Today in Germany History (Part 5)
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Historical Events
Results 401 - 500 of 1,716
1914-12-06 - German troops over run Lodz
1914-12-08 - British & German fleets battle at Falkland Island
1914-12-15 - British fleet forfeits chance to destroy German fleet in North Sea
1914-12-16 - World War I: German battleships under Franz Von Hipper bombard the English ports of Hartlepool and Scarborough.
1914-12-24 - German plane drops bombs on Dover England
1914-12-25 - Legendary/unofficial "Christmas Truce" takes place (Brits & Germans)
1915-01-19 - 1st German Zeppelin attack over Great Britain, 4 die
1915-01-24 - German-British sea battle at Doggersbank & Helgoland
1915-01-30 - German submarine attack on Le Havre
1915-01-31 - 1st (German) poison gas attack, against Russians
1915-02-03 - Turkish & German army reach Suez Canal
1915-02-07 - 2nd Battle of Masurian Lakes: German armies surrounded a Russian army
1915-02-18 - Germany begins a blockade of England
1915-02-22 - Germany begins "unrestricted" submarine war
1915-02-23 - Germany sinks US ships Carib & Evelyn & torpedoes Norwegian ship Regin
1915-02-26 - Malancourt, Argonnen (1st (German) flame-thrower
1915-03-14 - German cruiser Dresden blows itself up near coast of Chile
1915-03-25 - German U boat torpedoes Neth merchant ship Medea
1915-04-14 - Dutch merchant navy ship Katwijk sunk by Germany torpedo
1915-04-18 - French pilot Roland Garros is shot down and glides to a landing on the German side of the lines during World War I.
1915-04-22 - 1st military use of poison gas (chlorine, by Germany) in WW I
1915-04-24 - German army fires chloroform gas in Ieper
1915-05-01 - German submarine sinks US ship Gulflight
1915-05-04 - Italy drops Triple Alliance with Austria-Hungaryb & Germany
1915-05-05 - German U-20 sinks Earl of Lathom
1915-05-06 - German U-20 sinks Centurion SE of Ireland
1915-05-07 - Lusitania sunk by German submarine; 1198 lives lost
1915-05-09 - German & French fight Battle of Artois
1915-05-23 - Italy declares war on Austria-Hungary & Germany during WW I
1915-06-10 - British/French troops conquer German colony of Cameroon
1915-06-20 - German offensive in Argonnes
1915-06-26 - Germany suppresses its "Vorwarts" newspaper after it called for peace
1915-07-09 - Germany surrenders South West Africa to Union of South Africa
1915-07-10 - British/South African troops march into German SW-Africa
1915-07-11 - Germany cruiser Königsberg sinks off Dar-es-Salam
1915-08-05 - German troops over run Warsaw
1915-08-05 - Warsaw, evacuated by the Russians, is occupied by Germans
1915-08-14 - British transport Royal Edward sank by German U boat kills 1000
1915-08-17 - German troops over run Kovno Lithuiana
1915-08-26 - German troops over run Brest-Litovsk, Russia
1915-09-25 - -26] Battle at Loos: 8,246 British & 0 German casualties
1915-10-08 - Battle of Loos, almost 430,000 French, British & Germans killed
1915-11-09 - Italian liner Ancona sinks by German torpedos, killing 272
1915-12-12 - 1st all-metal aircraft (Junkers J-1) test flown at Dessau Germany
1916-01-07 - German troops conquer Fort Vaux at Verdun
1916-01-28 - German colony of Cameroon surrenders to Britain & France
1916-01-29 - 1st bombings of Paris by German Zeppelins takes place
1916-02-25 - German troops conquer Fort Douaumont near Verdun
1916-02-26 - Germans sink French transport ship Provence II, killing 930
1916-03-01 - Germany begins attacking ships in the Atlantic
1916-03-09 - Germany declares war against Portugal
