Today in Germany History (Part 4)
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Historical Events
Results 301 - 400 of 1,716
1909-02-08 - France & Germany sign treaty about Morocco
1909-07-14 - Germany chancellor Bernhard von Bulow resigns
1910-01-19 - Germany & Bolivia ends commerce/friendship treaty
1910-01-22 - Opera "Germania," premieres in NYC
1910-04-24 - German Catholic youth movement Quickborn forms
1910-06-19 - 1st airship in service "Germany"
1911-03-08 - International Women's Day is launched in Copenhagen, Denmark, by Clara Zetkin, leader of the Women's Office for the Social Democratic Party in Germany.
1911-07-01 - German boat Panther nears for Agadir Morocco
1911-07-20 - Generals Henry Wilson/Auguste Dubail sign plan for British Expeditionary army in case of war with Germany
1911-07-31 - Hungarian education is only taught in German
1911-08-23 - British premier Asquith holds secret meeting about British strategy in case of war with Germany
1911-11-04 - France & Germany signs treaty about Morocco & Congo
1913-04-21 - German passenger ship Imperator runs aground
1914-07-05 - Germany offers Austria war aid to fight against Russia in Serbia
1914-07-25 - Germany soc-democrat "No German blood for Austrian tyrant"
1914-07-26 - German chief of staff/gen von Moltke states ultimatum on Belgium
1914-07-30 - French troops withdraw 10 km from German border
1914-07-31 - German Emperor Wilhelm II threatens war, orders Russia to demobilize
1914-08-01 - France & Germany mobilize
1914-08-01 - Trois Vierges: German 69th infantry regiment enter Luxembourg Germany declares war on Russia in WW I
1914-08-02 - Belgian govt receives German ultimatum
1914-08-02 - German press falsely reports that French bombed Nuremberg
1914-08-02 - German troops overthrows Luxembourg
1914-08-02 - Germany & Turkey signs secret treaty
1914-08-03 - Belgium rejects demand to allow free crossing for German army
1914-08-03 - German battle cruiser Goeben leaves Messina
1914-08-03 - Germany invades Belgium & declares war on France in WW I
1914-08-03 - Great Britain declares war on Germany
1914-08-03 - Turkey signs military pact with Germany
1914-08-04 - German army shoots Belgian priests/burns down village of Battice
1914-08-04 - German fleet under admiral Souchon fire on Algerian coast
1914-08-04 - Germany declares war on Belgium; Britain declares war on Germany
1914-08-05 - Massive German assault on forts around Luik
1914-08-05 - Westerschelde leaves due to German invasion in Belgium
1914-08-06 - German Zeppelin bombs Liege City, 9 killed
1914-08-06 - Serbia declares war against Germany
1914-08-07 - British Gloucester vs German Breslau/Goeben off Greece
1914-08-07 - German army occupies city of Liege Belgium
1914-08-08 - Montenegro declares war on Germany
1914-08-09 - German submarine U-15 sinks British cruiser
1914-08-10 - At Luik, German 12"/16.5" guns reach Belgian boundary
1914-08-10 - German battle cruiser Goeben reaches Dardanellen/Turkey joins Germany
1914-08-10 - German troops reconquer Mulhouse in Elzas
1914-08-12 - German 16.5"/12" guns fires on forts round Luik
1914-08-13 - -14] German army occupies forts at Luik
1914-08-15 - Dinant Belgium destroyed by German bombs
1914-08-15 - German assault at Dinant: Lt Charles de Gaulle (24), injured
1914-08-16 - German army occupies last fort at Luik, Belgian general Leman caught
