Today in Germany History (Part 6)
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Historical Events
Results 501 - 600 of 1,716
1917-10-17 - 1st British bombing of Germany
1917-10-24 - Battle at Caporetto: German & Austria smash Italian army
1917-11-20 - 1st tank battle (Britain breaks through German lines)
1917-12-11 - German-occupied Lithuania proclaims independence from Russia
1917-12-14 - UFA, Universal Film AG, forms in Germany
1918-01-22 - Ukraine proclaimed a free republic (German puppet)
1918-02-15 - 1st WW I US army troop ship torpedoed & sunk by Germany, off Ireland
1918-02-16 - Lithuania declares independence from Russia & Germany (National Day)
1918-02-22 - Germany claims Baltic states, Finland & Ukraine from Russia
1918-02-23 - First victory of Red Army over the Kaiser's German troops near Narva and Pskov. Since 1923 this date become the Day of Red Army in honour of this victory.
1918-03-03 - Treaty of Brest-Litovsk: Germany, Austria & Russia sign
1918-03-07 - World War I: Finland forms an alliance with Germany.
1918-03-19 - S Potter becomes 1st US pilot to shoot down a German seaplane
1918-03-21 - -28] During WW I Germany launches Somme offensive
1918-03-23 - Crépy-en-Laonnoise: German artillery shells Paris, 256 killed
1918-04-14 - Douglas Campbell is 1st US ace pilot (shooting down 5th German plane)
1918-04-21 - World War I: German fighter ace Manfred von Richthofen, known as "The Red Baron", is shot down and killed over Vaux sur Somme in France.
1918-04-23 - Dover Patrol overthrows Germany U-boat in East Sea
1918-07-19 - German armies retreat across Marne River in France (WW I)
1918-07-20 - World War I: German troops cross the Marne.
1918-08-08 - 6 US soldiers are surrounded by Germans in France, Alvin York is given command & shoots 20 Germans & captures 132 more
1918-08-11 - Battle of Amiens ends in WW I, Allieds beat Germans
1918-08-13 - Bayerische Motoren Werke AG (BMW) established as a public company in Germany.
1918-09-03 - Allies forced Germans back across Hindenburg Line
1918-09-12 - During WW I, US forces launch an attack on German-occupied St Mihiel
1918-10-08 - Sgt Alvin York single-handedly kills 25, captures 132 Germans
1918-10-20 - Germans, aimed at an armistice, Germans agree to further concessions
1918-11-08 - Pro-German supreme commander general Cutters lay-offs
1918-11-09 - Kaiser Wilhelm II abdicates after German defeat in WW I
1918-11-09 - Republic Germany proclaimed
1918-11-10 - German emperor Wilhelm II flees to Netherland
1918-11-11 - Germany surrenders ending WW I, Allies & Germany sign armistice
1918-11-21 - 2 German ammunition trains explode in Hamont Belgium, 1,750 die
1918-11-28 - Emperor Wilhelm of Prussia & Germany, abdicates
1918-12-13 - US army of occupation crosses Rhine, enters Germany
1918-12-27 - The Great Poland Uprising against the Germans begins.
1919-01-05 - National Socialist Party (Nazi) forms as German Farmers Party
1919-01-11 - 3 year old German communist party (Spartacus) crushed
1919-01-15 - Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Liebknecht, two of the most prominent socialists in Germany, are tortured and murdered by the Freikorps.
