933 After a ten-year truce, German King Henry I defeats a Hungarian army at the Battle of Riade near the Unstrut river.
1014 Pope Benedict VIII recognizes Henry of Bavaria as King of Germany.
1028 Henry III, son of Conrad, is elected king of the Germans.
1152 Frederick I Barbarossa is elected King of the Germans.
1241 Battle of Liegnitz: Mongol forces defeat the Polish and German armies.
1266 Battle of Benevento: An army led by Charles, Count of Anjou, defeats a combined German and Sicilian force led by King Manfred of Sicily. Manfred is killed in the battle and Pope Clement IV invests Charles as king of Sicily and Naples.
1284 the legendary Pied Piper leads 130 children out of Hamelin, Germany
1362 A storm tide in the North Sea destroys the German city of Rungholt on the island of Strand.
1374 A sudden outbreak of St. John's Dance causes people in the streets of Aachen, Germany, to experience hallucinations and begin to jump and twitch uncontrollably until they collapse from exhaustion.
1484 Pope Innocent VIII issues the ''Summis desiderantes'', a papal bull that deputizes Heinrich Kramer and James Sprenger as inquisitors to root out alleged witchcraft in Germany and leads to one of the most oppressive witch hunts in European history.
1527 Spanish and German troops sack Rome; some consider this the end of the Renaissance. 147 Swiss Guards, including their commander, die fighting the forces of Charles V in order to allow Pope Clement VII to escape into Castel Sant'Angelo.
1530 At the Diet of Augsburg the Augsburg Confession is presented to the Holy Roman Emperor by the Lutheran princes and Electors of Germany.
1604 Kepler's Star: German astronomer Johannes Kepler observes a supernova in the constellation Ophiuchus.
1630 Thirty-Years War: 4,000 Swedish troops under Gustavus Adolphus land in Pomerania, Germany.
1631 The city of Magdeburg in Germany is seized by forces of the Holy Roman Empire and most of its inhabitants massacred, in one of the bloodiest incidents of the Thirty Years' War.
1775 The last execution for witchcraft in Germany takes place.
1780 The University of Münster in Münster, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany is founded.
1793 The first republican state in Germany, the Republic of Mainz, is declared by Andreas Joseph Hofmann.
1804 Juno, one of the largest main belt asteroids, is discovered by German astronomer Karl Ludwig Harding.
1806 Sixteen German imperial states leave the Holy Roman Empire and form the Confederation of the Rhine.
1813 Russian troops fighting the army of Napoleon reach Berlin in Germany and the French garrison evacuates the city without a fight.
1814 ''The Times'' in London is for the first time printed by automatic, steam powered presses built by the German inventors Friedrich Koenig and Andreas Friedrich Bauer, signaling the beginning of the availability of newspapers to a mass audience.
1832 End of the Hambach Festival in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany.
1835 The Staedtler Company is founded in Nuremberg, Germany.
1846 Neptune is discovered by French astronomer Urbain Jean Joseph Le Verrier and British astronomer John Couch Adams; the discovery is verified by German astronomer Johann Gottfried Galle.
1847 German inventor and industrialist Werner von Siemens founds Siemens AG & Halske.
1848 Opening of the first German National Assembly (Nationalversammlung) in Frankfurt, Germany.
1848 Robert Blum, a German revolutionary, is executed in Vienna.
1860 German football club TSV 1860 München is founded
1863 The New Apostolic Church, a Christian and chiliastic church, is established in Hamburg, Germany.
1873 Franco-Prussian War: The last German troops leave France upon completion of payment of indemnity.
1879 Germany and Austria-Hungary sign the "Twofold Covenant" and create the Dual Alliance.
1880 Construction of Cologne Cathedral, the most famous landmark in Cologne, Germany, is completed.
1884 Germany takes possession of Cameroon.
1885 Gottlieb Daimler is granted a German patent for his engine design.
1887 Gottlieb Daimler unveils his first automobile which he test runs in Esslingen and Cannstatt, Germany.
1887 The Reinsurance Treaty between Germany and Russia is signed.
1900 The Reichstag approves a second law that allows the expansion of the German navy.
1900 The first Zeppelin flight takes place on Lake Constance near Friedrichshafen, Germany.
1903 German engineer Karl Jatho allegedly flies his self-made, motored gliding airplane four months before the first flight of the Wright Brothers.
