Germany


	Bronze Age Europe 1700 bc - 1200 bc		Limesfall 260
	Celts 800 bc - 6th century ad		Hunnic Invasions 350
	Germanic peoples 750 bc		Battle of Strasbourg 357
	Cimbrian War 113 bc – 101 bc		Migration Period 376 - 700
	Gallic Wars 58 bc - 50 bc		Battle of Adrianople 378
	Battle of Vosges 58 bc		Edict of Thessalonica 380
	Caesar's Rhine bridges 55 bc - 53 bc		Massacre of Thessalonica 390
	Roman military camps of the Rhineland 16 bc		Crossing of the Rhine 406
	Battle of the Teutoburg Forest 9		Sack of Rome 410
	Limes Germanicus 10 - 250		Battle of the Catalaunian Plains June 20, 451
	Revolt of the Batavi 69 - 70		Battle of Nedao 454
	Germania Inferior 83 – 475		Sack of 455 455
	Germania by Tacitus 98		Odoacer 476
	Marcomannic Wars 166 – 180		Merovingian Dynasty 481 - 751
	Crisis of the Third Century 235 - 284		Francia 481 – 843


Early Middle Ages 493-861		Destruction of the Irminsul 772
	Ostrogothic Kingdom 493 - 553	Conquest of the Lombard kingdom 773 - 774
	Battle of Tolbiac 496	Massacre of Verden October 782
	Baptism of Clovis I 496	Widukind's surrender 785
	Gothic War 535 - 554	Medieval knighthood 8th - 14th century
	Rule of Saint Benedict 540	Carolingian Renaissance late 8th - 9th century
	Lombards 568 - 774	Viking Age 793 - 1066
	Saint Boniface's missions 716 - 754	Coronation of Charlemagne December 800
	Tithe 8th - 19th century	Holy Roman Empire 800 - 1806
	Donar's Oak 724	Louis the Pious 813 – 840
	Battle of Tours October 732	Battle of Fontenoy 841
	Carolingian Dynasty 751 - 888	Oaths of Strasbourg 842
	Pepin the Short - King of the Francs 751 - 768	Treaty of Verdun 843
	Saint Boniface's last mission to Frisia 754	Treaty of Prüm September 855
	Saxon Wars 772 - 804	Hungarian Invasions of Europe 861 – 973


Middle Ages 900-1176		First Crusade 1095 – 1099
	Louis the Child 900 - 911	People's Crusade April – October 1096
	Henry the Fowler 919 - 936	Rhineland Massacres 1096
	Battle of Riade March 15, 933	Knights Hospitaller 1099 – 1798
	Liudolf's Civil War 951 - 954	Siege of Jerusalem June - July 1099
	Battle of Lechfeld 955	Guelphs and Ghibellines 1120s – 1320s
	Otto I, Holy Roman Emperor February 962	Concordat of Worms September 23, 1122
	Kingdom of Germany 962	Hildegard of Bingen magistra 1136
	Ashkenazi Jews 11th century	Hohenstaufen 1138 - 1254
	Guilds 11th century	Second Crusade 1147 – 1149
	Coup of Kaiserswerth 1062	Barbarossa crowned Roman Emperor 1155
	Investiture Controversy 1076 - 1122	Siege of Crema, Milan 1159 - 1162
	Walk to Canossa January 1077	Lombard League 1167 - 1250
	Henry IV, Holy Roman Emperor 1084 - 1105	Chivalry 1170 - 1250
	Council of Clermont November 1095	Battle of Legnano 1176


Middle Ages 1177-1342		Battle of Legnica April 1241
	Treaty of Venice 1177	Great Interregnum 1245 - 1452
	Zinsverbot 12th - 15th century	Hanseatic League 13th - 17th century
	Northern Crusades 12th - 13th century	Battle of Tagliacozzo August 1268
	Reichsheerfahrt 1180 – 1181	Execution of Conradin October 1268
	Mainzer Hoftag von 1184 May 1184	Battle on the Marchfeld August 26, 1278
	Third Crusade 1189 – 1192	Pied Piper of Hamelin 1284
	Teutonic Order 1190 – present	War of the Limburg Succession 1283 – 1289
	Ostsiedlung 12th - 14th century	College of Prince-electors 13th century
	Fourth Crusade 1202 – 1204	Knights Templar arrests 1307
	Children's Crusade 1212	House of Luxembourg 1308 - 1437
	Fifth Crusade 1213 – 1221	Crisis of the Late Middle Ages 14th - 15th century
	Sachsenspiegel 1220	Louis IV, Holy Roman Emperor 1328 - 1347
	Mongol Invasion of Europe 1223 - 1242	Declaration of Rhense 1338
	State of the Teutonic Order 1230 – 1525	St. Mary Magdalene's flood July 1342


Late Middle Ages 1346-1508		House of Habsburg 1438 - 1918
	Charles IV King of the Romans July 1346 - 1378	Global Spread of the Printing Press 1439 - 19th century
	Black Death 1346 - 1353	Prussian Confederation 1440 - 1454
	Black Death Jewish persecutions 1348 - 1350	Crusade of Varna October 1443 - November 1444
	Golden Bull of 1356 1356	Frederick III, Holy Roman Emperor 1452 – 1493
	Grote Mandrenke 1362	Thirteen Years' War 1454 - 1466
	Western Schism 1378 - 1417	Postwesen 1490
	War of the Cities 1387 - 1389	Bundschuh movement 1493 – 1517
	Polish–Lithuanian–Teutonic War 1409 - 1411	Italian Wars 1494 - 1559
	Battle of Grunwald July 15, 1410	Ewiger Landfriede 1495
	Council of Constance 1414 – 1418	Reichskammergericht 1495 - 1806
	House of Hohenzollern 1415 - 1918	Northern Renaissance 1497 - 1600
	Execution of Jan Hus July 6, 1415	Swabian War January – September 1499
	First Defenestration of Prague July 1419	Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor 1508 – January 1519
	Hussite Wars July 1419 - May 1434	War of the League of Cambrai 1508 – 1516


Protestant Reformation 1515-1555		Ottoman-Habsburg Wars 1526 - 1791
	Dunkelmännerbriefe 1515	Protestation at Speyer April 19, 1529
	Reinheitsgebot 1516	Siege of Vienna September - October 1529
	St. Peter's Basilica financing with indulgences 1517 - 1567	Marburg Colloquy October 1529
	Protestant Reformation 1517 - 1648	Augsburg Confession 1530
	Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor June 1519 – August 1556	Schmalkaldic League 1531 - 1547
	Leipzig Debate July 1519	Münster rebellion 1534 - 1535
	Diet of Worms January - May 1521	Society of Jesus 1540
	Luther at Wartburg castle May 1521 - March 1522	Council of Trent 1545 - 1563
	Luther Bible 1522	Counter-Reformation 1545 - 1648
	German Peasants' War 1524 – 1525	Schmalkaldic War July 1546 – May 1547
	Twelve Articles March 1525	Battle of Mühlberg April 1547
	Prussian Homage April 10, 1525	Capitulation of Wittenberg May 1547
	Battle of Frankenhausen May 15, 1525	Charles V Abdications 1554 - 1556
	Badener Disputation May - June 1526	Peace of Augsburg 1555


Confessionalization 1555-1678		Swedish intervention in the Thirty Years' War 1630 – 1648
	Confessionalization 1555 - 1648	Sack of Magdeburg May 20, 1631
	Witch trials 1560 - 1630	Battle of Breitenfeld September 17, 1631
	Northern Seven Years' War 1563 - 1570	Battle of Rain April 15, 1632
	Eighty Years' War 1568 - 1648	Battle of Lützen November 1632
	Battle of Alcácer Quibir August 1578	Wallenstein assassination February 25, 1634
	Cologne War 1583 – 1588	Battle of Nördlingen September 5–6, 1634
	Protestant Union 1608 - 1621	Peace of Prague May 1635
	War of the Jülich Succession June 1609 - October 1614	Peace of Westphalia 1646 - 1648
	Catholic League 1609 - 1635	Battle of Prague July - November 1648
	Second Defenestration of Prague 1618	Absolutism 1648 - 1789
	Thirty Years War 1618 - 1648	Second Northern War 1655 - 1661
	Battle of White Mountain November 1620	Perpetual Diet of Regensburg 1663 - 1806
	Old Town Square execution June 21, 1621	Franco-Dutch War 1672 - 1678
	Edict of Restitution March 6, 1629	Treaties of Nijmegen August 1678 - December 1679


