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1945
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5.9.1945
World War II: The Channel Islands are liberated by the British after five years of German occupation. |
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5.23.1945
World War II: The Flensburg government under Reichspräsident Karl Dönitz is dissolved when its members are captured and arrested by British forces at Flensburg in Northern Germany. |
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6.5.1945
The Allied Control Council, the military occupation governing body of Germany, formally takes power.
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7.26.1945
The Potsdam Declaration is signed in Potsdam, Germany.
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8.2.1945
World War II: the Potsdam Conference, at which the Allied Powers discuss the future of defeated Germany, is concluded.
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1946
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8.23.1946
Ordinance No. 46 of the British Military Government constitutes the German ''Land'' (state) of Schleswig-Holstein. |
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1947
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1.1.1947
The American and British occupation zones in Germany, after the World War II, merge to form the Bizone, that later became the Federal Republic of Germany. |
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1949
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1952
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2.29.1952
The island of Heligoland is restored to German authority. |
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1954
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7.20.1954
Germany: Otto John, head of West Germany's secret service, defects to East Germany. |
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9.3.1954
The German U-Boat U-505 begins its move from a specially constructed dock to its final site at Chicago's Museum of Science and Industry. |
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1957
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2.1.1957
Felix Wankel's first working prototype DKM 54 of the Wankel engine runs at the NSU research and development department ''Versuchsabteilung TX'' in Germany
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1959
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1963
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1.22.1963
The Elysée treaty of cooperation between France and Germany is signed by Charles de Gaulle and Konrad Adenauer. |
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5.2.1963
Berthold Seliger launches a rocket with three stages and a maximum flight altitude of more than 100 kilometres near Cuxhaven. It is the only sounding rocket developed in Germany.
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11.7.1963
Wunder von Lengede: In Germany, eleven miners are rescued from a collapsed mine after 14 days.
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1964
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6.6.1964
Under a temporary order, the rocket launches at Cuxhaven, Germany, are terminated, though they never resume.
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6.11.1964
World War II veteran Walter Seifert runs amok in an elementary school in Cologne, Germany, killing at least eight children and two teachers and seriously injuring several more with a home-made flamethrower and a lance. |
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1968
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5.30.1968
Charles De Gaulle reappears publicly after his flight to Baden-Baden, Germany, and dissolves the French National Assembly by a radio appeal. Immediately after, less than one million of his supporters march on the Champs-Élysées in Paris. This is the turning point of May 1968 in France.
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1970
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3.21.1970
Vinko Bogataj crashes during a ski-jumping championship in Germany; his image becomes that of the "agony of defeat guy" in the opening credits of ''ABC's Wide World of Sports''.
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1972
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1973
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11.24.1973
A national speed limit is imposed on the Autobahn in Germany due to the 1973 oil crisis. The speed limit lasted only four months.
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1977
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4.7.1977
German Federal prosecutor Siegfried Buback and his driver are shot by two Red Army Faction members while waiting at a red light.
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10.17.1977
German Autumn: Four days after it is hijacked, Lufthansa Flight 181 lands in Mogadishu, Somalia, where a team of German GSG 9 commandos later rescues all remaining hostages on board. |
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1978
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1982
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8.17.1982
The first Compact Discs (CDs) are released to the public in Germany. |
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8.29.1982
The synthetic chemical element Meitnerium, atomic number 109, is first synthesized at the Gesellschaft für Schwerionenforschung in Darmstadt, Germany.
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1983
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4.22.1983
The German magazine ''Der Stern'' claims that the "Hitler Diaries" had been found in wreckage in East Germany; the diaries are subsequently revealed to be forgeries. |
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1986
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4.5.1986
Three people are killed in the bombing of the La Belle Discothèque in West Berlin, Germany. |
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1990
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9.12.1990
The two German states and the Four Powers sign the Treaty on the Final Settlement With Respect to Germany in Moscow, paving the way for German re-unification. |
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10.3.1990
Re-unification of Germany. The German Democratic Republic ceases to exist and its territory becomes part of the Federal Republic of Germany. East German citizens became part of the ''European Community'', which later became the European Union. Now celebrated as German Unity Day.
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12.2.1990
A coalition led by Chancellor Helmut Kohl wins the first free all- German elections since 1932. |
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1991
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9.19.1991
Ötzi the Iceman is discovered by German tourists. |
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1994
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3.27.1994
The Eurofighter takes its first flight in Manching, Germany.
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