1914-08-17 - Lithuiana surrenders to Germans
1914-08-19 - German army executed 150 Belgians by firing squad
1914-08-19 - German fleet bombs English coast
1914-08-20 - German General von Bulow executes 211 Belgians
1914-08-20 - Battle at Gumbinnen, East-Prussia: Russian beat Germans
1914-08-20 - Battle at Morhange: German troops chase French, killing 1000s
1914-08-20 - German army captured Brussels as the Belgian army retreated to Antwerp
1914-08-21 - Belgium: German troops occupy Tamines
1914-08-22 - 1st encounter between British & German troops (in Belgium)
1914-08-22 - German troops execute 384 inhabitants of Tamines Belgium
1914-08-23 - -24] German troops plunder Belgium
1914-08-23 - Japan declares war on Germany in World War I
1914-08-24 - Battle at Bergen: Germans defeat Belgian/British troops
1914-08-24 - German troops occupy Namur Belgium
1914-08-25 - Belgium: German army begins 6 week plundering of Leuven Belgium
1914-08-25 - German Zeppelins bomb Antwerp Belgium, 10 die
1914-08-25 - German troops march into France pushes French army to the Sedan
1914-08-26 - Battle of Tannenberg - 8th German army defeats Russian Narev army
1914-08-27 - 2nd day of battle at Tannenberg: German bombs Usdau
1914-08-28 - 3rd day of battle at Tannenberg: violent German/Russian battles
1914-08-28 - Battle at Helgoland: British fleet beats German, 1100 killed
1914-08-30 - 1st German plane bombs above Paris, 2 killed
1914-08-31 - German troops reconquer Soldau/Neidenburg East-Prussia
1914-08-31 - Germany defeats Russia (battle at Tannenberg/30,000 Russians die)
1914-09-04 - British, French & Russian govt sign Pact of London, against Germany
1914-09-04 - General von Moltke ceases German advance in France
1914-09-05 - Battle of Marne (WW I) begins: Germans chase out Russians
1914-09-06 - Battle of Marne; Germans prevented from occupying Paris
1914-09-09 - Battle of Marne (German advance stalls, Paris saved)
1914-09-11 - Australia invades New Britain, defeating a German contingent there.
1914-09-14 - German staff-chief von Moltke replaces von Falkenhayn
1914-09-14 - German troops withdraw from Aisne/invent trenches
1914-09-15 - Battle of Aisne begins between Germans & French during WW I
1914-09-18 - Battle of Aisne ends with Germans beating French during WW I
1914-09-18 - Gen von Hindenburgs named commander of German armies on Eastern Front
1914-09-18 - South African troops land in German South West Africa
1914-09-22 - 1 German submarine sinks 3 British ironclads, 1,459 die
1914-09-26 - Germans arrest A Max, mayor of Brussels
1914-09-28 - German forces move into Antwerp Belgium (WW I)
1914-10-09 - German troops take Antwerp in World War I
1914-10-10 - German forces route Belgians in Antwerp Belgium (WW I)
1914-10-11 - German troops occupy Gent
1914-10-13 - Pro-German Boers begin opposition of British authority in South Africa
1914-10-14 - German troops occupy Brug
1914-10-18 - The Schoenstatt Movement is founded in Germany.
1914-10-21 - Battle of Warsaw ends with German defeat
1914-10-28 - German battle cruiser Goeben enters Black Sea
1914-11-01 - German-British fleet battle at Coronel, Chile
1914-11-07 - Japan attack German concession on Chinese peninsula of Shanghai
1914-11-07 - The German colony of Kiaochow Bay and its centre at Tsingtao are captured by Japanese forces.
