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13th century
- February 18, 1268: The battle of Wesenberg between the Danish and German knights and Russians occurred nearby in 18 February 1268. - Rakvere, Wikipedia.
15th century
- December 23, 1493: This was quickly followed by a German translation on 23 December 1493. - Nuremberg Chronicle, Wikipedia.
16th century
- 1522: When Martin Luther translated the Bible (the New Testament in 1522 and the Old Testament, published in parts and completed in 1534) he based his translation mainly on the bureaucratic standard language used in Saxony (sächsische Kanzleisprache) also known as Meißner-Deutsch (Meißner-German, i.e. - German language, Wikipedia.
- September 11, 1525: John George (German: Johann Georg; 11 September 1525 – 8 January 1598) was a Prince-elector of the Margraviate of Brandenburg (1571-1598) and a Duke of Prussia. - John George, Elector of Brandenburg, Wikipedia.
- 1534: The Luther Bible by Martin Luther was printed. - German language, Wikipedia.
- 1555: The Jesuit Petrus Canisius had published such a Catechism in 1555 in both German and Latin language. - Roman Catechism, Wikipedia.
18th century
- September 25, 1744: Frederick William II (German: Friedrich Wilhelm II; 25 September 1744 in Berlin –16 November 1797 in Potsdam) was the fourth King of Prussia, reigning from 1786 until his death. - Frederick William II of Prussia, Wikipedia.
- 1767: He wrote in Latin A Journey from California through the district of Mexico to Europe in the year 1767 which was translated into German for the Nachrichten von verschiedenen Ländern des spaniscvhen Amerika of Christoph von Murr (vol.XII, p. - Francis Bennon Ducrue, Wikipedia.
19th century
- 1817: Two visits to Germany in 1817 and 1820 led to William's taking up the study of German and later on that of contemporary German philosophy, which was almost entirely neglected in British universities. - Sir William Hamilton, 9th Baronet, Wikipedia.
- 1820: Two visits to Germany in 1817 and 1820 led to William's taking up the study of German and later on that of contemporary German philosophy, which was almost entirely neglected in British universities. - Sir William Hamilton, 9th Baronet, Wikipedia.
- 1840s: In Australia, the state of South Australia experienced a pronounced wave of Germans arriving in the 1840s from Prussia (particularly the Silesia region). - German language, Wikipedia.
- 1840: This Roman Catholic parish was organized in 1840 for German speaking members. - Old St. Mary's Church (Cincinnati, Ohio), Wikipedia.
- 1852: The first dictionary of the Brothers Grimm, the 16 parts of which were issued between 1852 and 1860, remains the most comprehensive guide to the words of the German language. - German language, Wikipedia.
- 1860: Grammatical and orthographic rules first appeared in the Duden Handbook. - German language, Wikipedia.
- February 9, 1866: At the High School No.1 in Chişinău, students had the right to choose among Romanian, German, and Greek until 9 February 1866, when the State Counselor of the Russian Empire forbade teaching of the Romanian language, with the following justification: "the pupils know this language in the practical mode, and its teaching follows other goals". - History of the Romanian language, Wikipedia.
- January 18, 1871: When King Wilhelm I of Prussia was proclaimed German Emperor on 18 January 1871 at the Palace of Versailles, Prince Otto represented his brother who refused to participate. - Otto of Bavaria, Wikipedia.
- January 18, 1871: The King of Prussia was crowned as German Emperor at the Palace of Versailles on 18 January 1871, however, the North German Confederation did not cease to exist until the 1871 Constitution of Germany went into force on 16 April. - Chancellor of Germany, Wikipedia.
- October 19, 1878: The Anti-Socialist Laws or Socialist Laws (German: Sozialistengesetze; officially Gesetz gegen die gemeingefährlichen Bestrebungen der Sozialdemokratie, approximately "Law against the public danger of Social Democratic endeavours") were a series of acts, the first of which was passed on October 19, 1878 by the German Reichstag for a limited term, and the later ones regularly extending the term of its application. - Anti-Socialist Laws, Wikipedia.
- January 16, 1886: The parliament of the German Empire condemned the expulsion with a great majority of voices. - Prussian deportations, Wikipedia.
