| 1555 | | The Religios Peace of Augsburg; policy of cuius regio, eius
religio accepted in Germany |
| 1614.Sep.01 | | Vincent Fettmich expels Jews from Frankfurt-on-Main in Germany |
| 1871 | | Unification of Germany in the wake of the Franco-Prussina War |
| 1879.Mar.14 | | Albert Einstein was born at Ulm, in W�rttemberg, Germany |
| 1888 | | Accession of Kaiser Wilhelm II in Germany |
| 1897.Mar.14 | | Birth of the physicist Albert Einstein at Ulm, W�rttemberg, Germany |
| 1899.Dec.02 | | US and Germany agree to divide Samoa between them |
| 1914 | | Albert Einstein returns to Germany
He accepted research position in the Prussian Academy of Sciences together with a chair at the University of Berlin. He was offered the directorship of the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute of Physics |
| 1914.Aug.03 | | Germany declares war on France |
| 1914.Aug.04 | | BRITAIN DECLARES WAR ON GERMANY
The
USA declared its neutrality |
| 1914.Aug.06 | | Serbia declares war on Germany |
| 1914.Aug.20 | | Japan declares war on Germany |
| 1916.Aug.28 | | Italy declares war against Germany |
| 1917.Aug.14 | | China declares war on Germany and Austria |
| 1918.Nov.11 | | Armistice signed by Germany |
| 1918.Nov.11 | | ARMISTICE SIGNED BY GERMANY ENDING THE FIRST WORLD WAR: the kaiser abdicated and a republic declared |
| 1920.Feb | | NSDAP 25-point Party programme drawn up in Germany |
| 1921.Aug.25 | | US signs a peace treaty with Germany |
| 1929.Oct | | Death of Gustav Streemann |
| 1930.Mar | | Collapse of M�ller\'s coalition government - Br�ning appointed chancellor of Germany |
| 1932.Apr | | Re-election of Hindenburg as president of Germany |
| 1932.May | | Resignation of Br�ning - Papen becomes chancellor of Germany |
| 1932.Jul | | Nazis become the largest party in elections to the German Reichstag |
| 1932.Aug.13 | | Adolf Hitler rejected the post of Vice Chancellor of Germany commenting thet he
wanted all or nothing. |
| 1932.Sep.12 | | Papen dissolves the German Reichstag believing Nazi political support had passed its peak |
| 1933.Jan | | Nazi party comes to power in Germany |
| 1933.Jan.30 | | Adolf Hitler becomes Chancellor of a coalition government in Germany establishing the Nazi dictatorship |
| 1936.Aug.01 | | Adolf Hitler presides over the opening of
the Olympic Games in Germany
The Olypics and their caused a lul in the Nazi campaign of anti-Semitism in Germany |
| 1938.Mar.13 | | Austria annexed by Nazi Germany |
| 1939.Mar.16 | | Bohemia and Moravia
annexed by Nazi Germany and declared a German Protectorate |
| 1939.Mar.22 | | Lithuania
ceded Memel to Germany |
| 1939.Sep.01 | | Nazi Germany invades Poland |
| 1939.Sep.03 | | BRITAIN DECLARES WAR ON GERMANY
The
declaration was made at 11.00am, effective 5.00pm |
| 1942.Aug.11 | | Pierre Laval, an official of the Vichy government publicly declared that
the hour of liberation for France is the hour when Germany wins the
war. |
| 1945 | | SURRENDER OF GERMANY
Germany divided by the Allies |
| 1949 | | Creation of the Federal Republic of Germany> (West Germany) and the German Democratic Republic (East Germany) |
| 1950.Aug.23 | | West Germany and Japan are re-admitted to the International Amateur Athletic Federation |
| 1954.Oct.23 | | Britain, France and the USSR agree to end occupation of Germany |
| 1958.Nov.27 | | USSR abrogates Allied war-time agreements on the control of Germany |
| 1972.Aug.26 | | Opening of the Summer Olympics open at Munich, West Germany |
| 1975 | | Christchurch, Dorset, twinned with Christchurch, New Zealand
Christchurch was also twinned with Aalen, Germany |
| 1988.Aug.28 | | 70 people are killed in the crash of three Italian stunt planes at an air show in Germany |
| 1989 | | Fall of the Berlin Wall dividing East and West Germany |
| 1989.Oct.18 | | Erich Honecker, Communist leader of E Germany for 18, steps down from power through ill health
H is replaced by Egon Krenz, the head of internal and external security for the Politburo |
| 1989.Nov.07 | | Resignation of E Germany\'s Communist government in the face of mass public protests |
| 1990.Oct.03 | | Unification of East and West Germany |
| 1990.Dec.02 | | Parliamentary election held in newly-reunified Germany
Won by Chancellor Helmut Kohl\'s center-right coalition |
| 1994.Aug.27 | | Horst Ortmann sets a new world record at Langenthal in Germany; HE SPITS A CHERRY STONE A DISTANCE OF 28.98 METRES |