1914-11-12 - Turks sultan Jamal Pasja declares a German holy war
1914-11-22 - Ypres Belgium burned by German bombing
Famous Birthdays
Results 301 - 400 of 2,503
1736-11-11 - Johann H Schepp, German/Neth engraver
1738-11-15 - F William Herschel, German/English astronomer (discovered Uranus)
1740-03-19 - Joseph F Weigl, German/Austrian(?), violin cellist
1740-08-15 - Matthias Claudius, German poet (d. 1815)
1740-09-12 - Johann Heinrich Jung, German author (d. 1817)
1741-03-13 - Jozef II, arch duke of Austria/RC German emperor (1765-90)
1741-08-25 - Karl Friedrich Bahrdt, German theologian (d. 1792)
1741-09-11 - Johann J Angel, German author (Herr Lorenz Stark)
1741-09-22 - Peter S Pallas, German geologist/zoologist (Siberia/Krim)
1742-07-01 - Georg C Lichtenberg, German physicist/writer (types of Lichtenberg)
1742-10-12 - Johan Peter Melchior, German sculptor
1742-12-16 - Gebhard Fürst Blücher von Wahlstatt, German Field Marshal (d. 1819)
1742-12-25 - Charlotte von Stein, German friend of Goethe (d. 1827)
1743-02-23 - Mayer Amschel Rothschild, German-born banker (d. 1812)
1743-12-01 - Martin H Klaproth, German chemist (uranium)
1744-07-19 - Heinrich Christian Boie, German author (d. 1806)
1744-08-25 - Johann G von Herder, German philosopher/theologist/poet
1746-02-16 - Johann Heinse, German Sturm und Drang novelist/art critic
1747-03-31 - Johann A P Schulz, German composer
1747-03-31 - Johann Abraham Peter Schulz, German composer (Moon has Risen)
1748-02-05 - Christian Gottlob Neefe, German composer/conductor/tutor of Beethoven
1750-03-16 - Caroline Lucretia Herchel, Hanover, Germany, 1st mod woman astronomer
1750-11-07 - Friedrich Leopold Graf zu Stolberg, German poet (d. 1819)
1751-02-20 - Johann Heinrich Voß, German poet (d. 1826)
1751-04-09 - Emanuel Schikaneder, [Johann Schickeneder], German playwright [or 9/1]
1752-02-17 - Friedrich M Klinger, German playwright (Wirrwarr)
1752-05-11 - Johann Friedrich Blumenbach, German anthropologist (d. 1840)
1752-05-14 - Albrecht Thaer, German agronomist (d. 1828)
1753-04-28 - Franz K Achard, German physicist
1753-11-03 - August G Meissner, German author
1755-04-10 - Samuel Hahnemann, German physician/originator of homeopathy
1756-02-22 - Georg Friedrich von Martens, German diplomat (d. 1821)
1756-07-02 - Christian G Korner, German lawyer/father of Karl
1756-11-30 - Ernst Chladni, German physicist (d. 1827)
1757-01-19 - Augusta Reuss-Ebersdorf, German Princess (d. 1831)
1758-03-09 - Franz Joseph Gall, German/French physician (frenology)
1759-02-15 - Friedrich A Wolfius, [Wolf], German philological (Prolegomena)
1759-05-01 - Jacob Albright, [Albrecht], German/US predictor
1759-11-10 - Frederich von Schiller, Germany, poet/lyricist (Ode to Joy)
1759-11-10 - Friedrich von Schiller, German writer (d. 1805)
1761-01-23 - Friedrich von Matthison, German poet (Adelaide)
1761-05-03 - August von Kotzebue, German dramatist (d. 1819)
1761-07-25 - Charlotte von Kalb, German writer
1762-01-23 - Christian A Vulpius, Germany, writer (Rinaldo Rinaldini)
1762-05-19 - Johann G Fichte German philosopher (Wissenschaftslehre)
1763-02-03 - Caroline von Wolzogen, [von Lengefeld], German author
1763-07-17 - John Jacob Astor, Germany, richest man in US, banker/fur trader
1763-09-02 - Caroline von Schelling, [Michaelis], German author
1763-10-24 - Dorothea von Schlegel, German novelist (d. 1839)
1764-05-20 - J Gottfried Schadow, German sculptor/cartoonist/lithographer
1765-03-27 - Franz Xaver von Baader, German philosopher/theologist