1919-02-11 - Friedrich Ebert (SPD), elected president of Germany
1919-02-21 - German National Meeting accepts Anschluss: incorporation of Austria
1919-03-03 - Communist Party in Germany announces a general strike
1919-03-11 - General strike in Germany, crushed
1919-03-12 - Austrian National Meeting affirms Anschluss (incorporate into Germany)
1919-05-06 - Paris Peace Conference disposes of German colonies; Ger E Africa is assigned to Britain & France, German SW Africa to South Africa
1919-06-20 - German govt of Scheideman resigns
1919-06-20 - Treaty of Versailles: Germany ends incorporation of Austria
1919-06-21 - Bauer forms German govt
1919-06-21 - German Admiral von Reuter scuttles his own captured fleet
1919-07-31 - Germany accepts Weimar Constitution
1919-08-11 - Weimar Republic begins in Germany
1919-09-10 - Treaty of St Germain: Austria ends incorporation with Germany
1920-01-23 - Dutch refuse to turn over ex-kaiser Wilhelm I of Germany to allies
1920-02-02 - France occupies (German) Memel territory
1920-03-27 - Hermann Muller becomes German chancellor (SPD)
1920-05-05 - German-Latvian peace treaty signed
1920-12-07 - USPD-KPD parties merge into Vereinigte Communist Party of Germany
1921-04-19 - Funeral of last German Emperoress, Augusta Victoria
1921-05-02 - Begin 3rd anti-German revolt in Upper-Silesia
1921-05-30 - Salzburg, Austria, votes to join Germany
1921-07-29 - Adolf Hitler becomes leader of the National Socialist German Workers Party.
1921-08-05 - Treaty of Berlin: US & Germany sign separate peace treaty
1921-08-25 - US signs peace treaty with Germany
1921-09-21 - Gas explodes at Bradishe Aniline chemical works in Germany, 565 die
1921-09-21 - Oppau explosion, a storage silo at a fertilizer producing plant exploded in Oppau, Germany, 500—600 killed.
1922-01-06 - -13] Conference of Cannes concerning German retribution payments
1922-01-13 - Conference of Cannes concerning German retribution payments ended
1922-04-16 - German-Russia treaty signed in Italy, Soviet Union recognized
1922-06-12 - German Reich president Friedrich Ebert visits Munich
1922-09-02 - Pres Ebert declares "Deutschland uber alas" as German national anthem
1922-09-23 - B Brechts "Drum in the Night," premieres in Germany
1922-10-24 - German parliament mandates Ebert president until July 1925
1922-11-02 - Allies deliberate over German mark
1922-11-14 - German Reichs Chancellor Joseph Wirth term ends
1922-11-22 - Wilhelm Cuno forms new German govt
1923-01-10 - Last US troops leave Rhineland (Germany)
1923-02-08 - German NSDAP Volkischer Beobachter newspaper becomes a daily
1923-02-23 - German Republic day with laws against worker
1923-02-23 - Great Britain lowers import duty on German products from 26% to 5%
1923-03-14 - German Supreme Court prohibits NSDAP
1923-05-19 - KPD (communist revolts) in German Ruhr cities occupied by Allies
1923-07-25 - German mark devalued to 600,000 Dmark=$1
1923-07-29 - KPD holds struggle day against fascism, in Germany
1923-08-13 - Germany: Gustav Stresemann becomes premier of coalition govt
1923-08-31 - League of Nations gives Belgium mandate of Ruanda-Urundi (was German)
1923-10-03 - Germany's Stresemann resigns
1923-10-06 - 2nd govt of Stresemann in Germany forms
1923-10-11 - German mark falls to 10 billion per £, 4 billion per $
1923-10-29 - Army move SPD/KPD-govt to German part of Saxon
1923-11-02 - Stresemann's SPD-ministers in Germany, step down
1923-11-10 - German ex-crown prince flees Netherlands for Germany
1923-11-12 - In Germany, Adolf Hitler is arrested for attempt to sieze power Nov 8
