Mercedes-Benz Timeline of Events

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Mercedes-Benz is a German manufacturer of automobiles, buses, coaches, and trucks. Mercedes-Benz is a division of its parent company, Daimler AG...

Timeline of Events

1924

5.11.1924

Mercedes-Benz is formed by Gottlieb Daimler and Karl Benz merging their two companies.

1955

6.11.1955

Eighty-three are killed and at least 100 are injured after an Austin-Healey and a Mercedes-Benz collide at the 24 Hours of Le Mans, the deadliest ever accident in motorsports.

1998

5.7.1998

Mercedes-Benz buys Chrysler for $40 billion USD and forms DaimlerChrysler in the largest industrial merger in history.