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Land Area	348,672 km²
Water Area	8,350 km²
Total Area	357,022km² (#62)
Population	80,722,792 (#18)
Population Density	231.51/km²
Government Type	Federal Parliamentary Republic
GDP (PPP)	$3,980.00 Billion
GDP Per Capita	$48,200
Currency	Euro (EUR)
Largest Cities	Berlin (3,426,354) Hamburg (1,739,117) Munich (1,260,391) Koeln (963,395) Frankfurt am Main (650,000) Essen (593,085) Stuttgart (589,793) Dortmund (588,462) Dusseldorf (573,057) Bremen (546,501) View all cities in Germany

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800s - 1400s

(800) Charlamagne crowned Holy Roman Emperor
(843) Treaty of Verdun
(936) Otto I crowned King
(1027) Konrad II crowned Emporer of the Salians
(1138) Konrad III, first Hohenstaufen Emperor
(1155) Friedrich I Barbarossa crowned Emperor
(1250) Beginning of the Great Interregnum
(1273) Coronation of Rudolf I
(1312) Heinrich VII becomes Emperor
(1419-36) Hussite Wars
(1438) Albrecht II Emperor House of Hapsburg

1500s - 1800s

(1517) Martin Luther's Reformation
(1522) The Knights' War
(1524-25) The Peasants' War
(1540) first stock exchanges developed
(1546) Schmalkalden War begins
(1608) Establishment of the Protestant Union
(1609) Formation of the Catholic League
(1618-1648) Thirty Years' War
(1701) King of Prussia crowned
(1702-14) War of Spanish Succession
(1740) Frederick the Great crowned King of Prussia
(1740-42) The Silesian War
(1756-63) The Seven Years' War
(1803) Territorial reform of the German states
(1813) Battle of the Nations at Leipzig
(1847) Communist Manifesto published
(1848-49) The March Revolution
(1866) Prussian-Austrian War
(1870-71) Franco-Prussian War
(1871) Wilhelm I crowned Prussian King
(1890) Fall of Bismark

1900s

(1914) World War I begins
(1918) Declaration of the Republic
(1919) World War I ends
(1919) Treaty of Versailles signed
(1921) Adolf Hitler becomes leader of the NSDAP
(1926) Germany accepted into League of Nations
(1933) Hitler appointed Chancellor of the Reich
(1934-1945) Nazi Holocaust
(1939) Germany invades Poland, World War II begins
(1941) Germany invades USSR
(1944) Allies land at Normandy
(1945) Hitler commits suicide
(1945) Germany surrenders, World War II ends
(1948-49) Berlin blockade
(1949) Federal Republic and GDR established
(1961) Berlin Wall built
(1972) West Germany hosts Summer Olympics
(1973) West and East Germany join UN
(1974) Hosts FIFA World Cups, and wins
(1982) Helmut Kohl elected Chancellor
(1989) Fall of the Berlin Wall
(1990) Reunification of Germany
(1990) Germany wins FIFA World Cup
(1998) Gerhard Shroder elected Chancellor
(1991) Berlin named capital

2000s

(2000) Hanover hosts Expo 2000
(2001) Women begin serving in Bundeswehr
(2002) Euro introduced across Germany
(2005) Pope Benedict XVI consecrated
(2005) Angela Merkel elected Chancellor

This page was last updated on April 7, 2017.

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Germany states & their capitals

Region	Capital
Baden-Wurttemberg	Stuttgart
Bavaria	Munich
Berlin	Berlin
Brandenburg	Potsdam
Bremen	Bremen
Hamburg	Hamburg
Hesse	Wiesbaden
Lower Saxony	Hannover
Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania	Schwerin
North Rhine-Westphalia	Dusseldorf
Rhineland-Palatinate	Mainz
Saarland	Saarbrucken
Saxony	Dresden
Saxony-Anhalt	Magdeburg
Schleswig-Holstein	Kiel
Thuringia	Erfurt

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