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31/10/1517 |
Martin Luther posts his 97 Theses on the door of Wittenberg Palace church to begin the Protestant Reformation in Germany. |
03/01/1521 |
Martin Luther is excommunicated from the Roman Catholic Church. |
18/02/1546 |
Martin Luther, leader of the Protestant Reformation in Germany, dies. |
27/12/1571 |
German mathematician and astronomer Johannes Kepler dies. His 'Astronomia Nova', published in 1609, defined the laws of planetary motion and influenced both Galileo Galilei and Isaac Newton |
23/02/1685 |
German composer George Frideric Handel is born.
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03/02/1809 |
German composer, pianist and teacher Felix Mendelssohn is born |
22/05/1813 |
Composer Richard Wagner is born in Leipzig, Germany. |
27/08/1813 |
The French army, commanded by Napoleon Bonaparte, defeats a larger Austrian army at the Battle of Dresden. |
05/05/1818 |
Philospher and author Karl Marx is born in Germany. |
08/07/1838 |
Designer of the Zeppelin airships, Graf von Zeppelin, is born. |
15/10/1844 |
German philosopher Friedrich Nietzche is born. |
23/09/1846 |
Johann Galle discovers the planet Neptune. |
23/04/1858 |
Max Planck is born. |
14/03/1879 |
Albert Einstein is born in Ulm, Germany. |
29/08/1885 |
German motor car designer and builder Gottlieb Daimler patents the first motorcycle. |
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