- September 11, 1892: A currency called the krone in German was introduced in Austria-Hungary on 11 September 1892, as the first modern gold-based currency in the area. - Czechoslovak koruna, Wikipedia.
- September 13, 1892: Princess Victoria Louise of Prussia, Duchess of Brunswick (Victoria Louise Adelaide Matilda Charlotte; German: Viktoria Luise Adelheid Mathilde Charlotte; 13 September 1892 – 11 December 1980) was the only daughter and the seventh child of William II, German Emperor and Empress Augusta Victoria. - Princess Victoria Louise of Prussia, Wikipedia.
- November 1, 1897: The Big Sword Society brutally murdered two German Roman Catholic priests of the Steyler Mission in Juye County in southern Shandong. - Jiaozhou Bay concession, Wikipedia.
20th century
- 1900s
  - 1901: The 2nd Orthographical Conference ended with a complete standardization of German language in written form while the Deutsche Bühnensprache (literally: German stage-language) had already established spelling rules for German three years earlier which were later to become obligatory for general German pronunciation. - German language, Wikipedia.
  - February 20, 1904: In exchange for abandoning the mail routes shared with North German Lloyd, HAPAG traded Kiautschou for Lloyd freighters Bamberg, Königsberg, Nürnberg, Stolberg, and Strassburg. - USS Princess Matoika (ID-2290), Wikipedia.
  - 1907: Most of the education process was in German language until 1907, when the Austrian government allowed the introduction of Slovene as the main language of education in all grammar schools in Carniola, except the one in Kočevje. - Bežigrad Grammar School, Wikipedia.
- 1910s
  - September 1, 1914: Named after Georg von Derfflinger, a German field marshal during the Thirty Years War, Derfflinger was commissioned on 1 September 1914. - Derfflinger class battlecruiser, Wikipedia.
  - 1915: She was renamed Southland as the Dutch word vaderland was considered too similar to the German Vaterland - HMT Southland, Wikipedia.
  - September 22, 1915: Marathe left for Washington on 22 September 1915, and through the German Ambassador Johann von Bernstoff, was able to establish links with the Ghadar Party. - Berlin Committee, Wikipedia.
  - November 14, 1918: Following the defeat of the German Empire in World War I his father abdicated on 14 November 1918. - Duke Christian Louis of Mecklenburg, Wikipedia.
  - November 14, 1918: Following the defeat of the German Empire in World War I his father abdicated on 14 November 1918. - Friedrich Franz, Hereditary Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, Wikipedia.
  - November 11, 1918: German politicians had signed an armistice leading to a cease fire on November 11, 1918, with the Western and former Eastern front lines outside of Germany. - Greater Poland Uprising (1918–1919), Wikipedia.
- 1920s
  - September 30, 1923: The league was created on 30 September 1923 at Nuremberg, where Hitler joined other patriotic nationalist leaders to celebrate German Day, which marked the anniversary of the Prussian victory over France in 1870. - Kampfbund, Wikipedia.
  - 1929: She began studying French and German language at the University of Copenhagen in 1929. - Eli Fischer-Jørgensen, Wikipedia.
- 1930s
  - November 13, 1932: In the orderly election of the presbyters and synodals on November 13, 1932 the Nazi Faith Movement of German Christians ran for the first time for seats in the presbyteries of the congregations and synods of the old-Prussian church body. - Jerusalem's Church, Wikipedia.
  - September 21, 1933: From September 21 to December 23, 1933, the Leipzig Trial took place and was presided over by judges from the old German Imperial High Court, the Reichsgericht. - Reichstag fire, Wikipedia.
  - November 13, 1933: A rally of German Christians was held at the Berlin Sportpalast, where --before a packed hall-- banners proclaimed the unity of National Socialism and Christianity, interspersed with the omnipresent swastikas. - Confessing Church, Wikipedia.
  - November 24, 1934: At noon on 24 November 1934 several thousand students of the Czech University protested before the German university building. - Charles University in Prague, Wikipedia.
  - September 24, 1935: A new law empowered Kerrl to legislate by way of ordinances within the German Evangelical Church, circumventing any synodal autonomy. - Protestant Reich Church, Wikipedia.
