Timeline

9 a.d. Hermann (Arminius) of the tribe Cherusci defeats the Roman governor Varus and 3 Roman legions in the Teutoburg Forest

870 a.d. Formation of the duchies of Franconia, Saxony, Bavaria and Lorraine

919 a.d. The Saxon dynasty rule Germany

962 a.d. Otto I -- first emperor of the "Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation" crowned in Rome

1039 a.d. Salian dynasty

1096 a.d. The first Crusade

1138 a.d. The Hohenstaufen dynasty

1273 a.d. Rudolf of Hapsburg crowned king of Germany

1348 a.d. The Plague ("black death")

1648 a.d. Peace of Westphalia

1740 a.d. The War of Austrian Succession

1814 a.d. The Congress of Vienna established the German Confederation of 39 independent German states

1864 a.d. War: Prussia and Austria vs. Denmark

1866 a.d. War: Prussia vs. Austria

1890 a.d. Young William (Wilhelm) II dismisses Bismarck

1914 a.d. Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria-Hungary and his wife were assassinated in Sarajevo, Bosnia-Herzegovina provoking WWI

1918 a.d. Following the flight of Emperor Wilhelm II from Germany, a republic was proclaimed (later known as the Weimar Republic)

1918 a.d. Aarmistice ending World War

1918 a.d. The Treaty of Versailles ended World War I and the Rhineland was placed under Allied occupation for 15 years

1918 a.d. Germany was declared a republic

1933 a.d. Adolf Hitler appointed chancellor by President Paul von Hindenburg

1933 a.d. The Third Reich

1936 a.d. Reoccupation of the Rhineland

1936 a.d. Summer Olympic Games in Berlin

1938 a.d. Annexation of Austria

1938 a.d. Sudetenland (largely German-speaking) portion of Czechoslovakia occupied

1939 a.d. Germany occupies Czechoslovakia

1939 a.d. Invasion of Poland and the beginning of World War II in Europe (two days later)

1955 a.d. West Germany obtains independence

1961 a.d. The Berlin Wall was built

1989 a.d. The Berlin Wall was demolished and Communist East Germans were able to travel to the West

1990 a.d. East and West Germany was reunited