1916-03-14 - Battle of Verdun - German attack on Mort-Homme ridge, West of Verdun
1916-04-02 - German troops overtake Bois de Caillette
1916-04-06 - German parliament OKs unrestricted submarine warfare
1916-04-20 - German-British sea battle off Belgian coast
1916-05-04 - At request of US, Germany curtails its submarine warfare
1916-05-06 - Belgian troop march into Kigali, German East-Africa
1916-05-08 - German munitions bunker in Fort Douaumont explodes
1916-05-18 - US pilot Kiffin Rockwell shoots down German aircraft
1916-05-24 - US pilot William Thaw shoots down a German Fokker
1916-05-31 - Battle of Skagerrak: Brit-German sea battle at Jutland (10,000 dead)
1916-06-01 - German attack on Fort Vaux, Verdun
1916-06-02 - German troops under Lt Rackow take Fort Vaux
1916-06-07 - Germany troop march into Fort Faux, Verdun
1916-07-01 - Battle on the Somme: British 4th Army walks to German lines
1916-07-09 - 1st cargo submarine to cross Atlantic arrives in US from Germany
1916-07-30 - German saboteurs blow up a munitions plant on Black Tom Island, NJ
1916-08-28 - Germany declares war on Romania
1916-08-28 - Italy declares war against Germany during WW I
1916-08-29 - Gen Von Hindenburg becomes German Chief of Staff
1916-08-29 - Von Hindenburg replaces Von Falkenhayn as German chief of staff
1916-08-30 - Paul Von Hindenburg becomes chief-of-General-Staff in Germany
1916-09-03 - Allies turned back Germans in WW I's Battle of Verdun
1916-09-11 - German troops conquer Kavalla Greece
1916-09-17 - World War I: Manfred von Richthofen ("The Red Baron"), a flying ace of the German Luftstreitkräfte, wins his first aerial combat near Cambrai, France.
1916-09-19 - Belgian troops conquer Tabora, German East Africa
1916-11-26 - Greece declares war on Germany
1916-11-28 - 1st (German) air attack on London
1916-12-06 - German army under Gen Mackensen occupies Bucharest
1916-12-15 - French defeat Germans in WW I Battle of Verdun
1917-01-31 - Germany notifies US that U-boats will attack neutral merchant ship
1917-02-03 - US liner Housatonic sunk by German sub & diplomatic relations severed
1917-02-22 - German Navy torpedoes 7 Dutch ships
1917-02-24 - German plan to get Mexican help in WW I exposed (Zimmerman telegram)
1917-02-28 - AP reports Mexico & Japan will allie with Germany if US enters WW I
1917-04-02 - Pres Wilson asks Congress to declare war against Germany
1917-04-06 - US declares war on Germany, enters World War I
1917-05-10 - Atlantic ships get destroyer escorts to stop German attacks
1917-06-13 - Germany bombs London
1917-06-13 - World War I: the deadliest German air raid on London during World War I is carried out by Gotha G bombers and results in 162 deaths, including 46 children, and 432 injuries.
1917-06-14 - 1e German air attack on England, 100+ killed in East-London
1917-06-19 - After WW I King George V ordered members of British royal family to dispense with German titles & surnames, they take the name Windsor
1917-07-22 - British bomb German lines at Ypres, 4,250,000 grenades
1917-08-06 - World War I: Battle of Mărăşeşti between the Romanian and German armies begins.
1917-08-14 - China declares war on Germany & Austria at start of WW I
1917-08-17 - Italy declares war on Germany & Turkey
1917-09-03 - 1st night bombing of London by German fighter planes
1917-09-03 - German troops over run Riga Latvia
1917-09-06 - French pilot Georges Guynemer shoots down 54th German aircraft
1917-10-15 - World War I: At Vincennes outside of Paris, Dutch dancer Mata Hari is executed by firing squad for spying for Germany.
