- Aug 1914 - 'Burgfrieden' (political truce) declared.
- Jul 1917 - Reichstag Peace Resolution.
- 3 Oct 1918 - Prince Max of Baden becomes chancellor.
- 3 Nov 1918 - Kiel naval mutiny.
- 9 Nov 1918 - Friedrich Ebert appointed chancellor, Republic declared.
- Jan 1919 - Communist uprising.
- 19 Jan 1919 - National Assembly elected (SPD 38%).
- Apr 1919 - Communist revolution in Bavaria.
- 31 Jul 1919 - Weimar Constitution adopted for republic.
- Mar 1920 - Kapp Putsch in Berlin.
- Apr 1920 - Civil War in Ruhr area.
- 24 Jun 1922 - Rathenau assassinated.
- Oct 1923 - Communists overthrown in Saxony and Thuringia.
- 9 Nov 1923 - Beer Hall Putsch in Munich.
- 16 Apr 1925 - Hindenburg elected president.
- 28 May 1928 - Reichstag elections (12 Nazi deputies).
- May 1928 - SPD-led coalition under Hermann Müller.
- May 1930 - Heinrich Brüning (Centre Party) appointed chancellor.
- 14 Sept 1930 - Reichstag elections (107 Nazi deputies).
- 10 Apr 1932 - Hindenburg re-elected as president.
- May 1932 - Franz von Papen (Centre Party) replaces Brüning.
- Jun 1932 - Anti-Fascist Action Front set up.
- 31 Jul 1932 - Reichstag elections (230 Nazi deputies).
- 6 Nov 1932 - Reichstag elections (196 Nazi deputies).
- 3 Dec 1932 - General Kurt von Schleicher becomes chancellor.
- 30 Jan 1933 - Adolf Hitler becomes chancellor.
- 27 Feb 1933 - Reichstag Fire.
- 28 Feb 1933 - Hitler granted emergency powers.
- 5 Mar 1933 - Reichstag elections (288 Nazi deputies).
- 23 Mar 1933 - Enabling Law passed.
- 31 Mar 1933 - Länder (states) lose their autonomy.
- 7 Apr 1933 - Law on German Civil Servants
- 26 Apr 1933 - Gestapo founded.
- 28 May 1933 - Law for the Seizure of Communist Assets.
- 22 Jun 1933 - SPD banned.
- 14 Jul 1933 - Law against the Establishment of New Parties.
- 12 Nov 1933 - Plebiscite and Reichstag elections.
- 30 Jan 1934 - Law on the Reconstruction of the Reich.
- 2 Aug 1934 - Death of President Hindenburg.
- 19 Aug 1934 - Plebiscite on Hitler becoming president and chancellor.
- 30 Jan 1935 - remaining Länder powers taken over by central government.
- Apr 1935 - Reich's justice system centralized.
- 15 Sept 1935 - Reich Citizenship Law.
- Feb 1938 - Blomberg-Fritsch crisis.
- 5 Feb 1938 - Last meeting of full Reich cabinet.
- 10 Apr 1938 - Plebiscite on Anschluss with Austria (99% in favour).
- 14 Apr 1939 - 'Ostmark Law' integrates Austria with German state administration.
- 6 Oct 1939 - Hitler offers peace to Britain and France in Reichstag speech.
- 8 Oct 1939 - Western Polish territories incorporated into German Reich.
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