1911 International Women's Day is launched in Copenhagen, Denmark, by Clara Zetkin, leader of the Women's Office for the Social Democratic Party in Germany.
1914 Germany declares war on Russia at the opening of World War I. The Swiss Army mobilises because of World War I
1914 World War I: Germany declares war against France.
1914 World War I: Germany invades Belgium. In response, the United Kingdom declares war on Germany. The United States declare their neutrality.
1914 World War I: Germany invades Belgium. In response, the United Kingdom declares war on Germany. The United States declare their neutrality.
1914 World War I: Serbia declares war on Germany; Austria declares war on Russia.
1914 World War I: German forces occupy Brussels.
1914 World War I: in Belgium, British and German troops clash for the first time in the war.
1914 World War I: Japan declares war on Germany and bombs Qingdao, China.
1914 World War I: German troops capture Namur.
1914 World War I: the British Expeditionary Force fights a rear-guard action at the Battle of Le Cateau that briefly checks the German advance.
1914 World War I: the Royal Navy defeats the German fleet in the Battle of Heligoland Bight.
1914 Australia invades New Britain, defeating a German contingent at the Battle of Bita Paka.
1914 World War I: South African troops open hostilities in German south-west Africa (Namibia) with an assault on the Ramansdrift police station.
1914 World War I: The Battle of Aisne begins between Germany and France.
1914 The Schoenstatt Movement is founded in Germany.
1914 The German colony of Kiaochow Bay and its centre at Tsingtao are captured by Japanese forces.
1914 World War I: Known as the Christmas truce, German and British troops on the Western Front temporarily cease fire.
1915 World War I: German zeppelins bomb the towns of Great Yarmouth and King's Lynn in the United Kingdom killing more than 20, in the first major aerial bombardment of a civilian target.
1915 World War I: Germany uses poison gas against Russia
1915 World War I: Germany institutes unrestricted submarine warfare.
1915 World War I: Cornered off the coast of Chile by the Royal Navy after fleeing the Battle of the Falkland Islands, the German light cruiser SMS ''Dresden'' is abandoned and scuttled by her crew.
1915 French pilot Roland Garros is shot down and glides to a landing on the German side of the lines during World War I.
1915 The {{RMS|Lusitania}} departs from New York City on her two hundred and second, and final, crossing of the North Atlantic. Six days later, the ship is torpedoed off the coast of Ireland with the loss of 1,198 lives, including 128 Americans, rousing American sentiment against Germany.
1915 World War I: German submarine {{SMU|U-20}} sinks {{RMS|Lusitania}}, killing 1,198 people including 128 Americans. Public reaction to the sinking turns many formerly pro-Germans in the United States against the German Empire.
1915 World War I: Second Battle of Artois between German and French forces.
1915 World War I: British nurse Edith Cavell is executed by a German firing squad for helping Allied soldiers escape from Belgium
1916 German troops abandon Yaoundé and their Kamerun colony to British forces and begin the long march to Spanish Guinea.
1916 World War I: Paris is first bombed by German zeppelins.
1916 World War I: the Battle of the Somme begins with a week-long artillery bombardment on the German Line.
1916 World War I: Liberia declares war on Germany.
1916 World War I: Manfred von Richthofen ("The Red Baron"), a flying ace of the German Luftstreitkräfte, wins his first aerial combat near Cambrai, France.
1916 The Kingdom of Poland is proclaimed by the Act of November 5th of the emperors of Germany and Austria-Hungary.
1917 World War I: Germany announces its U-boats will engage in unrestricted submarine warfare.
1917 World War I: The United States breaks off diplomatic relations with Germany a day after the latter announced a new policy of unrestricted submarine warfare.
