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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.
April 6: USA joins the Entente for the last 17 months of World War I. May – October: Apparitions of Our Lady of the Rosary in Fátima, Portugal. June 4: The first Pulitzer Prizes announced. July – November: Battle of Passchendaele. October – November: Battle of Caporetto. November 1–2: The Third Battle of Gaza ends in British victory.
19 January – German federal election, 1919; 11 February - German presidential election, 1919; 13 February – Scheidemann cabinet are sworn in. 29 March – University of Hamburg is established. 21 June – Bauer cabinet are sworn in.
Alsace–Lorraine, which became a part of the German Empire following the Treaty of Frankfurt on 10 May 1871, returned to French sovereignty without a plebiscite as a precondition to armistice (i.e. and therefore not as a clause of the Treaty of Versailles) with effect from the date of the armistice (11 November 1918), (14,522 km 2 or 5,607 sq ...
2024 Thuringian state election: The AfD wins a plurality (32%) in elections for the Landtag of Thuringia, marking the first time that a far-right party won a state election in Germany since World War II.
The revolution's end date is generally set at 11 August 1919, the day the Weimar Constitution was adopted; however, the revolution remained in many ways incomplete. A large number of its opponents had been left in positions of power, and it failed to resolve the fracture in the Left between moderate socialists and communists.
24 April: Germany and the Soviet Union sign the Treaty of Berlin, which guarantees Germany's neutrality in any war between the Soviet Union and a third country. [75] 12 May: The Luther government falls as a result of its support for a modified imperial flag for use at the Republic's foreign missions. [76]
The construction of the Central European Neolithic circular enclosures falls in this time period with the best known and oldest being the Goseck circle, constructed c. 4900 BC. Afterwards, Germany was part of the Rössen culture, Michelsberg culture and Funnelbeaker culture (c. 4600 BC – c. 2800 BC). The oldest traces for the use of wheel and ...