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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. |
02/05/1892 |
World War 1 flying ace Manfred Richthofen, also know as the Red Baron, is born. |
26/06/1898 |
German aircraft designer Willi Messerschmitt is born |
06/03/1900 |
German pianoforte maker Carl Bechstein dies |
06/03/1900 |
German motor car designer and builder Gottlieb Daimler dies |
01/07/1900 |
Count Ferndinand von Zeppelin's airship flew for the first time |
25/08/1900 |
German philosopher Friedrich Nietzche dies |
07/10/1900 |
German Nazi leader and SS chief Heinrich Himmler is born |
14/12/1900 |
Max Planck unveiled his Quantum theory - that energy comes in minute indivisible packets - analagous to the indivisible atoms of matter |
06/03/1901 |
Anarchist attempts to assassinate Kaiser Wilhelm in Germany, he escapes with face wounds. |
31/03/1901 |
A revolutionary high performance car has been made by Daimler for Emile Jellink, it was named after his daughter Mercedes. |
25/04/1901 |
200 people are killed in a chemical factory explosion near Griesheim, Germany. |
05/08/1901 |
Empress Victoria of Germany dies; Victoria was the mother of Wilhelm II and the eldest daughter of Queen Victoria |
27/12/1901 |
German actress and entertainer Marlene Deitrich was born as Magdelena von Losch |
28/01/1907 |
A mine explosion in the German city of Saarbrucken kills 164 |
25/01/1909 |
First performance of Richard Strauss's opera "Electra" in Dresden |
03/08/1914 |
Germany declares war on France. |
21/04/1918 |
World War 1 flying ace Manfred Richthofen, also know as the Red Baron, is killed in action. |
13/05/1927 |
Germany's Black Friday marks the beginning of the collapse of the German economy. |
16/04/1928 |
Pope Benedict XVI is born as Joseph Ratzinger. |
12/06/1929 |
Holocaust victim and diarist Anne Frank is born in Frankfurt am Main. |
29/08/1929 |
The German airship, Graf Zeppelin completes a 21 day flight around the world. |
02/08/1934 |
Adolf Hitler becomes Fuehrer on the death of President Paul von Hindenburg. |
18/08/1934 |
A plebiscite in Germany gives Adolf Hitler sole power as Fuehrer. |
01/08/1936 |
The 11th Olympics open in Berlin with an ovation from the crowd for Adolf Hitler. |
09/08/1936 |
Jesse Owens wins his fourth gold at the Berlin Olympics when the United States won the 400 meter relay. |
04/03/1937 |
The German hydrogen filled airship Hindenburg makes its first official flight in Germany |
15/09/1938 |
Neville Chamberlain meets Adolf Hitler to negotiate a compromise over Germany's ambitions in europe. |
29/09/1938 |
British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain, Frenc Prime Minister Edouard Daladier, Italian leader Benito Mussolini and German leader Adolf Hitler sign the Munich agreement ceding Sudetenland to Germany. |
10/05/1941 |
Adolf Hitler's deputy Rudolf Hess parachutes into Scotland. |
20/07/1944 |
Adolf Hitler is slightly injured when a bomb explodes at his Rastenberg headquarters |
14/10/1944 |
War time commander of the Africa Korps, Erwin Rommel dies |
16/01/1945 |
Following a number of defeats and allied forces approaching Berlin, Adolf Hitler with his companion, Eva Braun takes refuge in a bunker in Berlin. |
14/02/1945 |
British and US bombers pound the ancient German city of Dresden with high explosives and incendiaries |
12/03/1945 |
Anne Frank, author of "The Diary of Anne Frank," dies at Bergen-Belsen concentration camp from Typhus during a typhus epidemic that spreads through the concentration camp. |
15/04/1945 |
British troops enter the Bergen Belsen concentration camp after negotiating a truce with the German commandant |
29/04/1945 |
Adolf Hitler marries his mistress Eva Braun in a bunker in Berlin. |
30/04/1945 |
Adolf Hitler commits suicide in a bunker in Berlin, Germany. |
22/05/1945 |
