Bronze Age Europe Limesfall 1700 bc - 1200 bc 260 Celts Hunnic Invasions 800 bc - 6th century ad 350 Germanic peoples Battle of Strasbourg 750 bc 357 Cimbrian War Migration Period 113 bc – 101 bc 376 - 700 Gallic Wars Battle of Adrianople 58 bc - 50 bc 378 Battle of Vosges Edict of Thessalonica 58 bc 380 Caesar's Rhine bridges Massacre of Thessalonica 55 bc - 53 bc 390 Roman military camps of the Rhineland Crossing of the Rhine 16 bc 406 Battle of the Teutoburg Forest Sack of Rome 9 410 Limes Germanicus Battle of the Catalaunian Plains 10 - 250 June 20, 451 Revolt of the Batavi Battle of Nedao 69 - 70 454 Germania Inferior Sack of 455 83 – 475 455 Germania by Tacitus Odoacer 98 476 Marcomannic Wars Merovingian Dynasty 166 – 180 481 - 751 Crisis of the Third Century Francia 235 - 284 481 – 843 Early Middle Ages Destruction of the Irminsul 493-861 772 Ostrogothic Kingdom Conquest of the Lombard kingdom 493 - 553 773 - 774 Battle of Tolbiac Massacre of Verden 496 October 782 Baptism of Clovis I Widukind's surrender 496 785 Gothic War Medieval knighthood 535 - 554 8th - 14th century Rule of Saint Benedict Carolingian Renaissance 540 late 8th - 9th century Lombards Viking Age 568 - 774 793 - 1066 Saint Boniface's missions Coronation of Charlemagne 716 - 754 December 800 Tithe Holy Roman Empire 8th - 19th century 800 - 1806 Donar's Oak Louis the Pious 724 813 – 840 Battle of Tours Battle of Fontenoy October 732 841 Carolingian Dynasty Oaths of Strasbourg 751 - 888 842 Pepin the Short - King of the Francs Treaty of Verdun 751 - 768 843 Saint Boniface's last mission to Frisia Treaty of Prüm 754 September 855 Saxon Wars Hungarian Invasions of Europe 772 - 804 861 – 973 Middle Ages First Crusade 900-1176 1095 – 1099 Louis the Child People's Crusade 900 - 911 April – October 1096 Henry the Fowler Rhineland Massacres 919 - 936 1096 Battle of Riade Knights Hospitaller March 15, 933 1099 – 1798 Liudolf's Civil War Siege of Jerusalem 951 - 954 June - July 1099 Battle of Lechfeld Guelphs and Ghibellines 955 1120s – 1320s Otto I, Holy Roman Emperor Concordat of Worms February 962 September 23, 1122 Kingdom of Germany Hildegard of Bingen magistra 962 1136 Ashkenazi Jews Hohenstaufen 11th century 1138 - 1254 Guilds Second Crusade 11th century 1147 – 1149 Coup of Kaiserswerth Barbarossa crowned Roman Emperor 1062 1155 Investiture Controversy Siege of Crema, Milan 1076 - 1122 1159 - 1162 Walk to Canossa Lombard League January 1077 1167 - 1250 Henry IV, Holy Roman Emperor Chivalry 1084 - 1105 1170 - 1250 Council of Clermont Battle of Legnano November 1095 1176 Middle Ages Battle of Legnica 1177-1342 April 1241 Treaty of Venice Great Interregnum 1177 1245 - 1452 Zinsverbot Hanseatic League 12th - 15th century 13th - 17th century Northern Crusades Battle of Tagliacozzo 12th - 13th century August 1268 Reichsheerfahrt Execution of Conradin 1180 – 1181 October 1268 Mainzer Hoftag von 1184 Battle on the Marchfeld May 1184 August 26, 1278 Third Crusade Pied Piper of Hamelin 1189 – 1192 1284 Teutonic Order War of the Limburg Succession 1190 – present 1283 – 1289 Ostsiedlung College of Prince-electors 12th - 14th century 13th century Fourth Crusade Knights Templar arrests 1202 – 1204 1307 