Famous Birthdays
Results 401 - 500 of 2,503
1780-03-27 - August L Crelle, German inventor/mathematician (1st Prussian Railway)
1781-01-26 - Ludwig Joachim "Achim" von Arnim, German poet (Des Knaben Wunderhorn)
1781-02-09 - Johann Baptist von Spix, German scientist (d. 1826)
1781-03-13 - Karl F Schinkel, German architect/painter/writer (Schloss Tegel)
1781-05-04 - Karl Christian Friedrich Krause, German philosopher (d. 1832)
1781-05-14 - Friedrich von Raumer, German historian/parliamentarian
1781-06-05 - Christian August Lobeck, German scholar (d. 1860)
1781-11-20 - Karl F Eichhorn, German law historian
1783-01-20 - Justus Johann Friedrich Dotzauer, German cellist and composer (d. 1860)
1783-12-11 - Max von Schenkendorf, German poet
1784-02-29 - Franz KL von Klenze, German architect (Hermitage, St-Petersburg)
1784-04-05 - Louis [Ludwig] Spohr, Germany, violin virtuoso/composer (Faust)
1784-07-22 - Friedrich W Bessel, German astronomer (star parallax, Bessel Function)
1785-01-04 - Jacob Ludwig Carl Grimm, Germany, librarian (fairy tale collector)
1785-01-04 - Jakob Grimm, German philologist and folklorist (d. 1863)
1785-02-21 - Karl A Varnhagen von Ense, German officer/author (Die Sterner)
1785-04-01 - J H Ferdinand Olivier, German painter
1785-04-04 - Bettina von Arnim, German writer (This Book Belongs to the King)
1785-10-31 - George F Kersting, German painter
1786-02-24 - Wilhelm Karl Grimm, Hanau Germany, story teller (Grimm's Fairy Tales)
1786-09-18 - Justinus AC Kerner, German family doctor/poet/writer
1786-12-18 - Carl Maria von Weber, Germany, romantic composer (Der Freischutz)
1787-03-06 - Joseph von Fraunhofer, Germany, physicist (studied Sun's spectrum)
1787-09-18 - Johann D Passavant, German historian/painter/graphic artist
1788-01-05 - Kaspar Ett, German organist/composer
1788-02-22 - Arthur Schopenhauer, Germany, philosopher (Great Pessimist)
1788-03-10 - Joseph Freiherr von Eichendorff, German poet (Das Marmorbild)
1788-04-05 - Franz Pforr, German painter/cartoonist (Lukasbund)
1788-05-10 - Catherine Pavlovna of Russia, German queen (d. 1819)
1788-05-16 - Friedrich Rückert, German Poet, Translator and Orientalist (d. 1866)
1788-08-02 - Leopold Gmelin, German chemist (d. 1853)
1788-08-26 - Aloys Schmitt, German music theory/composer/royal pianist
1788-09-06 - F Wilhelm von Schadow, German painter (Modern Vasari)
1789-01-03 - Carl G Carus, German physician/psychologist/philosopher
1789-01-17 - August Neander, German theologian (d. 1850)
1789-02-09 - Franz Xaver Gabelsberger, German inventor of the stenography (d. 1849)
1789-03-16 - Georg Simon Ohm, German physicist (d. 1854)
1790-03-14 - Ludwig Emil Grimm, German painter and engraver (d. 1863)
1790-03-15 - Ludwig Immanuel Magnus, German mathematician (d. 1861)
1790-11-17 - August Ferdinand Möbius, German mathematician (d. 1868)
1791-04-23 - W Friedrich Olivier, German landscape painter/cartoonist
1791-09-05 - Giacomo Meyerbeer, Vogelsdorf Germany, composer (Golt Und Die Natur)
1791-09-23 - Johann F Encke, German astronomer (Encke Comet)
1791-09-23 - Karl T Korner, German poet (Zriny, Leyer und Schwerdt)
1792-02-28 - Karl Earnest Ritter von Baer, Estonian/German embryologist
1792-10-12 - Christian Gmelin, German chemist (d. 1860)
1793-03-04 - Karl Lachmann, German philologist (d. 1851)
1793-04-15 - Friedrich Struve, Germany, founded dynasty of astronomers
1794-03-26 - Julius Schnorr von Carolsfeld, German painter (d. 1872)
1794-04-09 - Theobald Boehm, German inventor of the modern flute (d. 1881)