Kingdom of Prussia 1683-1756		Treaty of Utrecht 1713
	Great Turkish War July 1683 - January 1699	Freemasonry 1717 - present
	Battle of Vienna September 1683	War of the Quadruple Alliance 1718 - 1720
	Edict of Potsdam October 29, 1685	The Enlightenment 1720 - 1800
	Nine Years' War 1688 - 1697	Katte's decapitation November 6, 1730
	Augustus the Strong, Elector of Saxony 1694 – 1733	War of the Polish Succession 1733 - 1738
	Peace of Ryswick September 1697	Brandenburg Gate 1734
	Treaty of Karlowitz January 1699	Frederick the Great, King of Prussia 1740 - 1786
	Great Northern War 1700 - 1721	Silesian Wars 1740 – 1763
	Kingdom of Prussia 1701 - 1918	War of the Austrian Succession 1740 - 1748
	Prussian Army 1701 - 1919	Sanssouci 1745
	War of the Spanish Succession 1702 - 1715	Kartoffelbefehle 1746
	Battle of Blenheim August 1704	Voltaire at Sanssouci 1750 – 1753
	Bavarian uprising of 1705-06 November 1705 - January 1706	Diplomatic Revolution 1756
	Meissen porcelain 1708	Seven Years' War 1756 - 1763


French Revolution 1757-1806		War of the First Coalition April 4, 1792 – October 18, 1797
	Battle of Leuthen December 5, 1757	Battle of Valmy September 20, 1792
	Battle of Kunersdorf August 12, 1759	Republic of Mainz March - July 1793
	Industrial Revolution 1760 - mid 1800s	Siege of Mainz April - July 1793
	Rothschild Family 1760s	Kościuszko Uprising 1794
	Weimar Classicism 1772 - 1805	Rhine Campaign of 1796 June 1796 - February 1797
	Partitions of Poland 1772 - 1795	Schinderhannes' crime spree 1797 - 1803
	von Steuben volunteer inspector general March 1778	Treaty of Campo Formio October 1797
	War of the Bavarian Succession July 1778 – May 1779	War of the Second Coalition September 1798 – 1802
	German idealism 1781 - 1831	Treaty of Lunéville February 9, 1801
	Patent of Toleration October 13, 1781	Reichsdeputationshauptschluss March 1803
	French Revolution May 1789 - November 1799	War of the Third Coalition 1805 – 1806
	Declaration of Pillnitz August 27, 1791	Battle of Austerlitz December 1805
	French Revolutionary Wars April 1792 – March 1802	Peace of Pressburg December 1805
	Coalition Wars April 1792 - 1815	Confederation of the Rhine July 1806 – 1813


German Confederation 1806-1822		Battle of Leipzig October 1813
	Dissolution of the Holy Roman Empire August 6, 1806	Battle of Hanau October 30–31, 1813
	War of the Fourth Coalition October 1806 – July 1807	Congress of Vienna September 1814 - June 1815
	Battle of Jena-Auerstedt October 1806	Hundred Days March - July 1815
	Berlin Decree November 21, 1806	German Confederation June 8, 1815 - 1866
	Prussian Reform Movement 1806 - 1815	Battle of Ligny June 16, 1815
	Preußische Heeresreform 1807 - 1814	Battle of Waterloo June 18, 1815
	Treaties of Tilsit July 1807	Holy Alliance Spetember 26, 1815 - 1880s
	Addresses to the German Nation 1808	Burschenschaften 1815
	War of the Fifth Coalition April – October 1809	Year Without a Summer 1816
	Battle of Ratisbon April 23, 1809	Wartburg Festival October 18, 1817
	Turn- und Nationalbewegung 1810 - 1819	August von Kotzebue assassination March 1819
	Oktoberfest 1810	Carlsbad Decrees September 20, 1819
	War of the Sixth Coalition March 1813 – May 1814	Karl Ludwig Sand execution May 20, 1820
	German Campaign of 1813 1813 – 1814	Modern Police forces 1802s


German Confederation 1823-1859		First Schleswig War March 1848 – May 1852
	Rheinischer Karneval 1823	Baden Revolution April 1848 - Juli 1849
	Kaspar Hauser first appearance 1828	Hecker uprising April 1848
	Vormärz 1830 - 1848	Frankfurt Parliament May 1, 1848 - May 1849
	Hambach Festival May 1832	Execution of Robert Blum November 9, 1848
	Frankfurter Wachensturm April 1833	Frederick William IV rejected the imperial crown April 28, 1849
	Zollverein January 1834 - 1919	May Uprising in Dresden May 1849
	Eisenbahnbau 1835	Prussian three-class franchise 1849 - 1918
	Göttingen Seven 1837	Rumpfparlament June 1849
	Deutschlandlied 1841	Herbstkrise 1850 1850
	Walhalla memorial October 18, 1842	Punctation of Olmütz November 29, 1850
	Schlesischer Weberaufstand June 1844	Dresdner Konferenzen 1850/1851 December 1850 - May 1851
	Heppenheimer Tagung October 10, 1847	Cologne Communist Trial 1852
	The Communist Manifesto February 1848	Second Italian War of Independence April 1859 - July 1859
	German revolutions of 1848-49 March 1848 - July 1849	Battle of Solferino June 1859


German Confederation 1859-1871		Second Industrial Revolution 1870 - 1914
	Preußischer Verfassungskonflikt 1859 - 1866	Ems Dispatch July 13, 1870
	William I of Prussia January 2, 1861 - March 1888	Franco-Prussian War July 1870 - May 1871
	DIHK May 1861	Battle of Sedan September 1–2, 1870
	Bismarck Minister President of Prussia September 1862 – March 1890	Siege of Paris September 1870 – January 1871
	Second Schleswig War February – October 1864	Centre Party December 13, 1870
	Assassination attempt on Bismarck May 7, 1866	Founding of the German Empire January 1871
	Austro-Prussian War June - August 1866	German Empire January 1871 - November 1918
	Battle of Königgrätz July 3, 1866	Emperor William I January 18, 1871 - March 1888
	Vorfrieden von Nikolsburg July 26, 1866	Armistice of Versailles January 28, 1871
	Peace of Prague August 1866	German Annexation of Alsace-Lorraine March 1871 – 1918
	Preußische Annexionen 1866 October 1866	Constitution of the German Empire April 16, 1871
	Austro-Hungarian Empire 1867 - 1918	German General Staff 1871 – 1945
	North German Confederation 1867 – 1871	Schulpflicht 1871
	Neuschwanstein Castle construction 1869 - 1886	Treaty of Frankfurt May 10, 1871


German Empire 1871-1890		Social legislation 1880s
	Kulturkampf 1871 - 1878	German Colonial Empire 1884 - 1920
	Gründerzeit 1871 – 1873	German West Africa July 1884 - 1919
	Leipziger Hochverratsprozess March 1872	German South West Africa August 1884 – 1915
	Panic of 1873 May 1873	German New Guinea November 1884 – 1919
	League of the Three Emperors 1873 - 1887	German East Africa February 1885 – 1919
	SAP Vereinigungsparteitag May 1875	Crude gas-fueled car 1886 - present
	Kissingen Dictation June 1877	Ludwig II of Bavaria death June 13, 1886
	Congress of Berlin June – July 1878	Reinsurance Treaty June 18, 1887
	Attentatsversuche auf Wilhelm I May, June 1878	We Germans Fear God and Nothing Else February 6, 1888
	Anti-Socialist Laws October 1878 - September 1890	Year of the Three Emperors 1888
	Dual Alliance October 1879	Wilhelm II, German Emperor June 1888 – November 1918
	Kölner Dom vollendet October 1880	Old-Age and Accident Insurance 1889
	Scramble for Africa 1881 - 1914	von Bismarck forced resignation March 18, 1890
	Triple Alliance 1882 – 1914	Wilhelminism 1890 - 1918


German Empire 1890-1914		Herero Wars 1904 - 1908
	Heligoland - Zanzibar Treaty July 1890	Herero and Namaqua genocide 1904 - 1907
	SPD 1890	First Moroccan Crisis March 1905 - May 1906
	Opening of the Reichstag December 1894	Maji Maji Rebellion July 1905 - July 1908
	Nord-Ostsee-Kanal 1895	Algeciras Conference April 1906
	Kruger telegram January 1896	Captain of Köpenick October 1906
	Platz an der Sonne December 6, 1897	Harden-Eulenburg affair 1907 - 1909
	Anglo-German naval arms race 1898 - 1914	Bosnian Crisis 1908 - 1909
	Boxer Rebellion August 1899 - September 1901	Daily Telegraph Affair October 1908
	Bürgerliches Gesetzbuch January 1900	Mexican Revolution November 1910 - 1920
	Handelsgesetzbuch January 1900	Agadir Crisis April 1911
	Hunnenrede July 27, 1900	German Imperial War Council of 1912 December 8, 1912
	Wandervogel movement 1901 - 1933	Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria June 1914
	Boxer Protocol September 7, 1901	July Crisis July 1914
	Venezuelan crisis of 1902–03 December 1902 – February 1903	Carte blanche authorization of 1914 July 6, 1914


