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Germany

642 entries quoted from the Wikipedia articles written per year for Germany, 1601 CE to 2004 CE. Each century below shows a sample spread across it; the year link on a line opens everything held for that year.

17th century

8 entries, 1601 CE to 1661 CE

18th century

25 entries, 1758 CE to 1799 CE

  • 175830 June – Seven Years' War – Battle of Domstadtl: Austrian forces under Ernst Gideon von Laudon and Joseph von Siskovits rout an enormous convoy with supplies for the Prussian army, guarded by strong troops of Hans Joachim von Zieten.Germanysource
  • 1758German company MAN is founded.Germanysource
  • 1758Construction of the Basilica of St. John the Baptist, Saarbrücken is completed.Germanysource
  • 17585 April – Founding of Ludwigsburg porcelainGermanysource
  • 175822 October in Hanover – Friedrich Rehberg, German portrait and historical painter (died 1835)Germanysource
  • 175810 May in Leipzig – Christian Gottlieb Jöcher, German academic, librarian and lexicographer (born 1694)Germanysource
  • 1774Christian Wilhelm Ernst DietrichGermanysource
  • 1796Wilhelm von Humboldt, German statesman, philosopher, linguist, and educational reformer (died 1835)Germanysource
  • 17966 May – Adolph Freiherr Knigge, German writer, Freemason (born 1752)Germanysource
  • 179726 January – The Treaty of the Third Partition of Poland is signed in St. Petersburg by the Russian Empire, Austria and the Kingdom of Prussia.Germanysource
  • 179712 February – "Gott erhalte Franz den Kaiser" is first performed, with the music composed in January by Joseph Haydn, which also becomes the tune to the Deutschlandlied, the German national anthem (Deutschland, Deutschland über alles, later Einigkeit und Recht und Freiheit).Germanysource
  • 17974 January – Wilhelm Beer, German banker, astronomer (d. 1850)Germanysource
  • 17977 March – Johann Heinrich Samuel Formey, German writer (b. 1711)Germanysource
  • 1798Friedrich von Schiller – Wallensteins LagerGermanysource
  • 1798Caroline von Wolzogen (anonymously) – Agnes von Lilien (first complete book publication, in 2 vols)Germanysource
  • 1798Building of the first major example of Egyptian Revival architecture, Karlsruhe Synagogue in Baden, designed by Friedrich Weinbrenner.Germanysource
  • 1798Cassella chemical and pharmaceutical company foundedGermanysource
  • 1798M. M. Warburg & Co. bank foundedGermanysource
  • 1798Francis Lathom – The Midnight Bell: a German story, founded on incidents in real lifeGermanysource
  • 179812 October – The rebuilt Weimarer Hoftheater are inaugurated with the first performance of the first part of Friedrich Schiller's dramatic trilogy Wallenstein: Das Lager (The Camp), directed by Goethe.Germanysource
  • 179811 September – Franz Ernst Neumann, German mineralogist, physicist and mathematician (d. 1895)Germanysource
  • 179829 April – Nikolaus Poda von Neuhaus, German entomologist (b. 1723)Germanysource
  • 1799Frankenthal Porcelain Factory closed by the French forces.Germanysource
  • 1799January 7 – Eduard Magnus, German painter (died 1872)Germanysource
  • 1799February 24 – Georg Christoph Lichtenberg, German scientist, satirist, and Anglophile (b. 1742)Germanysource

19th century

362 entries, 1800 CE to 1899 CE — 25 shown, spread across the century

  • 180019 June – War of the Second Coalition: Battle of Höchstädt – General Jean Victor Marie Moreau leads French forces to victory, opening the Danube passageway to Vienna.Germanysource
  • 180318 December – Johann Gottfried Herder, philosopher and writer (born 1744)Germanysource
  • 18059 May – Friedrich Schiller, German playwright (born 1759)Germanysource
  • 18081 October – Carl Gotthard Langhans, German architect (born 1732)Germanysource
  • 18118 September – Peter Simon Pallas, German zoologist (b. 1741)Germanysource
  • 181427 January – Johann Gottlieb Fichte, German philosopher (b. 1762)Germanysource
  • 18185 May – Karl Marx, German political philosopher, co-author of The Communist Manifesto (d. 1883)Germanysource
  • 182120 April– Franz Karl Achard, German chemist, physicist and biologist (b. 1753)Germanysource
  • 182726 March – Ludwig van Beethoven, German composer (b. 1770)Germanysource
  • 1832Work Faust, Part Two by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe published.Germanysource
  • 1835Cell division is first observed under the microscope by German botanist Hugo von Mohl as he works over green algae Cladophora glomerata.Germanysource
  • 1840July 23 – Carl Blechen, German painter, specializing in fantastic landscapes with demons and grotesque figures (b. 1798)Germanysource
  • 184817 March - Poem In Kümmernis und Dunkelheit was written in London by German poet Ferdinand Freiligrath.Germanysource
  • 1858William becomes regent for his brother, Frederick William IV, who has suffered a stroke.Germanysource
  • 18629 August – Theater Baden-Baden opens with Béatrice et Bénédict.Germanysource
  • 186425 April – 25 June – London Conference of 1864Germanysource
  • 18698 February – Karl Gildemeister, German architect (born 1820)Germanysource
  • 1872Polyvinyl chloride is accidentally synthesised by German chemist Eugen Baumann.Germanysource
  • 1875Hotel Kaiserhof opens in Berlin.Germanysource
  • 18803 April – German company Munich Re is founded.Germanysource
  • 188314 March – Karl Marx, German philosopher, economist, historian, political theorist, sociologist, journalist and revolutionary socialist (born 1818)Germanysource
  • 188721 February – German federal election, 1887Germanysource
  • 18901 July — Heligoland–Zanzibar Treaty. Germany receives Heligoland and the Caprivi Strip from the United Kingdom and a free hand to control and acquire the coast of Dar es Salaam. In return, Germany renounces its protectorate over Wituland (part of modern-day Kenya) and pledges not to interfere in the actions of the UK vis-à-vis the Sultanate of Zanzibar. The U.K. cedes sovereignty of the Heligoland archipelago to Germany.Germanysource
  • 189320 June – Zentis, a confectionery and preserve concern, begins trading in Aachen.Germanysource
  • 189710 May – The Handelsgesetzbuch (HGB) is passed by the Reichtstag. The HGB will come into force together with the Bürgerliches Gesetzbuch (BGB) on 1 January 1900.Germanysource

