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Timeline
(800) Charlamagne crowned Holy Roman Emperor
(843) Treaty of Verdun
(936) Otto I crowned King
(1027) Konrad II crowned Emporer of the Salians
(1138) Konrad III, first Hohenstaufen Emperor
(1155) Friedrich I Barbarossa crowned Emperor
(1250) Beginning of the Great Interregnum
(1273) Coronation of Rudolf I
(1312) Heinrich VII becomes Emperor
(1419-36) Hussite Wars
(1438) Albrecht II Emperor House of Hapsburg
(1517) Martin Luther's Reformation
(1522) The Knights' War
(1524-25) The Peasants' War
(1540) first stock exchanges developed
(1546) Schmalkalden War begins
(1608) Establishment of the Protestant Union
(1609) Formation of the Catholic League
(1618-1648) Thirty Years' War
(1701) King of Prussia crowned
(1702-14) War of Spanish Succession
(1740) Frederick the Great crowned King of Prussia
(1740-42) The Silesian War
(1756-63) The Seven Years' War
(1803) Territorial reform of the German states
(1813) Battle of the Nations at Leipzig
(1847) Communist Manifesto published
(1848-49) The March Revolution
(1866) Prussian-Austrian War
(1870-71) Franco-Prussian War
(1871) Wilhelm I crowned Prussian King
(1890) Fall of Bismark
(1914) World War I begins
(1918) Declaration of the Republic
(1919) World War I ends
(1919) Treaty of Versailles signed
(1921) Adolf Hitler becomes leader of the NSDAP
(1926) Germany accepted into League of Nations
(1933) Hitler appointed Chancellor of the Reich
(1934-1945) Nazi Holocaust
(1939) Germany invades Poland, World War II begins
(1941) Germany invades USSR
(1944) Allies land at Normandy
(1945) Hitler commits suicide
(1945) Germany surrenders, World War II ends
(1948-49) Berlin blockade
(1949) Federal Republic and GDR established
(1961) Berlin Wall built
(1972) West Germany hosts Summer Olympics
(1973) West and East Germany join UN
(1974) Hosts FIFA World Cups, and wins
(1982) Helmut Kohl elected Chancellor
(1989) Fall of the Berlin Wall
(1990) Reunification of Germany
(1990) Germany wins FIFA World Cup
(1998) Gerhard Shroder elected Chancellor
(1991) Berlin named capital
(2000) Hanover hosts Expo 2000
(2001) Women begin serving in Bundeswehr
(2002) Euro introduced across Germany
(2005) Pope Benedict XVI consecrated
(2005) Angela Merkel elected Chancellor
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