Timeline Of German History

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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1000 BC&NDASH;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 - 6 BC Confederation of Marcomanni , Lugier , Semnones , Lombards and others

1 AD&NDASH;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 Rebellion of the Batavii led by Civilis against the Roman Empire

90 Germania Superior and Germania Inferior established as Imperial Roman Province s ( 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 separates High Germanic Languages from Low Germanic Languages

715 Saint Boniface begins his work as a missionary

800&NDASH;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

1000&NDASH;1500

11th - 13th centuries Crusade s

1046 Pope Clement II consecrated

1048 Pope Damasus II consecrated

1049 Pope Leo IX consecrated

1055 Pope Victor II consecrated

1057 Pope Stephen X 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

1800S

1803 Napoleon imposes the Convention Of Artlenburg

---All of the Imperial Free Cities but six eliminated

---All Ecclesiastic land holdings in Germany Abolished

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

--- defeated

1815 Congress Of Vienna

--- German Confederation formed---1818 Karl Marx born

1832 Wilhelm Busch born

1834 Zollverein formed

1840 First ever Kindergarten opened by Fröbel

1844 Friedrich Nietzsche born

1848 - 1849 The Revolutions Of 1848 In The German States

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 Automobile s with Gasoline -powered Internal Combustion Engine s produced independently by Carl Benz and Gottlieb Daimler

1888 Year Of Three Emperors

1892 Rudolf Diesel invents Diesel Engine

1900S

1900 '' Bürgerliches Gesetzbuch '' comes into effect

1914 Assassination Of Archduke Franz Ferdinand

---1914 - 1918 World War I

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

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

1954 West Germany wins Football World Cup - The Miracle Of Bern

1955 Federal Republic joins NATO ; GDR joins Warsaw Pact

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

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.

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