German Nazi leader and SS chief Heinrich Himmler commits suicice in prison in Luneberg, Germany. |
17/07/1945 |
Harry Truman, Winston Churchill and Josef Stalin meet in Potsdam to discuss the futre following the defeat of Germany |
20/11/1945 |
The trial of twenty of Germany's Nazi leaders begin in Nuremberg. |
15/10/1946 |
War time German leader Herman Goring commits suicide by poison |
10/04/1947 |
Max Planck dies at the age of 89. |
24/06/1948 |
Start of the Berlin Blockade. The Soviet Union makes overland travel between the West and West Berlin impossible. |
12/05/1949 |
The Soviet Union announces the end of the Berlin blockade. |
30/09/1949 |
After 15 months and 250,000 flights the Berlin airlift officially ends. |
18/04/1955 |
Eminent scientist Dr Albert Einstein, who developed the theory of relativity, dies in hospital aged 76. |
13/08/1961 |
Communist authorities seal off all roads between East and West Berlin, instructing soldiers to shoot anyone attempting to cross to the west. |
26/06/1963 |
President John F Kennedy visits West Berlin and declares his support for the Berlin people. |
26/12/1970 |
British Olympic medallist Lillian Board dies at the Munich University Hospital having lost her battle with a virulent form of cancer. She won European gold medals and an Olympic silver medal for athletics. |
04/09/1972 |
Swimmer Mark Spitz becomes the first person to win seven gold medals in a single Olympics, when the US win the 400 metre relay in Munich. |
06/09/1972 |
11 Israeli athletes die in a gun battle between Palestinian terrorists and German security forces. |
09/10/1974 |
German business man Oskar Schindler, who saved 1,200 Jews from the concentration camps during World War 2, dies aged 66. |
01/08/1976 |
Racing driver Niki Lauda is in a critical condition in hospital following a crash in the Grand Prix in Germany. |
13/10/1977 |
Palestinian terrorists hijack a Lufthansa jet beginning a four day siege where the plane is forced to land and take off from a number of airports. |
18/10/1977 |
West German commandos storm the hijacked Lufthansa plane while it is on the ground at Mogadishu freeing all 86 passengers and killing 3 of the 4 hijackers. |
17/09/1978 |
German aircraft designer Willi Messerschmitt dies |
11/09/1982 |
39 sky divers are killed in a helicopter crash in west Germany. |
01/10/1982 |
The Christian Democrat Helmut Kohl replaces Social Democrat Helmut Schmidt as Germany's chancellor. |
05/04/1986 |
A bomb explodes in La Belle disco crowded with US servicemen in Berlin, Germany, killing at least two and injuring over 100. |
23/03/1987 |
More than 30 people are injured in a car bomb explosion at the UK Army headquarters in Rheindahlen, West Germany. |
17/08/1987 |
The last of Adolf Hitler's colleagues, Rudolf Hess dies in the West Berlin Spandau prison. This was his fifth attempt to kill himself |
28/08/1988 |
Two Italian air force jets collide at an airshow in Franfurt, Germany killing 46 and leaving many injured. |
18/10/1989 |
The communist leader of East Germany, Erich Honecker, is forced to step down due to health problems. |
10/11/1989 |
The Berlin Wall falls as East Germany opens its borders and refugees flood into the west. |
03/10/1990 |
Germany divided by the Berlin Wall for 45 years is today re-united under a unified government led by Helmut Kohl. |
27/10/1998 |
Gerhard Schroeder becomes Chancellor of Germany. |
26/04/2002 |
An expelled student from a school in Erfurt, Germany, goes on a shooting spree at the school killing 13 teachers, 2 students and a police officer. |
19/04/2005 |
Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger of Germany becomes Pope Benedict XVI. |
22/11/2005 |
Angela Merkel, the leader of the Christian Democrats, becomes the first woman chancellor in Germany. |
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