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of the city of

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Prior to 17th century

* 1163 – Berlin founded by

Albert the Bear Albert the Bear (german: Albrecht der Bär; 1100 – 18 November 1170) was the first margrave of Brandenburg from 1157 to his death and was briefly duke of Saxony between 1138 and 1142. Life Albert was the only son of Otto, Count of Ba ...

(approximate date). * 1183 – Oak beam, discovered in 2008 by archaeologists, dated to 1183. * 1200 – Saint Peter's Church built in Cölln (approximate date). * 1220 – Population: 2,400. * 1230 ** St. Nicholas' Church built (approximate date). ** Tabor Church (Berlin-Hohenschönhausen) built (approximate date). * 1237 – 28 October: First documentation of Cölln. * 1240 –

Marienfelde Marienfelde () is a locality in southwest Berlin, Germany, part of the Tempelhof-Schöneberg borough. The former village, incorporated according to the Greater Berlin Act of 1920, today is a mixed industrial and residential area. Geography The ...

church built (approximate date). * 1244 – 29 April: First documentation of Berlin. * 1250 ** Population: 1,200–2,000. ** Jesus Church (Berlin-Kaulsdorf) built (approximate date). ** Franziskaner-Klosterkirche built (approximate date). **

Karow (Berlin) Karow () is a German boroughs and localities of Berlin, locality (''Ortsteil'') within the Berlin borough (''Bezirk'') of Pankow. Until 2001 it was part of the former Weissensee (Berlin), Weißensee borough. History The locality was first menti ...

church built (approximate date). * 1253 – Oldest known town seal of Berlin. * 1272 – Bakers' guild established. * 1278 – Georgenhospital established. * 1282 – First documentation of official papers of the Margrave of Brandenburg. * 1292 – 3 January: St. Mary's Church in existence. * 1300 – Heinersdorf church construction begins. * 1307 ** 20 March: Legal union of Berlin and Cölln. ** Population: 4,000–7,000. * 1360 – Berlin-Cölln joins the Hanseatic League. * 1380 – Fire. * 1400 ** Population: 7,000–8,500. ** 1,100 buildings. * 1432 – Merger of Berlin and Cölln. * 1433 – (

militia A militia () is generally an army or some other fighting organization of non-professional soldiers, citizens of a country, or subjects of a state, who may perform military service during a time of need, as opposed to a professional force of r ...

) formed. * 1442 – Berlin leaves the Hanseatic League. * 1443 – Stadtschloss (palace) construction begins. * 1446 – 7 December: Pogrom against Jews. * 1448 – 14 October: Unsuccessful protest against the construction of the Stadtschloss. Town privileges curtailed. * 1450 – Population: 7,000–8,000. * 1451 – Stadtschloss built. * 1454 – St. Erasmus Chapel consecrated. * 1468 – First documentation of

Kammergericht The Kammergericht (KG) is the ''Oberlandesgericht'', the highest state court, for the city-state of Berlin, Germany. As an ordinary court according to the German Courts Constitution Act (''Gerichtsverfassungsgesetz''), it deals with criminal a ...

. * 1484 – 18 October: Jerusalem Church in existence. * 1486 – 11 March: Berlin Stadtschloss becomes permanent seat of Brandenburg Electors. * 1510 – 100 Jews accused of desecrating hosts. 38 burned, the rest banished and stripped of their possessions. * 1530 – Tiergarten hunting park built. * 1539 – 1 November:

Protestant Reformation The Reformation (alternatively named the Protestant Reformation or the European Reformation) was a major movement within Western Christianity in 16th-century Europe that posed a religious and political challenge to the Catholic Church and ...

. * 1540 ** Church possessions secularized. **

Printing press A printing press is a mechanical device for applying pressure to an inked surface resting upon a print medium (such as paper or cloth), thereby transferring the ink. It marked a dramatic improvement on earlier printing methods in which the ...

in operation. * 1542 –

Kurfürstendamm The Kurfürstendamm (; colloquially ''Ku'damm'', ; en, Prince Elector Embankment) is one of the most famous avenues in Berlin. The street takes its name from the former ''Kurfürsten'' (prince-electors) of Brandenburg. The broad, long boulevar ...

avenue built. * 1543 –

Jagdschloss Grunewald The Jagdschloss Grunewald, a hunting lodge, is the oldest preserved castle of Berlin, Germany. It is on the south waterfront of the Grunewaldsee and is part of the locality Dahlem in the borough Steglitz-Zehlendorf. The Jagdschloss was built ...

hunting lodge built. * 1558 – Köpenick Palace built. * 1576 ** Population: 11,000–12,000. ** Bubonic plague kills 6,000 people. * 1594 – Spandau Citadel built.

