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22 June – The DELAG Zeppelin dirigible, Deutschland, makes the first commercial passenger flight from Friedrichshafen to Düsseldorf in Germany. The flight takes nine hours. 16 August – Berliner FV, German association football club founded. Full date unknown Gymnasium Lerchenfeld is founded in Hamburg. [1]
The Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact was signed, promising mutual non-aggression between Germany and the Soviet Union and agreeing to a division of much of Eastern Europe between those two countries. 1 September: Invasion of Poland: Germany invaded Poland. 22 December Genthin rail disaster: 1940 9 April Operation Weserübung: Germany invades Denmark ...
Heck horse in Haselünne, Germany (2004). Lutz was the third child of Margarete and Ludwig Heck (1860–1951), director of Berlin Zoo from 1888 to 1931. He grew up with his brother in the grounds of the Berlin zoo and became very interested in animals and zoology from an early age.
1940 2016 (IUCN) Deforestation, competition with introduced birds and predation by back rats. [71] 1893-1895: Chatham rail: Cabalus modestus: Chatham Islands, New Zealand 1988 (IUCN) Habitat destruction, predation and competition with introduced mammals. [355] 1893: Harelip sucker: Lagochila lacera: Southeastern United States 1986 (IUCN)
1 July – The Agadir Crisis is triggered when Germany's Ambassador to France, Wilhelm von Schoen, delivers a diplomatic note to France's Foreign Minister Justin de Selves, announcing that Germany has sent the gunboat SMS Panther and troops, to occupy Agadir, at that time a part of the protectorate of French Morocco.
1678 – Oper am Gänsemarkt (opera house) opens; [12] premiere of Theile's opera Adam und Eva. [13] 1679 – Coffee house in business. [14] 1705 – Premiere of Handel's opera Almira. [15] 1710 – Hamburg City Archives established. 1712 – Plague. 1735 – Commerzbibliothek (business library) founded. [16] 1762 City occupied by Danish forces.
4 January — World War II: (Axis powers): Luftwaffe General Hermann Göring assumes control of most war industries in Germany.; 10 January — World War II: Mechelen Incident: A German plane carrying secret plans for the invasion of western Europe makes a forced landing in Belgium, leading to mobilization of defense forces in the Low Countries.
The heir to the throne in 1910 was the Roman Catholic Duke Albert (born 1865). [17] Between 1900 and 1910, the political history of Württemberg centred round the settlement of the constitutional and the educational questions. The constitution underwent revision in 1906, and a settlement of the education difficulty occurred in 1909.