World War I 1914-1915		First Battle of the Marne September 6–12, 1914
	First World War July 1914 - November 1918	German Retreat September 9, 1914
	U-boat Campaign July 1914 – November 1918	Race to the Sea September - October 1914
	Blockade of Germany August 1914 - 1919	First Battle of Ypres October - November 1914
	German ultimatum to Belgium August 2, 1914	Ottoman entry into World War I October 29, 1914
	Western Front August 1914 - November 1918	Mesopotamian campaign November 1914 - November 1918
	Schlieffen Plan August - Septmeber 1914	Christmas Truce December 1914
	German invasion of Belgium August 4 – October 31, 1914	German Zeppelin raids January 1915 - 1917
	Bewilligung der Kriegsanleihen August 4, 1914	Chemical weapons in World War I January 1915 - 1918
	Spartacus League August 1914 - January 1919	Wire of Death 1915 - 1918
	Spirit of 1914 August 1914	Second Battle of Ypres April - May 1915
	Hitler's service in the Bavarian army August 1914 - October 191	Gallipoli Campaign April 1915 - January 1916
	Battle of the Frontiers August 7 - September 1914	Sinking of the RMS Lusitania May 7, 1915
	Great Retreat August – September 1914	Second Battle of Artois May 9 – June 18, 1915
	Battle of Tannenberg August 1914	Italian declar. of war on Austria-Hungary May 23, 1915


World War I 1915-1918		Nivelle Offensive April – May 1917
	Italian Front May 1915 – November 1918	Richthofen's flying circus June 1917 - April 1918
	Battle of Verdun February - December 1916	Mines in the Battle of Messines June 7, 1917
	Introduction of Daylight saving time April 1916 - 1918	Battle of Messines June 7–14, 1917
	Battle of Jutland June 1916	House of Windsor July 17, 1917
	Brusilov Offensive June – September 1916	Friedensresolution July 1917
	Battle of the Somme July – November 1916	Mata Hari trial, execution July 1917
	Third OHL August 28, 1916 - July 1919	Battle of Passchendaele July 31 – November 1917
	Hindenburg Programme August 31, 1916	Adenauer Mayor of Cologne October 1917 – March 1933
	First deployments of Tanks September 15–22, 1916	Battle of Caporetto October 24 – November 1917
	Turnip Winter 1916 - 1917	Battle of Cambrai November - December 1917
	Unrestricted submarine warfare February 1917	DIN-Norm December 1917
	Hindenburg Line March 1917 - October 1918	Fourteen Points January 8, 1918
	American Entry into World War I April 1917	Januarstreik January 1918
	Return of Lenin from Exile April 9-17, 1917	Finnish Civil War January 27 – May 15, 1918


World War I, Weimar Republic 1918-1919		Ebert-Groener pact November 10, 1918
	Treaty of Brest-Litovsk March 1918	Armistice of Compiègne November 11, 1918
	Spring Offensive March - July 1918	Occupation of the Rhineland 1918 - 1930
	Operation Michael March 21 – April 5, 1918	Stab-in-the-back myth 1918 - 1943
	Battle of the Lys April 1918	Freikorps 1918 - March 1920
	Third Battle of the Aisne May 27 - June 6, 1918	Eight-hour day November 23, 1918
	Hundred Days Offensive August - November 1918	Abdication of Wilhelm II November 28, 1918
	Battle of Saint-Mihiel September 12–15, 1918	Weimar culture 1918 - 1933
	Meuse-Argonne Offensive September 26 – November 11, 1918	Skirmish of the Berlin Schloss December 24, 1918
	Naval order of 24 October 1918 October 24, 1918	Spartacist Uprising January 1919
	German Revolution of 1918-19 October 1918 – August 1919	Liebknecht and Luxemburg's execution January 15, 1919
	Kiel mutiny November 3, 1918	Paris Peace Conference January 18, 1919 - January 1920
	Weimar Republic November 9, 1918 - January 1933	German federal election, 1919 January 19, 1919
	Proklamation Liebknecht's November 1918	Friedrich Ebert President of Germany February 1919 - February 1925
	Council of the People's Deputies November 10, 1918 - Februar 1919	Bavarian Soviet Republic April - May 1919


Weimar Republic 1919-1924		Hyperinflation in the Weimar Republic June 1921 - January 1924
	Treaty of Versailles June 1919	Oppau explosion September 21, 1921
	Formal end of World War I June 28, 1919	Sturmabteilung November 1921 - May 8, 1945
	World War I reparations 1919 - 1932	Treaty of Rapallo April 1922
	Weimar Constitution August 11, 1919 - March 1933	Walther Rathenau assassination June 24, 1922
	Silesian Uprisings August 1919 - 1921	Hitler, the Nazi Party adopted Fascism November 1922
	Badehosen-Foto August 21, 1919	Occupation of the Ruhr January 1923 - 1925
	Erzbergersche Reform September 1919 - 1920	Gustav Stresemann chancellorship August - November 1923
	Free City of Danzig 1920 - 1939	German Rentenmark October 1923 - 1948
	Nazi Party February 1920 - October 1945	Rhenish Republic October 1923 – November 1924
	National Socialist Program February 1920	Beer Hall Putsch November 1923
	Kapp Putsch March 13, 1920	Hitler in Landsberg Prison November 1923 - December 1924
	Ruhr uprising March 1920	Roaring Twenties 1920s
	Upper Silesia plebiscite March 20, 1921	Emminger Reform January 1924
	Abwehr 1920 - 1945	Beer Hall Putsch Trial February - April 1924


Weimar Republic 1924-1932		Young Plan June 1929 - July 1932
	Union Banking Corporation 1924 - 1942	Great Depression 1929 - 1939
	Dawes Plan August 1924 - 1929	Horst Wessel death February 1930
	Barmat scandal 1924 - 1925	Maginot Line 1930 - 1969
	Schutzstaffel April 4, 1925 - May 8, 1945	Präsidialkabinette March 1930 - March 1933
	von Hindenburg Presidency May 1925 - August 1934	Brüning chancellorship March 1930- May 1932
	Mein Kampf July 1925	German federal election, 1930 September 14, 1930
	Heidelberger Programm 1925 - 1959	Deutsche Bankenkrise 1931
	Locarno Treaties October - December 1925	Hoover Moratorium June 20, 1931
	IG Farben December 1925 - 1951	Harzburg Front October 1931
	Hitler Youth July 1926 - October 1945	Hitlers Rede vor dem Industrie-Club January 26, 1932
	Germany in the League of Nations September 1926 - October 1933	Schumacher's speech against Nazis February 23, 1932
	Schufa 1927	Hitler obtained German citizenship February 25, 1932
	AVAVG October 1927	German presidential election 1932 April 1932
	Blutmai May 1-3, 1929	von Papen chancellorship June - November 1932


Nazi Germany 1932-1933		Otto Wels' speech against the Enabling Act March 1933
	Lausanne Conference of 1932 July 1932	Enabling Act of 1933 March 1933
	Preußenschlag July 20, 1932	Nazi Germany March 1933 – 1945
	German federal election, July 1932 July 31, 1932	Nazi concentration camps March 1933 - 1945
	German federal election, November 1932 November 6, 1932	Gleichschaltung March 1933
	Kurt von Schleicher chancellorship December 3, 1932 – January 28, 1933	German resistance 1933 - 1945
	Treffen Papens mit Hitler January 4, 1933	Nazi boycott of Jewish businesses April 1, 1933
	Machtergreifung January 1933	Gestapo April 1933 - May 1945
	Four-Year Plan February 1933	Nazi book burnings May 10, 1933
	German re-armament 1933	Organisation Todt 1933 – 1945
	Anti-Nazi boycott of 1933 February 1933	Berghof June 1933 - April 1945
	Reichstag Fire February 1933	Reichskonkordat July 20, 1933
	Reichstag Fire Decree February 1933	Volksempfänger August 1933
	German federal election, March 1933 March 1933	Haavara Agreement August 1933
	Day of Potsdam March 1933	Reichstag fire trial September - December 1933


