MOST IMPORTANT EVENTS IN GERMAN HISTORY ACCORDING TO ME

• From 750 BC till 1st century BC Expansion of Germanic Tribes. They spread from southern Scandinavia and Northern Germany to south, west and east.
• 9 AD The Battle of Teutoburg Forest. In this battle the Roman legions were defeated and were forced to stop the Roman expansion into the Germanic territory thus the border of the Roman Empire stayed westside of the river Rhine.
• Around 260 AD The Germanic Tribes Cross Frozen Danube - they settled in the Roman territory.
• 800 AD Charlemagne founded the Carolingnian Empire. This event is seen as the founding of Germany and France.
• 962 AD Otto I Consolidated Germany.
• In the 12th and 13th Centuries The German Colonisation Moved To Eastern Europe. At that period Germans were gaining influence in Slavic territories - East Germany and Austria.
• 1273 Rudolph of Habsburg became king of the Roman Empire. He was the founder of the Habsburg dynasty that reigned over a big part of Middle Europe till 1918.
• 1348 - 1350 Black Death Plague. This epidemic killed 30 - 60% of the European population.
• 1439 Mechanical Printing Press. Invented by Guttenber.
• 1517 German Reformation. Started by Martin Luther.
• 1618 - 1648 Thirty Years War. During that time 30% of German population died. The German Empire was divided in numerous independent principalities.
• From 1740 started rivalry between Austria and Prussia. This rivalry continued till the end of 19th century and caused many conflicts.
• 1871 - 1918 The German Empire. At that time Germany was unified by the most powerful German state - Prussia.
• 1914 - 1918 First War I.
• 1933 - 1945 The Third Reich. Hitler became the German prime minister in 1933. In 1939 Germany started the war.
• 1990 Reunification. East and West Germany were reunified.