1917 World War I: The U.S. ambassador to the United Kingdom is given the Zimmermann Telegram, in which Germany pledges to ensure the return of New Mexico, Texas, and Arizona to Mexico if Mexico declares war on the United States.
1917 World War I: The United States declares war on Germany (see President Woodrow Wilson's address to Congress).
1917 The first U.S. troops arrive in France to fight alongside Britain, France, Italy, and Russia against Germany, and Austria-Hungary in World War I.
1917 First British bombing of Germany in World War I.
1917 Battle of Caporetto; Italy suffers a catastrophic defeat at the forces of Austria-Hungary and Germany on the Austro-Italian front of World War I (lasts until 19 November - also called Twelfth Battle of the Isonzo).
1917 World War I: Battle of Caporetto; Italy suffers a catastrophic defeat at the forces of Austria-Hungary and Germany. The young unknown Oberleutnant Erwin Rommel captures Mount Matajur with only 100 Germans against a force of over 7000 Italians.
1917 World War I: Battle of Cambrai begins – British forces make early progress in an attack on German positions but are later pushed back.
1918 Germany, Austria and Russia sign the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk ending Russia's involvement in World War I, and leading to the independence of Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and Poland.
1918 World War I: German fighter ace Manfred von Richthofen, known as "The Red Baron", is shot down and killed over Vaux-sur-Somme in France.
1918 First tank-to-tank combat, at Villers-Bretonneux, France, when three British Mark IVs met three German A7Vs.
1918 World War I: the Second Battle of the Marne begins near the River Marne with a German attack.
1918 World War I: German troops cross the Marne.
1918 World War I: the Battle of Amiens begins a string of almost continuous victories with a push through the German front lines (Hundred Days Offensive).
1918 World War I: In the Argonne Forest in France, United States Corporal Alvin C. York leads an attack that kills 25 German soldiers and captures 132.
1918 Erich Ludendorff, quartermaster-general of the Imperial German Army, is dismissed by Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany for refusing to cooperate in peace negotiations.
1918 Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany abdicates after the German Revolution, and Germany is proclaimed a Republic.
1918 World War I: Germany signs an armistice agreement with the Allies in a railroad car outside Compiègne in France. The war officially ends at 11:00 (The eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month) and this is annually honoured with a two-minute silence.
1918 Friedrich Karl von Hessen, a German prince elected by the Parliament of Finland to become King Väinö I, renounces the Finnish throne.
1918 The Great Poland Uprising against the Germans begins.
1919 Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Liebknecht, two of the most prominent socialists in Germany, are tortured and murdered by the Freikorps.
1919 Kurt Eisner, German socialist, is assassinated. His death results in the establishment of the Bavarian Soviet Republic and parliament and government fleeing Munich, Germany.
1919 Estonian Liberation War: the decisive defeat of German Freikorps (Baltische Landeswehr) forces in the Battle of Cesis (Võnnu lahing). This day is celebrated as Victory Day in Estonia.
1920 A new border treaty between Germany and Denmark gives northern Schleswig to Denmark.
1921 A storage silo in Oppau, Germany, explodes, killing 500-600 people.
1922 The Treaty of Rapallo, pursuant to which Germany and the Soviet Union re-establish diplomatic relations, is signed.
1923 Occupation of the Ruhr: Troops from France and Belgium occupy the Ruhr area to force Germany to make its World War I reparation payments.
1923 Beer Hall Putsch: In Munich, Adolf Hitler leads the Nazis in an unsuccessful attempt to overthrow the German government.
1926 Germany is admitted to the League of Nations.
1929 The German airship ''Graf Zeppelin'' begins a round-the-world flight.
1929 The Stuttgart Cable Car is constructed in Stuttgart, Germany.
1930 Heinrich Brüning is appointed German Reichskanzler.
1932 German-born Swiss physicist Albert Einstein is granted an American visa.
1933 Reichstag fire: Germany's parliament building in Berlin, the Reichstag, is set on fire.
1933 ''Gleichschaltung'': The Reichstag Fire Decree is passed in Germany a day after the Reichstag fire.
