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The SPD lost seventy-six seats; the CDU-CSU coalition and the liberal Free Democratic Party of Germany (FDP) gained. [44] 2010: 23 April: European debt crisis: Greece requested a loan from the EU and the International Monetary Fund. 29 May Germany wins the Eurovision Song Contest 2010, with Lena and 'Satellite'. This was their second win. 2010 ...
The German Confederation (German: Deutscher Bund) was founded, a loose union of 39 states (35 ruling princes and 4 free cities) under Austrian leadership, with a Federal Diet (German: Bundestag) meeting in Frankfurt am Main. It was a loose coalition that failed to satisfy most nationalists.
7 January – Albert Bierstadt, German-American painter (d. 1902) 8 January – Hans von Bülow, German conductor, pianist and composer (d. 1894) 15 March – Paul Heyse, German writer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1914) 25 July – John Jacob Bausch, German-American optician who co-founded Bausch & Lomb (d. 1926)
6 April – Robert Volkmann, German composer (d. 1883) 18 June – Ludwig Freiherr von und zu der Tann-Rathsamhausen, Bavarian general (d. 1881) 26 July – Robert Remak, German embryologist, physiologist and neurologist (d. 1865) 31 October – Karl Weierstrass, German mathematician (d. 1897) 8 December – Adolph Menzel, German artist ...
In Europe's Name: Germany and the Divided Continent (1997), 700pp; Bolgherini, Silvia. and Florian Grotz, eds. Germany After the Grand Coalition: Governance and Politics in a Turbulent Environment (Palgrave Macmillan; 2011) 231 pages; studies of the "Grand Coalition" of 2005-09 and the first Merkel government. Crawford, Alan, and Tony Czuczka.
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 .
27 January – August Becker, German landscape painter (died 1887) 19 February August Schleicher, German linguist (d. 1868) 1 March – Joseph Hubert Reinkens, German Old Catholic bishop (d. 1896) 17 May – Sebastian Kneipp, German naturopath (d. 1897) 18 May – Eduard von Pestel, Prussian military officer and German general (d. 1908)
The empire was founded on 18 January 1871 at the Palace of Versailles, outside Paris, France, where the south German states, except for Austria and Liechtenstein, joined the North German Confederation and the new constitution came into force on 16 April, changing the name of the federal state to the German Empire and introducing the title of ...