1794-04-17 - Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius, German botanist (d. 1868)
1794-05-29 - Johann Heinrich von Mädler, German astronomer (d. 1874)
1794-07-03 - Eberhard F Walcker, German organ builder (Paulskirche Frankfurt)
1794-08-10 - Leopold Zunz, German scientist (Synagogical Poetry)
1794-08-17 - Prince Alexander of Hohenlohe-Waldenburg-Schillingsfürst, German priest (d. 1849)
1794-10-24 - Friedrich B Freiherr von Gagern, German/Dutch army commandant
1795-02-08 - Friedlieb F Runge, German chemist (Chinoline)
1795-03-28 - Georg Heinrich Pertz, German historian (d. 1876)
1795-04-19 - Christian Gottfried Ehrenburg, German zoologist
1795-05-15 - Adolf B Marx, German music theorist
1795-06-24 - Ernst Heinrich Weber, German anatomist and physiologist (d. 1878)
1795-09-04 - Friedrich [August] von Alberti, German geologist (Triasic Age)
1795-10-15 - Frederik Willem IV, king of Prussia (1840-61)/Germany (1849-61)
1795-11-26 - Carl P Fohr, German painter
1795-12-21 - Leopold von Ranke, German historian (d. 1886)
1796-02-17 - Philipp Franz von Siebold, German physician (d. 1866)
1796-05-09 - August Pauly, German classicus (Real Encyclopedia)
1796-12-29 - Johann Christian Poggendorff, German physicist (d. 1877)
1797-01-04 - Wilhelm Beer, Germany, amateur astronomer (constructed 1st Moon map)
1797-01-10 - Annette von Droste-Hülshoff, German writer (d. 1848)
1797-02-22 - William I, Berlin, King of Prussia (1861-88)/German Emperor (1871-88)
1797-03-22 - Kaiser Wilhelm I, German emperor (1871-88)
1797-07-18 - Immanuel Hermann Fichte, German philosopher (d. 1879)
1797-12-13 - Heinrich Heine, Germany, poet/lyricist (Schubert, Liszt)
1798-01-24 - Karl von Staudt, German math professor (projective geometrician)
1798-06-21 - Wolfgang Menzel, German writer (d. 1873)
1798-09-11 - Franz E Neumann, German mineralogist/mathematician/physicist
1799-03-28 - Karl Adolph von Basedow, German artist (Ziekte van Basedow)
1799-04-13 - Heinrich F L Rellstab, German music theorist
1799-08-20 - Heinrich WA Freiherr von Gagern, German liberal politician
1800-03-03 - Heinrich Georg Bronn, German geologist (d. 1862)
1800-05-30 - Karl W Feuerbach, German mathematician (Position of Feuerbach)
1800-07-09 - Friedrich Gustav Jakob Henle, German physician (d. 1885)
1801-04-19 - Gustav T Fechner, [Dr Mises], German philosopher/physicist
1801-06-16 - Julius Plücker, German mathematician and physicist (d. 1868)
1801-07-14 - Johannes Peter Müller, German physiologist (d. 1858)
1801-11-03 - Karl Baedeker, Germany, published travel books
1801-11-24 - Ludwig Bechstein, German poet (d. 1860)
1802-08-13 - Nikolaus Lenau, Hungary, German poet (Faust, Die Albigenser)
1802-09-13 - Arnold Ruge, German philosopher and writer (d. 1880)
1802-11-14 - August F Pott, German philologist (Etymology Forschungen)
1803-05-12 - Justus Freiherr von Liebig, German chemist (agricultural chemics)
1803-10-06 - Heinrich Wilhelm Dove, German physicist (d. 1879)
1803-11-29 - Gottfried Semper, German architect (d. 1879)
1804-02-12 - Heinrich Lenz, German physicist (d. 1865)
1804-02-16 - Karl Theodor Ernst von Siebold, German physiologist (d. 1885)
1804-02-19 - Carl Freiherr von Rokitansky, German physician (d. 1878)
1804-06-10 - Hermann Schlegel, German ornithologist (d. 1884)
1804-07-28 - Ludwig A Feuerbach, German philosopher (Man is what he eats)
1804-09-08 - Eduard Mörike, German poet (d. 1875)
Famous Deaths
Results 401 - 500 of 1,653
1792-10-28 - Paul Möhring, German physician and scientist (b. 1710)