Children's Crusade House of Luxembourg 1212 1308 - 1437 Fifth Crusade Crisis of the Late Middle Ages 1213 – 1221 14th - 15th century Sachsenspiegel Louis IV, Holy Roman Emperor 1220 1328 - 1347 Mongol Invasion of Europe Declaration of Rhense 1223 - 1242 1338 State of the Teutonic Order St. Mary Magdalene's flood 1230 – 1525 July 1342 Late Middle Ages House of Habsburg 1346-1508 1438 - 1918 Charles IV King of the Romans Global Spread of the Printing Press July 1346 - 1378 1439 - 19th century Black Death Prussian Confederation 1346 - 1353 1440 - 1454 Black Death Jewish persecutions Crusade of Varna 1348 - 1350 October 1443 - November 1444 Golden Bull of 1356 Frederick III, Holy Roman Emperor 1356 1452 – 1493 Grote Mandrenke Thirteen Years' War 1362 1454 - 1466 Western Schism Postwesen 1378 - 1417 1490 War of the Cities Bundschuh movement 1387 - 1389 1493 – 1517 Polish–Lithuanian–Teutonic War Italian Wars 1409 - 1411 1494 - 1559 Battle of Grunwald Ewiger Landfriede July 15, 1410 1495 Council of Constance Reichskammergericht 1414 – 1418 1495 - 1806 House of Hohenzollern Northern Renaissance 1415 - 1918 1497 - 1600 Execution of Jan Hus Swabian War July 6, 1415 January – September 1499 First Defenestration of Prague Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor July 1419 1508 – January 1519 Hussite Wars War of the League of Cambrai July 1419 - May 1434 1508 – 1516 Protestant Reformation Ottoman-Habsburg Wars 1515-1555 1526 - 1791 Dunkelmännerbriefe Protestation at Speyer 1515 April 19, 1529 Reinheitsgebot Siege of Vienna 1516 September - October 1529 St. Peter's Basilica financing with indulgences Marburg Colloquy 1517 - 1567 October 1529 Protestant Reformation Augsburg Confession 1517 - 1648 1530 Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor Schmalkaldic League June 1519 – August 1556 1531 - 1547 Leipzig Debate Münster rebellion July 1519 1534 - 1535 Diet of Worms Society of Jesus January - May 1521 1540 Luther at Wartburg castle Council of Trent May 1521 - March 1522 1545 - 1563 Luther Bible Counter-Reformation 1522 1545 - 1648 German Peasants' War Schmalkaldic War 1524 – 1525 July 1546 – May 1547 Twelve Articles Battle of Mühlberg March 1525 April 1547 Prussian Homage Capitulation of Wittenberg April 10, 1525 May 1547 Battle of Frankenhausen Charles V Abdications May 15, 1525 1554 - 1556 Badener Disputation Peace of Augsburg May - June 1526 1555 Confessionalization Swedish intervention in the Thirty Years' War 1555-1678 1630 – 1648 Confessionalization Sack of Magdeburg 1555 - 1648 May 20, 1631 Witch trials Battle of Breitenfeld 1560 - 1630 September 17, 1631 Northern Seven Years' War Battle of Rain 1563 - 1570 April 15, 1632 Eighty Years' War Battle of Lützen 1568 - 1648 November 1632 Battle of Alcácer Quibir Wallenstein assassination August 1578 February 25, 1634 Cologne War Battle of Nördlingen 1583 – 1588 September 5–6, 1634 Protestant Union Peace of Prague 1608 - 1621 May 1635 War of the Jülich Succession Peace of Westphalia June 1609 - October 1614 1646 - 1648 Catholic League Battle of Prague 1609 - 1635 July - November 1648 Second Defenestration of Prague Absolutism 1618 1648 - 1789 Thirty Years War Second Northern War 1618 - 1648 1655 - 1661 Battle of White Mountain Perpetual Diet of Regensburg November 1620 1663 - 1806 Old Town Square execution Franco-Dutch War June 21, 1621 1672 - 1678 Edict of Restitution Treaties of Nijmegen March 6, 1629 August 1678 - December 1679 Kingdom of Prussia Treaty of Utrecht 1683-1756 1713 Great Turkish War Freemasonry July 1683 - January 1699 1717 - present Battle of Vienna War of the Quadruple Alliance September 1683 1718 - 1720 Edict of Potsdam The Enlightenment October 29, 1685 1720 - 1800 Nine Years' War Katte's decapitation 1688 - 1697 November 6, 1730 Augustus the Strong, Elector of Saxony War of the Polish Succession 1694 – 1733 1733 - 1738 Peace of Ryswick Brandenburg Gate September 1697 1734 Treaty of Karlowitz Frederick the Great, King of Prussia January 1699 1740 - 1786 Great Northern War Silesian Wars 1700 - 1721 1740 – 1763 Kingdom of Prussia War of the Austrian Succession 1701 - 1918 1740 - 1748 Prussian Army Sanssouci 1701 - 1919 1745 War of the Spanish Succession Kartoffelbefehle 1702 - 1715 1746 Battle of Blenheim Voltaire at Sanssouci August 1704 1750 – 1753 Bavarian uprising of 1705-06 Diplomatic Revolution November 1705 - January 1706 1756 Meissen porcelain Seven Years' War 1708 1756 - 1763 French Revolution War of the First Coalition 1757-1806 April 4, 1792 – October 18, 1797 Battle of Leuthen Battle of Valmy December 5, 1757 September 20, 1792 Battle of Kunersdorf Republic of Mainz August 12, 1759 March - July 1793 Industrial Revolution Siege of Mainz 1760 - mid 1800s April - July 1793 Rothschild Family Kościuszko Uprising 1760s 1794 Weimar Classicism Rhine Campaign of 1796 1772 - 1805 June 1796 - February 1797 Partitions of Poland Schinderhannes' crime spree 1772 - 1795 1797 - 1803 von Steuben volunteer inspector general Treaty of Campo Formio March 1778 October 1797 War of the Bavarian Succession War of the Second Coalition July 1778 – May 1779 September 1798 – 1802 German idealism Treaty of Lunéville 1781 - 1831 February 9, 1801 Patent of Toleration Reichsdeputationshauptschluss October 13, 1781 March 1803 French Revolution War of the Third Coalition May 1789 - November 1799 1805 – 1806 Declaration of Pillnitz Battle of Austerlitz August 27, 1791 December 1805 French Revolutionary Wars Peace of Pressburg April 1792 – March 1802 December 1805 Coalition Wars Confederation of the Rhine April 1792 - 1815 July 1806 – 1813 German Confederation Battle of Leipzig 1806-1822 October 1813 Dissolution of the Holy Roman Empire Battle of Hanau August 6, 1806 October 30–31, 1813 War of the Fourth Coalition Congress of Vienna October 1806 – July 1807 September 1814 - June 1815 Battle of Jena-Auerstedt Hundred Days October 1806 March - July 1815 Berlin Decree German Confederation November 21, 1806 June 8, 1815 - 1866 Prussian Reform Movement Battle of Ligny 1806 - 1815 June 16, 1815 Preußische Heeresreform Battle of Waterloo 1807 - 1814 June 18, 1815 Treaties of Tilsit Holy Alliance July 1807 Spetember 26, 1815 - 1880s Addresses to the German Nation Burschenschaften 1808 1815 War of the Fifth Coalition Year Without a Summer April – October 1809 1816 Battle of Ratisbon Wartburg Festival April 23, 1809 October 18, 1817 Turn- und Nationalbewegung August