Today in Germany History (Part 2)
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Historical Events
Results 101 - 200 of 1,716
1438-03-18 - Albrecht II von Habsburg becomes king of Germany
1452-03-09 - Pope Nicolaas I crowns Frederik III RC-German emperor
1452-03-19 - Frederick III of Hapsburg crowned Roman German Emperor
1488-02-05 - Roman catholic German emperor Maximilian I caught in Belgium
1492-05-15 - Cheese & Bread rebellion: German mercenaries kills 232 Alkmaarse
1492-10-24 - 24 Jews are burned at stake in Mecklenburg Germany
1493-08-19 - Maximilian I of Austria becomes Roman Catholic German emperor
1493-12-23 - Georg Alt's German translation of Hartmann Schedel's Nuremberg Chronicle is published.
1510-01-22 - Jews are expelled from Colmar Germany
1511-10-05 - Pope Julius II/Germany/Ferdinand of Aragon/Venice/Swiss
1519-06-28 - King Carlos I elected Roman Catholic German emperor Charles V
1520-10-23 - King Carlos I crowned, German emperor Charles V
1521-05-28 - Pope Leo X signs treaty with German emperor Charles V
1521-11-19 - Battle at Milan: Emperor Karel V's/pontifical/Spanish/German troops beat France & occupy Milan
1524-07-15 - Emperor Karel I bans German national synode
1524-07-19 - Boer War begins in Germany's Black Forest
1525-02-20 - Swiss & German mercenaries desert Francois I's army
1525-05-15 - German boer army surrounded/slaughters 5,000; ends Boer war
1525-07-19 - Catholic German monarchy form Union of Dessau
1526-05-02 - German evangelical monarchy joins Schmalkaldische League
1527-05-06 - Spanish & German Imperial troops sack Rome; ending Renaissance
1527-05-30 - U of Marburg (Germany) founded
1530-06-20 - German Parliament joins to Augsburg together
1531-02-27 - Evangelical German monarchy/towns form Schmalkaldische Union
1534-01-24 - Francois I signs classified treaty with evangelical German monarchy
1538-06-10 - Catholic German monarchy signs League of Neurenberg
1539-04-19 - Charles, protestant German monarch, signs Treaty of Frankrfurt
1544-05-23 - German emperor Charles V recognizes king Christian III of Denmark
1544-09-18 - Charles V of Germany & Francis I of France sign Peace of Crepy
1544-09-18 - Peace of Crépy: German emperor Charles V & French king Francois I
1545-03-24 - German Parliament opens in Worms
1547-05-16 - Protestant German monarch surrenders to Karel in Wittenberg
1547-09-01 - Charles demands creation of Imperial League (German state)
1552-01-15 - France signs secret treaty with German Protestants
1558-12-29 - Charles V, German emperor, buried
1577-07-24 - Spanish army/German mercenaries conquer Namur
1591-02-03 - German monarchy forms Protestant Union of Torgau
1596-10-24 - -26] Battle at Kerestes: Ottoman beat Austria-Hungary & Germany
1597-08-11 - Germany throws out English sales people
1609-07-10 - Catholic German monarchy forms Catholic League
1610-01-01 - German astronomer Simon Marius 1st discovers the Jupiter moons, but does not officially report it, Galileo does on July 1 1610
1614-09-01 - Vincent Fettmich expels Jews from Frankfurt-on-Main, Germany
1622-01-07 - Germany & Transylvania sign Peace of Nikolsburg
1625-04-07 - Albrecht von Wallenstein appointed German supreme commander
1630-07-03 - Emperor Ferdinand II opens German Parliament
1631-01-23 - France & Sweden sign anti-German Treaty of Barwald
1631-05-20 - German army under earl Johann Tilly conquerors Maagdenburg
1631-05-20 - The city of Magdeburg in Germany is seized by forces of the Holy Roman Empire and most of its inhabitants massacred, in one of the bloodiest incidents of the Thirty Years' War.
