ÿþ<html> <head> <title> WHKMLA : Timelines : Germany </title> <!-- copyright Alexander Ganse, 2003-2007 --> </head> <body bgcolor="lightblue" text="black" link="blue" vlink="red" alink="brown"> <style> <!-- A{ font-weight: bold; font-size: 10pt; font-face: arial; } --> </style> <DIV align ="center"> <TABLE border = "0" cellspace="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"> <TR> <TD align = "center" valign = "center"> <A HREF = "../../index.html"> <img src = "../../whkmla2.jpg" border = "0"></a></TD></TR></TABLE> <TABLE border = "0" cellspace="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"> <TR> <TD align = "center" valign = "center"> <A HREF = "../periods.html"> <img src = "../../meh.jpg" border = "0"> </a></TD></TR></TABLE> <TABLE border = "0" cellspace="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"> <TR> <TD width = "150" height = "36" align = "center" valign = "center"> <font size = "2" face = "arial"><B> Science and Technology <BR> 1829-1914 </b></font></TD> <TD width = "36" height = "36" align = "center" valign = "center"> <A HREF = "tlscitech18.html"> <img src = "../../region/arrowleft.gif" width = "36" height = "36" border = "0"> </a></TD> <TD align = "center" valign = "center"> <A HREF = "xtimelines.html"> <img src = "../timelines.jpg" border = "0"> </TD> <TD width = "36" height = "36" align = "center" valign = "center"> <img src = "../../region/arrowright.gif" width = "36" height = "36" border = "0"> </a></TD> <TD width = "100" height = "36" align = "center" valign = "center"> <font size = "2" face = "arial"><B> </b></font></TD></TR></TABLE> <font size = "3" face = "arial"><B><i>First posted on April 25th 2003 </i></b></font><BR><BR><BR><BR> <TABLE border = "0" cellspace="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"> <TR> <TD align = "center" valign = "center" width = "900"> <font face = "Times Roman" size = "5"><B> Timeline : Fin de Siecle </B></font></TD></TR></TABLE> <BR><BR> <TABLE border = "0" cellspace="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"> <TR> <TD align = "left" valign = "center" width = "110"> <font face = "Times Roman" size = "2"> 1860s-1880s <BR> 1880s-1920s <BR> 1898-1908 <BR> 1905-1940 <BR> 1908-1920 <BR> 1909-1914 <BR><BR> 1888 <BR> 1889 I 30 <BR> 1889 <BR> 1889 <BR> 1891 V 15 <BR> 1891 <BR> 1893 <BR> 1894 <BR> 1894 XII-1895 I <BR> 1895 I 1 <BR> 1895 <BR> 1896 <BR> 1896 XII 10 <BR> 1896 <BR> 1897 <BR> 1898 I 13 <BR> 1898 IX 10 <BR> 1899 <BR> 1899 <BR> 1900 <BR> 1900 <BR> 1900 <BR> 1901 XII 10 <BR><BR> 1901 <BR> 1903 <BR> 1905 <BR><BR> 1906 V 13 <BR> 1906 <BR> 1906 <BR> 1907 <BR> 1909 <BR> 1912 IV 10 <BR> </font></TD> <BR><TD align = "left" valign = "center" width = "600"> <font face = "Times Roman" size = "2"> Impressionism <BR> Art Nouveau <BR> Fauvism <BR> Expressionism <BR> Cubism <BR> Futurism <BR><BR> <A HREF = "../../region/lowcountries/xnederland.html">NL</A>/<A HREF = "../../region/france/xfrance.html">F</A> : Vincent van Gogh paints "Vase with Sunflowers" <BR> <A HREF = "../../region/germany/ahindex.html">AH</A> : Crown Prince Rudolf committed suicide at Mayerling <BR> <A HREF = "../../region/france/xfrance.html">F</A> : Paris World Fair; construction of Eiffel Tower <BR> <A HREF = "../../region/germany/ahindex.html">A</A> : Bertha von Suttner publishes "Die Waffen Nieder !" (Lay Down Your Arms) <BR> Rome : Papal Encyclica "Rerum Novarum" issued <BR> <A HREF = "../../region/germany/xgermanyneu.html">D</A> : Friedrich Nietzsche publishes "Also Sprach Zarathustra" (Thus Spake Zarathustra) <BR> <A HREF = "../../region/scandinavia/xnorway.html">N</A> : Edward Munch paints "The Scream" <BR> <A HREF = "../../region/france/xfrance.html">F</A> : First Car Race, Paris-Rouen (126 km) <BR> <A HREF = "../../region/france/xfrance.html">F</A> : Dreyfus Trial <BR> <A HREF = "../../region/france/xfrance.html">F</A> : Alphonse Mucha exhibits Art Nouveau prints Style Mucha <BR> <A HREF = "../../region/france/xfrance.html">F</A> : Brothers Lumiere begin cinematography <BR> First (Summer) Olympic Games of the Modern Era held at Athens, <A HREF = "../../region/balkans/xgreece.html">Greece</A> <BR> Alfred Nobel