttemberg forms
1952-07-12 - East German SED decides to form German DR army
1952-08-28 - German & Israeli reach accord about recovery payments
1985-06-21 - American, Brazilian & West German forensic pathologists confirm skeletal remains exhumed in Brazil were Nazi Dr Josef Mengele
1985-08-23 - West German top counter espionage Hans Tiedge moves to German DR
1985-10-06 - Marita Koch of Germany sets 400m woman's record (47.6) in Australia
1985-12-22 - 74th Davis Cup: Sweden beats Germany in Munich (3-2)
1986-02-09 - West German team swims world record 4x200 m freestyle (7:05.17)
1986-06-19 - Argentina beats West Germany 3-2 in soccer's 13th World Cup
1986-06-21 - Heike Drechsler of East Germany long jumps 7.45 m (women's record)
1986-06-29 - Argentina becomes world champion soccer team (3-2 against W-Germany)
1986-08-29 - Heike Drechsler of E Germany ties world women's 200 m mark (21.71s)
1987-01-13 - W German police arrest Mohammed Ali Hamadi, suspect in 1985 hijacking
1987-03-23 - West Germany SPD chairman Willy Brandt resigns
1987-04-27 - US Justice Dept bars Austrian Chancellor Kurt Waldheim from entering US, due to his aid of Nazi Germany during WW II
1987-05-14 - "Little Shop of Horrors" is released in Germany
1987-05-28 - Mathias Rust, 19, W German pilot, makes unauthorized landing in USSR
1987-05-30 - West German Mathias Rust lands airplane on Red Square
1987-08-02 - 25th Tennis Fed Cup: Germany beats USA in Vancouver Canada (2-1)
1987-09-02 - West German pilot Mathias Rust, who flew a private plane from Helsinki Finland, to Moscow's Red Square, forms trial in Russia
1988-06-09 - "Bloodsport (1987)," premieres in Germany
1988-08-28 - 70 killed in crash of 3 Italian AF fighters at air show in Germany
1988-08-28 - Italian stunt flyers crashes in flames in West Germany, killing 50
1988-10-19 - 3 Americans win Nobel in physics; 3 W Germans win chemistry Nobel
1988-11-25 - German politician Rita Süssmuth becomes president of the Bundestag.
1988-12-17 - 77th Davis Cup: Germany beats Sweden in Gothenburg (4-1)
1988-12-19 - Unexploded WW II bomb found in Frankfurt, Germany-5,000 evacuated
1989-01-27 - German war criminals Fischer & Aus der Funten freed
1989-02-27 - German war criminals Aus der Funten/Fischer, freed in Holland
1989-09-10 - East Germans begin their flight to west (via Hungary & Czech)
1989-09-30 - Foreign Minister of West Germany Hans-Dietrich Genscher's speech from the balcony of the German embassy in Prague.
1989-10-01 - Thousands of East Germans flee to West Germany
1989-10-18 - East German state/party leader Erich Honecker, resigns
1989-11-10 - Germans begins demolishing Berlin Wall
1989-12-01 - East Germany drops communist monopoly from its constitution
1989-12-17 - 78th Davis Cup: Germany beats Sweden in Stuttgart (3-2)
1990-02-13 - US, England, France & England give Germany OK to reunify
1990-03-18 - 1st free elections in East Germany, Conservatives beat Communists
1990-04-12 - 1st meeting of East German democratically elected parliament, acknowledges responsibility for Nazi holocaust & asks for forgivenesss
1990-04-24 - West & East Germany agree to merge currency & economies on July 1st
1990-05-18 - 2 Germanys sign a monetary union treaty
1990-06-21 - Parliament of W & E Germany recognize Oder-Neissegrens
1990-06-30 - East & West Germany merge their economies
1990-07-01 - German Democratic Republic accepts Deutsche Mark as its currency
1990-07-08 - Germany beats Argentina 1-0 for soccer's 14th World Cup at Rome
1990-08-23 - East & West Germany announced that they would unite on Oct 3
1990-08-29 - C-5 transport plane crashes at Ramstein AFB, Germany, killing 13
1990-08-31 - East & West Germany sign a treaty to join legal & political systems
1990-09-12 - US, England, France, USSR, East & West Germanys sign agreements allowing 2 Germanys to merge
1990-09-20 - Both Germanys ratify reunification
1990-09-24 - East Germany leaves Warsaw Pact
1990-09-24 - West German Pres Richard von Weizsaecker signs reunification treaty
1990-10-02 - Allies cede any remaining rights as occupiers of Germany
1990-10-02 - Radio Berlin International's final transmission (links to Deutsche Welles of West Germany); final song is "The End" by Doors
1990-10-03 - East Germany & West Germany merge to become Germany
1990-10-04 - Regional elections held, in what is East Germany
1990-11-19 - Iraq announces it will free all German hostages
1990-12-02 - 1st parlimentary election in newly reunified Germany
1991-02-13 - Syria tells Germany they are ready to recognize Israel
1991-06-20 - The German parliament decides to move the capital from Bonn back to Berlin.
1991-09-19 - Ötzi the Iceman is discovered by German tourists.
1992-04-12 - Earthquake rocks Germany
1992-06-26 - Denmark upsets German 2-0, to win European Soccer championship
1992-07-19 - 30th Tennis Fed Cup: Germany beats Spain in Frankfurt Germany (2-1)
1993-05-29 - Nazi's kill 5 Turkish women in Solingen Germany
1993-07-25 - 31st Tennis Fed Cup: Spain beats Australia in Frankfurt Germany (3-0)
1993-10-31 - Germany unemployment hits country record of 3.5 million
1993-12-05 - 82nd Davis Cup: Germany beats Australia in Dusseldorf (4-1)
1994-03-27 - The Eurofighter takes its first flight in Manching, Germany.