Nazi Germany 1933-1938		Remilitarization of the Rhineland March 1936
	Germany’s withdrawal from the League of Nations October 1933	Spanish Civil War July 1936 - April 1939
	German election November 1933 November 1933	1936 Summer Olympics August 1936
	Strength Through Joy November 1933 - 1945	Anti-Comintern Pact November 1936
	German-Polish Non-Aggression Pact January 26, 1934	Bombing of Guernica April 1937
	Straßenverkehrs-Ordnung May 28, 1934	Hindenburg Disaster May 1937
	Night of the Long Knives June - July 1934	Degenerate Art Exhibition July - November 1937
	July Putsch July 1934	Blomberg-Fritsch affair January - February 1938
	Death of von Hindenburg August 2, 1934	Anschluss March 1938
	Hitler oath August 2, 1934	Appeasement March 1938 - April 1940
	German referendum 1934 August 19, 1934	1938-39 German expedition to Tibet April 1938 - August 1939
	Nuremberg Rally September 1934	Sudeten crisis May - September 1938
	Triumph of the Will March 28, 1935	Strength Through Joy Car May 1938
	Reichsautobahn May 19, 1935	Siegfried Line May 1938 - 1945
	Nuremberg Laws September 1935	Godesberg Memorandum September 24, 1938


World War II 1938-1940		Invasion of Poland September 1939
	Munich Agreement September 1938	Bombing of Warsaw in World War II September 1–27, 1939
	Ernst vom Rath assassination November 7, 1938	UK, France declaration of war on Germany September 3, 1939
	Kristallnacht November 1938	Battle of the Atlantic September 1939 - May 1945
	Cryptanalysis of the Enigma 1938 - 1945	Phoney War September 1939 - April 1940
	German Occupation of Czechoslovakia March 1939 - 1945	Saar Offensive September 7–16, 1939
	Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia March 16, 1939 - 1945	Georg Elser bombing November 8, 1939
	German ultimatum to Lithuania March 20, 1939	Mechelen Incident January 1940
	German nuclear weapon project April 1939 - 1945	Norwegian Campaign April 9 – June 10, 1940
	Pact of Steel May 1939	Operation Weserübung April 9 – June 10, 1940
	German–Soviet Credit Agreement August 19, 1939	Manstein Plan May 1940
	Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact August 1939 - June 1941	Battle of the Netherlands May 10–14, 1940
	Operation Himmler August 1939	Battle of Belgium May 10–28, 1940
	Gleiwitz Incident August 1939	Battle of France May - June 1940
	World War II September 1939 - September 1945	Battle for The Hague May 10, 1940


World War II 1940-1941		Tripartite Pact September 1940
	Bombing of Cologne May 1940 - April 1945	Evacuations of children October 1940 - 1945
	Oil campaign of World War II May 15, 1940 – April 26, 1945	German-Soviet Axis talks October - November 1940
	Battle of Dunkirk May - June 1940	Meeting at Hendaye October 1940
	Dunkirk Evacuation May - June 1940	Balkan Campaign October 1940 - June 1941
	North African Campaign June 1940 - May 1943	Greco-Italian War October 1940 - April 1941
	Armistice of 22 June 1940 June 1940	Coventry Blitz November 14, 1940
	Soviet occupation of Bessarabia June 28 - July 1940	Second Great Fire of London December 1940
	Vichy France July 1940 - 1944	Yugoslav accession to the Tripartite Pact March 25, 1941
	Battle of Britain July - October 1940	Yugoslav coup d'état March 27, 1941
	Kanalkampf July 4 – August 11, 1940	Invasion of Yugoslavia April 6–18, 1941
	Adlertag August 13, 1940	Battle of Greece April 1941
	The Hardest Day August 18, 1940	Siege of Tobruk April – November 1941
	The Blitz September 1940 - May 1941	Anglo-Iraqi War May 2–31, 1941
	Operation Sea Lion postponed September 1940	Rudolf Hess's Attempted Peace Mission May 1941


World War II 1941-1942		Siege of Sevastopol October 30, 1941 – July 4, 1942
	Battle of Crete May 20 – June 1, 1941	Battle of Rostov November 1941
	Eastern Front June 1941 - May 1945	Battle of Moscow - Soviet counteroffensive December 5, 1941
	Operation Barbarossa June - December 1941	Winter Campaign of 1941-42 December 1941 - April 1942
	Battle of Białystok–Minsk June 22 – July 3, 1941	Attack on Pearl Harbor December 1941
	Battle of Smolensk July 8 – 31, 1941	German Declaration of War against the US December 1941
	Battle of Uman July 15 – August 8, 1941	US Declaration of War upon Germany December 1941
	Battle of Kiev August – September 1941	Hitler OKH December 19, 1941 - April 1945
	Yelnya Offensive August 30 – September 8, 1941	Battles of Rzhev January 1942 – March 1943
	The Holocaust 1941 - 1945	Wannsee Conference January 1942
	Yellow Badge September 1941	Atlantic Wall 1942 – 1944
	Siege of Leningrad September 1941 – January 1944	Second Battle of Kharkov May 12–28, 1942
	Babi Yar Massacres September 29–30, 1941	Operation Anthropoid May 27, 1942
	Battle of Moscow October 1941 - January 1942	Hitler and Mannerheim recording June 4, 1942
	Crimean Campaign October 18 - November 1941	Schwerer Gustav June 1942


World War II 1942-1943		Stalingrad airlift November 24, 1942 - January 1943
	Lidice massacre June 10, 1942	Operation Mars November – December 1942
	White Rose June 1942 - February 1943	Scuttling of the French Fleet in Toulon November 1942
	Case Blue June - November 1942	Operation Little Saturn December 1942 - February 1943
	First Battle of El Alamein July 1942	Operation Winter Storm December 12–23, 1942
	Stalin's Order No. 227 July 28, 1942	Operation Koltso January - February 1943
	Dieppe Raid August 19, 1942	Operation Iskra January 12–30, 1943
	Battle of Stalingrad August 1942 – February 1943	German surrender at Stalingrad February 1943
	Second Battle of El Alamein October - November 1942	Sportpalast Speech February 1943
	Operation Torch November 1942	Battle of Kasserine Pass February 19–24, 1943
	Hitler Stalingrad Speech November 8, 1942	Warsaw Ghetto Uprising April 1943 - May 1943
	Case Anton November 10-20, 1942	Battle of Longstop Hill April 22–23, 1943
	Greatest extent of Axis controlled territory November 1942	Black May April 29 – May 24, 1943
	Tunisian Campaign November 17, 1942 – May 9, 1943	Operation Chastise May 16–17, 1943
	Operation Uranus November 19–23, 1942	Battle of Kursk July 5 - August 1943


World War II 1943-1944		Stalag Luft III The Great Escape March 24, 1944
	Operation Citadel July 1943	Crimean Offensive April 8 – May 12, 1944
	Allied Invasion of Sicily July 9 - August 1943	Battle of Romania April - August 1944
	Battle of Prokhorovka July 12, 1943	Normandy Landings June 1944
	Bombing of Hamburg July 26 - August 1943	Operation Overlord June – August 1944
	Operation Tidal Wave August 1, 1943	V-1 flying bomb June 1944 - March 1945
	Armistice of Cassibile September 3, 1943	Operation Bagration June - August 1944
	Operation Achse September 8–19, 1943	20 July Plot July 1944
	Operation Avalanche September 9-16, 1943	20 July plot related executions July 1944
	Gran Sasso raid September 12, 1943	Warsaw Uprising August - October 1944
	SHAEF December 1943 - July 1945	Axis evacuation of Sicily August 11-17, 1944
	Battle of the North Cape December 1943	Operation Dragoon August 15 – September 1944
	Battle of Monte Cassino January 17 – May 18, 1944	Morgenthau Plan August 1944
	Battle of Anzio January 22 – June 5, 1944	Liberation of Paris August 1944
	Operation Margarethe March 12-18, 1944	Jassy-Kishinev Offensive August 20–29, 1944


World War II 1944-1945		Colmar Pocket January 20 – February 9, 1945
	Allied Advance from Paris to the Rhine August 1944 - March 1945	Evacuation of East Prussia January 20 – March 1945
	Operation Market Garden September 17–25, 1944	MV Wilhelm Gustloff Sinking January 1945
	Battle of Hürtgen Forest September – December 1944	Auschwitz liberated January 26, 1945
	Schindlerjuden September 1944	Yalta Conference February 1945
	Battle of the Scheldt October 2 – November 8, 1944	Bombing of Dresden February 1945
	V-2 rocket October 1944	Operation Spring Awakening March 6–16, 1945
	Operation Panzerfaust October 15–16, 1944	Battle of Remagen March 7–25, 1945
	Volkssturm October 18, 1944 - May 8, 1945	Ruhr Pocket March 7 - April 21, 1945
	Flight and Expulsion of Germans 1944 - 1950	Nero Decree March 19, 1945
	V-3 cannon December 1944 - February 1945	Battle of Berlin April 16 - May 2, 1945
	Battle of the Bulge December 1944 - January 1945	Battle in Berlin April 23 - May 2, 1945
	Siege of Budapest December 1944 – February 1945	Elbe Day April 25, 1945
	Operation Bodenplatte January 1, 1945	Death of Adolf Hitler April 30, 1945
	Führerbunker January 1945	Goebbels family death May 1, 1945