1923-11-20 - Rentenmark replaces the Papiermark as the official currency of Germany at the exchange rate of one Rentenmark to One Trillion (One Billion on the long scale) Papiermark
1923-11-22 - Coolidge pardons WW I German spy Lothar Witzke, sentenced to death
1923-11-23 - German army commander Gen Von Seeckt bans NSDAP & KPD
1923-11-23 - Germany's Stresemann govt falls to SPD
1923-12-08 - German-US friendship treaty signed
1923-12-08 - Salary & price freeze in Germany
1924-03-01 - Germany's prohibition of Communist Party KPD lifted
1924-03-03 - German & Turkish friendship/trade treaty signed
Famous Birthdays
Results 501 - 600 of 2,503
1804-10-24 - Wilhelm Eduard Weber, German physicist (d. 1891)
1804-11-27 - Julius Benedict, Stuttgart Germany, opera composer (Protoghesi)
1804-12-10 - Carl Gustav Jakob Jacobi, German mathematician (d. 1851)
1805-02-13 - Peter G L Dirichlet, Germany, number theorist/analysist
1805-03-16 - Peter Ernst von Lasaulx, German philosopher and writer (d. 1861)
1805-12-06 - Adolf Reubke, German organ builder (d. 1875)
1806-01-03 - Henriette Sontag, German soprano (d. 1854)
1806-06-12 - John A. Roebling, German-America civil engineer (Brooklyn Bridge) (d. 1869)
1806-10-25 - Max Stirner, [Johann C Schmidt], German philosopher (Der Einzige)
1807-03-07 - Franz Grave von Pocci, German poet/composer (Der Alchemist)
1807-06-30 - Friedrich T Vischer, German philosopher/writer (Auch einer)
1808-01-27 - David F Strauss, Germany, theologist (Jesus' Life)
1808-02-05 - Carl Spitzweg, German painter (d. 1885)
1808-04-29 - Hermann Schulze-Delitzsch, German politician/reformer [or 1883]
1808-06-20 - Samson Raphael Hirsch, German rabbi (d. 1888)
1808-08-29 - Hermann Schulze-Delitzsch, German politician/reformer
1808-10-20 - Karl [Theodor] Andree, German geographer/journalist (Globus)
1809-03-15 - Karl Josef von Hefele, German theologian (d. 1893)
1809-07-09 - Frederick Henle, Germany, pathologist
1809-07-10 - Friedrich August von Quenstedt, German geologist (d. 1889)
1810-01-29 - Earnest E Kummer, German mathematician
1810-11-09 - Bernhard von Langenbeck, German surgeon (d. 1887)
1810-12-07 - Theodor Schwann, German co-originator of cell theory
1811-03-31 - Robert Wilhelm Eberhard von Bunsen, Germany, chemist (Bunsen Burner)
1811-09-28 - Friedrich Hecker, Baden, German revolutionary republican politician
1811-09-30 - Augusta of Saxe-Weimar, Queen of Prussia and German Empress (d. 1890)
1811-10-24 - Ferdinand Hiller, German pianist/composer/conductor
1811-12-25 - Wilhelm E Freiherr von Ketteler, German politician/bishop of Mainz
1812-01-10 - Georg Hermann Nicolai, German architect (d. 1881)
1812-02-29 - Hermann Hirschboch, German composer
1812-04-26 - Alfred Krupp, German arms merchant
1812-04-30 - Kaspar Hauser, German son of grand duke Karel van Bathe
1812-06-09 - Hermann von Fehling, German chemist (Fehling's reagens)
1812-06-09 - Johann G Galle, German astronomer (discovered Neptune)
1812-11-19 - Karl Schwarz, German theologian (d. 1885)
1812-12-24 - Karl Eduard Zachariae, German jurist (d. 1894)
1813-02-11 - Otto Ludwig, German writer and critic (d. 1865)
1813-03-20 - Matthias Keller, Ulm Germany, hymm writer (O Farther un High)
1813-05-12 - Johann Czerski, German chaplin
1813-05-22 - Richard Wagner, Leipsig Germany, composer (Ring, Flying Dutchman)
1813-06-16 - Otto Jahn, German archaeologist (d. 1869)
1813-10-17 - Georg Büchner, German playwright (d. 1837)
1813-10-23 - Ludwig Leichhardt, German explorer (d. 1848)
1813-11-30 - Hermann Kurz, German author/poet
1814-03-05 - Wilhelm von Giesebrecht, German historian (d. 1889)
