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The first gemanic tribes appear in northern germany during the nordic Bronze age
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In the early part of the period, central Europe is inhabited by various tribes, either pagan or newly Christian. By 1000, the region is the heartland of the Holy Roman Empire, a loose confederation of territory ruled by a Christian dynasty aspiring to the greatness of Roman and Byzantine imperial power.
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1024-1255 - The Salian dynasty rules the Germans
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German Emperor Henry III arrives in Italy and names a German monastic reformer as pope. The series of reforming popes that follow enacts decrees against simony and clerical marriage.
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The Knights Templar founded to protect Jerusalem and European pilgrims on their journey to the city
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German princes abolish the hereditary claim to the throne and establish the right to elect new rulers
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1138 -1254 - The Hohenstaufen dynasty
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The first European windmill is developed
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The last great "German" emperor, Frederick II (1196-1250) came to the throne as a baby. After a stormy childhood, during which pope Innocent III was his guardian against more threatening German nobles, he came to the throne in high own right
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Rudolf of Hapsburg crowned king of the Germans
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The black detah makes its first deadly strike on Europe infecting millions of people and there loved ones. One third of the population of europe was dead within the first year.
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1546-1547: Emperor Charles V defeats the Protestant princes and allies.Charles won to the Catholic cause some of the princes of the Holy Roman Empire. In 1546 he outlawed the Schmalkaldic League He drove the League's troops out of southern Germany and at the Battle of Mühlberg defeated John Frederick, Elector of Saxony and imprisoned Philip of Hesse in 1547.Protestant princes, in alliance with Henry II of France, rebelled against Charles in 1552, which caused Charles to retreat to the Netherlan
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Real German history begins with Charlemagne (768-814). The war with the Saxons was the most important one he carried on, and the result of this struggle, of fundamental importance for German history, was that the Saxons were brought into connexion with the other Germanic tribes and did not fall under Scandinavian influence.
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Charmagne dies in 840 near Ingelheim.
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The fame of Henry I was assured by his victory over the Magyars near Merseburg (933). By regaining Lorraine, that had been lost during the reign of Conrad, he secured a bulwark on the side towards France that permitted the uninterrupted consolidation of his realm.
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The saxons rule over all of germany