1793-12-23 - Johann Adolph Hasse, German composer (b. 1699)
1794-01-08 - Justus Möser, German statesman (b. 1720)
1794-01-10 - Georg Forster, German scientist and revolutionary (d. 1754)
1796-05-12 - Johann P Uz, German poet (Theodicee), dies at 75
1797-02-22 - Karl Friedrich Hieronymus Freiherr von Münchhausen, German officer and adventurer (b. 1720)
1798-01-20 - Christian Cannabich, German composer/royal chaplain master, dies at 66
1798-01-26 - Christian Gottlob Neefe, German organist/composer, dies at 49
1798-02-13 - Wilhelm H Wackenroder, German writer (Fantasies of Art), dies at 24
1798-04-11 - Karl Wilhelm Ramler, German poet (b. 1725)
1798-04-29 - Nikolaus Poda von Neuhaus, German entomologist (b. 1723)
1798-12-09 - Johann Reinhold Forster, German botanist (b. 1729)
1799-02-24 - Georg C Lichtenberg, German physicist/writer, dies at 56
1800-06-10 - Johann Abraham Peter Schulz, German composer, dies at 53
1800-06-20 - Abraham Gotthelf Kästner, German mathematician (b. 1719)
1801-10-23 - Johann Gottlieb Naumann, German composer, dies at 60
1802-06-28 - Johann J Angel, German author/director, dies at 60
1802-08-10 - Aepinus, [Franz UT Hoch], German physician/physicist, dies at 77
1803-03-14 - Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock, German poet, dies at 78
1803-12-18 - Johann G von Herder, German philosopher/theologist/poet, dies at 59
1804-02-12 - Immanuel Kant, German philosopher (Zum ewigen Frieden), dies at 79
1805-07-09 - Georg W "Franz" Panzer, German vicar/librarian, dies at 76
1806-09-10 - Johann C Adelung, German translator/librarian, dies at 74
1807-02-18 - August G Meissner, German estheticus/literary, dies at 53
1807-08-15 - Johann N Tetens, German/Danish philosopher/mathematician, dies at 70
1807-12-19 - Friedrich Melchior, baron von Grimm, German writer (b. 1723)
1808-05-18 - Jacob Albright, [Albrecht], German/US preacher, dies at 49
1809-09-07 - Caroline von Schelling, [Michaelis], German author, dies at 46
1810-11-11 - Johann/John Zoffany, German painter (Tribuna degl' Uffizi), dies at 77
1811-09-08 - Peter S Pallas, German geologist/zoologist, dies at 69
1811-11-21 - Heinrich W von Kleist, German playwright, dies at 34
1812-04-11 - Gottlieb Schick, German painter (Opfer Noachs), dies at 35
1812-06-16 - Franz Pforr, German painter/cartoonist (Lukasbund), dies at 23
1812-07-14 - Christian G Heyne, German archaeologist, dies at 82
1813-08-26 - Karl Theodor Korner, German poet (Vetter aus Bremen), dies at 21
1814-01-29 - Johann G Fichte, German philosopher (Wissenschaftslehre), dies at 51
1816-04-28 - Johann Heinrich Abicht, German philosopher (b. 1862)
1816-08-09 - Johann August Apel, German jurist and writer (b. 1771)
1817-01-01 - Martin H Klaproth, German chemist (uranium), dies at 73
1817-04-02 - Johann Heinrich Jung, German author (b. 1740)
1817-06-30 - Abraham Gottlob Werner, German geologist
1817-12-11 - Max von Schenkendorf, German poet, dies at 34
1818-06-29 - Carl P Fohr, German painter/cartoonist, dies at 22
1818-10-22 - Joachim H Campe, German theory/author, dies at 72
1819-12-05 - Friedrich Leopold Graf zu Stolberg, German poet (b. 1750)
1820-01-25 - Joseph F Weigl, German/Austria violin cellist, dies at 79
1820-02-29 - Johann Joachim Eschenburg, German literary critic (b. 1743)
1821-02-21 - Georg Friedrich von Martens, German diplomat (b. 1756)
1821-04-20 - Franz K Achard, German physicist/chemist, dies at 67
1821-11-10 - Andreas J Romberg, German violinist/composer (Der Rabe), dies at 54
1822-01-14 - Franz Innocenz Joseph Kobell, German landscape painter, dies at 72