1933 The ''Reichstag'' passes the Enabling act of 1933, making Adolf Hitler dictator of Germany.
1933 The recently elected Nazis under Julius Streicher organize a one-day boycott of all Jewish-owned businesses in Germany, ushering in a series of anti-Semitic acts.
1933 Censorship: In Germany, the Nazis stage massive public book burnings.
1933 Gleichschaltung: in Germany, all political parties are outlawed except the Nazi Party.
1933 Germany: Two-hundred Jewish merchants are arrested in Nuremberg and paraded through the streets.
1933 Germany withdraws from the League of Nations.
1934 Adolf Hitler and Mussolini meet in Venice, Italy; Mussolini later describes the German dictator as "a silly little monkey".
1934 The Night of the Long Knives, Adolf Hitler's violent purge of his political rivals in Germany, takes place.
1934 Gleichschaltung: Adolf Hitler becomes Führer of Germany.
1934 Adolf Hitler becomes the supreme leader of Germany by joining the offices of President and Chancellor into ''Führer''.
1935 A plebiscite in Saarland shows that 90.3% of those voting wish to join Nazi Germany.
1935 Adolf Hitler orders Germany to rearm herself in violation of the Versailles Treaty. Conscription is reintroduced to form the Wehrmacht.
1936 World War II (Prelude to): In violation of the Locarno Pact and the Treaty of Versailles, Germany reoccupies the Rhineland.
1937 Spanish Civil War: Guernica (or Gernika in Basque, Spain is bombed by German Luftwaffe.
1938 Adolf Hitler demands autonomy and self-determination for the Germans of the Sudetenland region of Czechoslovakia.
1938 At 2:00 am, Britain, France, Germany and Italy sign the Munich Agreement, allowing Germany to occupy the Sudetenland region of Czechoslovakia.
1938 At 2:00 am, Britain, France, Germany and Italy sign the Munich Agreement, allowing Germany to occupy the Sudetenland region of Czechoslovakia.
1938 Germany annexes the Sudetenland.
1938 The Holocaust: The Neuengamme concentration camp opens in the Bergedorf district of Hamburg, Germany.
1939 World War II: Germany takes Memel from Lithuania.
1939 World War II: Germany and Italy sign the Pact of Steel.
1939 Holocaust: the last remaining Jewish enterprises in Germany are closed.
1939 World War II: Germany and the Soviet Union sign a non-aggression treaty, the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact. In a secret addition to the pact, the Baltic states, Finland, Romania, and Poland are divided between the two nations.
1939 World War II: France, the United Kingdom, New Zealand and Australia declare war on Germany after the invasion of Poland, forming the Allies.
1939 World War II: South Africa declares war on Germany.
1939 World War II: A German U-boat ''U 29'' sinks the British aircraft carrier {{HMS|Courageous|50|6}}.
1939 World War II: Germany annexes Western Poland.
1940 World War II: The first German bombs of the war fall on England at Chilham and Petham, in Kent.
1940 World War II: Germany occupies Brussels, Belgium.
1940 World War II: Belgium surrenders to Germany.
1940 World War II: Norway surrenders to German forces.
1940 World War II: Paris falls under German occupation, and Allied forces retreat.
1940 World War II: Operation Ariel begins – Allied troops start to evacuate France, following Germany's takeover of Paris and most of the nation.
1940 World War II: The Communist Party is banned in German-occupied Norway.
1940 World War II: German bombs damage Buckingham Palace.
1940 World War II: The Tripartite Pact is signed in Berlin by Germany, Japan and Italy.
1940 World War II: The Battle of Britain ends – the United Kingdom prevents a German invasion.
1940 World War II: In response to Germany's leveling of Coventry, England two days before, the Royal Air Force bombs Hamburg.
