German History

Habsburg castle is built

Jan 1, 1020

Built by Count Radbot of Klettgau in modern day Switzerland.

Luther's 95 Theses

Oct 31, 1517

Luther posts 95 theses on the door of Castle Church in Wittenberg.
Luther's 95 Theses

Duchy of Prussia

Jan 1, 1525

Orginally was a fief of Poland
The Rise and Fall of Prussia

Thirty Years War

Period: May 23, 1618 to Oct 24, 1648

Thirty Years' War

Johann Sebastian Bach Born

Mar 31, 1685

Toccata and Fugue in D minor

Immanuel Kant born

Apr 22, 1724

Three Minute Philosophy - Immanuel Kant

Reign of Frederick the Great

Period: May 31, 1740 to Aug 17, 1786

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart born

Jan 27, 1756

Requiem in D minor

Ludwig Van Beethoven

Dec 16, 1770

Beethoven's symphony 9

French Revolution

Period: Jul 14, 1789 to Jan 1, 1799

French Revolution in a nutshell

Napoleonic Wars

Period: May 18, 1803 to Nov 20, 1815

Holy Roman Empire fall during the war in 1806.

Richard Wagner born

May 22, 1813

RIDE OF THE VALKYRIES

Congress Of Vienna

Sep 1, 1814

A summary of congress of Veinna using legos.

Karl Marx born

May 5, 1818

communist
Famous books: The Communist Manifesto, Das Kapital, The German Ideology

Friedrich Nietzsche born

Oct 15, 1844

philosopher-nihilism/existentialism
famous books: The Gay Science, Human, All Too Human, Thus Spoke Zarathustra, Beyond Good and Evil

Revolutions of 1848

Feb 23, 1848

The Revolution failed
Brief overview of the Revolution

Sigmund Freud born

May 6, 1856

psychoanalysist
Famous books: The Interpretation of Dreams, The Ego and the Id,The Future of an Illusion

Wilhelm I becomes king of Prussia

Jan 2, 1861

Last king of Prussia, first king of Germany

Otto Von Bismarck comes to power in Prussia

Sep 23, 1862

Second Schleswig War

Feb 1, 1864

Prussia and Austria won against Denmark on Oct 30,1864

Richard Strauss born

Jun 11, 1864

Tod und Verklärung, Op.24

Austro-Prussian War

Jun 14, 1866

Lead to the unification of Italian States. Only lasted 7 weeks total

Franco-Prussian War

Period: Jul 19, 1870 to May 10, 1871

The French held a grudge against Prussia/Germany until WWI.

Unification of Germany

Jan 18, 1871

Quick summary of German unification

Arnold Schönberg born

Sep 13, 1874

3 Klavier Stücke op. 11, no. 1

Wilhelm II becomes Kaiser of Germany

Dec 12, 1888

Dismisses Otto Von Bismarck in 1890

World War I

Period: Jul 28, 1914 to Nov 11, 1918

Summary of WWI

Wilhelm II abdicates the throne

Nov 9, 1918

Weimar Republic adopts new constitution

Aug 11, 1919

Beer Hall Putsch

Nov 8, 1923

Nov 8-9 1923
Hitler tries and fails to overthrow the Weimar Republic

Hitler becomes Chancellor of Germany

Jan 30, 1933

World War II begins

Sep 1, 1939

Germany invades Poland

Operation Barbarossa

Jun 22, 1941

Lasts until Dec 5,1941
Hitler fails to take the USSR, signal of Germany's imminent defeat.

V-E Day

May 8, 1945

Germany loses WWII

German Democratic Republic(East Germany)

Jan 1, 1949

Federal Republic of Germany(West Germany) established

May 1, 1949

Berlin Wall constructed

Aug 13, 1961

East Berliners attempts to escape East Germany

Berlin Wall falls

Nov 9, 1989

ABC News reports on the fall of the Berlin Wall

East and West Germany reunite

Oct 3, 1990

Formation of the Holy Roman Empire

Mar 2, 2022

Otto I is crowned as the King of Roman by Pope John XII
Expansion and contraction of Holy Roman Empire