1822-04-25 - Frederick "William" Herschel, German/British astronomer, dies at 83
1822-06-25 - Ernst T Amadeus Hoffmann, German writer/judge/composer, dies at 46
1822-08-25 - F William Herschel, German astronomer (discovered Uranus), dies at 85
1822-11-19 - Johann Georg Tralles, German mathematician and physicist (b. 1763)
1823-01-17 - Zacharius Werner, German playwright, dies at 36
1824-02-09 - Anna K Emmerick/Emmerich, German poet, dies at 49
1825-04-21 - Johann Friedrich Pfaff, German mathemattician (b. 1765)
1825-06-13 - Johan Peter Melchior, German sculptor, dies at 82
1826-03-01 - J J Friedrich Weinbrenner, German architect/archaeologist, dies at 59
1826-06-04 - Karl Maria FE von Weber, German composer (Oberon), dies at 39
1826-06-07 - Joseph von Fraunhofer, German physicist (b. 1787)
1827-03-26 - Ludwig van Beethoven, German composer (Appassionata), dies at 56
1827-04-02 - Ludwig Heinrich Bojanus, German physician and naturalist (b. 1776)
1827-04-03 - Ernst Chladni, German physicist (b. 1756)
1827-06-26 - Christian A Vulpius, German writer (Ornaldo Ornaldini), dies
1827-06-27 - Johann Gottfried Eichhorn, German theologian (b. 1754)
1828-08-22 - Franz Joseph Gall, German/French physician (frenology), dies at 70
1829-01-12 - Friedrich von Schlegel, German cultural philosopher/poet, dies at 56
1830-01-14 - Johann G Repsold, German instrument maker, dies at 59
1830-03-02 - Samuel Thomas von Sömmering, German physician (b. 1755)
1831-03-09 - Friedrich M Klinger, German (stage)author (Plimplamplasko), dies at 79
1831-04-19 - Johann Gottlieb Friedrich von Bohnenberger, German mathematician (b. 1765)
1831-05-13 - Christian G Korner, German lawyer, dies at 74
1831-05-26 - Georg Hermes, German philosopher/theologist (Hermenianen), dies
1831-12-10 - Thomas Seebeck, Baltic German physicist (b. 1770)
1832-02-22 - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, poet, Weimar, Germany
1832-03-12 - Daniel Friedrich Kuhlau, German/Danish opera composer, dies at 45
1833-03-07 - Rahel Varnhagen von Ense-Levin, German author, dies at 61
1833-12-17 - Kaspar Hauser, German son of grand duke Karel of Bathe, murdered at 21
1834-02-12 - Friedrich Schleiermacher, German theologist/philosopher, dies at 65
1835-11-16 - Louis Angely, German comedic poet (Paris in Pommern), dies at 48
1837-02-19 - Georg Büchner, German playwright (b. 1813)
1838-01-13 - Ferdinand Ries, German composer (b. 1784)
1839-08-03 - Dorothea von Schlegel, German novelist (b. 1763)
1839-09-21 - Jacob Gottfried Weber, German composer, dies at 60
1840-01-22 - Johann Friedrich Blumenbach, German anthropologist (b. 1752)
1840-03-02 - Heinrich Olbers, German astronomer (comets & asteroids), dies at 81
1840-05-07 - Caspar David Friedrich, German painter (b. 1774)
1841-02-11 - J H Ferdinand Olivier, German painter, dies at 55
1841-05-23 - Franz Xaver von Baader, German philosopher/theologist, dies at 76
1841-08-13 - Bernhard Heinrich Romberg, German composer, dies at 73
1841-08-13 - Bernhard Romberg, German cellist/composer, dies
1841-10-09 - Karl F Schinkel, German painter/writer (Neue Wache), dies at 60
1843-01-09 - Caroline Herschel, "1st lady of astronomy", dies at 98 in Germany
1843-03-27 - Karl Salomo Zachariae von Lingenthal, German jurist (b. 1769)
1843-06-06 - Friedrich Hölderlin, German poet and dramatist (b. 1770)
1843-07-02 - Samuel Hahnemann, German physician, dies at 88
1843-08-10 - Jakob F Fries, German philosopher, dies
1845-02-13 - Henrik Steffens, Norwegian-German philosopher (b. 1773)