dies in San Remo, <A HREF = "../../region/italy/xitaly.html">Italy</A> <BR> <A HREF = "../../region/germany/ahindex.html">A</A> : Theodor Herzl publishes "Der Judenstaat" <BR> <A HREF = "../../region/italy/xswitzerland.html">CH</A> : First Zionist Congress held in Basel <BR> <A HREF = "../../region/france/xfrance.html">F</A> : Emile Zola publishes "J'Accuse" <BR> <A HREF = "../../region/italy/xswitzerland.html">CH</A> : Empress Elizabeth of Austria-Hungary assassinated <BR> First International Peace Conference held in Den Haag (<A HREF = "../../region/lowcountries/xnederland.html">NL</A>) <BR> <A HREF = "../../region/britain/xuk.html">UK</A> : Rudyard Kipling publishes poem "The White Man's Burden" <BR> <A HREF = "../../region/france/xfrance.html">F</A> : Paris World Fair <BR> <A HREF = "../../region/germany/ahindex.html">A</A> : Sigmund Freud publishes "Traumdeutung" (The Interpretation of Dreams) <BR> <A HREF = "../../region/germany/xgermanyneu.html">D</A> : Dirigible (Zeppelin) undertakes first successful flight <BR> <A HREF = "../../region/scandinavia/xsweden.html">S</A>/<A HREF = "../../region/scandinavia/xnorway.html">N</A> : Nobel Prizes awarded for the first time. Peace (Oslo) : Henri Dunant, <BR> Physics (Stockholm) : W.K. R&ouml;ntgen <BR> <A HREF = "../../region/germany/xgermanyneu.html">D</A> : The Wuppertal Suspension Railway took up service <BR> <A HREF = "../../region/britain/xuk.html">UK</A> : Emmeline Pankhurst establishes Women's Social and Political Union <BR> Peaceful dissolution of Dynastic Union of <A HREF = "../../region/scandinavia/xsweden.html">Sweden</A> and <A HREF = "../../region/scandinavia/xnorway.html">Norway</A>; the latter gains <BR> full independence <BR> <A HREF = "../../region/france/xfrance.html">F</A> : Alfred Dreyfus exonerated <BR> <A HREF = "../../region/scandinavia/xfinland.html">SF</A> : Finland the first country in Europe to grant women the right to vote <BR> <A HREF = "../../region/italy/xitaly.html">Italy</A> : Tenor Enrico Caruso undertakes US Tour <BR> Second International Peace Conference held in Den Haag (<A HREF = "../../region/lowcountries/xnederland.html">NL</A>)<BR> <A HREF = "../../region/italy/xitaly.html">I</A> : Filippo Tommaso Marinetti publishes first Futurist Manifesto <BR> <A HREF = "../../region/britain/xuk.html">UK</A> : Ocean Liner "Titanic" sinks <BR> </font></TD> </TR></TABLE><BR><BR> <TABLE border = "0" cellspace="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"> <TR> <TD align = "left" valign = "center" width = "500"> <font face = "Times Roman" size = "2"> </font></TD> </TR></TABLE><BR><BR> <TABLE border = "0" cellspace="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"> <TR> <TD align = "left" valign = "center" width = "500"> <font face = "Times Roman" size = "2"> IMPORTANT EXPRESSIONS, PHRASES <BR><BR> Belle Epoque, Fin de Siecle, Prussian Militarism, Strike, Suffragettes </font></TD> </TR></TABLE><BR><BR> <TABLE border = "0" cellspace="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"> <TR> <TD align = "left" valign = "center" width = "500"> <font face = "Times Roman" size = "2"> IMPORTANT PERSONS <BR><BR> Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Paul Lincke, Alfred Dreyfus, Emile Zola, Alphonse Mucha, Edvard Munch, Brothers Lumiere, Alfred Nobel, Pierre de Coubertin </font></TD> </TR></TABLE><BR><BR><BR><BR> </DIV> </DIV> <DIV align="center"> <A href="mailto:aganse@hotmail.com"> <IMG src="../../email.gif" border="0"></a><BR> </DIV><BR><BR><BR><BR><BR> <!-- Start of Count-o-Rama Code --> <a href="http://62.132.145.75/index.html" target="_blank"> <img src="http://62.132.145.75/cgi-bin/hidden.pl?12950" border="0"></a> <!-- End of Count-o-Rama Code --> <!-- Start of CH Counter --> <script type="text/javascript"> //<!-- // chCounter v2.0.0 // settings: cstatus = "active"; visible = "0"; path_to_counterfile = "http://www.zum.de/whkmla/counter/counter.php"; urlhp = "http://www.zum.de"; //////////////// url = unescape(location.href); file = url.substring(url.lastIndexOf(urlhp) + urlhp.length, url.length); file = (file.charAt(0) != "/") ? 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