1814-05-14 - Charles Beyer, German-British locomotive engineer (d. 1876)
1814-09-02 - Ernst Curtius, German archaeologist/historian
1814-11-25 - Julius Robert von Mayer, German physician and physicist (d. 1878)
1815-01-18 - Constantin von Tischendorf, German biblical scholar (d. 1874)
1815-04-01 - Otto Von Bismarck, Germany, chancellor (1866-90)
1815-04-11 - Klara Fey, German orch leader (Deutscher Arbeiterverein)
1815-08-02 - Adolf Friedrich von Schack, German writer (d. 1894)
1815-09-29 - Andreas Aschenbach, German painter/engraver
1815-10-31 - Karl Weierstrass, Germany, mathematician (theory of functions)
1815-12-08 - Adolph Menzel, German painter and graphic artist (d. 1905)
1816-01-23 - Carl Herrmann, near Hanover Germany, stage magician
1816-07-25 - Christian B Freiherr von Tauchnitz, German publisher (T Edition)
1816-09-11 - Carl Zeiss, German lens maker (d. 1888)
1816-12-13 - E Werner von Siemens, German artillery officer/inventor
1816-12-29 - Carl Ludwig, German physician (d. 1895)
1817-01-01 - Martin H Klaproth, Germany, chemist
1817-02-22 - Carl Wilhelm Borchardt, German mathematician (d. 1880)
1817-05-14 - Alexander Kaufmann, German poet (d. 1893)
1817-09-14 - Theodor Storm, German judge/author (Imense China)
1817-10-30 - Hermann Kopp, German chemist (Jahresbericht of Chemistry)
1817-12-02 - Heinrich von Sybel, German historian (d. 1895)
1818-02-12 - Otto Ludwig, German writer (Die Heiterethei)
1818-04-20 - Heinrich Göbel, German-born inventor (d. 1893)
1818-07-31 - Heinrich Kiepert, German cartographer/geographer
1818-11-07 - Emil du Bois-Reymond, German physician (d. 1896)
1819-03-26 - Louise Otto, Germany, author/feminist
1819-03-31 - Prince Chlodwig zu Hohenlohe-Schillingsfürst, Chancellor of Germany (d. 1901)
1819-09-13 - Clara Schumann, German pianist and composer (d. 1896)
1819-09-22 - Wilhelm Wattenbach, German historian (d. 1897)
1819-12-22 - Franz Wilhelm Abt, German composer/choir conductor
1819-12-30 - Theodor Fontane, German writer (Effi Briest)
1820-01-22 - Hermann von Lingg, German playwright/poet
1820-01-22 - Joseph Wolf, German artist (d. 1899)
1820-04-16 - Georg Curtius, German classical linguist
1820-09-28 - Freidrich Engels, German social philosopher
1820-11-28 - Friedrich Engels, Germany, social philosopher; Marx's collaborator
1821-02-16 - Heinrich Barth, Hamburg Germany, geographer/explorer (Central Africa)
1821-03-01 - Joseph Hubert Reinkens, German Catholic bishop (d. 1896)
1821-03-15 - Eduard Heine, German mathematician (d. 1881)
1821-03-26 - Earnest Angel, German statistician (Law of Angel)
1821-05-17 - Sebastian Kneipp, German naturopathist (d. 1897)
1821-10-13 - Rudolf Virchow, German politician/antropologist (cell pathology)
1822-01-02 - Rudolph J E Clausius, Germany, physicist (thermodynamics)
1822-01-06 - Heinrich Schliemann, German polyglot/archeologist (Troje)
1822-01-07 - Theodor Aufrecht, German indologist (Rigveda's Hymns)
1822-02-22 - Adolf Kuszmaul, German physician (stomach pump, Kuszmaul disease)
1822-03-13 - Moritz Grave von Strachwitz, German poet
1822-06-13 - Carl Schmidt, German chemist (d. 1884)
1822-12-23 - Wilhelm Bauer, German engineer (d. 1875)
1823-04-16 - Ferdinand Eisenstein, German mathematician (d. 1852)
1823-10-26 - Karl Weinhold, German sociologist
1823-12-06 - Friedrich Max Müller, German orientalist (d. 1900)
1823-12-07 - Leopold Kronecker, German mathematician (Tensor of Kronecker)
1824-03-29 - Ludwig Büchner, German philosopher and physician (d. 1899)
1824-07-10 - Rudolf von Benningsen, German lawyer/politician
Famous Deaths
Results 501 - 600 of 1,653