1941 The Blockade Runner Badge for the German navy is instituted.
1941 World War II: German troops enter Athens.
1941 World War II: Battle of Crete ends as Crete capitulates to Germany.
1941 Nazi Germans massacre Polish scientists and writers in the captured Ukrainian city of Lviv.
1941 World War II: German troops reach the Dnieper River.
1941 World War II: German troops reach Leningrad, leading to the siege of Leningrad.
1941 World War II: a German submarine makes the first attack against a United States ship, the {{USS|Greer|DD-145|6}}.
1941 World War II: Siege of Leningrad begins. German forces begin a siege against the Soviet Union's second-largest city, Leningrad.
1941 World War II: Holocaust in Kiev, Ukraine: German Einsatzgruppe C begins the Babi Yar massacre, according to the Einsatzgruppen operational situation report.
1941 World War II: Holocaust in Kiev, Ukraine: German Einsatzgruppe C complete Babi Yar massacre.
1941 World War II: In Operation Typhoon, Germany begins an all-out offensive against Moscow.
1941 World War II: In their invasion of the Soviet Union, Germany reaches the Sea of Azov with the capture of Mariupol.
1941 World War II: The destroyer USS ''Reuben James'' is torpedoed by a German U-boat near Iceland, killing more than 100 United States Navy sailors. It is the first U.S. Navy vessel sunk by enemy action in WWII.
1941 World War II: Temperatures around Moscow drop to -12 ° C and the Soviet Union launches ski troops for the first time against the freezing German forces near the city.
1942 World War II: First use of aircraft ejection seat by a German test pilot in a Heinkel He 280 jet fighter.
1942 World War II: In occupied France, British naval forces raid the German-occupied port of St. Nazaire.
1942 World War II: the Germans test fly the Messerschmitt Me-262 using only its jet engines for the first time.
1942 World War II: in Washington, DC, six German would-be saboteurs (Operation Pastorius) are executed.
1942 World War II: Brazil declares war on Germany and Italy.
1942 Holocaust in Chortkiav, western Ukraine: At 2.30 am the German Schutzpolizei starts driving Jews out of their houses, divides them into groups of 120, packs them in freight cars and deports 2000 to Belzec death camp. 500 of the sick and children are murdered on the spot.
1942 Spaceflight: The first successful launch of a V-2 /A4-rocket from Test Stand VII at Peenemünde, Germany. It is the first man-made object to reach space.
1942 World War II: Second Battle of El Alamein ends – German forces under Erwin Rommel are forced to retreat during the night.
1943 World War II: Members of White Rose are executed in Nazi Germany.
1943 World War II: the entire population of Khatyn in Belarus is burnt alive by German occupation forces.
1943 World War II: In Poland, German troops enter the Warsaw ghetto to round up the remaining Jews, beginning the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising.
1943 The Demyansk Shield for German troops in commemoration of Demyansk Pocket is instituted.
1943 World War II: the Dambuster Raids by No. 617 Squadron RAF on German dams.
1943 German-occupied Denmark scuttles most of its navy; Germany dissolves the Danish government.
1943 World War II: Benito Mussolini, dictator of Italy, is rescued from house arrest on the Gran Sasso in Abruzzi, by German commando forces led by Otto Skorzeny.
1943 World War II: The new government of Italy sides with the Allies and declares war on Germany.
1943 World War II: American bombers strike a hydro-electric power facility and heavy water factory in German-controlled Vemork, Norway.
1943 World War II: U.S. Army Air Force begins attacking Germany's secret weapons bases in Operation Crossbow .
1944 World War II: In Anzio, Italy, German forces launch a counteroffensive during the Allied Operation Shingle.
1944 World War II: The "Big Week" began with American bomber raids on German aircraft manufacturing centers.
1944 World War II: Germany launches a counter attack on Carentan.
1944 World War II: Germany launches a V1 Flying Bomb attack on England. Only four of the eleven bombs actually hit their targets.
1944 Holocaust: Polish insurgents liberate a German labor camp in Warsaw, freeing 348 Jewish prisoners.
1944 World War II: The liberation of Serbia from Nazi Germany and the Chetniks continues. Bajina Bašta in western Serbia is among those liberated cities. Near Trier, American troops enter Germany for the first time.