1633-04-23 - Sweden & Protestant German monarchy form Union of Heilbronn
1634-08-26 - Battle at Nordlingen Bavarian: emperor Ferdinand II & Spain beat Sweden & German protestants
1634-09-05 - -6] Battle at Nordlingen: King Ferdinand III & Spain beat Sweden & German protestants
1634-09-06 - Battle at Nordlingen ends in Swedish/protestant German defeat
1634-10-11 - the Burchardi flood — "the second Grote Mandrenke" killed around 15,000 men in North Friesland, Denmark and Germany.
1653-05-24 - German Parliament selects Ferdinand II king of Austria
1656-12-01 - Germany promises Poland aid against Sweden
1671-11-01 - French King Louis XIV & RC German emperor Leopold I sign secret anti-Dutch treaty
1674-05-28 - German Parliament declares war on France
1679-02-05 - German emperor Leopold I signs peace with France
1683-07-24 - 1st settlers from Germany to US, leave aboard Concord
1683-09-15 - Germantown Pa founded by 13 immigrant families
1683-10-06 - 13 Mennonite families from Germany found Germantown Pa (Phila)
1684-08-15 - Spain & Germany sign cease fire with France
1686-07-09 - Germany, Sweden & Spain signs anti-French League of Augsburg
1688-02-18 - Quakers conduct 1st formal protest of slavery in Germantown, Pa
1688-09-24 - France declares war on German
1689-02-15 - German Parliament declares war on France
1690-01-14 - Clarinet invented, in Nurnberg, Germany
1697-10-30 - Germany signs French/English/Spanish/Neth/Brandenburgs peace treaty ending 9 year War
1699-03-04 - Jews are expelled from Lubeck Germany
1701-09-07 - Germany, England & Netherlands sign anti-French covenant
1704-08-13 - French & Bavarian forces were routed by a combined British, German & Dutch army at Blenheim, Germany
1707-10-17 - German composer Johann S Bach marries his niece Maria Bach
1709-09-03 - 1st major group of Swiss/German colonists reaches NC/SC
1717-01-14 - German mob leader "Sjako" sentenced to death in Amsterdam
1719-09-23 - Liechtenstein declares independence from German empire
1733-09-26 - France, Spain & Sardinia sign anti-German covenant
1735-03-13 - 1st US Moravian bishop, David Nitschmann, consecrated in Germany
1742-01-24 - German leaders elect Charles VII Albert Emperor
1745-09-12 - Duke of Toscane chosen German emperor Frans I Stefanus
1757-01-17 - German Diet declares war on Prussia
1758-06-23 - Seven Years' War: Battle of Krefeld - British forces defeat French troops at Krefeld in Germany.
1775-04-11 - The last execution for witchcraft in Germany takes place.
1777-09-27 - Battle of Germantown; Washington defeated by British [NS=Oct 6]
1777-10-04 - Battle of Germantown
1777-10-04 - Gen George Washington's troops attacked British at Germantown Pa
1777-10-05 - Washington begins assault on Germantown, Penn
1777-10-06 - Battle of Germantown; Washington defeated by British [OS=Sept 27]
1780-04-16 - The University of Münster in Münster, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany is founded.
1793-03-18 - The first republican state in Germany, the Republic of Mainz, is declared by Andreas Joseph Hofmann.
1803-02-25 - 1,800 sovereign German states unite into 60 states
1804-09-01 - Juno, one of the largest main belt asteroids, was discovered by German astronomer Karl Ludwig Harding.
1811-01-08 - Louisiana slave revolt by Charles Deslondes at German Coast
1812-01-09 - Swedish Pomerania (Germany) seized by Napoleon
1813-10-20 - German Kingdom of Westphalia abolished
1814-09-05 - -15] Battle at Masurische Meren: Germans chase Russ out of E Prussia
1814-11-28 - The Times in London is for the first time printed by automatic, steam powered presses built by the German inventors Friedrich Koenig and Andreas Friedrich Bauer, signaling the beginning of the availability of newspapers to a mass audience.