17th century

* 1600 – Population: 9,000. * 1618 – Population: 12,000. * 1631 – Population: 8,100. * 1636 –

Joachimsthalsches Gymnasium The Joachimsthal Gymnasium (German ''Joachimsthalsches'' or ''Joachimsthaler Gymnasium''), was a princely high school (German ''Fürstenschule'') for gifted boys, founded in 1607 in Joachimsthal, Brandenburg. In 1636, during the Thirty Years' War ...

(school) relocates to Berlin. * 1647 –

Unter den Linden Unter den Linden (, "under the linden trees") is a boulevard in the central Mitte district of Berlin, the capital of Germany. Running from the City Palace to Brandenburg Gate, it is named after the linden (lime in England and Ireland, not rela ...

boulevard laid out. * 1642 – Population: 7,500. * 1648 – Population: 6,000. * 1650 –

Berlin Fortress The Berlin Fortress (German "Festung Berlin") was the fortification of the historic city of Berlin. Construction started in 1650. The demolition of its ramparts began in 1740. History Berlin was an important market place on the main east-west ...

construction begins. * 1653 – Alte Kommandantur built. * 1661 – Library of the Elector opened. * 1664 –

Schönhausen Palace Schönhausen Palace (german: Schloss Schönhausen) is a Baroque palace at Niederschönhausen, in the borough of Pankow, Berlin, Germany. It is surrounded by gardens through which the Panke river runs. The palace is maintained by the Prussian Pa ...

built. * 1669 –

Kronprinzenpalais The Kronprinzenpalais (English: ''Crown Prince's Palace'') is a former Royal Prussian residence on Unter den Linden boulevard in the historic centre of Berlin. It was built in 1663 and renovated in 1857 according to plans by Heinrich Strack in ...

built. * 1671 – 21 May: 50 Jewish families from Austria settled in Berlin. * 1674 –

Dorotheenstadt is a historic zone or neighbourhood (''Stadtviertel'') of central Berlin, Germany, which forms part of the locality (''Ortsteil'') of Mitte within the borough (''Bezirk'') also called Mitte. It contains several famous Berlin landmarks: the B ...

receives town privileges. * 1677 – Köpenick Palace rebuilt and enlarged. * 1678 – Dorotheen Church built. * 1680 – Population: 10,000. * 1685 ** 29 June: Börse Berlin stock exchange founded. ** 6,000

Huguenot The Huguenots ( , also , ) were a religious group of French Protestants who held to the Reformed, or Calvinist, tradition of Protestantism. The term, which may be derived from the name of a Swiss political leader, the Genevan burgomaster Be ...

s settle in Berlin. ** Wooden Neustädtische Brücke built. ** Population: 17,500. * 1688 **

Gendarmenmarkt The Gendarmenmarkt ( en, Gut Market) is a square in Berlin and the site of an architectural ensemble including the Berlin concert hall and the French and German Churches. In the centre of the square stands a monumental statue of poet Fri ...

laid out. ** Jungfern Bridge built. **

Leipziger Straße Leipziger Straße is a major thoroughfare in the central Mitte (locality), Mitte district of Berlin, capital of Germany. It runs from Leipziger Platz, an octagonal square adjacent to Potsdamer Platz in the west, to Spittelmarkt (Berlin U-Bahn), S ...

