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1760
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1806
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1813
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3.4.1813
Russian troops fighting the army of Napoleon reach Berlin in Germany and the French garrison evacuates the city without a fight.
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1876
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1.1.1876
The Reichsbank opens in Berlin.
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1893
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1.19.1893
Henrik Ibsen's play ''The Master Builder'' receives its premiere performance in Berlin.
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1900
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12.7.1900
Max Planck, in his house at Grunewald, on the outskirts of Berlin, discovers the law of black body emission.
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1912
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11.7.1912
The Deutsche Opernhaus (now Deutsche Oper Berlin) opens in the Berlin neighborhood of Charlottenburg, with a production of Beethoven's ''Fidelio''. |
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1920
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3.13.1920
The Kapp Putsch briefly ousts the Weimar Republic government from Berlin. |
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1933
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2.27.1933
Reichstag fire: Germany's parliament building in Berlin, the Reichstag, is set on fire. |
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1940
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1941
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5.12.1941
Konrad Zuse presents the Z3, the world's first working programmable, fully automatic computer, in Berlin. |
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1942
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1.20.1942
World War II: At the Wannsee Conference held in the Berlin suburb of Wannsee, senior Nazi German officials decided on the "Final Solution to the Jewish Question", accelerating The Holocaust.
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1943
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11.18.1943
World War II: Battle of Berlin: 440 Royal Air Force planes bomb Berlin causing only light damage and killing 131. The RAF loses nine aircraft and 53 air crew. |
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11.23.1943
World War II: The Deutsche Opernhaus on Bismarckstraße in the Berlin neighborhood of Charlottenburg is destroyed. It will eventually be rebuilt in 1961 and be called the Deutsche Oper Berlin. |
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1944
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3.4.1944
World War II: After the success of Big Week, the USAAF begins a daylight bombing campaign of Berlin.
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1945
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3.18.1945
World War II: 1,250 American bombers attack Berlin.
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4.16.1945
The Red Army begins the final assault on German forces around Berlin. |
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4.21.1945
World War II: Soviet Union forces south of Berlin at Zossen attack the German High Command headquarters. |
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4.29.1945
World War II – Fuehrerbunker: Adolf Hitler marries his long-time partner Eva Braun in a Berlin bunker and designates Admiral Karl Dönitz as his successor. Both Hitler and Braun will commit suicide the next day. |
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5.2.1945
World War II: Fall of Berlin: The Soviet Union announces the capture of Berlin and Soviet soldiers hoist their red flag over the ''Reichstag'' building.
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1948
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1961
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7.25.1961
In a speech John F. Kennedy emphasizes that any attack on Berlin is an attack on NATO. |
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1989
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12.22.1989
Berlin's Brandenburg Gate re-opens after nearly 30 years, effectively ending the division of East and West Germany. |
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1990
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6.22.1990
Checkpoint Charlie is dismantled in Berlin.
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1991
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6.20.1991
The German parliament decides to move the capital from Bonn back to Berlin. |
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1992
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9.17.1992
An Iranian Kurdish leader and his two joiners are assassinated by political militants in Berlin, Germany. |
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1999
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4.19.1999
The German Bundestag returns to Berlin, the first German parliamentary body to meet there since the Reichstag was dissolved in 1945. |
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2002
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8.20.2002
A group of Iraqis opposed to the regime of Saddam Hussein take over the Iraqi Embassy in Berlin for five hours before releasing their hostages and surrendering. |
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