1760 Seven Years' War: Russian forces occupy Berlin.
1806 The French Army enters Berlin.
1813 Russian troops fighting the army of Napoleon reach Berlin in Germany and the French garrison evacuates the city without a fight.
1876 The Reichsbank opens in Berlin.
1893 Henrik Ibsen's play ''The Master Builder'' receives its premiere performance in Berlin.
1900 Max Planck, in his house at Grunewald, on the outskirts of Berlin, discovers the law of black body emission.
1912 The Deutsche Opernhaus (now Deutsche Oper Berlin) opens in the Berlin neighborhood of Charlottenburg, with a production of Beethoven's ''Fidelio''.
1920 The Kapp Putsch briefly ousts the Weimar Republic government from Berlin.
1933 Reichstag fire: Germany's parliament building in Berlin, the Reichstag, is set on fire.
1940 World War II: The Tripartite Pact is signed in Berlin by Germany, Japan and Italy.
1941 Konrad Zuse presents the Z3, the world's first working programmable, fully automatic computer, in Berlin.
1942 World War II: At the Wannsee Conference held in the Berlin suburb of Wannsee, senior Nazi German officials decided on the "Final Solution to the Jewish Question", accelerating The Holocaust.
1943 World War II: Battle of Berlin: 440 Royal Air Force planes bomb Berlin causing only light damage and killing 131. The RAF loses nine aircraft and 53 air crew.
1943 World War II: The Deutsche Opernhaus on Bismarckstraße in the Berlin neighborhood of Charlottenburg is destroyed. It will eventually be rebuilt in 1961 and be called the Deutsche Oper Berlin.
1944 World War II: After the success of Big Week, the USAAF begins a daylight bombing campaign of Berlin.
1945 World War II: 1,250 American bombers attack Berlin.
1945 The Red Army begins the final assault on German forces around Berlin.
1945 World War II: Soviet Union forces south of Berlin at Zossen attack the German High Command headquarters.
1945 World War II – Fuehrerbunker: Adolf Hitler marries his long-time partner Eva Braun in a Berlin bunker and designates Admiral Karl Dönitz as his successor. Both Hitler and Braun will commit suicide the next day.
1945 World War II: Fall of Berlin: The Soviet Union announces the capture of Berlin and Soviet soldiers hoist their red flag over the ''Reichstag'' building.
1948 The Western allies begin an airlift to Berlin after the Soviet Union blockades West Berlin.
1961 In a speech John F. Kennedy emphasizes that any attack on Berlin is an attack on NATO.
1961 The German Democratic Republic closes the border between the eastern and western sectors of Berlin to thwart its inhabitants' attempts to escape to the West.
1989 Berlin's Brandenburg Gate re-opens after nearly 30 years, effectively ending the division of East and West Germany.
1990 Checkpoint Charlie is dismantled in Berlin.
1991 The German parliament decides to move the capital from Bonn back to Berlin.
1992 An Iranian Kurdish leader and his two joiners are assassinated by political militants in Berlin, Germany.
1999 The German Bundestag returns to Berlin, the first German parliamentary body to meet there since the Reichstag was dissolved in 1945.
2002 A group of Iraqis opposed to the regime of Saddam Hussein take over the Iraqi Embassy in Berlin for five hours before releasing their hostages and surrendering.