Germans

residents and citizens of Germany & people of German descent

13 dated entries naming Germans, drawn from 13 separate years between 41 CE and 1896 CE. Nothing here is written by us: each line is the sentence a Wikipedia year article used, and the link beside it opens the exact revision.

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1st century

41An attack across the Rhine by the Germans is stopped by the Romans.source
69German warbands cross over to join the revolt and attack the fortress at Mainz.source

2nd century

167The Germans devastate the Balkans and ransack the sanctuary of Eleusis, near Athens.source

3rd century

246Emperor Philip the Arab fights the Germans along the Danube River.source
278Probus resettles the Germanic tribes in the devastated provinces of the Roman Empire. He adopts the titles of Gothicus Maximus and Germanicus Maximus.source

5th century

493Theodoric the Great allies with the Franks and marries Audofleda, sister of Clovis I. He also marries his own female relatives to princes or kings of the Burgundians, Vandals and Visigoths, establishing a political alliance with the Germanic kingdoms in the West.source

6th century

573King Sigibert I goes to war against his half brother Chilperic I of Neustria at the urging of his wife, Brunhilda. He appeals to the Germans on the right bank of the Rhine for help, and they obligingly attack the environs of Paris and Chartres.source

12th century

1147June – The Wendish Crusade: An expedition of Crusaders – composed of Germans, Saxons and Danes – expels the Obotrites from Wagria (Schleswig-Holstein). Two Danish fleets led by King Canute V in alliance with co-ruler Sweyn III, ravage the northern coast. The countryside of Mecklenburg and Pommerania is plundered and depopulated with much bloodshed, especially by German forces under Henry the Lion.source

18th century

1727February 20 – German composer George Frideric Handel becomes a British subject.source

19th century

183719 March – The first permanent European settlement in Canterbury. Prussian whaling captain George Hempleman (var. Hemplemann) establishes a whaling station at Peraki Bay, Banks Peninsula. Hempleman and his wife are the first German settlers in New Zealand.source
1848Approximately 163 German settlers, known as the Bergthiel Settlers, arrive in Natal.source
1856Approximately 3000 Crimean War veterans (German Legionnaires) settled in Kaffraria, later joined by 2700 German civilians.source
1896German physicist Wilhelm Wien derives the Wien approximation.source