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7 Publius Quinctilius Varus is appointed governor of Germany.
13 Tiberius
made his triumphant procession through Rome
after siege of Germany.
14 Germanicus
is appointed commander of the forces in Germany, beginning a campaign that will end in 16.
39 Legio XV ''Primigenia'' and XXII ''Primigenia'' are levied by Caligula for the German
frontier.
47 Pliny the Elder
sees military service in Germany.
86 The Roman General Trajan
, future emperor, begins a campaign to crush an uprising in Germany.
121 Roman settlement in present-day Wiesbaden
, Germany is first mentioned.
150 The Roman army consists of 400,000 men. Of these, there are ten legions
(55,000 men) and 140 auxiliary units (80,000 men, of which half are cavalry) based in the Balkans
and along the Danube
; 50,000 legionaires and auxiliaries in Britain
; 45,000 in Germany; 20,000 men in Egypt
; and 10,000 in Africa
and Numidia
.
179 Roman fort Castra Regina ("fortress by the Regen river") was built at Regensburg
, Germany.
187 Albinus
defeats the Chatti
, a highly organized German
tribe that controlled the area that includes the Black Forest.
196 In order to assure the support of the legions in Germany on his march to Rome, Clodius Albinus
, is declared Augustus by his army while crossing Gaul
.
214 Caracalla
's victories in Germany ensure his popularity within the Roman army.
259 Roman fort of Wiesbaden
(Germany) captured by the Alamanni
(possibly 260)
260 Roman fort of Wiesbaden
(Germany) captured by the Alamanni
(possibly 259).
380 Cathedral built in Trier
, Germany.
600 Irish
missionaries
preach in Scotland
and Germany.
736 The first documented instance of hop cultivation in the Hallertau region of present-day Germany (which is today the most important production centre with about 25% of the worldwide production)
887 Arnulf of Carinthia
ascends to the throne of Eastern Francia (modern Germany)=
892 Poppo of Thuringia, count of the march in Thuringia
,is deposed by the German
Carolingian king Arnulf of Carinthia
936 Otto I is the first German
king
to be crowned in Aachen
.
953 First documented mention of the village of Aach in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany.
972 Battle of Cedynia - Polish duke Mieszko I defeats German
s.
977 German
emperor Otto II grants Lower Lorraine, where modern-day Brussels
is located, to Charles, Duke of Lower Lorraine, illegitimate son of King Louis IV of France
.
994 Otto III reaches his majority and begins to rule Germany in his own right.
1002 Henry II
succeeds Otto III as king of Germany.
1014 Henry II of Germany crowned Henry II, Holy Roman Emperor
by Pope Benedict VIII
(ruled since 1003)
1014 Pope Benedict VIII
recognizes Henry of Bavaria
as King of Germany
1018 Peace of Bautzen between Poland
and Germany.
1028 Henry III
, son of Conrad, was elected king
of the Germans
.
1039 Henry III
becomes King of Germany.
1056 Henry IV, Holy Roman Emperor
, becomes King of Germany.
1061 Erection of the Speyer Cathedral in Speyer, Germany, begins.
1101 The County of Berg, Germany is established.
1102 The Hohenbaden castle is built in Baden-Baden
, Germany.
1112 Salzwedel, Germany is founded
1129 Castle of Burgsteinfurt built in what is now Steinfurt, Germany.
1143 The exploration of the uncharted eastern parts of Germany begins and results in the founding of cities such as Lübeck
1150 Neuruppin city founded in Brandenburg
, Germany
1150 Rinteln city founed in Lower Saxony, Germany
1152 Frederick I Barbarossa
is elected King of the Germans
.
1214 Foundation of the German
city of Bielefeld.
1216 Dresden
, Germany becomes a city
1234 Pope
replaced the Bogumil Bosnian Bishop
with a Catholic Dominican German
''Johann''
1242 Cleves, Germany is chartered as a city.
1249 The city of Stralsund (in present-day Germany) is burned to the ground by forces from the rival city of Lübeck
.
1251 The German
city of Berlin
, founded some fifty years earlier, receives its city charter.
1255 The German
state of Nassau is divided, not to be reunited until 1806.
1259 The German
cities of Lübeck
, Wismar, and Rostock
enter into a pact to defend against pirates of the Baltic Sea
, laying the groundwork for the Hanseatic League
.
1260 German
musical theorist Franco of Cologne publishes ''Ars Cantus Mensurabilis'', in which he advances a new theory of musical notation in which the length of a musical note is denoted by the shape of that note, a system still used today.
1264 Anti-Jewish
riots in Arnstadt (modern-day Germany)
1266 In the 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 German
city of Hamburg
is destroyed by a fire.
1315 Dassel of Germany is granted city rights.
1329 Amberg, Germany passes to the Wittelsbach family.
1362 The "Grote Mandrenke" storm tide strikes Holland
, England
, Germany and Denmark
destroying the city of Rungholt in Nordfriesland, Germany.
1362 The "Grote Mandrenke" storm tide strikes Holland
, England
, Germany and Denmark
destroying the city of Rungholt in Nordfriesland, Germany.
1367 Otto I becomes Duke of the independent city of Göttingen (now in Germany) after the death of his father, Ernst I.
1372 In this year, the city of Aachen
, Germany begins adding a Roman numeral Anno Domini
date to a few of its coins. It is the first city in the world to do so.
1392 Erfurt University is founded in Erfurt
, central Germany
1438 Albert II of Habsburg becomes King of Germany
1490 Regular postal service connects the Habsburg
residences of Mechelen and Innsbruck
, the first in Germany.
1521 18 - Martin Luther
is examined before Emperor Charles V
and the German
Diet of Worms
.
1524 The Peasants' War in Germany (1524-1525).
1527 Spanish
and German
troops led by the Duke of Bourbon sack Rome
(the infamous Sacco di Roma), forcing Pope Clement VII
to make peace with Charles V
.
1558 Foundation of the University of Jena in Thuringia
, Germany
1584 Latin
Book of Concord
published in Germany
1614 Institution of the Rosicrucian Order in Germany according to Fraternitas Rosae Crucis.
1630 Swedish
warships depart from Stockholm
to Germany.
1630 July 6 - Swedish troops under Gustavus Adolphus
land in Pomerania
, Germany to aid Protestants.
1645 Founding of the Stolberg-Wernigerode branch of the family of counts of Stolberg and Wernigerode in Germany
1650 ''Einkommende Zeitungen'' - first German
newspaper
(cancelled 1918).
1654 Ferdinand Maria, elector of Bavaria
is crowned. His absolutistic style of leadership becomes a benchmark for the rest of Germany
1662 Foundation of the "Akademie der Bildenden Künste Nürnberg" in Germany.
1683 A 140,000-man Ottoman
force arrives at Vienna
in June and starts to besiege the city. The siege is broken in at the Battle of Vienna on September 12 with the arrival of a force of 30,000 Polish
, Austria
ns and German
s under Polish-Lithuanian king Jan III Sobieski, whose cavalry turns their flank. Considered to be the turning point in the Ottoman Empire
's fortunes.
1690 The clarinet is invented in Nuremberg
, Germany.
1710 Swiss
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