Encyclopedia - 1688: Encyclopedia - 1688
1688 - Births. January 18 - Lionel Cranfield Sackville, 1st Duke of Dorset, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland (d. 1765) January 29 - Emanuel ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - 1620: Encyclopedia - 1620
1620 - Events. September 6 - English emigrants on the Mayflower depart from Plymouth, England for the future New England and arrive at...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Govert Flinck: Encyclopedia Ii - Govert Flinck - Life
Born at Cleves, he was apprenticed by his father to a silk mercer, but having secretly acquired a passion for drawing, was sent to Leeuwa...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - History Of Berlin: Encyclopedia Ii - History Of Berlin - Slavic East Germany
Starting in the 6th century Slavic peoples from the east settled in the vacated area between the Elbe and Oder rivers. About 720 two Slav...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Otto Von Guericke: Encyclopedia Ii - Otto Von Guericke - Biography
Guericke was born in Magdeburg, Germany. Otto von Guericke - Air pressure and the vacuum. He invented the piston air pump to produce a ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Frederick: Encyclopedia Ii - Frederick - People
Frederick is also a common male forename. It has been the name of several monarchs, often shared by different members from the same dynas...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Kingdom Of Prussia: Encyclopedia Ii - Kingdom Of Prussia - Invasion Of Austria
In 1740, Frederick II (more commonly known as Frederick the Great) came to the throne and invaded Silesia, a province of Austria which wa...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - History Of Berlin: Encyclopedia Ii - History Of Berlin - The Divided City
By the end of the Second World War, up to 33% of Berlin had been destroyed by concerted Allied air raids and street fighting. The so call...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - History Of Berlin: Encyclopedia Ii - History Of Berlin - The War Comes To Berlin
Allied bombardment of Berlin started in earnest in 1943, though an earlier raid for propaganda purposes had been conducted in 1940. Raids...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - History Of Berlin: Encyclopedia Ii - History Of Berlin - Nazi Plans For Postwar Berlin
In the pre-World War II period Adolf Hitler and his subordinates had great plans to transform Berlin, because he thought that Berlin was ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - History Of Berlin: Encyclopedia Ii - History Of Berlin - Blockade Airlift
In response to Allied efforts to fuse the American, French, and British sectors of western Germany into a federal state, American refusal...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - History Of Berlin: Encyclopedia Ii - History Of Berlin - The June 17th Uprising
See Uprising of 1953 in East Germany. 60 construction workers building the showpiece Stalin-Allee in East Berlin went on strike on 16 Jun...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - History Of Berlin: Encyclopedia Ii - History Of Berlin - Third Reich
Berlin had never been a center of the National Socialist (Nazi) movement, which had its roots in Bavaria. As the capital of the Weimar Re...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - History Of Berlin: Encyclopedia Ii - History Of Berlin - Student Movement
In the 1960s, West Berlin became one of the centers of the German student movement. West Berlin was especially popular with young German ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - History Of Berlin: Encyclopedia Ii - History Of Berlin - Reunited
At the 40th anniversary celebration of East Germany in East Berlin in October 1989, guest of honor Mikhail Gorbachev gave a speech indica...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - History Of Berlin: Encyclopedia Ii - History Of Berlin - Berlin Wall
On August 13, 1961 the communist East German government started to build the Berlin Wall, physically separating West Berlin from East Ber...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - History Of Berlin: Encyclopedia Ii - History Of Berlin - Mark Brandenburg
In 1417 Friedrich I of Brandenburg became Kurfürst of Brandenburg. Until 1918 members of the Hohenzollern family ruled Berlin, successiv...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Frederick: Encyclopedia Ii - Frederick - Meaning
Frederick Origin: Old German Meaning: peaceful ruler ... See also:Frederick, Frederick - Meaning, Frederick - People, Frederick - Monar...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Kingdom Of Prussia: Encyclopedia Ii - Kingdom Of Prussia - Expansion To Poland
Prussia continued to grow through aggression against its neighbour however. To the east and south, Poland had gradually become weakened. ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Kingdom Of Prussia: Encyclopedia Ii - Kingdom Of Prussia - Defence Against Europe's Assault
This war was a desperate struggle for the Prussians, and the fact that they managed to fight much of Europe to a draw bears witness to Fr...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - History Of Berlin: Encyclopedia Ii - History Of Berlin - The Germans Return
In the beginning of the 12th century the Saxon German kings and emperors conquered the Slavic-inhabited lands of present-day Brandenburg....   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - History Of Berlin: Encyclopedia Ii - History Of Berlin - Berlin And Cölln
Throughout these events, the area of today's Berlin contained small fishing and farming villages. Around 1200, two towns were founded on ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - History Of Berlin: Encyclopedia Ii - History Of Berlin - German Empire
Prussia was the dominant factor in the unification of Germany. When the German Empire was established in 1871, Wilhelm I became emperor, ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - History Of Berlin: Encyclopedia Ii - History Of Berlin - Kingdom Of Prussia
In 1701 Friedrich III (1688-1701) crowned himself as Friedrich I (1701-1713), King in Prussia. (Not of Prussia, because he didn't possess...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - History Of Berlin: Encyclopedia Ii - History Of Berlin - Weimar Republic
The overall impression one gets when visiting Berlin today is one of great discontinuity, visibly reflecting the many ruptures of Germany...   » Read the article