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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
After the war, Germany's and Austria-Hungary's loss of territory and the rise of communism in the Soviet Union meant that more Germans than ever constituted sizable minorities in various countries. [clarification needed] German nationalists used the existence of large German minorities in other countries as a basis for territorial claims.
The timeline of the Weimar Republic lists in chronological order the major events of the Weimar Republic, beginning with the final month of the German Empire and ending with the Enabling Act of 1933 that concentrated all power in the hands of Adolf Hitler. A second chronological section lists important cultural, scientific and commercial events ...
The fortress Ordensburg Marienburg in Malbork, founded in 1274, the world's largest brick castle and the Teutonic Order's headquarters on the river Nogat.. The medieval German Ostsiedlung (literally Settling eastwards), also known as the German eastward expansion or East colonization refers to the expansion of German culture, language, states, and settlements to vast regions of Northeastern ...
28 March – Kurt Scharf, German clergyman and bishop of the Evangelical Church in Berlin-Brandenburg (born 1902) 14 April – Martin Kessel, German writer (born 1901) 15 April – Helmut Lemke, German politician (born 1907) 20 April – Horst Sindermann, German politician (born 1915) 5 May – Walter Bruch, German electrical engineer (born 1908)
1 July – The Agadir Crisis is triggered when Germany's Ambassador to France, Wilhelm von Schoen, delivers a diplomatic note to France's Foreign Minister Justin de Selves, announcing that Germany has sent the gunboat SMS Panther and troops, to occupy Agadir, at that time a part of the protectorate of French Morocco.
16 January – Paul Singer, German politician (died 1911) 14 February – Joseph Thyssen, German industrialist (died 1915) 10 March – Karl Gutbrod, German judge (died 1905) 25 March – Adolf Engler, German botanist (died 1930) 3 April – Georg Ratzinger, priest and politician (died 1899) 30 April – Carl von Thieme, German banker (died 1924)
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