Post-War 1945-1947		Potsdam Conference July - August 1945
	Flensburg Government May 2-23, 1945	Allied Kommandatura July 1945 - March 1991
	German surrender at Lüneburg Heath May 4, 1945	Nuremberg Charter August 8, 1945
	German Instrument of Surrender May 7, 1945	Entstehung der Länder September 19, 1945 - 1947
	Victory in Europe Day May 8, 1945	CSU October 13, 1945
	Ratlines May 1945	Nuremberg Trials November 1945 - October 1946
	Holocaust denial May 1945	Industriereform in der SBZ December 1945 - 1949
	Operation Paperclip May 1945	Level of industry plans March 1946 - 1951
	Iron Curtain May 1945	Post–World War II Economic Expansion 1946 - 1971
	Trümmerfrauen 1945 - 1950s	Socialist Unity Party of Germany April 1946 - December 1989
	Berlin Declaration June 5, 1945	Restatement of Policy on Germany September 6, 1946
	Allied-occupied Germany June 1945 – May 1949	Hungerwinter 1946/47 November 1946 - March 1947
	Wiederaufbau der SPD June 15, 1945 - 1946	Subsequent Nuremberg trials December 1946 - April 1949
	CDU June 26, 1945	Bizone January 1, 1947 - June 1, 1948
	Denazification July 1945 - 1951	Ahlener Programm February 3, 1947


Post-War, Adenauer 1947-1949		Generalstreik von 1948 November 12, 1948
	Münchener Ministerpräsidentenkonferenz June 1947	Free Democratic Party December 1948
	London Big Four Conference November - December 1947	Ifo Institute for Economic Research January 1949
	Adidas company split 1948	International Authority for the Ruhr April 1949 – May 1952
	Trizone March 1948	Bundeshauptstadt Bonn May 10, 1949 - 1999
	Marshall Plan April 1948 - April 1952	Grundgesetz May 23, 1949
	Aufhebung der Preisbindung June 19, 1948	West Germany May 23, 1949 - October 1990
	Deutsche Mark June 20, 1948 – December 2001	Bundesrat May 23, 1949
	Berlin Blockade June 1948 - May 1949	West German federal election, 1949 August 14, 1949
	Berlin Airlift June 1948 - August 1949	Rhöndorfer Konferenz August 21, 1949
	Frankfurt Documents July 1, 1948	1st Federal Convention September 12, 1949
	Rittersturz-Konferenz July 8 - 10, 1948	Theodor Heuss presidency September 1949 - September 1959
	Kesselwagenexplosion in der BASF July 28, 1948	Konrad Adenauer chancellorship September 15, 1949 - October 1963
	Parlamentarischer Rat September 1948 - August 1949	Social market economy 1949 - present
	Adenauer Präsident des Rates September 1948	East Germany October 1949 - 1990


Post-War, Adenauer 1949-1955		Baden-Württemberg April 25, 1952
	Republikflucht 1949 – 1990	National anthem May 2, 1952
	German Trade Union Confederation October 1949	Bonn-Paris conventions May 26, 1952
	Bundespressekonferenz October 17, 1949	General Treaty May 1952
	Petersberg Agreement November 1949	Lastenausgleich September 1, 1952
	Planned economy 1950 - 1990	Fernseh-Programmbetrieb December 1952
	Stasi February 1950 - January 1990	Tagesschau December 26, 1952
	Treaty of Zgorzelec Juliy 7, 1950	London Agreement February 27, 1953
	Berlin Palace demolition September 1950	Wiedergutmachung 1953
	Bundesverdienstkreuz September 7, 1951	Uprising of 1953 in East Germany June 16–17, 1953
	Federal Constitutional Court September 28, 1951	Fünf-Prozent-Hürde June 25, 1953
	European Coal and Steel Community 1952 – 2002	West German federal election, 1953 September 6, 1953
	Inner German border 1952 - 1990	Child benefit 1954
	Heligoland returned to Germany March 1952	London and Paris Conferences September - October 1954
	Stalin Note March 1952	Gastarbeiter 1955 - 1970s


EEC, Adenauer 1955-1961		Federation of Expellees Oktober 27, 1957
	West German accession to NATO May 6, 1955	Death of Rosemarie Nitribitt October 29, 1957
	Wiederbewaffnung 1955	Munich air disaster February 6, 1958
	Warsaw Pact May 1955 - July 1991	European Economic Community 1958 - 1993
	Geneva Summit July 1955	Berlin ultimatum November 1958
	Heimkehr der Zehntausend September 1955	Heinrich Lübke presidency September 1959 – June 1969
	Hallstein Doctrine 1955 - 1970	Godesberg Program November 1959
	Saar Statute referendum October 23, 1955	Zivildienstgesetz January 1960
	Bundeswehr November 12, 1955	The Beatles in Hamburg August 1960 - December 1962
	Conscription in Germany 1956 - 2011	Privatisierung des VW-Werkes August 1960
	Bundesnachrichtendienst April 1, 1956	Adolf Eichmann Trial April 1961 - June 1962
	Ban on the KPD August 17, 1956	Kernkraftwerk Kahl June 1961
	Rentenreform 1957 1957	Nobody has the intention of building a wall June 15, 1961
	West German federal election, 1957 September 15, 1957	Berlin Wall August 1961 - August 1990
	Kohlekrise 1957	West German federal election, 1961 September 17, 1961


Adenauer, Erhard, Kiesinger 1961-1967		Frankfurt Auschwitz trials December 1963 - 1965
	Stand-off between US and Soviet tanks October 1961	Hamburger Abkommen October 1964
	German-Turkish recruitment-agreement October 30, 1961	NPD November 28, 1964
	Contergan-scandal 1961 - 1962	40-Stunden-Woche 1965
	Glienicke Bridge of Spies February 1962 - February 1986	Günter Wallraff's investigative journalism 1965 - present
	North Sea flood of 1962 February 1962	West German federal election, 1965 September 19, 1965
	Death of Peter Fechter August 17, 1962	Moby Dick May - June 1966
	Spiegel Affair October 1962	Starfighter-Krise August 1966
	Élysée Treaty January 1963	CDU-FDP coalition broke up October 27, 1966
	JFK's West Berlin Speech June 1963	Erhard resignation December 1, 1966
	German Council of Economic Experts August 1963	Kiesinger chancellorship December 1966 - October 1969
	Bundesliga August 1963	Außerparlamentarische Opposition 1967 - 1968
	Ludwig Erhard chancellorship October 1963 - November 1966	Kommune 1 January 1967 - November 1969
	Wunder von Lengede November 1963	German student movement 1967 - 1968
	Passierscheinabkommen December 17, 1963	The long march through the institutions 1967


Ostpolitik, RAF, Brandt 1967-1972		Red Army Faction June 1970 - 1998
	Visit of the Shah of Persia May - June 1967	Treaty of Moscow August 1970
	Benno Ohnesorg death June 2, 1967	Warschauer Kniefall December 7, 1970
	Stabilitätsgesetz June 8, 1967	Treaty of Warsaw December 1970
	Value-added tax January 1, 1968	Erich Honecker SED General Secretary 1971 - 1989
	Rudi Dutschke shooting April 11, 1968	2 June Movement 1971 – 1980
	German Emergency Acts May 1968	Bundesliga scandal June 1971
	Beate Klarsfeld action against Kiesinger November 7, 1968	BAföG September 1971
	Björn Steiger Unfall May 3, 1969	Four Power Agreement on Berlin September 1971
	Gustav Heinemann presidency July 1969 – June 1974	Theo Albrecht kidnapping November 29, 1971
	West German federal election, 1969 September 28, 1969	ECHELON 1971 - present
	Willy Brandt chancellorship October 1969 - May 1974	Radikalenerlass February 18, 1972
	Ostpolitik 1969 - 1974	Brandt motion of confidence April 24, 1972
	Lohnfortzahlung January 1, 1970	Steiner-Wienand-Affäre April 27, 1972
	Erfurter Gipfeltreffen March 19, 1970	RAF May Offensive May 11-24, 1972


