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Timeline of German history

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 9, 2026
Entity authorityQ7805735 ↗
Source-derived summary

This is a timeline of German history, comprising important legal and territorial changes and political events in Germany and its predecessor states. To read about the background to these events, see History of Germany. See also the list of German monarchs and list of chancellors of Germany and the list of years in Germany.

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See also

Category:Timelines of cities in Germany

Timeline of the German Empire

Timeline of the Weimar Republic

References

Further reading

Langer, William. An Encyclopedia of World History (5th ed. 1973); highly detailed outline of events online free

Morris, Richard B. and Graham W. Irwin, eds. Harper Encyclopedia of the Modern World: A Concise Reference History from 1760 to the Present (1970) online

George Henry Townsend (1867), "Germany", A Manual of Dates (2nd ed.), London: Frederick Warne & Co.

William Henry Overall, ed. (1870). "Germany".

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Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1973, 1760, 1970, 1867—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Timeline, German and history.
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This entry incorporates text from “Timeline of German history” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.