History of Germany

By mrotroff
  • 476

    Odoacer becomes first German king

  • Dec 11, 1096

    The first Crusade

  • Oct 14, 1348

    Beginning of Bubonic plague (-1350)

  • Oct 14, 1356

    Charles IV est. First German Constitution

  • Oct 14, 1438

    Beginning of Hapsburg reign

  • Dec 11, 1499

    Switzerland breaks away from the Empire

  • Oct 31, 1517

    Martin Luther's 95 Thesis

  • Oct 14, 1555

    Peace of Augsburg - Lutherans as equals

  • Period: to

    Baroque time period

    Time period of German Music
  • Period: to

    Baroque Period

    Reflections on the Thirty Years War

  • 30 Year War Begins (-1648)

  • Period: to

    Thirty Years War

  • Peace of Westphalia

  • Johann Sebastian Bach Born

    One of the Greatest German Composers, Died 1750

  • Frederick crowned the first king of Prussia

  • Immanuel Kant

    Critique of Pure Reason, Died in 1804

  • Wolfgang Goethe Born

    Major Literary Figure, Died 1832

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Born

    Great Musician, Died 1791

  • Friedrich Schiller Born

    One of Germany's greatest dramatists and poets, Died 1805

  • Sturm und Drang Begins

    Subjectivity, extremes of emotion were at the center of this literary phase, ends in 1780s

  • Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

    German pilosopher, influenced Karl Marx, Died 1831

  • Brothers Grimm Born

    Compilers of German fairytales, Died 1955

  • Karl Marx

    German philosopher and writer, co-inventor of Communism, Died 1883

  • Theodor Fontane Born

    German Poet and Novelist, Died 1898

  • Leise Revolution

  • Franco-Prussian War (-1871)

  • GERMANY UNITED

  • Period: to

    German Reich

    Began after Franco-Prussian War
    Ended with the Defeat of Nazi Germany

  • Albert Einstein Born

    Died 1955

  • World War I begins

  • World War I ends

  • Hitler becomes Chancellor

  • Germany invades Poland, Beginning of WWII

  • End of World War II

    Followed by the Nuremberg War Crimes Trial
  • Period: to

    DDR & BRD

  • Berlin Wall Built

  • East Germany builds wall

  • Michael Schumacher Born

    German Formla One Race Driver

  • End of Cold War, Wall comes down

  • German unification

  • Hermann (Arminius) defeated the Romans in theTeutoburger Wald

  • Charlemagne becomes king of the Holy Roman Empire

  • Period: to

    Holy Roman Empire

    Charlemagne created HRE first
    Ended with the Napoleonic invasion
  • Period: to Dec 11, 1024

    The Saxon dynasty rule Germany