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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
Category: Historical events in Germany. ... Cancelled events in Germany (1 C, 1 P) Catholic Church councils held in Germany (5 P) Competitions in Germany (4 C, 3 P)
The Common Germanic terms for "day", "month" and "year" were *dagaz, *mēnōþs and *jērą. The latter two continue Proto-Indo-European *mḗh 1 n̥s, *yóh 1 r̥, while *dagaz is a Germanic innovation from a root *d h eg wh-meaning "to be hot, to burn". A number of terms for measuring time can be reconstructed for the proto-Germanic period.
January 1 – The Grand Duchy of Lithuania switches New Year to January 1, before any other country does.; January 16 – The "Grote Mandrenke" storm tide strikes the Netherlands, England, Germany and Denmark, destroying the Danish settlement of Rungholt in the Duchy of Schleswig, and the Humber estuary port of Ravenser Odd in England.
1871 was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Friday of the Julian calendar, the 1871st year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 871st year of the 2nd millennium, the 71st year of the 19th century, and the 2nd year of the 1870s decade. As of the start of 1871, the ...
This is a list of years in Germany. See also the timeline of German history . For only articles about years in Germany that have been written, see Category:Years in Germany .
1.2.3 Principalities. ... Other events of 1903 History of Germany • Timeline • Years: Events in the year 1903 in Germany. Incumbents.
1 August — The 1936 Summer Olympics open in Berlin, Germany, at the end of the first ever Olympic torch relay. [3] It is also the first occasion in world history when a sporting event is given television coverage. The first German volunteers on the nationalist side of the Spanish civil war leave for Spain. [4]