Brandt, Schmidt 1972-1976		Helmut Schmidt Chancellorship May 1974 - October 1982
	RAF arrests June 1-15, 1972	1974 FIFA World Cup June - July 1974
	Transit Agreement June 3, 1972	Walter Scheel presidency July 1974 – June 1979
	1972 Summer Olympics August - September 1972	Death of Holger Meins November 9, 1974
	Munich Massacre September 1972	Kohlepfennig 1974 - 1995
	West German federal election, 1972 November 19, 1972	Gebietsreform in NRW 1975
	Basic Treaty December 21, 1972	Abduction of Peter Lorenz February - March 1975
	Guillaume Affair 1973 - 1974	West German Embassy siege April 24, 1975
	Helmut Kohl chairman of the CDU 1973 - 1998	RAF Stammheim Trial May 1975 - April 1977
	GSG 9 April 17, 1973	Helsinki Accords July 1975
	Germany admitted to the UN September 1973	Sozialgesetzbuch January 1976
	1973 Oil Crisis October 1973	GEZ 1976
	Sonntagsfahrverbote November - Dezember 1973	Liberalization of Paragraph 218 May 1976
	Palace of the Republic 1973 - 2008	Queen Silvia of Sweden June 1976
	Treaty of Prague December 11, 1973	Operation Entebbe July 4, 1976


German Autumn, Schmidt, Kohl 1976-1983		Karl Carstens presidency July 1979 – June 1984
	West German federal election, 1976 October 3, 1976	NATO Double-Track Decision December 1979
	Wolf Biermann deprivation of citizenship November 1976	The Greens January 13, 1980
	German Autumn April - October 1977	Startbahn West protest May 1980 - November 1981
	Siegfried Buback assassination April 7, 1977	Oktoberfest bombing September 26, 1980
	Jürgen Ponto assassination July 1977	West German federal election, 1980 October 5, 1980
	Kidnapping of Hanns-Martin Schleyer September 5, 1977	Bachmeier vigilante justice March 1981
	Lufthansa Flight 181 hijacking October 13, 1977	Pershing II Protests 1981 - 1987
	Operation Feuerzauber October 18, 1977	Flick affair 1981
	RAF death night October 18, 1977	Neue-Heimat-Skandal February 1982
	Hanns-Martin Schleyer murder October 18, 1977	SPD/FDP coalition break up September 17, 1982
	Celle Hole July 1978 - April 1986	Helmut Kohl chancellorship October 1982 - October 1998
	Gorleben-Treck 1979 March 1979	West German federal election, 1983 March 1983
	Bundesgartenschau 1979 April - October 1979	Geistig-moralische Wende 1983
	Anti-nuclear movement 1970s - present	Einzug der Grünen in den Bundestag March 29, 1983


80s, Kohl 1983-1988		Perestroika 1986 - 1990
	Hitler Diaries April 1983	Chernobyl Disaster April 26, 1986
	Milliardenkredite an die DDR 1983 - 1984	Federal Ministry for the Environment June 6, 1986
	Privatfernsehen January 1984	Werner Pinzner shooting rampage July 29, 1986
	35-Stunden-Woche Konflikte 1984	West German federal election, 1987 January 25, 1987
	Kießling-Affäre 1984	Volkszählung 1987 May 25, 1987
	Richard von Weizsäcker presidency July 1984 – June 1994	Mathias Rust's Red Sqaure Landing May 28, 1987
	French-German reconciliation September 22, 1984	Remarks at the Brandenburg Gate June 1987
	Mit Verlaub Herr Präsident, Sie sind ein Arschloch October 18, 1984	Honecker-Besuch in Bonn September 7-11, 1987
	Bitburg controversy May 5, 1985	Waterkant-Gate September 1987
	Zum 40. Jahrestag der Beendigung des Krieges May 8, 1985	Uwe Barschel death October 11, 1987
	Brokdorf-Beschluss May 14, 1985	INF Treaty December 1987
	Amokfahrt von Karlsruhe August 29, 1985	DAX July 1, 1988
	First Red-green alliance October 1985	Gladbeck hostage crisis August 16–18, 1988
	1986 Berlin Discotheque Bombing April 1986	Ramstein air show disaster August 28, 1988


Reunification, Kohl 1988-1990		Fall of the Berlin Wall November 9, 1989
	Philipp Jenninger speech November 10, 1988	Mielke's Auftritt vor der Volkskamme November 13, 1989
	Revolutions of 1989 March 1989 - April 1992	Kohl's Ten-Point-Program November 28, 1989
	Kommunalwahlen in der DDR 1989 May 7, 1989	Alfred Herrhausen assassination November 30, 1989
	German Reunification Process May 1989 - October 1990	Malta Summit December 1989
	Karl Koch death May 23, 1989	Berlin Wall Hasselhoff concert December 31, 1989
	Love Parade July 1989 - 2010	Burns' Day Storm January 25–26, 1990
	Palastrevolte gegen Helmut Kohl September 11-13, 1989	East German general election, 1990 March 18, 1990
	Monday demonstrations in East Germany September 1989 - 1991	Oskar Lafontaine assassination attempt April 25, 1990
	Prager Botschaftsflüchtlinge September 30, 1989	German Economic Merger May 1990
	40 years of the GDR celebration October 6–7, 1989	Treuhandanstalt June 17, 1990 - 1994
	Die Wende October 1989 - 1991	Kohl-Gorbachev meeting July 1990
	Erich Honecker resignation October 18, 1989	German Reunification Treaty August 31, 1990
	SED Politbüro resignation November 8, 1989	Zwei-plus-Vier-Vertrag September 12, 1990
	Politburo press conference November 9, 1989	Day of German Unity October 3, 1990


Recovery East, Kohl 1990-1993		Panzer-Affäre October 1991
	New federal states October 3, 1990	Stasi Files Law December 1991
	Einzug der PDS in den Bundestag October 4, 1990	Maastricht Treaty February 1992
	Wolfgang Schäuble assassination attempt October 12, 1990	Politburo trial May 1992 - April 1993
	German federal election, 1990 December 2, 1990	Rostock-Lichtenhagen riots August 24, 1992
	Green Dot 1991	Petra Kelly, Gert Bastian deaths October 19, 1992
	Rohwedder murder April 1, 1991	Arsch huh November 9, 1992
	Eierwurf von Halle May 1991	Mordanschlag von Mölln November 23, 1992
	Lauda Air Flight 004 May 26, 1991	Asylkompromiss December 6, 1992
	ICE June 1991	Schwarz-Schilling Rücktritt December 14, 1992
	Treaty of Good Neighbourship June 17, 1991	Briefbogenaffäre December 1992 - January 1993
	Decision on the Capital of Germany June 20, 1991	Amigo-Affäre January - May 1993
	Solidarity surcharge July 1, 1991	Affäre um die Mülldeponie Schönberg March 1993
	Recovery East July 1, 1991	Solidarpakt Ost March 13, 1993
	Hoyerswerda riots September 17 - 23, 1991	Unterstützungsverband Somalia March 1993 - March 1994


Privatization, Kohl 1993-1997		Buß- und Bettag holiday abolishment 1994
	Björn Engholm Rücktritt May 3, 1993	German federal election, 1994 October 16, 1994
	Putzfrauenaffäre May 1993	Long-term care insurance 1995
	Alliance 90/The Greens May 14, 1993	Deutsche Post AG January 2, 1995
	Solingen arson attack May 28, 1993	Schengen Area 1995 - present
	Wolfgang Grams death June 27, 1993	Chaostage in Hannover August 1995
	Five digit postal codes July 1, 1993	Windhorst Asia Pacific Holdings Ltd. November 1995
	Rheinhochwasser 1993 December 1993 - January 1994	Düsseldorf Airport fire April 11, 1996
	Deutsche Bahn AG January 1994	Bonn UN-Stadt June 1996
	Schneider-affair April 1994 - December 1997	German orthography reform of 1996 July 1996
	Dagobert arrest April 22, 1994	Castor Atommülltransporte 1996 - 2011
	Berlin-Bonn Act April 26, 1994	Ladenschlussgesetz November 1996
	Abschaffung des Paragraphen 175 June 11, 1994	Deutsche Telekom November 1996
	Magdeburger Modell June 1994 - 2002	Herzog's Berlin speech April 26, 1997
	Roman Herzog presidency July 1994 – June 1999	Star Alliance May 1997


CDU scandal, Schröder 1997-2000		Farbbeutelanschlag auf Joschka Fischer May 1999
	Amsterdam Treaty June 1997	Schröder-Blair-Papier June 1999
	Kosovo War February 1998 - June 1999	KFOR Einsatz June 1999 - present
	Großer Lauschangriff March 6, 1998	Johannes Rau presidency July 1999 – 30 June 2004
	Eschede derailment June 3, 1998	Leuna-Affäre 1999
	Assault of Daniel Nivel June 21, 1998	CDU donations scandal November 1999
	German federal election, 1998 September 27, 1998	CDU-Spendenaffäre Untersuchungsausschuss December 2, 1999
	Gerhard Schröder chancellorship October 1998 - November 2005	Merkel's FAZ Artikel December 22, 1999
	Bündnis für Arbeit December 1998 - 2003	Orkan Lothar December 25-27, 1999
	Anschlag auf die Wehrmachtsausstellung March 9, 1999	FlowTex Scandal February 2000
	Oskar Lafontaine resignation March 11, 1999	German Renewable Energy Sources Act April 1, 2000
	NATO bombing of Yugoslavia March 23 - June 10, 1999	Angela Merkel CDU-Vorsitzende April 2000 - 2018
	Ökosteuer March 24, 1999	Expo 2000 June - October 2000
	Schwebebahnunfall in Wuppertal 1999 April 1999	Atomkonsens June 2000
	Bundestag move to Berlin completed April 19, 1999	Sprengstoffanschlag in Düsseldorf July 27, 2000


