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Germany

636 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 (died 1850)Germanysource
  • 17977 March – Johann Heinrich Samuel Formey, German writer (born 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 (died 1895)Germanysource
  • 179829 April – Nikolaus Poda von Neuhaus, German entomologist (born 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 (born 1742)Germanysource

19th century

360 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 (born 1741)Germanysource
  • 181427 January – Johann Gottlieb Fichte, German philosopher (born 1762)Germanysource
  • 18185 May – Karl Marx, German political philosopher, co-author of The Communist Manifesto (died 1883)Germanysource
  • 182113 October – Rudolf Virchow, German physician, pathologist, biologist, and politician (died 1902)Germanysource
  • 182726 March – Ludwig van Beethoven, German composer (born 1770)Germanysource
  • 183215 December – The CGS system goes back to a proposal in 1832 by the German mathematician Carl Friedrich Gauss to base a system of absolute units on the three fundamental units of length.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 15 – The Austrian Empire, the United Kingdom, the Kingdom of Prussia, and the Russian Empire sign the Convention of London with the Sublime Porte, ruler of the Ottoman Empire.Germanysource
  • 184817 March - Poem In Kümmernis und Dunkelheit was written in London by German poet Ferdinand Freiligrath.Germanysource
  • 1858December 13 – Karl Ludwig Philipp Zeyher, German botanist (born 1799 )Germanysource
  • 186221 September – Deutscher Sängerbund is founded.Germanysource
  • 186410 March – Maximilian II of Bavaria, German king of Bavaria (born 1811)Germanysource
  • 187010 December – The Reichstag of the North German Confederation renames the Confederation the "North German Confederation of the German Empire".Germanysource
  • 1872Polyvinyl chloride is accidentally synthesised by German chemist Eugen Baumann.Germanysource
  • 1875The weekly medical journal, Deutsche Medizinische Wochenschrift, is established in Germany by Paul Börner.Germanysource
  • 18803 April – German company Munich Re is founded.Germanysource
  • 188414 July – Commencement of German administration in Cameroon (Kamerun).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

242 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
  • 19056 June – In Germany's last royal wedding, Crown Prince Wilhelm, son of Kaiser Wilhelm II and heir to the throne, marries Duchess Cecilie of Mecklenburg-Schwerin in Berlin.Germanysource
  • 1908German association football club BFC Nord 08 Berlin is founded.Germanysource
  • 1912Alfred Wegener proposes a fully formulated theory of continental drift and gave the supercontinent Pangaea its name.Germanysource
  • 19145 July – The German Kaiser announces that he will not attend the Archduke's funeral.Germanysource
  • 1917January/February – Turnip WinterGermanysource
  • 1921Gustav Bauer (Social Democratic (SPD)) – vice-chancellor and Minister of the Reich treasuryGermanysource
  • 192311 January – French and Belgian troops enter the Ruhr in the Occupation of the Ruhr because of Germany’s refusal to pay war reparations, causing strikes and a severe economic crisis.Germanysource
  • 192525 February – Adolf Hitler makes his first public appearance since being released from prisonGermanysource
  • 19298–29 August – Rigid airship LZ 127 Graf Zeppelin makes a circumnavigation of the Northern Hemisphere eastabout out of Lakehurst, New Jersey, including the first nonstop flight of any kind across the Pacific Ocean (Tokyo–Los Angeles).Germanysource
  • 193022 January – SS Monte Cervantes struck a rock off Ushuia, Chile and sank with the loss of her captain.Germanysource
  • 193325 August – The Haavara Agreement is signed between Nazi Germany, the Zionist Federation of Germany and the Anglo-Palestine Bank, allowing approximately 60,000 German Jews to leave Germany and move to Palestine.Germanysource
  • 193430 June – Night of the Long Knives: Nazis purge the SA.Germanysource
  • 19376 May — Hindenburg disaster: In the United States, the German airship Hindenburg bursts into flame when mooring to a mast in Lakehurst, New Jersey. Thirteen passengers, 22 crew and one member of the ground crew were killed.Germanysource
  • 193929 December – Police issue a warrant for the arrest of the tycoon Fritz Thyssen who once funded but now opposes the Nazis. He is believed to be in PortugalGermanysource
  • 19416 September — The requirement to wear the Star of David with the word "Jew" inscribed, is extended to all Jews over the age of 6 in German-occupied areas.Germanysource
  • 194318 November – World War II: The Royal Air Force opens its bombing campaign against Berlin, with 440 planes causing only light damage and killing 131. The RAF loses 9 aircraft and 53 aviators.Germanysource
  • 194410 October — Holocaust: Porajmos: 800 Romani children are systematically murdered at the Auschwitz death camp.Germanysource
  • 1947The Karlslust dance hall fire (also known as Loebel's Restaurant fire) occurred on 8 February 1947.Germanysource
  • 19537 July - 1953 Menzengraben mining accidentGermanysource
  • 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