  - November 18, 1935: The presbytery thus chose the orthodox German Christian pastor Heyne from the Thuringian Evangelical Church, the church body being at the heart of the Faith Movement of German Christians. - Capernaum Church, Wikipedia.
  - September 6, 1937: An expropriation edict issued on 6 September 1937 by Lithuanian authorities enabled seizure of German land and public buildings without consultation on the part of local authorities and without adequate compensation. - Klaipėda, Wikipedia.
  - September 5, 1939: German forces defeated the Polish Army Pomorze tasked with defense of this region and captured the corridor during the Battle of Tuchola Forest by September 5. - Polish Corridor, Wikipedia.
  - September 1, 1939: The campaign began on 1 September 1939 following a German-staged attack. - Portal:Russia/Selected article, Wikipedia.
  - September 1, 1939: After the German invasion of Poland on 1 September 1939, Nazi troops moved into the city, eradicating any resistance and claiming the city for Germany. - Great Synagogue (Danzig), Wikipedia.
  - September 8, 1939: From September 8 the city started to be referred to as Fortress of Warsaw in German broadcasts, which was to justify the aerial bombardment of civilian targets^[1]. - Festung Warschau, Wikipedia.
  - September, 1939: Prior to the Nazi German invasion in September 1939 and the subsequent annexation in October, the territories consisted a total of up to 10,568,000 people or some 30% of pre-1939 Poland's population. - Polish areas annexed by Nazi Germany, Wikipedia.
- 1940s
  - January 19, 1940: He had a number of functions in the German military before being was assigned to the Lehr Regiment Brandenburg on 19 January 1940 under the command of Abwehr II. - Operation Mainau, Wikipedia.
  - January 20, 1940: In a 20 January 1940 radio speech Winston Churchill tried to convince them not to wait for an inevitable German attack, but to join the Entente. - Battle of the Netherlands, Wikipedia.
  - February 19, 1940: For his 75th birthday on 19 February 1940 they awarded him the Order of the German Eagle; shortly before that date it had been presented to Henry Ford and Charles Lindbergh. - Sven Hedin, Wikipedia.
  - 1940: A total of 53 German and Japanese warships and submarines entered Australian waters between 1940 and 1945 and attacked ships, ports and other targets. - Portal:Australia/Featured article/2006, Wikipedia.
  - September 17, 1940: With the German defeat in the Battle of Britain, Sea Lion was postponed indefinitely on 17 September 1940 and never carried out. - Operation Sea Lion, Wikipedia.
  - December 7, 1940: Originally a lecture presented in German on 7 December 1940 at the Palazzo Zuccari in Rome. - Die Arische Lehre von Kampf und Sieg, Wikipedia.
  - September 21, 1941: From 21 September 1941 until 4 July 1942 German soldiers faced severe opposition from the Russian army while attempting to capture the important Black Sea ports around Sevastopol. - Crimea Shield, Wikipedia.
  - September 30, 1942: Adolf Hitler had declared in a public speech (in the Berlin Sportpalast) on 30 September 1942 that the German army would never leave the city. - Battle of Stalingrad, Wikipedia.
  - December, 1942: As the German Sixth Army was already being crushed in the Battle of Stalingrad, the Red Army launched a successful offensive against Army Group A. - 1st Panzer Army (Germany), Wikipedia.
  - January 23, 1943: These last wounded Croat legionaries were flown out only due to unbelievable almost suicidal bravery of Luftwaffe pilot(s) who dared to land that night 22nd to 23rd of January 1943 on the last serviceable German Staljingradskaja airfield near 369th artillery section positions. - 369th Reinforced Infantry Regiment, Wikipedia.
  - February 18, 1943: Coincidentally the same day that Nazi propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels called on the German people to embrace total war in his Sportpalast speech, the Scholls brought a suitcase full of leaflets to the university. - White Rose, Wikipedia.
  - September 10, 1943: OZAV was established on 10 September 1943 by the occupying German Wehrmacht, as a response to the Allied Armistice with Italy proclaimed two days earlier following the Allied invasion of Italy. - Prealpine Operations Zone, Wikipedia.
  - October 20, 1943: This camp opened on 20 October 1943 and was staffed primarily by German and Ukrainian members of the SS under the command of SS-Sturmbannführer Christian Wirth, former commander of Belzec extermination camp. - Operational Zone Adriatic Coast, Wikipedia.