1815-06-08 - 39 German states unite under Act of Confederation
1816-03-06 - Jews are expelled from Free city of Lubeck Germany
1829-10-17 - German 1st assassination on abandoned teenager Kaspar Hauser
1834-01-01 - German Tolunie goes into effect
Famous Birthdays
Results 101 - 200 of 2,503
1564-03-09 - David Fabricius, Essens Germany, astronomer (discoved variable star)
1569-11-11 - Martin Ruland the Younger, German physician and alchemist (d. 1611)
1571-02-15 - Michael Praetorius, Kreuzberg Germany, composer (Syntagma music)
1571-12-27 - Johannes Kepler, German astronomer (d. 1630)
1573-01-10 - Simon Marius, German astronomer (d. 1624)
1573-02-28 - Elias Hill, German architect/city builder (Augsburg)
1575-07-25 - Christoph Scheiner, Germany, astronomer
1576-05-27 - Caspar Schoppe, German scholar (d. 1649)
1578-03-18 - Adam Elsheimer, German painter/cartoonist/etcher, baptized
1578-07-09 - Ferdinand II, King of Bohemia/Hungary/German Emperor (1619-37)
1582-10-17 - Johann Gerhard, German Lutheran leader (d. 1637)
1583-09-24 - Albrecht Eusebius Wenzel von Wallenstein, German general
1586-01-20 - Johann Hermann Schein, German composer (Fontana d'Israel)
1586-08-17 - Johann V Andreae, German vicar/writer (Christenburg)
1587-11-04 - Samuel Scheidt, German organist/composer, baptised
1587-11-16 - Joost van den Vondel, Cologne Germany, Dutch poet/dramatist (Jephtha)
1591-02-25 - Friedrich von Spee, German writer (d. 1635)
1592-04-20 - John Eliot, St Germans Cornwall, English MP/author
1592-05-01 - Johann A Schall von Bell, German missionaries/astronomer
1593-05-20 - Salomo Glassius, German theologian (d. 1656)
1595-05-27 - Benedictus Carpzovius, [Benedikt Carpzov], German lawyer
1597-12-23 - Martin Opitz, Germany, poet "Father of Modern German Poetry"
1599-09-20 - Christian the Younger, German Protestant military leader (d. 1623)
1601-05-02 - Athanasius Kircher, German Jesuit/inventor (magic lantern)
1602-01-06 - Karl Rabenhaupt, German/Dutch baron of Sucha/army leader
1604-01-04 - Jacob Balde, German jesuit/barok conductor (Jephthe)
1604-07-08 - Heinrich Albert, Germany, composer (Arien oder Melodien)
1605-07-29 - Simon Dach, German poet
1605-09-23 - Daniel von Czepko, German poet
1607-03-12 - Paul Gerhardt, German hymnist (d. 1676)
1607-11-01 - Georg Philipp Harsdorffer, German poet (d. 1658)
1608-02-05 - Gaspar Schott, German mathematician (d. 1666)
1608-07-13 - Ferdinand III, King of Hungary/Bohemia/German Emperor (1637-57)
1610-03-01 - Johann B Schup, [Schuppius], German poet/historian
1611-09-08 - Johann Friedrich Gronovius, German classical scholar (d. 1671)
1612-06-23 - Justus G Schottel, [Schottelius], German poet
1615-06-27 - Johann Paul Schor, German Baroque painter
1616-05-19 - Johann Jacob Froberger, German singer/organist/composer
1616-10-11 - Andreas Gryphius, German writer (d. 1664)
1617-08-13 - Johann A Quenstedt, German Lutherian theologist
1619-10-08 - Philipp von Zesen, German poet/historian (Amsterdam)
1620-01-31 - Georg F von Waldeck, German commander-in-chief
1620-12-18 - Heinrich Roth, German Sanskrit scholar (d. 1668)
1622-02-24 - Johannes Clauberg, German theologian and philosopher (d. 1665)
1624-06-15 - Hiob Ludolf, German orientalist (d. 1704)
1624-12-25 - Angelus Silesius, [Johann Scheffler], German mystic (St Seelenlust)
1626-12-20 - Veit Ludwig von Seckendorff, German statesman (d. 1692)
1628-01-01 - Christoph Bernhard, German composer
1632-01-08 - Samuel, Freiherr von Pufendorf, German jurist