1765-06-15 - Johann Gottlieb Friedrich von Bohnenberger, German mathematician (d. 1831)
1765-12-22 - Johann Friedrich Pfaff, German mathematician (d. 1825)
1766-01-25 - Hans CE Freiherr von Gagern, German advisor to Dutch king Willem I
1766-04-15 - Friedrich Bouterwek, German philosopher/critic
1766-10-22 - Hans CE Freiherr von Gagern, German advisor to Dutch king
1766-11-24 - J J Friedrich Weinbrenner, German architect/archaeologist
1767-04-27 - Andreas Jakob Romberg, German violinist/composer (Song of the Clock)
1767-06-22 - Wilhelm von Humboldt, German philosopher and statesman (d. 1835)
1767-09-05 - August Wilhelm Schlegel, German poet/translator/critic
1767-11-11 - Bernhard Romberg, German cellist/composer/royal chaplain bandmaster
1768-11-21 - Friedrich Schleiermacher, German theologist/philosopher
1769-09-14 - Alexander von Humboldt, German naturalist and explorer (d. 1859)
1770-03-20 - Friedrich Hölderlin, German writer (d. 1843)
1770-04-09 - Thomas Johann Seebeck, German physicist (d. 1831)
1770-08-27 - Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, German philosopher/inventor (dialectic)
1770-09-19 - Johann G Repsold, German instrument maker
1770-10-22 - Thomas Seebeck, Baltic German physicist (d. 1831)
1770-12-16 - Ludwig van Beethoven, Bonn Germany, composer (5th Symphony, Ode to Joy)
1771-02-24 - Johann Baptist Cramer, German/British pianist/composer/publisher
1771-03-10 - Georg F Creuzer, German philological/historian (Idea und Probe)
1771-05-26 - Rahel Varnhagen von Ense-Levin, German saloon owner/author
1771-09-17 - Johann August Apel, German jurist and writer (d. 1816)
1772-03-10 - Friedrich von Schlegel, Germany, romantic writer/critic (Lucinde)
1772-05-04 - Friedrich Arnold Brockhaus, German publisher (d. 1823)
1773-06-03 - Caspar G C Reinwardt, German/Dutch biologist
1773-07-13 - Wilhelm H Wackenroder, German writer (Fantasies about Art)
1773-08-23 - Jakob F Fries, German philosopher
1774-04-26 - Christian Leopold von Buch, German geologist (d. 1853)
1774-09-08 - Anna K Emmerick/Emmerich, German poet
1775-01-27 - Friedrich von Schelling, Germany, philosopher (Views on Christianity)
1775-04-22 - Georg Hermes, German philosopher/theologist (Hermenianen)
1775-08-26 - William Joseph Behr, German writer (d. 1851)
1776-01-24 - Ernst Theodor Amadeus Hoffmann, German writer/judge/composer (Undine)
1776-05-04 - Johann Friedrich Herbart, Germany, philosopher/psychologist
1776-08-15 - Gottlieb Schick, German painter (Apollo under the Hirten)
1776-12-03 - Johann Spurzheim, German neuroscientist (d. 1832)
1776-12-16 - Johann Wilhelm Ritter, German physicist (d. 1810)
1777-01-02 - Christian D Rauch, German sculptor
1777-02-12 - Friedrich de la Motte Fouqué, German poet (d. 1843)
1777-07-23 - Philipp Otto Runge, German painter (d. 1810)
1777-09-07 - Heinrich Stölzel, German musician and composer (d. 1844)
1777-10-18 - Heinrich von Kleist, Germany, dramatist/poet (Penthesilea)
1777-11-28 - Georg A Kestner, German art collector/diplomat
1778-09-08 - Clemens Brentano, German poet (d. 1842)
1779-02-21 - Friedrich C von Savigny, German lawyer
1779-08-01 - Lorenz Oken, German naturalist (d. 1851)
1780-01-10 - M Heinrich C Lichtenstein, German zoologist
1780-01-12 - Wilhelm M L de Wette, German exegetist/theologist
1780-02-19 - Friedrich H von der Hagen, German germanist (Nibelungenlied)
Famous Deaths
Results 301 - 400 of 1,653
1732-03-20 - Johann Ernst Hanxleden, German philologist (b. 1681)
1733-05-18 - Georg Bohm, German organist/composer, dies at 71
