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Year Date Event Source c. 1.33 million years BP: The first stone tools were made in the Upper Rhine Plain [1] 609,000 ± 40,000 BP The hominid to whom the Mauer 1 mandible (discovered in 1907 in Mauer) belonged, the type specimen of Homo heidelbergensis, dies. [2]: 19727 ~225,000 BP
Principal city of the Hanseatic League remained Lübeck, where in 1356 the first general diet was held and its official structure was announced. The league declined after 1450 due to a number of factors, such as the 15th-century crisis , the territorial lords' shifting policies towards greater commercial control, the silver crisis and ...
Germany, [e] officially the Federal Republic of Germany, [f] is a country in Central Europe.It lies between the Baltic and North Sea to the north and the Alps to the south. Its sixteen constituent states have a total population of over 82 million in an area of 357,596 km 2 (138,069 sq mi), making it the most populous member state of the European Union.
The city lies in a mountainous area and had a defensive position that contributed to the victory of Đại Cồ Việt against the Song dynasty of China. Bandar Seri Begawan: Po-ni and Bruneian Empire Brunei: 977 AD [160] Oldest city in Borneo. Butuan: Rajahnate of Butuan Philippines: 1001 AD [161] [162] Oldest continuously inhabited city in ...
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 ...
Named after Otto von Bismarck, the first chancellor of the German Empire. Bismarck: Illinois: In order to be closer to a nearby railroad, the town of Franklin moved onto land donated by Charles S. Young and Dr. John B. Holloway. Young renamed the town after Otto von Bismarck, a subject of his admiration. [18] Bismarck: Missouri
The western provinces soon were to be dominated by three great powers: first, the Franks (Merovingian dynasty) in Francia 481–843 AD, which covered much of present France and Germany; second, the Visigothic kingdom 418–711 AD in the Iberian Peninsula (modern Spain); and third, the Ostrogothic kingdom 493–553 AD in Italy and parts of the ...
The unification of Germany (German: Deutsche Einigung, pronounced [ˈdɔʏtʃə ˈʔaɪnɪɡʊŋ] ⓘ) was a process of building the first nation-state for Germans with federal features based on the concept of Lesser Germany (one without Habsburgs' multi-ethnic Austria or its German-speaking part).