1845-05-02 - August Pauly, German writer (Real Encyclopedia), dies at 48
1845-05-12 - August Wilhelm Schlegel, German poet/interpreter/critic, dies at 77
1846-03-17 - Friedrich W Bessel, German astronomer (Bessel Functions), dies at 61
1846-05-31 - Philip Marheineke, German clergyman (b. 1780)
1847-01-11 - Caroline von Wolzogen [von Lengefeld], German author, dies at 83
1847-05-16 - Kaspar Ett, German organist/composer, dies at 59
1847-07-01 - George F Kersting, German painter, dies at 61
1847-12-11 - Moritz Grave von Strachwitz, German poet, dies at 25
1848-01-09 - Caroline Herschel, German-born astronomer (b. 1750)
1848-03-03 - Heinrich Olivier, German painter, dies
1848-04-30 - Friedrich Freiherr Gagern, German/Dutch army commandant, dies at 53
1848-05-25 - Annette von Droste-Hülshoff, German writer (b. 1797)
1848-11-09 - Robert Blum, German MP (Liberal), executed
1849-01-16 - Wilhelm M L de Wette, German theologist, dies at 69
1849-05-11 - Otto Nicolai, German composer/conductor, dies at 39
1849-11-17 - Prince Alexander of Hohenlohe-Waldenburg-Schillingsfürst, German priest and miracle-worker (b. 1794)
1850-01-27 - J Gottfried Schadow, German sculptor/cartoonist/writer, dies at 85
1850-03-27 - Wilhelm Bear, German banker/astronomer (Moon Map), dies at 53
1850-07-14 - August Neander, German theologian (b. 1789)
1851-02-18 - Carl Gustav Jakob Jacobi, German mathematician (b. 1804)
1851-08-01 - William Joseph Behr, German writer (b. 1775)
1851-08-11 - Lorenz Oken, German naturalist (b. 1779)
1852-10-11 - Ferdinand Eisenstein, German mathematician (b. 1823)
1852-10-22 - Hans C E Freiherr von Gagern, German advisor to Dutch king, dies at 86
1853-03-04 - Christian Leopold von Buch, German geologist (b. 1774)
1853-03-05 - Georg A Kestner, German art collector/diplomat, dies at 75
1853-04-13 - Leopold Gmelin, German chemist (b. 1788)
1854-03-06 - Caspar GC Reinwardt, German/Dutch biologist, dies at 80
1854-04-11 - Karl Adolph von Basedow, German DR (Ziekte van Basedow), dies at 55
1854-07-04 - Karl F Eichhorn, German law historian, dies at 72
1854-07-06 - Georg Ohm, German physicist (b. 1789)
1854-08-20 - Friedrich WJ von Schelling, German philosopher, dies at 79
1854-11-26 - Matthijs Siegenbeek, literature (Defeated German Spelling), dies
1856-02-17 - Heinrich Heine, German poet, dies at 58 in Paris
1856-06-11 - Friedrich H von der Hagen, German germanist, dies at 76
1856-07-29 - Robert A Schumann, German pianist/composer (Humoresque), dies at 46
1857-09-03 - M Heinrich C Lichtenstein, German zoologist/explorer, dies at 77
1857-11-26 - Joseph Freiherr von Eichendorff, German poet (That Freier), dies at 69
1857-12-03 - Christian D Rauch, German sculptor, dies at 80
1858-02-16 - Georg F Creuzer, German philological/historian, dies at 86
1858-04-28 - Johannes Peter Müller, German physiologist (b. 1801)
1858-10-10 - Karl A Varnhagen von Ense, German author/poet/diplomat, dies at 73
1859-04-12 - John Emde, German evangelist, dies at about 84
1859-05-05 - Peter G L Dirichlet, German mathematician, dies at 53
1859-09-05 - W Friedrich Olivier, German landscape painter, dies at 68
1859-10-04 - Karl Baedeker, German tour guide (Die Schweiz), dies at 57
1859-11-22 - Ludwig "Louis" Spohr, German violinist/composer (Faust), dies at 75
1860-03-06 - Justus Johann Friedrich Dotzauer, German cellist and composer (b. 1783)
1860-05-14 - Ludwig Bechstein, German writer (b. 1801)
1860-09-21 - Arthur Schopenhauer, German philosopher (b. 1788)
1860-11-28 - Heinrich FL Rellstab, German music theorist, dies
1861-05-09 - Peter Ernst von Lasaulx, German philosopher and writer (b. 1805)
