Talk:Timeline of German history

message: Before the page looked as it does now, it was a list of years with only a few links to them.I moved the three years which actually had content to List of years in Germany. Saintswithin 11:39, 28 Feb 2005 (UTC)
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message: I've removed some chancellors, as if we add some, we should add all of them since 1871, plus the presidents and the leaders of East Germany, the kings, etc. and it will just clog up the list unnecessarily as there are lists of chancellors and kings elsewhere. Saintswithin 12:55, 4 Apr 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: chancellors

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thread_title: Fair use rationale for Image:100-DEM-OBV-154x74.jpg

message: I'm looking for information on IF and HOW the war with Soviet Union 1941-1945 is periodised in Germany.--Mrg3105 (talk) 21:59, 22 December 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  German periodisation 

message: We have the Weimar Republic in 1919, presumably because that was when the Weimar Constitution was passed into law. It would in my mind, be better to put it in 1918 because that was when it "emerged from the German Revolution in November 1918" as it says in the Weimar Republic's own article.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 77.96.127.111 (talk) 18:24, 28 May 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Weimar Republic 

message: That must have been difficult, since he died in 1716. bd2412 T 04:16, 8 January 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: Yes, and so as a precaution he founded it in 1700.Rjensen (talk) 04:20, 8 January 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Leibnitz founds the Prussian Academy of Sciences in 1719? 

message: in the early centuries of our era. Besides, archaeology shows that there was a large war in Germany in prehistoric times.Marcin862 (talk) 17:50, 13 June 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  What about wars against Romans 

message: It strikes me that this timeline has a lot of entries simply for the birth or death of various German historical persons. This makes sense to me if the person's birth or death was considered particularly notable or "year defining" by the people of it's time, in other words, if that person being born or dying actually had immediate widespread notoriety or influence. It makes a lot less sense though to list simply the death of a scientist like Gauss, rather than choosing a crowning event of his career and embedding that in the timeline - was the death of Gauss itself really a defining historical moment, or was his publishing of "Disquisitiones Arithmeticae" in 1801, a profoundly influential work and the moment he became a European celebrity, a more defining historical moment for him and Germany? Similarly, was the birth of Thomas Mann in 1875 a defining historical moment, or was his attainment of the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1929 his defining moment? It just seems to me that these births and deaths are not in themselves particularly informative or demonstrative of influential events of the time - rather the actual defining actions of these people seem more historically relevant and interesting to capture within a timeline. I understand that during the period of monarchy, birth and deaths of royals would have historical notability as they were national events that immediately influenced the actions of government, but a lot of the celebrities in this timeline made their mark on history in mid to late life, and rarely by sake of their births/death alone. Not making any changes at this time - just wanted to put this out here and get some thoughts? LiamJSP (talk) 16:20, 24 July 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Proposal to Revise Timeline RE: Births/Deaths