1734-05-24 - Georg Ernst Stahl, German physician and chemist (b. 1660)
1736-04-30 - Johann Albert Fabricius, German classical scholar and bibliographer (b. 1668)
1737-01-17 - Matthäus Daniel Pöppelmann, German architect (b. 1662)
1738-03-16 - Georg Baehr, German master builder (Frauenkirche, Dresden), dies at 72
1738-03-16 - George Bähr, German architect (b. 1666)
1740-10-05 - Johann Philipp Baratier, German scholar (b. 1721)
1740-10-20 - Karl VI, German emperor (1711-40), dies
1741-05-25 - Daniel Ernst Jablonski, German theologian (b. 1660)
1741-08-31 - Johann Gottlieb Heineccius, German jurist (b. 1681)
1742-09-24 - Johann Matthias Hase, German scientist (b. 1684)
1742-11-12 - Friedrich Hoffmann, German physician and chemist (b. 1660)
1744-07-14 - Immanuel J Pyra, German poet (Temple of True Poetry), dies at 28
1745-01-20 - Charles VII Albert, German emperor (1742-45), dies at 47
1746-02-28 - Hermann von der Hardt, German historian (b. 1660)
1746-11-14 - Georg Steller, German naturalist (b. 1709)
1747-01-16 - Barthold Heinrich Brockes, German poet (b. 1680)
1747-04-02 - Johann J Dillenius, German botanist, dies at 63
1748-03-23 - Johann Gottfried Walther, German composer/musicologist, dies at 63
1748-12-11 - Ewald G von Kleist, German lawyer/inventor of condensator, dies at 55
1750-06-02 - Johann Valentin Rathgeber, German composer, dies at 68
1750-07-28 - Johann Sebastian Bach, German composer (Art of the Fugue), dies at 65
1751-03-21 - Johann Heinrich Zedler, German publisher (b. 1706)
1752-11-05 - Carl Andreas Duker, German classical scholar (b. 1670)
1753-08-19 - [Johann] Balthasar Neumann, German architect, dies at 66
1754-04-09 - Christian von Wolff, German philosopher, dies at 75
1754-10-28 - Friedrich von Hagedorn, German poet (b. 1708)
1755-09-09 - Johann Lorenz von Mosheim, German historian (b. 1694)
1755-10-04 - Samuel von Cocceji, German lawyer, dies
1755-11-25 - Johann Georg Pisendel, German violist/composer, dies at 76
1756-04-13 - Johann T Gottlieb Goldberg, German klavecinist/composer, dies at 29
1756-12-11 - Theodor A Freiherr von Neuhoff, German adventurer/king, dies
1758-01-01 - Johann F von Cronegk, German playwright (Codrus), dies at 26
1758-03-02 - Johann Baptist Zimmermann, German stucco worker, buried at 78
1759-07-25 - Johann C Altnikol, German organist/klavecinist/composer, dies at 39
1759-08-08 - Karl Heinrich Graun, German composer, dies at 55
1759-08-24 - Ewald C von Kleist, German poet, dies at 44
1760-05-09 - Nicolaus Ludwig Zinzendorf, German religious and social reformer (b. 1700)
1761-08-03 - Johann Matthias Gesner, German classical scholar (b. 1691)
1762-02-20 - Tobias Mayer, German astronomer (b. 1723)
1762-03-04 - Johannes Zick, German fresco painter (b. 1702)
1762-05-26 - Alexander Gottlieb Baumgarten, German philosopher (b. 1714)
1762-07-20 - Christoph Nichelsmann, German klavecinist/composer, dies
1763-01-11 - Caspar Abel, German theologian, historian, and poet (b. 1676)
1763-10-28 - Heinrich, count von Brühl, German statesman (b. 1700)
1763-11-23 - Friedrich Graf von Seckendorf, German soldier (b. 1673)
1764-04-17 - Johann Mattheson, German composer/musicologist, dies at 82
1764-05-10 - Picander, [Christian Henrici], German writer (Die Weiberprobe), dies
1764-07-17 - Johann Mattheson, German composer, dies at 82
1764-11-20 - Christian Goldbach, German mathematician, dies
1765-08-18 - Frans I Stefanus, RC German emperor (1745-65), dies at 56
1766-11-16 - Dominikus Zimmermann, German architect/painter, dies at 81