  - January 28, 1944: Nearly all of the population was evacuated from the approaching Red Army, but the city itself was defended by the German army during the Battle of Memel until January 28, 1945. - Klaipėda Region, Wikipedia.
  - September 9, 1944: The Bratislava oil district included the Apollo oil refinery and was bombed on 9 September 1944 during the German occupation. - History of Bratislava, Wikipedia.
  - January 28, 1945: He was awarded the German Cross in Gold on the 28 January 1945 for his achievements during the fighting for Budapest and by the 8 February had qualified for the Close Combat Clasp in Gold, with 50 days of hand to hand combat. - Hermann Maringgele, Wikipedia.
  - January, 1945: Most of the German population fled, when the Red Army approached the locality at the end of January 1945, the remaining Germans were expelled until June. - Rudna, Lower Silesian Voivodeship, Wikipedia.
  - January 25, 1945: Army Group Courland was created on 25 January 1945, when German dictator Adolf Hitler renamed Army Group North, Army Group Center, and Army Group A. - Army Group Courland, Wikipedia.
  - January 7, 1945: South of Strasbourg, German troops in the Colmar Pocket attacked north toward Strasbourg on January 7, inflicting painful losses on the French II Corps, but were ultimately unable to break the French defense. - Army Group Oberrhein (Germany), Wikipedia.
  - December 29, 1945: The communist Hungarian Government ordered the expulsion of everyone who had declared himself a German in the 1941 census, or had been a member of the Volksbund, the SS, or any other armed German organisation. - Expulsion of Germans after World War II, Wikipedia.
  - August 16, 1948: The NDPD was recognized by the Soviet Military Administration in Germany on 16 August 1948 and later sent 52 delegates to the East German parliament, the Volkskammer, as part of the National Front. - National Democratic Party of Germany (East Germany), Wikipedia.
  - 1949: Since the adoption of the current constitution of Germany in 1949 the formal title of the office in the German language is once again Bundeskanzler. - Chancellor of Germany (Federal Republic of Germany), Wikipedia.
- 1950s
  - November 18, 1955: The television debut in the German Democratic Republic was on November 1, 1955 and in the Federal Republic on November 18, 1971. - Murderers Among Us, Wikipedia.
  - November 1, 1955: The television debut in the German Democratic Republic was on November 1, 1955 and in the Federal Republic on November 18, 1971. - Murderers Among Us, Wikipedia.
  - November 29, 1957: One year after the foundation of the Bundeswehr the British forces handed over the airfield to the German Army on 29 November 1957. - Celle Air Base, Wikipedia.
- 1960s
  - 1968: Havenstein played the voice of King Louie in the dubbed German version of the Walt Disney film The Jungle Book. - Klaus Havenstein, Wikipedia.
- 1970s
  - October 27, 1977: The 45^th episode, planned to be broadcasted on 27 October 1977 and to cover the topic of terrorism and the German Autumn, was cancelled. - Notizen aus der Provinz, Wikipedia.
  - January, 1978: She went to Leipzig to learn German at the Karl Marx University's Herder Institute (now the University of Leipzig). - Michelle Bachelet, Wikipedia.
- 1980s
  - 1980s: In Russia, forced expulsions after World War II and massive emigration to Germany in the 1980s and 1990s have depopulated most of these communities. - German language, Wikipedia.
  - February 14, 1981: The German channel ZDF aired the first episode in cooperation with the Austrian broadcaster ORF and the Swiss channel SF DRS. - Wetten, dass..?, Wikipedia.
  - December, 1983: Beckett planned to go to Stuttgart to direct the German version Was Wo. - What Where, Wikipedia.
  - September 15, 1987: Since German reunification and the subsequent re-opening of the line for the public on September 15, 1991, the steam trains have become popular for thousands of tourists every year, offering a convenient access to the top of the Brocken. - Brocken Railway, Wikipedia.
  - December 20, 1988: Austria: The German language production premiered at the Theater an der Wien on 20 December 1988. - The Phantom of the Opera (1986 musical), Wikipedia.