(street) laid out. ** Population: 18,000–20,000. * 1690 –

Hohenschönhausen Castle Hohenschönhausen Castle (German: ''Schloss Hohenschönhausen'' or ''Bürgerschloss Hohenschönhausen'') is a manor house in the borough Alt-Hohenschönhausen in Berlin, Germany. It is owned by the ''Association Hohenschönhausen Castle'' and lis ...

built. * 1691 –

Friedrichstadt (Berlin) Friedrichstadt was an independent suburb of Berlin, and is now a historical neighbourhood of the city itself. The neighbourhood is named after the Prussian king Frederick I. Geography Friedrichstadt is located south of the Dorotheenstadt neighb ...

founded. * 1693 –

Jagdschloss Glienicke Jagdschloss Glienicke is a hunting lodge in the Berlin district of Wannsee near Glienicke Bridge. Babelsberg and Glienicke Palace can be seen nearby. Originally constructed in the late-17th century and expanded in the mid-1800s, the castle is part ...

completed. * 1695 ** 21 July: Sebastiankirche opened. **

Friedrichsfelde Palace The Friedrichsfelde Palace (german: Schloss Friedrichsfelde) is a Neoclassical-style building in the centre of the Tierpark Berlin in Berlin-Friedrichsfelde. It was property of various noble Prussians and occasionally owned by Prussian Kings ...

built. ** Lange-brucke (bridge) built. * 1696 – Academy of Arts founded.

18th century

* 1700 ** 11 July: Electoral Brandenburg Society of Sciences founded. ** Population: 28,500. * 1701 – 18 January: Berlin becomes capital of the

Kingdom of Prussia The Kingdom of Prussia (german: Königreich Preußen, ) was a German kingdom that constituted the state of Prussia between 1701 and 1918. Marriott, J. A. R., and Charles Grant Robertson. ''The Evolution of Prussia, the Making of an Empire''. ...

. * 1702 –

Friedrichs-Waisenhaus Rummelsburg Friedrichs-Waisenhaus Rummelsburg was an orphanage and infirmary in Berlin established by Frederick William I of Prussia in 1702. He donated funds for the maintenance of 300 military orphans in 1719. In 1721 400 and 1728 around 500 children were ca ...

orphanage and infirmary established. * 1703 ** 8 July:

Parochialkirche The Parochialkirche (literally the Reformed parochial church) is a Reformed church in the Klosterviertel neighbourhood of the Mitte borough in Berlin. The church, now a listed building, was built between 1695 and 1703. It is the oldest church ...

opened. ** Wooden Friedrichs Bridge built. * 1704 –

Vossische Zeitung The (''Voss's Newspaper'') was a nationally-known Berlin newspaper that represented the interests of the liberal middle class. It was also generally regarded as Germany's national newspaper of record. In the Berlin press it held a special role d ...

founded. * 1705 **

Charlottenburg Charlottenburg () is a locality of Berlin within the borough of Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf. Established as a town in 1705 and named after Sophia Charlotte of Hanover, Queen consort of Prussia, it is best known for Charlottenburg Palace, the ...

founded. **

French Cathedral The French (Reformed) Church of Friedrichstadt (french: Temple de la Friedrichstadt, german: Französische Friedrichstadtkirche, and commonly known as Französischer Dom, meaning 'French cathedral') is in Berlin at the Gendarmenmarkt, across the K ...

built in Friedrichstadt. * 1706 –

Zeughaus The Zeughaus (English: Arsenal) is a listed building and the oldest structure on Unter den Linden boulevard in the historic centre of Berlin. Erected from 1695 to 1706 according to plans by Johann Arnold Nering, Martin Grünberg, Andreas Sch ...

built. * 1708 ** 9 April: Neue Kirche completed in Friedrichstadt. **

Frankfurter Allee The Frankfurter Allee is one of the oldest roads of Berlin, the capital city of Germany. It extends the Karl-Marx-Allee from Frankfurter Tor in the direction of the city of Frankfurt (Oder). It is part of Bundesstraße 1 and has a length of . L ...

built. * 1709 **

merges with the cities of Cölln,

, Friedrichstadt, and Friedrichswerder to create the capital and royal residence of Berlin. ** Population: 55,196. * 1710 – Charité hospital established. * 1712 – Population: 61,000. * 1713 ** 18 June: Spandauische Kirche inaugurated. **

Charlottenburg Palace Schloss Charlottenburg (Charlottenburg Palace) is a Baroque palace in Berlin, located in Charlottenburg, a district of the Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf borough. The palace was built at the end of the 17th century and was greatly expanded during th ...

