1800 BCE - 200 BCE : Germanic Tribes began to settle in Areas starting in Southern Scandinavia (near Denmark) to Northern

Germany, and then further expanding towards Europe. 9 CE : Battle of Teutoburg Forest An Alliance of Germanic Tribes led by Arminius defeated 3 Roman Legions ; halting Roman expansion east of the River Rhine ; widely credited as the Birth of German History. 378 CE : Battle of Adrianople : Roman Defeat at the hands of Gothic Tribes ; considered as start the of of the Decline of the Western Roman Empire 800 CE : Emperor Charlemagne ruler of the Kingdom of the Franks was crowned Roman Emperor by Pope Leo III , ruled France and Germany 843 CE : Division of the Carolingian Empire into 3 ; East Francia under Louis the German ; which would compose of the Territories of the Later Holy Roman Empire and Modern day Germany 936 CE : Otto I was crowned King of Germany ; he would be crowned Emperor in 962 CE by John XII in Rome, marking the founding of the Holy Roman Empire 1250 CE : Death of Emperor Frederick II Hohenstaufen decentralized the Holy Roman Empire 1517 CE : Martin Luther published his Ninety-Five Theses ; beginning of the Reformation 1618 CE - 1648 CE : Thirty Years War 1648 CE : Treaty of Westphalia ; recognized the Sovereignty of individual States 1805 CE : Battle of Austerlitz : Napoleons Victory marked the Dissolution of the Holy Roman Empire, Establishment of Confederation of the Rhine 1815 CE : Congress of Vienna ; German Confederation was created 1818 CE : Karl Heinrich Marx was born in Prussia 1848 CE : Year of Revolutions ; A series of Revolutions stressing liberal ideals and Pan Germanism was defeated by the ruling Conservative Aristocracy 1871 CE : Otto Von Bismarck unites Germany ; Wilhelm I was proclaimed Emperor of the German Empire 1914 CE - 1918 CE : World War 1 June 28 1919 CE : Signing of the Treaty of Versailles ; ending the War between Germany and the Allied Powers ; Establishment of Weimar Republic 1929 CE : The Great Depression 1933 CE: Adolf Hitler was appointed Chancellor ; Start of Hitlers Third Reich under the Nazis 1939 CE : Germany invades Poland

1939 - 1945 World War 2 ; Nazi Occupation of Europe, The Holocaust 1945 CE : Axis defeat at the Hands of the Allies 1949 CE : Germany is divided. The US, French and British zones in the west becomes the Federal Republic of Germany; the Soviet zone in the east becomes the communist German Democratic Republic. 1955 CE : West Germany joins Nato; East Germany joins the Warsaw Pact. 1961 CE : Berlin Crisis of 1961 culminating in the construction of the Berlin Wall 1982 CE : Helmut Kohl (CDU) becomes Chancellor of West Germany and later a Reunited Germany until 1998 1989 CE : Fall of the Berlin Wall 1990 CE : German Reunification 1998 CE : Gerhard Schrder (SPD) succeeds Kohl as Chancellor 2002 CE : Germany adopts the Euro 2005 CE : Election of Angela Merkel (CDU) as the first female Chancellor