1861-10-25 - Friedrich C von Savigny, German lawyer, dies at 82
1862-02-21 - Justinus A C Kerner, German family doctor/poet/writer, dies at 75
1862-03-19 - F Wilhelm von Schadow, German painter (Modern Vasari), dies at 73
1862-03-23 - Karl Robert von Nesselrode, German chancellor, dies at 81
1862-07-05 - Heinrich Georg Bronn, German geologist (b. 1800)
1862-08-22 - Henry Bohlen, German/US brig-general (Union), dies in battle at 51
1863-04-04 - Ludwig Emil Grimm, German painter and engraver (b. 1790)
1863-10-31 - Louis Ludwig Blenker, German/US brig-general (Union), dies at 51
1864-01-16 - Anton Schindler, German violinist/biographer (Beethoven), dies at 68
1864-01-27 - Franz von Klenze, German architect (palace Leuchtenberg), dies at 59
1865-02-10 - Heinrich Lenz, German physicist (b. 1804)
1865-02-25 - Otto Ludwig, German writer (Zwischen Himmel und Erde), dies at 47
1865-03-02 - Carl Sylvius Völkner, German missionary to New Zealand (b. 1819)
1865-08-26 - Johann F Encke, German astronomer (Comet Encke), dies at 73
1865-11-25 - Heinrich Barth, German historian/geographer (Central Africa), dies
1866-07-20 - G F Berhard Riemann, German mathematician (zeta-function), dies
1866-07-25 - Aloys Schmitt, German music theory/composer/royal pianist, dies
1867-05-12 - Friedrich William Eduard Gerhard, German archaeologist (b. 1795)
1867-08-03 - Philipp August Böckh, German scholar and antiquarian (b. 1785)
1867-10-04 - Francis Xavier Seelos German-American Roman Catholic priest (b. 1819)
1868-05-22 - Julius Plucker, German mathematician/physicist (formula of P), dies
1868-09-26 - August Ferdinand Möbius, German mathematician and astronomer (b. 1790)
1868-12-06 - August Schleicher, German linguist (b. 1821)
1868-12-13 - Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius, German botanist (b. 1794)
1869-07-22 - John A. Roebling, German-American civil engineer (Brooklyn Bridge), (b. 1806)
1869-07-28 - Carl G Carus, German arts/psychologist/philosopher, dies
1870-04-04 - Heinrich Gustav Magnus, German chemist and physicist (b. 1802)
1871-12-16 - Willibald Alexis, German writer (Schloss Avalon), dies at 73
1872-09-13 - Ludwig A Feuerbach, German philosopher (Man what he eats), dies at 68
1872-11-07 - Alfred Clebsch, German mathematician (b. 1833)
1873-04-18 - Justus Freiherr von Liebig, German chemist, dies at 69
1873-06-14 - Friedrich von Raumer, German historian/parliamentarian, dies at 92
1873-09-20 - Lulu Strauss und Torney, German poetess/writer, dies
1874-02-08 - David F Strauss, German theologist, dies at 66
1874-10-26 - Peter Cornelius, German composer, dies at 49
1874-12-07 - Constantin von Tischendorf, German biblical scholar (b. 1815)
1875-06-04 - Eduard Mörike, German poet (b. 1804)
1875-08-10 - Karl (Theodor) Andree, German journalist (Globus), dies at 66
1875-08-17 - Wilhelm Bleek, German linguist (b. 1827)
1875-08-31 - Oskar Peschel, German geographer (Physicist Erdkunde), dies at 49
1876-03-05 - Marie d'Agoult, German-born writer (b. 1805)
1876-05-07 - Franz count of Pocci, German artist/composer (Alchemist), dies at 69
1876-06-27 - Christian G Ehrenberg, German zoologist (micro-organisms), dies at 81
1876-11-28 - Karl Earnest Ritter von Baer, Estonian/German embryologist, dies at 84
1877-01-24 - Johann Christian Poggendorff, German physicist (b. 1796)
1877-07-13 - Wilhelm E Freiherr von Ketteler, German bishop of Mainz, dies at 65
1877-09-26 - Hermann Grassmann, German mathematician and physicist (b. 1809)
1878-03-20 - Julius Robert von Mayer, German physician and physicist (b. 1814)
