German History

  • Dec 3, 742

    Charlemagne was born

  • Dec 3, 771

    Charlemagne crowned King

  • Period: Dec 12, 1024 to Dec 12, 1255

    Salian dynasty rule Germany

  • Dec 10, 1075

    separation of church and state

  • Dec 12, 1273

    Rudolf of Hapsburg crowned king of the Germans

  • Period: Dec 10, 1348 to Dec 10, 1350

    Bublonic plague

  • Dec 10, 1356

    Germany's first constitution

  • Period: Dec 12, 1400 to Dec 12, 1530

    The Renaissance

  • Period: Dec 12, 1419 to Dec 12, 1436

    Hussite Wars

  • Period: Dec 10, 1438 to

    Reign of the Hapsburgs

  • Dec 10, 1455

    Gutenberg printing press

  • Oct 31, 1517

    Martin Luther's 95 theses

  • Dec 10, 1521

    Luther at Diets of Worms

    Here Martin Luther was condemned as a heretic.
  • Dec 10, 1526

    Imperial Diet of Speyer

    Allowed Lutheran rulers and city officials to regulate church matters in thier own territories independently.
  • Dec 10, 1534

    First complete Bible appeard

  • Dec 10, 1555

    Peace of Augsberg

  • Defenestration of Prague

    Emperor Ferdinand II officials thrown out of windows at Prague Castle
  • Period: to

    30 Years War

  • Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz

  • Peace of Westphalia

    Independence of Switzerland and the Netherlands from the Holy Roman Empire.
  • Period: to

    The age of Enlightenment

  • Johaan Sebastian Bach was born

  • Period: to

    Charles VI was Emperor

  • Period: to

    Maria Theresa as Emperor

  • Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was born

    He was a German writer, pictoral artist, biologist, theoretical physicist, and polymath.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Composer.
  • Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller

    German poet, philosopher, historian, and playwright.
  • Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel was born

    German philosopher.
  • Period: to

    Joseph II as Emperor

  • Period: to

    Romantic Era

  • Napoelon was defeated at Waterloo

  • Franco-Prussian War

  • United Germany came into existence

  • Archduke Ferdinand of Austria was assassinated in Serbia

  • World War I begins

  • World War I ends

  • Signing of the Treaty of Versailles

  • Hilter elected leader of Nazi party

  • Hindengerg elected president

  • Germany joined League of Nations

  • Stock Market crashes - the Depression begins

  • The Nazis became the largest party in Germany

  • beginning of Hitlers Reich

  • Hitler became Fuhrer of Germany

  • D-day

  • VE-day!

  • United Nations is founded

  • Charlemagne Crowned emperor of HRE in Rome

  • Treaty of Verdun

  • Otto I crowned King

  • Charlemagne died

    His kindom was divided among his three grandsons
  • Period: to Dec 3, 1500

    Holy Roman Empire

  • Period: to Dec 12, 1025

    Saxony dynasty rule Germany