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Germany

Germany: Historical Dates

AD 9	Germanic warriors decisively defeated Roman forces at the Battle of Teutoburg Forest.
486	The Frankish king Clovis overran the Roman province of Gaul. Clovis introduced features of Roman life into western Germany.
843	The Treaty of Verdun divided Charlemagne's empire into three kingdoms. The German kingdom soon divided into five duchies.
962	Otto I was crowned Holy Roman emperor in Aachen.
1075	A dispute between Henry IV and Pope Gregory VII marked the beginning of a series of civil wars contesting church power.
1300s	The Hanseatic League was the supreme commercial and military power in northern Germany.
1517	Martin Luther started the Protestant Reformation.
1555	The Peace of Augsburg recognized the right of princes to choose Lutheranism or Catholicism for their lands.
1648	The Peace of Westphalia ended the Thirty Years' War.
1740	Frederick the Great became king of Prussia and began building Prussia into a great power.
1806	The Holy Roman Empire came to an end with the establishment of the Confederation of the Rhine.
1815	The German Confederation was formed at the Congress of Vienna.
1848	Revolutions swept across Germany. The first German national assembly met at Frankfurt in the hopes of creating a more united country.
1871	Prussian prime minister Otto von Bismarck realized his dream of a united Germany as the German Empire was founded.
1918-1919	Germany was forced to accept harsh terms under the Treaty of Versailles that brought an end to World War I. The Weimar Republic was founded.
1933	Adolf Hitler and the Nazis assumed power.
1939	Germany invaded Poland, starting World War II.
1945	Allied armies occupied Germany and divided it into four zones of occupation. Nazi war criminals were tried at Nürnberg.
1949	Germany was divided into East Germany and West Germany. Berlin, in East Germany, was also divided between the two countries.
1955	East Germany and West Germany became sovereign states. East Germany joined the Warsaw Pact, an Eastern European military alliance. West Germany became a member of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), a Western military alliance.
1961	The East German government built the Berlin Wall.
1989	The Communist government in East Germany collapsed, and the Berlin Wall was dismantled. Thousands of East Germans emigrated to West Germany.
1990	Germany was formally reunified under the government of the former West Germany.
1998	The conservative coalition government of Helmut Kohl, the longest serving German Chancellor of the 20th Century (1982-1998), was defeated by the Social Democratic Party (SPD) of Gerhard Schröder.