1944 Royal Canadian Air Force pilots shoot down the first German jet fighter over France.
1944 World War II: The Royal Air Force launches 29 Avro Lancaster bombers in one of the most successful precision bombing attacks of war and sinks the German battleship ''Tirpitz'', with 12,000 lb Tallboy bombs off Tromsø, Norway.
1944 Dueren, Germany is destroyed by Allied bombers.
1945 World War II: Royal Air Force bombers are dispatched to Dresden, Germany to attack the city with a massive aerial bombardment.
1945 World War II: On the first day of the bombing of Dresden, the British Royal Air Force and the United States Army Air Forces begin fire-bombing Dresden, the capital of the German state of Saxony.
1945 World War II: Turkey declares war on Germany.
1945 World War II: American troops liberate Ohrdruf forced labor camp in Germany.
1945 World War II: Sarajevo is liberated from the German and Croatian Nazis by the Yugoslav Partisans.
1945 German troops kill more than 1,000 political and military prisoners in Gardelegen Germany.
1945 Brazilian forces liberate the town of Montese, Italy, from German Nazi forces.
1945 Over 1,000 bombers attack the small island of Heligoland, Germany.
1945 World War II: US troops capture Leipzig, Germany, only to later cede the city to the Soviet Union.
1945 The Italian commune of Fornovo di Taro is liberated from German forces by Brazilian forces.
1945 World War II: General Alfred Jodl signs unconditional surrender terms at Reims, France, ending Germany's participation in the war. The document takes effect the next day.
1945 World War II: V-E Day, combat ends in Europe. German forces agree in Rheims, France, to an unconditional surrender.
1945 World War II: The Channel Islands are liberated by the British after five years of German occupation.
1945 World War II: The Flensburg government under Reichspräsident Karl Dönitz is dissolved when its members are captured and arrested by British forces at Flensburg in Northern Germany.
1945 The Allied Control Council, the military occupation governing body of Germany, formally takes power.
1945 World War II: the leaders of the three Allied nations, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom Winston Churchill, President of the United States Harry S Truman and Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin, meet in the German city of Potsdam to decide the future of a defeated Germany.
1945 The Potsdam Declaration is signed in Potsdam, Germany.
1945 World War II: the Potsdam Conference, at which the Allied Powers discuss the future of defeated Germany, is concluded.
1945 Cold War: Operation Paperclip: The United States Army secretly admits 88 German scientists and engineers to help in the development of rocket technology.
1946 Ordinance No. 46 of the British Military Government constitutes the German ''Land'' (state) of Schleswig-Holstein.
1947 The American and British occupation zones in Germany, after the World War II, merge to form the Bizone, that later became the Federal Republic of Germany.
1949 The western occupying powers approve the Basic Law for the new German state: the Federal Republic of Germany.
1949 Allied military authorities relinquish control of former Nazi Germany assets back to German control.
1952 The island of Heligoland is restored to German authority.
1954 Germany: Otto John, head of West Germany's secret service, defects to East Germany.
1954 The German U-Boat U-505 begins its move from a specially constructed dock to its final site at Chicago's Museum of Science and Industry.
1957 Felix Wankel's first working prototype DKM 54 of the Wankel engine runs at the NSU research and development department ''Versuchsabteilung TX'' in Germany
1959 President Dwight D. Eisenhower signs an executive order transferring Wernher von Braun and other German scientists from the United States Army to NASA.
1963 The Elysée treaty of cooperation between France and Germany is signed by Charles de Gaulle and Konrad Adenauer.
1963 Berthold Seliger launches a rocket with three stages and a maximum flight altitude of more than 100 kilometres near Cuxhaven. It is the only sounding rocket developed in Germany.
