Germany

Deutschland

Places in Germany

Romans and Germanic peoples (50 BC–500)
The medieval Empire (500–1500)
Reformation and religious war (1500–1648)
Prussia, Austria and the old Empire (1648–1806)
Napoleon and the wars of liberation (1806–1815)
Restoration and revolution (1815–1871)
The German Empire (1871–1918)
The Weimar Republic (1918–1933)
Nazi dictatorship and war (1933–1945)
Two German states (1945–1989)
Peaceful revolution and unity (1989–)

9: Arminius defeats Varus — In the year 9, Germanic warriors led by Arminius, a prince of the Cherusci who had served as a Roman officer, trapped three Roman legions under Publius…
25 December 800: Charlemagne is crowned emperor — On Christmas Day 800 Pope Leo III crowned the Frankish king Charles emperor in St Peter's in Rome.
31 October 1517: Luther's theses against indulgences — On 31 October 1517 Martin Luther, a monk and professor in Wittenberg, sent 95 theses against the sale of indulgences to the Archbishop of Mainz.
16 December 1740: Prussia seizes Silesia — When Emperor Charles VI died in October 1740, his daughter Maria Theresa inherited the Habsburg lands.
16–19 October 1813: The Battle of the Nations at Leipzig — After his disaster in Russia in 1812, Napoleon faced an alliance of Russia, Prussia, Austria and Sweden.
27 May 1832: The Hambach Festival — On 27 May 1832 some 20,000 to 30,000 people climbed to the ruined castle of Hambach near Neustadt in the Palatinate, which then belonged to Bavaria.
18 January 1871: The German Empire is proclaimed — After three wars, against Denmark in 1864, Austria in 1866 and France in 1870–71, the Prussian minister-president Otto von Bismarck united the German states…
9 November 1918: Germany becomes a republic — The revolution began with a sailors' revolt in Kiel on 3 November 1918 and reached the big cities within days.