1632-01-29 - Johann Georg Graevius, German classical scholar and critic (d. 1703)
1632-05-08 - Heino Heinrich Graf von Flemming, German marshal (d. 1706)
1632-08-02 - Kaspar von Stieler, German poet (Teutsche Wolredner)
1633-09-08 - Ferdinand IV of Germany (d. 1654)
1634-01-07 - Adam Krieger, German composer
1635-01-13 - Philipp Jakob Spener, German theologian (d. 1705)
1635-02-01 - Marquard Gude, German archaeologist (d. 1689)
1637-08-16 - Emilie Juliane of Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt, German countess and poet (d. 1706)
1638-03-14 - Johann Georg Gichtel, German mystic (d. 1710)
1639-02-06 - Daniel Georg Morhof, German writer and scholar (d. 1691)
1642-06-20 - George Hickes, English linguistic (Old German Philology)
1642-12-06 - Johann Christoph Bach, German composer (d. 1703)
1644-07-02 - Abraham a Santa Clara, [Johann Megerle], German court vicar
1645-02-09 - Johann Aegidius Bach, German violistian (d. 1716)
1646-07-01 - G W Leibniz, German mathematician/philosopher; postulated monads
1646-07-29 - Johann Theile, German composer (Adam & Eve)
1646-08-08 - Godfrey Kneller, German-born painter (d. 1723)
1647-08-12 - Johann Heinrich Acker, German writer (d. 1719)
1648-08-09 - Johann Michael Bach, German composer (d. 1694)
1651-04-10 - Ehrenfried Walther von Tschirnhaus, German mathematician (d. 1708)
1651-09-16 - Engelbert Kaempfer, German physician and traveler (d. 1716)
1652-05-27 - Elisabeth C "Liselotte" van de Palts, German/French duchess of Orleans
1652-12-09 - Augustus Quirinus Rivinus, German physician (d. 1723)
1653-01-07 - Bernhard Albinus, Germany, court-physician (Frederick of Prussia)
1653-05-30 - Claudia Felicitas of Austria, Empress consort of Germany (d. 1676)
1654-03-16 - Andreas Acoluthus, German orientalist (d. 1704)
1655-01-01 - Christian Thomasius, German jurist (d. 1728)
1656-02-20 - Johannes Schenck, German/Neth composer, baptised
1660-02-19 - Friedrich Hoffmann, German physician and chemist (d. 1742)
1660-03-28 - Georg Ludwig, German monarch of Hannover/King George I of Gt Britain
1660-05-20 - Andreas Schlüter, German sculptor (d. 1714)
1660-10-21 - Georg Ernst Stahl, German scientist (d. 1734)
1660-11-15 - Hermann von der Hardt, German historian (d. 1746)
1660-11-20 - Daniel Ernst Jablonski, German theologian (d. 1741)
1660-12-26 - Peter Schenck, German/Neth engraver/publisher, baptised
1661-09-02 - Georg Bohm, German organist/composer
1662-05-03 - Matthäus Daniel Pöppelmann, German architect (d. 1736)
1663-03-22 - August Hermann Francke, German Protestant minister (d. 1727)
1665-02-12 - Rudolph J Camerarius, German botanist/physician (sexuality plant)
1665-03-27 - Benjamin Neukirch, German poet (Herrn von Hofmannswaldau)
1666-03-15 - Georg Baehr, German master builder (Frauenkirche, Dresden)
1666-03-15 - George Bähr, German architect (d. 1738)
1666-07-10 - John Ernest Grabe, German-born Anglican theologian (d. 1711)
1666-09-05 - Gottfried Arnold, German theologist/historian/songwriter
1667-11-05 - Christoph Ludwig Agricola, German painter (d. 1719)
1668-11-11 - Johann Albert Fabricius, German scholar and bibliographer (d. 1736)
1676-07-14 - Caspar Abel, German theologian, historian, and poet (d. 1763)
1677-02-04 - Johann Ludwig Bach, German composer (d. 1731)
1678-07-26 - Joseph I Habsburg, German king/Roman catholic emperor (1705-11)
1679-01-24 - Christian von Wolff, German philosopher
1679-10-20 - Samuel von Cocceji, German lawyer
Famous Deaths
Results 101 - 200 of 1,653
1517-01-01 - Hermann Vischer, the Younger, German bronze merchant, dies