1963 Wunder von Lengede: In Germany, eleven miners are rescued from a collapsed mine after 14 days.
1964 Under a temporary order, the rocket launches at Cuxhaven, Germany, are terminated, though they never resume.
1964 World War II veteran Walter Seifert runs amok in an elementary school in Cologne, Germany, killing at least eight children and two teachers and seriously injuring several more with a home-made flamethrower and a lance.
1968 Charles De Gaulle reappears publicly after his flight to Baden-Baden, Germany, and dissolves the French National Assembly by a radio appeal. Immediately after, less than one million of his supporters march on the Champs-Élysées in Paris. This is the turning point of May 1968 in France.
1970 Vinko Bogataj crashes during a ski-jumping championship in Germany; his image becomes that of the "agony of defeat guy" in the opening credits of ''ABC's Wide World of Sports''.
1970 The Red Army Faction is established in Germany.thumb
1972 The United States suffers its first loss of an international basketball game in a disputed match against the Soviet Union at Munich, Germany.
1973 A national speed limit is imposed on the Autobahn in Germany due to the 1973 oil crisis. The speed limit lasted only four months.
1977 German Federal prosecutor Siegfried Buback and his driver are shot by two Red Army Faction members while waiting at a red light.
1977 German Autumn: Four days after it is hijacked, Lufthansa Flight 181 lands in Mogadishu, Somalia, where a team of German GSG 9 commandos later rescues all remaining hostages on board.
1978 Sigmund Jähn becomes first German cosmonaut, on board Soyuz 31.
1982 The first Compact Discs (CDs) are released to the public in Germany.
1982 The synthetic chemical element Meitnerium, atomic number 109, is first synthesized at the Gesellschaft für Schwerionenforschung in Darmstadt, Germany.
1983 The German magazine ''Der Stern'' claims that the "Hitler Diaries" had been found in wreckage in East Germany; the diaries are subsequently revealed to be forgeries.
1986 Three people are killed in the bombing of the La Belle Discothèque in West Berlin, Germany.
1990 German reunification: An agreement is reached on a two-stage plan to reunite Germany.
1990 The two German states and the Four Powers sign the Treaty on the Final Settlement With Respect to Germany in Moscow, paving the way for German re-unification.
1990 Re-unification of Germany. The German Democratic Republic ceases to exist and its territory becomes part of the Federal Republic of Germany. East German citizens became part of the ''European Community'', which later became the European Union. Now celebrated as German Unity Day.
1990 A coalition led by Chancellor Helmut Kohl wins the first free all-German elections since 1932.
1991 The German parliament decides to move the capital from Bonn back to Berlin.
1991 Ötzi the Iceman is discovered by German tourists.
1994 The Eurofighter takes its first flight in Manching, Germany.
1996 Germany first observes International Holocaust Remembrance Day.
1998 German terrorist group Red Army Faction announces their dissolution after 28 years.
1998 Eschede train disaster: an ICE high speed train derails in Lower Saxony, Germany, causing 101 deaths.
1999 The State of Arizona executes Karl LaGrand, a German national convicted of murder during a botched bank robbery, in spite of Germany's legal action to attempt to save him.
1999 The State of Arizona executes Karl LaGrand, a German national convicted of murder during a botched bank robbery, in spite of Germany's legal action to attempt to save him.
1999 The German Bundestag returns to Berlin, the first German parliamentary body to meet there since the Reichstag was dissolved in 1945.
2000 German extortionist Klaus-Peter Sabotta is jailed for life for attempted murder and extortion in connection with the sabotage of German railway lines.
2000 German extortionist Klaus-Peter Sabotta is jailed for life for attempted murder and extortion in connection with the sabotage of German railway lines.
2002 Robert Steinhäuser infiltrates and kills 17 at Gutenberg-Gymnasium in Erfurt, Germany before dying of a self-inflicted gunshot.
2005 Angela Merkel becomes the first female Chancellor of Germany.
2007 The strongest storm in the United Kingdom in 17 years kills 14 people, Germany sees the worst storm since 1999 with 13 deaths. Hurricane Kyrill, causes at least 44 deaths across 20 countries in Western Europe.