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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
The territorial evolution of Germany in this article include all changes in the modern territory of Germany from its unification making it a country on 1 January 1871 to the present although the history of "Germany" as a territorial polity concept and the history of the ethnic Germans are much longer and much more complex.
After the dissolution of the Holy Roman Empire in 1806, the German-speaking territories of the empire became allied in the German Confederation (1815–1866), a league of states with some federalistic elements. After the Austro-Prussian War, Prussia led the Northern states into a federal state called the North German Confederation (1867
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 ...
Map of Europe after the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk, at omniatlas.com. Susanne Schattenberg: Brest-Litovsk, Treaty of, in: 1914–1918-online. International Encyclopedia of the First World War. The Times History of the War, Volume XIV, London: Printing House Square, 1918, pp. 1–37
Division between Germany (area which remained in East Prussia), Lithuania and Poland after World War I; East Prussia Area in 1910 in km 2 Share of territory Population in 1910 After WW1 part of: Notes Given to: 37,002 km 2 [16] 100% 2,064,175 Divided between: Poland: 565 km 2 [17] [18] 2%: 2%: Pomeranian Voivodeship (Działdowo area) [citation ...
The historiographical concept of a German Sonderweg has had a turbulent history. 19th-century scholars who emphasised a separate German path to modernity saw it as a positive factor that differentiated Germany from the "western path" typified by Great Britain. They stressed the strong bureaucratic state, reforms initiated by Bismarck and other ...
This is a list of wars involving Germany from 962. It includes the Holy Roman Empire, Confederation of the Rhine, the German Confederation, the North German Confederation, the German Empire, the Weimar Republic, Nazi Germany, the German Democratic Republic (DDR, "East Germany") and the present Federal Republic of Germany (BRD, until German reunification in 1990 known as "West Germany").