1519-01-12 - Maximilian I of Hapsburg, German kaiser, dies
1519-09-21 - Hans Backofen/Backoffen, German sculptor, dies at about 49
1519-11-30 - Michael Wolgemut, German painter (Weltchronik), dies at about 85
1523-08-29 - Ulrich von Hutten, German poet/humanist/patriot, dies at 35
1525-05-27 - Thomas Muentzer, German rebel leader
1525-12-30 - Jacob Fugger, German banker/merchant, dies at 66
1526-03-30 - Konrad Mutian, German humanist (b. 1471)
1527-11-08 - Jerome Emser, German theologian (b. 1477)
1528-04-06 - Albrecht Durer, German painter/graphic artist, dies in Germany at 56
1529-01-07 - Peter Vischer, the Old, German count of Sebaldus, dies
1529-04-19 - John Cuspinianus, [Spiessheimer], German physician, dies at about 55
1531-02-16 - Johannes Stöffler, German mathematician and astronomer (b. 1452)
1531-07-08 - Tilman Riemenschneider, German sculptor, dies at 71
1531-11-24 - Johannes Oecolampadius, German religious reformer (b. 1482)
1535-02-18 - Agrippa von Nettesheim, German royal astrologer, dies at 48
1536-01-22 - Bernhard Knipperdolling, German religious leader (b. 1495)
1536-02-25 - Berthold Haller, German-born reformer (b. 1492)
1537-09-04 - Johann Dietenberger, German theologian (b. c. 1475)
1538-02-12 - Albrecht Altdorfer, German painter, dies at about 57
1539-05-01 - Isabella of Portugal, queen of Spain and empress of Germany (b. 1503)
1540-03-30 - Matthäus Lang von Wellenburg, German statesman and Archbishop of Salzburg (b. 1469)
1540-10-04 - Helius Eobanus Hessus, German humanist/poet (Silvae), dies
1541-08-01 - Simon Grynaeus, German theologian (b. 1493)
1545-01-16 - George Spalatin, German reformer (b. 1484)
1547-01-16 - Johannes Schöner, German astronomer and cartographer (b. 1477)
1548-08-06 - Georg Rhau/Rhaw, German cantor/composer/music publisher, dies
1548-11-16 - Caspar Cruciger, German church reformer, dies at 44
1549-01-28 - Elia Levita, German-Yiddish writer (Habachur), dies at about 80
1550-09-08 - Hans [Johann] Vischer, German count of Johann Cicero, dies
1552-01-11 - Johannes Cochlaeus, [Dobeneck], German humanist/theologist, dies
1552-02-26 - Heinrich Faber, German composer
1552-04-21 - Peter Apianus, [Bennewitz/Bienewitz], German astronomer, dies at 50
1552-08-15 - Hermann of Wied, German Catholic archbishop (b. 1477)
1553-02-19 - Erasmus Reinhold, German mathematician, dies at 41
1553-10-16 - Lucas Cranach Sr, German painter, dies at 81
1553-10-30 - Jacob Sturm von Sturmeck, German statesman and reformer (b. 1489)
1554-02-21 - Hieronymus Bock, German doctor (founder of modern botany), dies
1554-06-19 - Sixt[us] Birck [Xystus Betulius], German writer (Judith), dies at 53
1555-10-09 - Justus Jonas, German Protestant reformer (b. 1493)
1555-11-21 - Georg Agricola, [Bauer], German mineralogist (zinc), dies at 61
1556-06-10 - Martin Agricola [M Sore], German composer/cantor, dies
1556-10-31 - John Sleidanus, German humanist/historian (Commentary), dies at 50
1557-04-21 - Petrus Apianus, German mathematician (b. 1495)
1558-04-20 - Johannes Bugenhagen, German reformer (b. 1485)
1559-03-30 - Adam Ries, German mathematician (b. 1492)
1559-11-28 - Erasmus Sarcerius, German luthers theologist, dies at about 58
1560-11-07 - Peter S Lotichius, [Peter Lotz], German poet (Opera omnia), dies
1561-03-25 - Conrad Lycosthenes, French-born German philosopher and encyclopedist (b. 1518)
1563-02-02 - Hans Neusiedler, Hungarian/German luitist/author, dies at approx 54