1994-04-18 - 23rd Boston Women's Marathon won by Uta Pippig of Germany in 2:21:45
1994-05-23 - Roman Herzog elected president of Germany
1994-06-09 - "Hudsucker Proxy," premieres in Germany
1994-06-17 - 1994 World Cup soccer match begin, Germany vs Bolivia in Chicago
1994-07-01 - Roman Herzog sworn in as German president
1994-07-24 - 32nd Tennis Fed Cup: Spain beats USA in Frankfurt Germany (3-0)
1994-07-30 - Record 103.8°F (39.9°C) in Preschen Lausitz Germany
1994-07-31 - 102.7°F (39.3°C) in Pleschen, East-Germany
1994-11-06 - 25th NYC Marathon won by German Silva in 2:11:21
1994-11-15 - Helmut Kohl elected German chancellor (341-340 votes)
1994-11-17 - 3rd Germany government of Kohl forms
1995-04-17 - 24th Boston Women's Marathon won by Uta Pippig of Germany in 2:25:11
1995-11-12 - 26th NYC Marathon won by German Silva in 2:10:00
1995-12-21 - Martina Ertl of Germany wins her 3rd giant slalom world cup
1996-01-27 - Germany celebrates it's 1st Holocaust Rememberance Day
1996-04-15 - 25th Boston Women's Marathon won by Uta Pippig of Germany in 2:27:12.6
1997-01-10 - Italy's new 1,000 lire coin shows divided Germany on map
1997-07-28 - Peter Graf, father of Steffi, enters German jail for tax evasion
1997-08-25 - Egon Krenz, the former East German leader, is convicted of a shoot-to-kill Berlin Wall policy.
1998-04-20 - German terrorist group Red Army Faction announces their dissolution after 28 years.
1998-06-03 - Eschede train disaster: an ICE high speed train derails in Lower Saxony, Germany, causing 101 deaths.
1998-06-14 - World Bowl in Frankfurt Germany
1999-02-24 - The State of Arizona executes Karl LaGrand, a German national involved in an armed robbery, in spite of Germany's legal action to attempt to save him.
1999-04-19 - The German Bundestag returns to Berlin.
2000-02-04 - German extortionist Klaus-Peter Sabotta is jailed for life for attempted murder and extortion in connection with the sabotage of German railway lines.
2000-10-07 - The last ever competitive match at Wembley Stadium is a 1-0 defeat of England to Germany and the last goal was scored by Liverpool's Dietmar Hammann. The match was Tony Adams' 60th at Wembley setting the record for most appearances at the stadium.
2002-04-26 - Robert Steinhäuser infiltrates and kills 17 at Gutenberg-Gymnasium in Erfurt,Germany before dying of a self-inflicted gunshot.
2002-07-01 - A Bashkirian Airlines (flight 2937) Tupolev TU-154 and a DHL (German cargo) Boeing 757 collide in mid-air over Ueberlingen, southern Germany, killing 71.
2003-07-02 - Silvio Berlusconi, Prime Minister of Italy, insults German MP Martin Schulz by calling him a "kapo" during a session of the European Parliament.
2005-10-10 - Negotiations between the CDU/CSU and SPD in Germany had concluded that both parties would form a grand coaltion with Angela Merkel of the CDU as chancellor after both parties lost seats in the 2005 German federal election. She was subsequently elected in the Bundestag as chancellor on November 22 of the same year.
2005-11-22 - Angela Merkel becomes the first female Chancellor of Germany.
2006-01-12 - The foreign ministers of the United Kingdom, France, and Germany declare that negotiations with Iran over its nuclear program have reached a dead end and recommend that Iran be referred to the United Nations Security Council.
2006-07-27 - The Federal Republic of Germany is deemed guilty in the loss of Bashkirian 2937 and DHL Flight 611, because it is illegal to outsource flight surveillance.
2006-09-22 - A German maglev train crashes, killing 23.
2007-01-18 - The strongest storm in the United Kingdom in 17 years kills 14 people, Germany sees the worst storm since 1999 with 13 deaths. Hurricane Kyrill, causes at least 44 deaths across 20 countries in Western Europe. Other losses include the Container Ship MSC Napoli destroyed by the storm off the coast of Devon, England.
2007-09-05 - Three terrorists suspected to be a part of Al-Qaeda are arrested in Germany after allegedly planning attacks on both the Frankfurt International airport and US military installations.
2009-03-03 - The building of the Historisches Archiv der Stadt Köln (Historical Archives) in Cologne, Germany, collapses.
2009-03-11 - Winnenden school shooting - 17 people are killed at a school in Germany.
2010-02-13 - A bombing at the German Bakery in Pune, India, kills 10 and injures 60 more.
2011-05-02 - The 2011 E. coli O104:H4 outbreak strikes Europe, mostly in Germany, leaving more than 30 people dead and many others sick from the bacteria outbreak.
2012-02-17 - The President of Germany, Christian Wulff, resigns over a corruption scandal
2012-03-18 - Joachim Gauck elected President of the Federal republic of Germany by the Federal Assembly
2012-04-04 - German Nobel Laureat, Gunter Grass, publishes controversial poem that claims Israel is plotting to wipe out Iran
2012-05-30 - A number of nations including Germany, Turkey and Canada, expel Syrian diplomats following the Houla massacre
2012-10-09 - 25,000 people in Athens protest German Chancellor Angela Merkel