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By 1900, Germany was the dominant power on the European continent and its rapidly expanding industry had surpassed Britain's while provoking it in a naval arms race. Germany led the Central Powers in World War I, but was defeated, partly occupied, forced to pay war reparations, and stripped of its colonies and significant territory along its ...
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 ...
Operation Weserübung: Germany invades Denmark and Norway. 10 May Case Yellow: Germany invades the Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg, and France. 22 June Armistice of 22 June 1940 with France 1941: Konrad Zuse built the Z3. 6 April Invasion of Yugoslavia: German invasion of Greece: 22 June Operation Barbarossa: German forces invade the Soviet ...
Location of Neandertal, Germany. The Neandertal (/ n i ˈ æ n d ər ˌ t ɑː l /, also US: /-ˌ t ɔː l /, German: [neˈʔandɐtʰaːl]; sometimes called "the Neander Valley" in English) is a small valley of the river Düssel in the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia, located about 12 km (7.5 mi) east of Düsseldorf, the capital city of North Rhine-Westphalia.
The ancient burial site was found near Magdeburg, a city about 100 miles west of Berlin. Excavations at the site are ongoing and scheduled to end in April, officials said.
Discovered many isotopes, Protactinium and nuclear fission. Samuel Hahnemann: Physician, best known for creating a system of alternative medicine called homeopathy. Harald zur Hausen: Virologist, discovered the role of papilloma viruses in the development of cervical cancer. His research made the development of a vaccine against papilloma ...
Archaeologists discovered it on the skeleton of a man buried in a cemetery in the Roman city of Nida, one of the largest and most important sites in the central German state of Hesse.
Johann Ludwig Heinrich Julius Schliemann (German: [ˈʃliːman]; 6 January 1822 – 26 December 1890) was a German businessman and an influential amateur archaeologist.He was an advocate of the historicity of places mentioned in the works of Homer and an archaeological excavator of Hisarlik, now presumed to be the site of Troy, along with the Mycenaean sites Mycenae and Tiryns.