1564-07-25 - Ferdinand I, German Emperor (1558-64), dies at 61
1564-10-18 - Johannes Acronius Frisius, German physician and mathematician (b. 1520)
1565-05-14 - Nicolaus von Amsdorf, German reform theologist, dies
1566-05-10 - Leonhard Fuchs, German botanist, dies at 65
1566-09-22 - John Agricola, [Schneider], German theologist/prime minister, dies
1567-04-18 - Wilhelm von Grumbach, German military man, dies at 63
1567-04-19 - Michael Stifel, German theologist/mathematician, dies at about 79
1568-05-23 - Adolf van Nassau, German son of Willem the Rich, dies in battle at 27
1571-07-17 - Georg Fabricius, German poet and historian (b. 1516)
1574-04-14 - Christoffel Palts, German general strategist, dies in battle
1574-04-17 - Joachim Camerarius, [Liebhard Kammerer], German philologist, dies
1574-11-28 - Georg Major, German Protestant theologian (b. 1502)
1576-02-10 - Guilielmus Xylander, German classical scholar (b. 1532)
1576-10-12 - Maximiliaan II, German king/Kaiser (1564-76), dies
1580-08-01 - Albrecht Giese, German politician and diplomat (b. 1524)
1581-10-23 - Michael Neander, German mathematician and astronomer (b. 1529)
1583-03-06 - Zacharias Ursinus, German theologist (Heidelberger), dies at 48
1586-01-25 - Lucas Cranach "the Young", German painter, dies at 70
1588-06-10 - Valentin Weigel, German mystic, dies
1589-11-14 - Philipp Apianus [Bennewitz/Bienewitz], German geographer, dies at 58
1590-01-07 - Jacob Andreae, German theologist (Formulae Concordiae), dies at 61
1590-11-29 - Philipp Nikodemus Frischlin, German philologist and poet (b. 1547)
1595-05-25 - Valens Acidalius, German critic and poet (b. 1567)
1596-01-21 - John Ligarius, German theologist/prime minister, dies at 66
1596-02-17 - Friedrich Sylburg, German classical scholar (b. 1536)
1596-09-15 - Leonhard Rauwolf, German physician and botanist (b. 1535 or 1540)
1597-01-29 - Elias Ammerbach, German organist (b. 1530)
1597-06-02 - Diederik Sonoy, German/Neth governor of Northern quarter, dies at 67
1597-12-18 - Barbara Blomberg, German mistress of emperor Karel, dies at 67
1598-10-11 - Joachim Camerarius, German botanist (horticulture catalog), dies
1602-02-03 - Paul Melissus, [Paul Schede], German poet/composer, dies at 62
1602-09-25 - Caspar Peucer, German reformer (b. 1525)
1607-10-26 - Philipp Nicolai, German Lutherian theologist/poet/composer, dies at 52
1610-12-11 - Adam Elsheimer, German painter/cartoonist/etcher, buried at 32
1610-12-31 - Ludolph van Ceulen, German mathematician (b. 1540)
1612-01-20 - Rudolf II von Habsburg, emperor of Germany (1576-1612), dies at 59
1615-03-04 - Hans von Aachen, German painter, dies
1616-07-25 - Andreas Libavius, German alchemist, dies
1616-10-23 - Leonhard Hutter, German theologian (b. 1563)
1617-05-07 - David Fabricius, German astronomer, dies at 53
1620-03-09 - Aegidius Albertinus, German writer (Lucifer's Kingdom), dies at 59
1620-03-25 - Johannes Nucius, German composer
1621-02-15 - Michael Praetorius, German composer (In Dulce Jubilo), dies at 50
1623-06-16 - Christian, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg-Wolfenbüttel, German Protestant military leader (b. 1599)
1625-03-07 - Johann Bayer, German astronomer (b. 1572)
1625-09-20 - Heinrich Meibom, German historian and critic (b. 1555)
1626-11-29 - Ernst, Graf von Mansfield, German soldier (c. 1580)
1628-02-20 - Gregor Aichinger, German composer/organist, dies at about 63
1628-06-08 - Rudolph Goclenius, German philosopher (b. 1547)
1630-11-15 - Johann Kepler, German astronomer, dies at 58