  - October 15, 1989: At 11 in the morning an assembly of actors and employees of theaters in East Berlin met at the Deutsches Theater and decided to hold a demonstration for democratization and against the East German government. - Alexanderplatz demonstration, Wikipedia.
  - November 12, 1989: The Polish Prime Minister Tadeusz Mazowiecki and the German Federal Chancellor Helmut Kohl held a reconciliation meeting here and decided to redevelop the property as an international youth meeting place. - Krzyżowa, Świdnica County, Wikipedia.
  - November 25, 1989: The appeal for its formation was made in 25 November 1989 in Berlin by those East German liberals who doubted the ability of the Liberal Democratic Party of Germany to reform itself. - Free Democratic Party (GDR), Wikipedia.
- 1990s
  - February 10, 1990: Around the German Reunification, in an extraordinary party congress held 9-10 February 1990 in Dresden it returned to genuine liberalism policies and restored its name to the Liberal Democratic Party, (Liberal-Demokratische Partei (LDP)). - Liberal Democratic Party of Germany, Wikipedia.
  - February 12, 1990: The Association of Free Democrats (German: Bund Freier Demokraten) was a liberal coalition formed in East Germany on 12 February 1990. - Association of Free Democrats, Wikipedia.
  - November 16, 1994: The building was fully renovated by German architect Annabelle Selldorf and restored to its original state before the Neue Galerie opened on November 16, 2001. - Neue Galerie, Wikipedia.
  - 1996: See German spelling reform of 1996 for an overview of the public debate concerning the reform, with some major newspapers and magazines and several known writers refusing to adopt it. - German language, Wikipedia.
  - 1996: The German spelling reform of 1996 led to public controversy and considerable dispute. - German language, Wikipedia.
  - September 25, 1997: Original Heise article — September 25, 1997, in German - Crypto Operating System, Wikipedia.
  - 1998: Some older statistics included in 1998 Babel found somewhat similar demographics. - German language, Wikipedia.
  - 1998: Official revisions of some of these rules were not issued until 1998, when the German spelling reform of 1996 was officially promulgated by governmental representatives of all German-speaking countries. - German language, Wikipedia.
21st century
- 2000: German in the United States is the fifth most spoken language at home (~ 1.4 million) after English, Spanish, Chinese, and French according to the 2000 U.S. - German language, Wikipedia.
- September 11, 2001: Following the events on September 11, 2001, the German government commissioned an investigation into Stasi support for terrorist groups such as the Red Army Faction, but former Stasi officers working within the BStU disturbed it. - Federal Commissioner for the Stasi Archives, Wikipedia.
- September 11, 2001: The Luftsicherheitsgesetz (German for Aviation Security Act) is a German law created in response to the September 11, 2001 attacks which came into force on 2005-01-15. - Luftsicherheitsgesetz, Wikipedia.
- 2005: An ambitious project undertaken by the universities of Zurich and Munich has worked on a German translation of the story for several years and released a finished version in 2005. - Hans Herbjørnsrud, Wikipedia.
- November 11, 2005: The largest German political parties SPD and CDU signed a coalition. - Centre Against Expulsions, Wikipedia.
- December 19, 2005: This article incorporates text from the corresponding German Wikipedia article as of 19 December 2005 - Miniature Bible, Wikipedia.
- 2006: After 10 years, without any intervention by the federal parliament, a major yet incomplete revision was installed in 2006, just in time for the coming school year. - German language, Wikipedia.
- 2007: Some traditional spellings were finally invalidated even though they caused little or no trouble. - German language, Wikipedia.
- November 22, 2007: With the success of the German speaking DMAX a separate channel was launched for the UK and Ireland markets on 22 November 2007. - Discovery Networks Deutschland, Wikipedia.
- September 3, 2008: The German federal government passed a law calling for the establishment of a center against expulsions in the Deutschlandhaus building of the Anhalter Bahnhof site in Berlin-Kreuzberg. - Centre Against Expulsions, Wikipedia.
- September 23, 2009: On Wednesday the 23rd of September 2009, four days before the federal elections, German police raided the Berlin headquarters of the NPD to investigate claims that letters sent from the NPD to politicians from immigrant backgrounds incited racial hatred. - National Democratic Party of Germany, Wikipedia.

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