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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
Dionysius assigned BC 1 to be the year he believed Jesus was born (or according to at least one scholar, AD 1). [2] [3] Modern scholars disagree with Dionysius' calculations, placing the event several years earlier (see Chronology of Jesus). Errors applying leap years in the Julian Calendar affect parts of this 1-to-9 timespan. As a result ...
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26 January — The 10 year German-Polish Non-Aggression Pact is signed by Germany and the Second Polish Republic. 20 March — All the police forces in Germany come under the command of Heinrich Himmler. 29 May-31 May — The Confessional Synod of the German Evangelical Church meets in Barmen, Germany to write the Barmen Declaration. 30 June —
13 January — A plebiscite in the Territory of the Saar Basin shows that 90.3% of those voting wish to join Germany. [1]15 February — The discovery and clinical development of Prontosil, the first broadly effective antibacterial drug, is published in a series of articles in Germany's pre-eminent medical journal, Deutsche Medizinische Wochenschrift, by Gerhard Domagk.
There are eight events in German history that are connected to 9 November, five of which had considerable historical consequences: the execution of Robert Blum in 1848, the end of the monarchies in 1918, the Hitler putsch attempt in 1923, the Nazi antisemitic pogroms in 1938 and the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989.
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]
23 February – Germany agrees the frontier between German East Africa and the British colony of Nyasaland with the United Kingdom. [1] 6 March – Kaiser Wilhelm II survives an assassination attempt in Bremen. [2] 10 July – Bielathal, Königstein, Saxony, launches the world's first regular passenger-carrying trolleybus service. [3]