1766-12-12 - Johann Christoph Gottsched, German writer (b. 1700)
1767-01-22 - Johann Gottlob Lehmann, German minterologist and geologist (b. 1719)
1767-06-25 - Georg Philipp Telemann, German late-barok composer, dies at 86
1768-03-01 - Hermann Samuel Reimarus, German philosopher and writer (b. 1694)
1768-05-27 - Johann M Fleischmann, German/Dutch stamp/letter designer, dies
1768-06-08 - Johann J Winckelmann, German archaeologist, dies at 50
1769-04-03 - Gerhard Tersteegen, German evangelist/poet (in blood), dies at 71
1770-09-09 - Bernard S Albinus, [Weiss], German surgeon/anatomist, dies at 73
1770-09-09 - Georg D Ehret, German/English cartoonist, dies at 62
1770-12-10 - Theophil "Gottlieb" Muffat, German court organist/composer, dies at 80
1771-02-08 - Augusta von Saxen-Gotha, German prince Frederick Louis of Wales, dies
1771-11-13 - Conrad E Ackermann, German actor/theater director, dies at 61
1772-05-01 - Gottfried Achenwall, German lawyer/statistics/economist, dies at 52
1772-06-18 - Johann Ulrich von Cramer, German judge and philosopher (b. 1706)
1773-07-12 - Johann Joachim Quantz, German royal flautist/composer, dies at 76
1773-10-21 - Johann Conrad Schlaun, German barok architect, dies at 78
1774-08-14 - Johann Jakob Reiske, German physician (b. 1716)
1774-12-02 - Johann Friedrich Agricola, German (court)composer/organist, dies at 54
1774-12-13 - Susanne K von Klettenberg, German friend of Goethes mother, dies at 50
1775-02-05 - Eusebius Amort, German Catholic theologian (b. 1692)
1775-06-23 - Karl Ludwig, Freiherr von Pöllnitz, German adventurer and writer (b. 1692)
1775-10-18 - Christian August Crusius, German philosopher and theologian (b. 1715)
1776-04-19 - Jacob Israel Emden, [Jacob ben Tswi], German rabbi, dies at 78
1776-04-22 - Johann Adolph Scheibe, German music theroist/composer, dies at 67
1777-06-22 - Josef Christian, German sculptor, dies at 71
1777-10-05 - Ján Andrej Segner, Slovak and German mathematician, physicist, and physician (b. 1704)
1778-06-16 - Konrad Ekhof, German actor (b. 1720)
1779-02-24 - Paul Daniel Longolius, German encylopedist (b. 1704)
1779-06-29 - Anton R Mengs, German writer/neo-classic painter Madrid, dies at 51
1780-02-17 - Andreas Felix von Oefele, German historian and librarian (b. 1706)
1781-07-29 - Johann Kies, German astronomer and mathematician (b. 1713)
1781-11-04 - Johann Nikolaus Götz, German poet (b. 1721)
1782-01-01 - Johann Christian Bach, German composer/Mozarts tutor, dies at 46
1782-02-10 - Friedrich Christoph Oetinger, German theologian (b. 1702)
1783-07-27 - Johann Philipp Kirnberger, German music theroist/violist, dies at 62
1784-04-30 - Franz K earl von Velbruck, German free mason, dies
1784-07-15 - Johan B Straub, South German sculptor, dies
1786-01-04 - Mozes Mendelssohn, Jewish/German philosopher (Haksalah), dies at 56
1787-06-20 - Carl Friedrich Abel, German/British viola player/composer, dies at 63
1787-10-07 - Henry Muhlenberg, German-born founder of the U.S. Lutheran Church (b. 1711)
1788-02-21 - Johann Georg Palitzsch, German astronomer (b. 1723)
1788-12-14 - Carl Phillip Emanuel Bach, German composer, dies at 74
1790-01-02 - Joseph A Feuchtmayer (Feichtmayer), German rococo sculptor, dies
1790-07-25 - Johann Bernhard Basedow, German education reformer (b. 1723)
1790-09-02 - Johann N von Hontheim, German religious historian/Bishop, dies
1791-03-14 - Johann Salomo Semler, German historian and Bible commentator (b. 1725)
1792-04-23 - Karl Friedrich Bahrdt, German theologian and adventurer (b. 1741)