20th century

246 entries, 1900 CE to 1992 CE — 25 shown, spread across the century

  • 190016 February – In Washington, British Ambassador Lord Pauncefote, and German Ambassador Baron Theodor von Holleben meet Secretary of State Hay at the State Department, and exchange ratifications of the Samoan Treaty signed by all three nations. "Secretary Hay retained for the United States the copy of the treaty which was ratified by the United States Senate. He handed to Lord Pauncefote and to Herr von Holleben copies of the treaty bearing the signatures of the President and himself", reported the New York Times. Similar proceedings take place in London and Berlin with the foreign ministers and ambassadors, completing the Tripartite Convention of 1899. Under the treaty, the Pacific islands of Samoa are divided between the U.S. (as American Samoa) and Germany (later the Independent State of Samoa).Germanysource
  • 190123 February – Germany agrees the frontier between German East Africa and the British colony of Nyasaland with the United Kingdom.Germanysource
  • 1904May 14 – SS Scharnhorst (passenger liner)Germanysource
  • 1905Fritz Schaudinn and Erich Hoffmann discovers the bacterium that is responsible for syphilis—a spiral-shaped spirochete called Treponema pallidum.Germanysource
  • 1908German association football club BFC Nord 08 Berlin is founded.Germanysource
  • 1912October 17 – Krupp engineers Benno Strauss and Eduard Maurer patent austenitic stainless steelGermanysource
  • 191419 October – 22 November – World War I: First Battle of Ypres fought between British, French and German forces in Ypres in Belgium.Germanysource
  • 1917German company Viessmann is founded.Germanysource
  • 1921Robert Schmidt (SPD), Minister of EconomicsGermanysource
  • 1922Rudolf Oeser (German Democratic Party (DDP)) – Interior MinisterGermanysource
  • 192426 February – The trial of Adolf Hitler for the Beer Hall Putsch begins and will last until 1 April.Germanysource
  • 1927Emil Lerp invented the transportable gasoline chainsaw.Germanysource
  • 193026 July – The cargo schooner Nobiskrug is launched from Rendsburg harbour.Germanysource
  • 1931May 8 – Prosecution of Adolf Hitler by Hans Litten for complicity in manslaughter committed by members of the Sturmabteilung at the Tanzpalast Eden ("Eden Dance Palace") in Berlin in 1930 is dismissed.Germanysource
  • 193429 May-31 May — The Confessional Synod of the German Evangelical Church meets in Barmen, Germany to write the Barmen Declaration.Germanysource
  • 193715 July — Buchenwald Concentration Camp openedGermanysource
  • 1939October – Action T4 programme begins, meaning that the state will now euthanise people deemed "unworthy" of life due to physical disabilities or mental illness, as keeping them alive would not be seen as good use of taxpayers money by the state or its supporters.Germanysource
  • 19419 May — The GS U-110 is captured by the British Royal Navy. On board is the latest Enigma cryptography machine, which Allied cryptographers later use to break coded German messages.Germanysource
  • 194327 July – World War II: Operation Gomorrah – The continued British bombing of Hamburg, initiates a firestorm. The fire rages through the night into the morning of the 28th, causing the majority of Operation Gomorrah's deaths.Germanysource
  • 19447 July — Holocaust: Hungarian Regent Horthy orders Jewish transports to Auschwitz halted; 437,000 Jews have already been deported, mostly to their deaths.Germanysource
  • 194621 April – Deutsche Volkszeitung ceased publication.Germanysource
  • 1953Date unknown - Ziegler–Natta catalyst invented by Karl Ziegler and Giulio Natta.Germanysource
  • 196216-17 February - North Sea flood of 1962Germanysource
  • 197127 May – Dahlerau train disasterGermanysource
  • 19811 August — Launch of the MK2 Volkswagen Polo, which makes use of a larger estate-like bodyshell, although it is still marketed as a hatchback.Germanysource

21st century

1 entry, 2004 CE to 2004 CE

  • 200419 September: The Far Right National Democratic Party of Germany (NPD) won 12 seats in the 2004 Saxony state election. This is the first time since the 1960s that the party had seats in a state parliament.Germanysource