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This is a timeline of German history, comprising important legal and territorial changes and political events in Germany and its predecessor states. To read about the background to these events, see History of Germany. See also the list of German monarchs and list of chancellors of Germany and the list of years in Germany
There are eight events in German history that are connected to 9 November, five of which had considerable historical consequences: the execution of Robert Blum in 1848, the end of the monarchies in 1918, the Hitler putsch attempt in 1923, the Nazi antisemitic pogroms in 1938 and the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989.
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The German Confederation (German: Deutscher Bund) was founded, a loose union of 39 states (35 ruling princes and 4 free cities) under Austrian leadership, with a Federal Diet (German: Bundestag) meeting in Frankfurt am Main. It was a loose coalition that failed to satisfy most nationalists.
16 April – Jakob Heine, German orthopaedist (died 1879) 30 May – Karl Wilhelm Feuerbach, German geometer (died 1834) 31 July – Friedrich Wöhler, German chemist (died 1882) 20 August – Bernhard Heine, German physician, bone specialist and inventor (died 1846) 26 October – Helmuth von Moltke the Elder, German Field Marshal (died 1891)
5 August – Sébastien Érard, German-born French instrument maker (b. 1752) 24 August – August von Gneisenau, Prussian field marshal (b. 1760) 28 September – Philippine Engelhard, German writer, scholar (b. 1756) 14 November – Georg Hegel, German philosopher (b. 1770) [4] 16 November – Carl von Clausewitz, German military strategist ...
Rostocker Pfeilstorch", a white stork, is found in northern Germany with an arrow from central Africa through its neck, demonstrating the fact of bird migration. The Rhine Province, the westernmost province of the Kingdom of Prussia and the Free State of Prussia , within the German Reich , established from 1822 to 1946.
The historiography of Germany deals with the manner in which historians have depicted, analyzed and debated the history of Germany.It also covers the popular memory of critical historical events, ideas and leaders, as well as the depiction of those events in museums, monuments, reenactments, pageants and historic sites, and the editing of historical documents.