Agenda 2010, Schröder 2000-2003		Kirch Group bankruptcy April 2002
	Versteigerung der UMTS-Lizenzen August 18, 2000	Erfurt school massacre April 26, 2002
	NSU murders September 2000 - April 2007	BaFin May 1, 2002
	Kokain-Affäre von Christoph Daum October 2000	Möllemann-Affäre May 2002 - March 2003
	Berliner Bankenskandal March - June 2001	Bonusmeilen-Affäre 2002
	Riester-Pension June 26, 2001	Rudolf Scharping Entlassung July 2002
	Hannelore Kohl suicide July 5, 2001	2002 European floods August 2002
	Operation Enduring Freedom October 2001 - present	Hartz concept August 16, 2002
	War in Afghanistan October 2001 - December 2014	Ronald Schill im Bundestag August 29, 2002
	Bonn Agreement December 5, 2001	German federal election, 2002 September 22, 2002
	ISAF-Mandat December 22, 2001	Rürup-Kommission November 2002 - August 2003
	Prostitution Act December 20, 2001	German opposition to war in Iraq November 27, 2002
	Euro January 2002	Container deposit January 1, 2003
	Vermittlungsskandal January 2002	Ich-AG January 2003 - June 2006
	Breuer-Interview February 2002	Agenda 2010 March 14, 2003


Schröder, Merkel Groko I 2003-2006		Schleswig-Holstein state election February 2005
	Minijob-Regelung April 1, 2003	Pope Benedict XVI papacy April 2005 - February 2013
	Jürgen Möllemann death June 5, 2003	Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe May 10, 2005
	Koch-Steinbrück-Liste September 2003	Sektaffäre May 2005
	Gesundheitsreform January 2004	North Rhine-Westphalia state election 2005 May 22, 2005
	Praxisgebühr January 2004 - December 2012	Lafontaine left the SPD May 24, 2005
	2003 Helmut Kohl Interview released January 2004	Niels Högel Ermittlungen June 2005 - 2006
	Schröder resignation as SPD chairman February 2004	Schröder vote of no confidence July 1, 2005
	2004 Cologne bombing June 9, 2004	VW-Korruptionsaffäre July 2005
	Horst Köhler presidency July 2004 – May 2010	German federal election, 2005 September 18, 2005
	Mannesmann-trial 2004 - 2006	Angela Merkel chancellorship November 2005 - present
	German Visa Affair 2005 October 2004 - 2005	First Merkel cabinet November 2005 - October 2009
	Zuwanderungsgesetz January 1, 2005	Schröder-Gazprom controversy December 2005
	Lkw-Maut January 1, 2005	Bad Reichenhall Ice Rink roof collapse January 2, 2006
	1 Euro Jobs January 1, 2005	2006 FIFA World Cup June – July 2006


Merkel Groko I 2006-2009		Finanzmarktstabilisierungsgesetz October 2008
	2006 German train bombing plot July 31, 2006	Konjunkturpaket I November 2008
	Murat Kurnaz release August 24, 2006	Commerzbank Teilverstaatlichung January 2009
	Föderalismusreform I September 2006	Scrappage program January - September 2009
	Elterngeld January 2007	World Conference Center Bonn affair February 2009
	Cyclone Kyrill January 2007	Konjunkturpaket II February 2009
	The Left June 16, 2007	Archive of Cologne collapse March 3, 2009
	Duisburg massacre August 15, 2007	Winnenden school shooting March 11, 2009
	2007 bomb plot in Germany September 4, 2007	Karstadt Insolvency June 9, 2009
	Telecommunications data retention January 2008	Arcandor Insolvency September 1, 2009
	Smoking ban January 2008	2009 Kunduz airstrike September 2009
	Hessian state election, 2008 January 27, 2008	Pirate Party movement September 2009 - 2017
	Transrapid 1971 - March 2008	German federal election, 2009 September 27, 2009
	Jenny Böken Todesumstände September 2008	Nationalisation of Hypo Real Estate October 5, 2009
	Financial crisis of 2007-2008 2008	Second Merkel cabinet October 28, 2009 - December 2013


Merkel Schw-Gelb 2009-2012		Laufzeitverlängerung der Kernkraftwerke October 2010
	Stuttgart 21 opposition October 2009 - 2010	EnBW-Affäre November 2010
	Reichsbürgerbewegung 2010	Stuttgart 21 mediation November 30, 2010
	Odenwaldschule Abuse Cases March 2010	Samuel Koch Wetten dass Unfall December 4, 2010
	PUA Elbphilharmonie May 2010	Guttenberg plagiarism scandal February 2011
	First Greece bailout package May 2010	Fukushima Nuclear Disaster March 2011
	Horst Köhler Interview May 22, 2010	Energiewende March 2011
	Debt brake May 29, 2010	Baden-Württemberg state election, 2011 March 27, 2011
	Horst Köhler resignation May 31, 2010	NSU uncovered November 4, 2011
	Berggruen bei Karstadt June 2010	Causa Wulff December 2011 - February 2014
	Christian Wulff presidency June 2010 – February 2012	Schlecker bankruptcy January 23, 2012
	Love Parade disaster July 2010	Christian Wulff resignation February 16, 2012
	Neuausrichtung der Bundeswehr 2010	Joachim Gauck presidency March 2012 – March 2017
	Thilo Sarrazin - Immigration controversy September 2010	Hambacher Forst Waldbesetzung April 2012 - present
	Abzocker Maschmeyer September 2010	Norbert Röttgen Entlassung May 2012


Merkel Groko II 2012-2015		Michael Schumacher skiing accident December 29, 2013
	Berlin Airport delayed openings June 2012 - present	Edathy resignation, trial February 2014 -2015
	Nürburgring bankruptcy August 2012	Uli Hoeneß tax evasion March 13, 2014
	Achtjähriges Gymnasium 2012 - 2015	Untersuchungsausschuss NSA March 2014 - present
	Annette Schavan plagiarism February 2013	Pegida October 2014 - present
	AfD founding April 2013	Hooligans gegen Salafisten October 26, 2014
	NSU Trial May 2013 - present	Thomas Middelhoff conviction November 14, 2014
	2013 European floods May - June 2013	Minimum wage January 1, 2015
	Neuland June 19, 2013	Germanwings Flight 9525 March 2015
	Mali Einsatz June 27, 2013 - present	Ramstein Air Base - Drone war control center April 2015
	Hagelsturm von Reutlingen July 28, 2013	European Migrant Crisis April 2015 - present
	German federal election, 2013 September 22, 2013	Mietpreisbremse June 1, 2015
	FDP failure to enter the Bundestag September 2013	Wir schaffen das August 31, 2015
	Third Merkel cabinet December 17, 2013 - October 2017	Opening of the Austria route September 5, 2015
	Proceedings to ban the NPD December 2013 - 2017	Willkommenskultur September 2015


Merkel Groko II 2015-2018		2016 Berlin attack December 2016
	Volkswagen emissions scandal September 2015 - 2017	Gabriel resignation January 2017
	Henriette Reker assassination attempt October 17, 2015	Schulz Kanzlerkandidat und Parteivorsitzender March 2017
	New Year's Eve sexual assaults in Germany December 2015	Frank-Walter Steinmeier presidency March 2017 - present
	Passenger car toll January 1, 2016 - June 2019	BVB team bus bombing April 11, 2017
	Bad Aibling rail accident February 2016	Franco A. April 2017
	EU-Turkey deal March 20, 2016	Rheinbrücke Leverkusen reconstruction 2017 - 2020
	Böhmermann affair March - October 2016	Same-sex marriage June 30, 2017
	Cum/Ex Skandal May 2016	Netzwerkdurchsetzungsgesetz June 30, 2017
	Turkey's media purge July 2016 - present	2017 G20 Hamburg summit July 7–8, 2017
	2016 Würzburg train attack July 18, 2016	Air Berlin bankruptcy August 15, 2017
	2016 Munich shooting July 22, 2016	German federal election, 2017 September 24, 2017
	2016 Ansbach bombing July 24, 2016	Einzug der AfD in den Bundestag October 24, 2017
	Petra Hinz CV scandal August 2016	Jamaika Koalitions-Sondierungen October - November 2017
	2016 Chemnitz terrorism plot October 2016	Martin Schulz Rücktritt February 7, 2018


