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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
Prussia, with its capital at Königsberg and then, when it became the Kingdom of Prussia in 1701, Berlin, decisively shaped the history of Germany. The name Prussia derives from the Old Prussians ; in the 13th century, the Teutonic Knights – an organized Catholic medieval military order of German crusaders – conquered the lands inhabited by ...
The port of Danzig (now Gdańsk, Poland) along the delta of the Vistula became the Free City of Danzig under the League of Nations. (1,893 km 2 or 731 sq mi, 408,000 inhabitants (1929)), 90% Germans. In Article 80 of the Treaty of Versailles, Germany acknowledged and promised to respect the independence of Austria.
Prussia (Preußen) Berlin: Saxony (Sachsen) Dresden: Schaumburg-Lippe: Bückeburg: Thuringia (Thüringen) – from 1920 Weimar: Waldeck-Pyrmont – to Prussia (Pyrmont joined Prussia in 1921, Waldeck followed in 1929) Arolsen: Württemberg: Stuttgart: Free and Hanseatic Cities (Freie und Hansestädte) Bremen: Hamburg: Lübeck: States merged to ...
The Free State of Prussia (German: Freistaat Preußen, pronounced [ˈfʁaɪʃtaːt ˈpʁɔʏsn̩] ⓘ) was one of the constituent states of Germany from 1918 to 1947. The successor to the Kingdom of Prussia after the defeat of the German Empire in World War I, it continued to be the dominant state in Germany during the Weimar Republic, as it had been during the empire, even though most of ...
Kingdom of Prussia. Monarch – Frederick William III of Prussia (16 November 1797 – 7 June 1840) [1] Kingdom of Bavaria. Maximilian I (1 January 1806 – 13 October 1825) Kingdom of Saxony. Frederick Augustus I (20 December 1806 – 5 May 1827) Kingdom of Hanover. George III (25 October 1760 –29 January 1820) George IV (29 January 1820 ...
31 January – The Constitution of Prussia is adopted. [1] 25 July - Battle of Isted; 28 August – Richard Wagner's opera Lohengrin premieres in Weimar under the direction of Franz Liszt. 24 November - Battle of Lottorf; 29 November – The Punctation of Olmütz was agreed between the Austrian Empire and Prussia.
The 1932 Prussian coup d'état or Preußenschlag (German pronunciation: [ˈpʁɔʏsənˌʃlaːk]) took place on 20 July 1932, when Reich President Paul von Hindenburg, at the request of Franz von Papen, then Reich Chancellor of Germany, replaced the legal government of the Free State of Prussia with von Papen as Reich Commissioner.