Merkel Groko III 2018-2019		Kramp-Karrenbauer CDU-Vorsitzende December 2018 - present
	Mitgliedervotum der SPD March 4, 2018	Relotius Fabrication of stories December 19, 2018
	Fourth Merkel cabinet March 14, 2018 - present	Hack deutscher Politiker January 2019
	2018 Münster attack April 7, 2018	Aachen Treaty January 22, 2019
	Echo Music Prize Controversy April 12, 2018	Missbrauchsfall Lügde January 2019
	Bremer BAMF-Affäre April 2018	5G Auktion March 2019
	Bayerisches Polizeiaufgabengesetz May 25, 2018	Klimanotstand May 2, 2019
	Diesel Fahrverbote May 31, 2018	2019 European Parliament election May 2019
	2018 European heat wave May - August 2018	Mordfall Walter Lübcke June 2, 2019
	Özil retirement controversy July 22, 2018	Nahles resignation June 2019
	Bayer-Roundup Legal cases August 2018 - present	von der Leyen President of the EC July 2019
	School strike for climate August 2018 - present	Halle synagogue shooting October 9, 2019
	2018 Chemnitz protests August - September 2018	2019 Thuringian state election October 27, 2019
	Maaßen affair September 2018	ALGII Urteil November 5, 2019
	Hessen Wahl 2018 October 28, 2018	Bundes-Klimaschutzgesetz December 2019


Merkel Groko III 2020-2020
	Coronavirus pandemic January 27, 2020
	Regierungskrise in Thüringen February 5, 2020
	AKK Rücktritt February 10, 2020
	Hanau shootings February 19, 2020
	Corona Lockdown March 22, 2020 - present
	Wirtschaftsstabilisierungsfondsgesetz March 27, 2020
	Sozialschutz-Paket March 27, 2020

48	2020	2020	Merkel Groko III	Coronavirus pandemic, Corona Lockdown
47	2018	2019	Merkel Groko III	Diesel Fahrverbote, AKK, Klimanotstand
46	2015	2018	Merkel Groko II	Volkswagen emissions scandal, 2016 Berlin attack, Schulz Kanzlerkandidat, Jamaika Sondierungen
45	2012	2015	Merkel Groko II	AfD founding, FDP failure, Pegida, European Migrant Crisis, Willkommenskultur
44	2009	2012	Merkel Schw-Gelb	Greece bailout, Debt brake, Guttenberg plagiarism scandal, Energiewende, Causa Wulff
43	2006	2009	Merkel Groko I	The Left, Financial crisis of 2007-2008, Konjunkturpaket I & II, Karstadt Insolvency
42	2003	2006	Schröder, Merkel Groko I	Schröder resignation, Schröder vote of no confidence, Angela Merkel chancellorship
41	2000	2003	Agenda 2010, Schröder	NSU murders, War in Afghanistan, Euro, Hartz concept, Agenda 2010
40	1997	2000	CDU scandal, Schröder	Gerhard Schröder chancellorship, CDU donations scandal
39	1993	1997	Privatization, Kohl	Deutsche Bahn AG, Deutsche Post AG, Schengen Area, Telekom
38	1990	1993	Recovery East, Kohl	Recovery East, Rostock-Lichtenhagen riots, Solidarpakt Ost
37	1988	1990	Reunification, Kohl	Revolutions of 1989, German Reun. Process, Die Wende, Fall of the Berlin Wall, German Econ. Merger, Day of German Unity
36	1983	1988	80s, Kohl	Privatfernsehen, Red-green alliance, Perestroika, Waterkant-Gate
35	1976	1983	German Autumn, Schmidt, Kohl	German Autumn, Anti-nuclear movement, The Greens, Helmut Kohl chancellorship
34	1972	1976	Brandt, Schmidt	Munich Massacre, Basic Treaty, Helmut Schmidt chancellorship, Helsinki Accords
33	1967	1972	Ostpolitik, RAF, Brandt	Stabilitätsgesetz, Willy Brandt chancellorship, Ostpolitik, RAF, Berlin Agreement, Radikalenerlass
32	1961	1967	Adenauer, Erhard, Kiesinger	North Sea flood, Élysée Treaty, Bundesliga, Erhard chancellorship, Kiesinger chancellorship, APO
31	1955	1961	EEC, Adenauer	West German accession to NATO, Warsaw Pact, Bundeswehr, European Economic Community, Berlin Wall
30	1949	1955	Post-War, Adenauer	ECSC, Fernseh-Programmbetrieb, Uprising of 1953, Gastarbeiter
29	1947	1949	Post-War, Adenauer	Marshall Plan, Berlin Blockade, Gundgesetz, West Germany, Adenauer chancellorship, East Germany
28	1945	1947	Post-War	VE Day, Iron Curtain, Allied-occupied Germany, Potsdam Conference, Economic Expansion, Bizone
27	1944	1945	World War II	Volkssturm, Battle of the Bulge, Führerbunker, Battle in Berlin
26	1943	1944	World War II	Armistice of Cassibile, Normandy Landings, 20 July plot
25	1942	1943	World War II	Case Blue, Battle of Stalingrad, Sportpalast speech
24	1941	1942	World War II	Eastern Front, Holocaust, Attack on Pearl Harbor
23	1940	1941	World War II	North African Campaign, Battle of Britain, Balkan Campaign
22	1938	1940	World War II	Munich Agreement, Pact of Steel, Nazi–Soviet Pact, World War II, Invasion of Poland, Phoney War, Battle of France
21	1933	1938	Nazi Germany	Night of the Long Knives, Nuremberg Laws, Anschluss, Appeasement
20	1932	1933	Nazi Germany	Preußenschlag, Machtergreifung, Reichstag Fire, Nazi Germany, Gleichschaltung
19	1924	1932	Weimar Republic	Mein Kampf, Young Plan, Great Depression, Präsidialkabinette
18	1919	1924	Weimar Republic	Treaty of Versailles, Reparations, Hyperinflation, Occupation of the Ruhr, Beer Hall Putsch
17	1918	1919	World War I, Weimar Republic	Treaty of Brest-Litovsk, Spring Offensive, German Revolution, Weimar Republic, Armistice, Occupation of the Rhineland
16	1915	1918	World War I	Italian Front, Battle of Verdun, Battle of the Somme, Battle of Messines
15	1914	1915	World War I	First World War, Western Front, Battle of Tannenberg, Sinking of the RMS Lusitania
14	1890	1914	German Empire	Anglo-German naval arms race, Bosnian Crisis, July Crisis
13	1871	1890	German Empire	SAP, Social legislation, German Colonial Empire, Crude gas-fueled car, Wilhelm II
12	1859	1871	German Confederation	Bismarck Minister President, Austro-Prussian War, 2nd Industrial Revolution, Franco-Prussian War, German Empire
11	1823	1859	German Confederation	Vormärz, German revolutions of 1848-49, Frankfurt Parliament
10	1806	1823	German Confederation	German Campaign of 1813, Congress of Vienna, German Confederation, Battle of Waterloo
9	1757	1806	French Revolution	Industrial Revolution, French Revolution, Coalition Wars, Confederation of the Rhine
8	1683	1756	Kingdom of Prussia	Great Northern War, Kingdom of Prussia, The Enlightenment, Frederick the Great, Seven Years’ War
7	1555	1678	Confessionalization	Confessionalization, Thirty Years War, Peace of Westphalia, Absolutism
6	1515	1555	Protestant Reformation	Protestant Reformation, German Peasants' War, Diet of Augsburg, Counter-Reformation, Schmalkaldic War
5	1346	1508	Late Middle Ages	House of Hohenzollern, Printing Press, Thirteen Years’ War, Northern Renaissance
4	1177	1342	Middle Ages	State of the Teutonic Order, Hanseatic League, Crisis of the Late Middle Ages
3	900	1176	Middle Ages	Investiture Controversy, First Crusade, Barbarossa crowned Roman Emperor
2	493	861	Early Middle Ages	Saxon Wars, Medieval knighthood, Coronation of Charlemagne, Holy Roman Empire, Treaty of Verdun
1	1700 bc	481	Germanic tribes	Bronze Age Europe, Gallic Wars, Roman military camps, Limes, Migration Period, Merovingian Dynasty, Francia
48 chapters, 1366 entires total, 206 key entires

	Author:
	Sebastian Bohnen
	datapeak.net
	sebastian@bohnen.ms


	all data as of April 2020