built. ** Nicolaische Buchhandlung (bookseller) in business. * 1715 – City hosts Treaty of Berlin (1715). * 1716 – 12 July: Luisenkirche inaugurated. * 1717 – Compulsory schooling established. * 1720 – Späth nursery founded. * 1721 – Population: 65,300. * 1722 – Garrison Church built. * 1726 – Population: 72,000. * 1730 – Population: 72,387. * 1732 ** 13 December:

Treaty of the Three Black Eagles The Treaty of the Three Black Eagles, or Treaty of Berlin, was a secret treaty signed in September and December 1732 between the Austrian Empire, the Russian Empire and Prussia. It concerned the joint policy of the three powers regarding to the ...

signed by Prussia. ** 1,200 Bohemians settle in Berlin to escape religious persecution. ** Population: 77,973. ** Crown Prince's Palace remodelled. * 1733 ** Prinzessinnenpalais built. ** Population: 79,017. * 1734 **

Potsdam Gate The Potsdam Gate (german: Potsdamer Tor) was one of the western gates of the Berlin Customs Wall, south of the still-standing Brandenburg Gate. It was originally constructed in 1734, and then rebuilt in 1824 as a neoclassic imposing gateway. It wa ...

constructed. **

Pariser Platz Pariser Platz ( en, Paris Square) is a square in the historic center of Berlin, Germany, situated by the Brandenburg Gate at the end of the Unter den Linden. The square is named after the French capital of Paris to commemorate the anti-Napoleon A ...

laid out. ** Das Rondell laid out. * 1735 – Population: 86,000. * 1737 ** City fortifications replaced by the

Berlin Customs Wall The Berlin Customs Wall (German: "Berliner Zoll- und Akzisemauer", literally ''Berlin customs and excise wall'' the German term had been originally "Akzisemauer" / excise wall but with the fading knowledge of the term "excise" most references inco ...

** Opera Palace constructed. ** Zietenplatz built. * 1738 –

Ordenspalais The Ordenspalais ("Palace of the Order f Saint John) was a building on the northern corner of Wilhelmplatz with Wilhelmstraße in Berlin (now in Berlin-Mitte). Erection of the building at Wilhelmplatz No. 7/8 began in 1737 as the residence o ...

built. * 1739 ** 13 August: Holy Trinity Church built. ** Prinz-Albrecht-Palais built. * 1740 – Population: 90,000. * 1742 ** 28 July: City hosts signing of the

Treaty of Berlin (1742) The Treaty of Berlin was a treaty between the Habsburg archduchess Maria Theresa of Austria, who was also Queen of Bohemia, and the Prussian king Frederick the Great, signed on 28 July 1742 in Berlin. It was the formal peace treaty that confirmed ...

. ** 7 December:

Berlin State Opera The (), also known as the Berlin State Opera (german: Staatsoper Berlin), is a listed building on Unter den Linden boulevard in the historic center of Berlin, Germany. The opera house was built by order of Prussian king Frederick the Great from ...

house inaugurated. * 1743 –

Opernplatz The Opernplatz (Opera Square) is a central city square in Frankfurt, Germany, located in the district of Innenstadt (Inner City) and within the central business district known as the Bankenviertel (Banking District). The Opernplatz is the most ...

(square) laid out. * 1746 – Population: 97,000. * 1747 – Population: 107,224. * 1748 **

Berlin Cathedral The Berlin Cathedral (german: link=yes, Berliner Dom), also known as the Evangelical Supreme Parish and Collegiate Church, is a monumental German Evangelical church and dynastic tomb ( House of Hohenzollern) on the Museum Island in centra ...

built. ** Population: 107,635. * 1749 – Population: 110,933. * 1750 – Population: 113,289. * 1751 ** 22 September:

Ackerstraße The Ackerstraße is a street in Berlin which runs northwest from near the Liesenstraße – Scheringstraße traffic circle in Gesundbrunnen to Invalidenstraße, where it turns south, terminating at the Linienstraße in Mitte. History On 22 ...

building begins. ** Population: 116,483. * 1752 – Population: 119,224. * 1753 **

Palais am Festungsgraben The ''Palais am Festungsgraben'' (“Palace on the Moat”), originally known as the ''Palais Donner'', is a stately building in Berlin’s Mitte subdistrict located behind, and facing, the ensemble of chestnut trees around the ''Neue Wache'' (� ...

built. ** Luisenstädtische Kirche rebuilt. ** Population: 122,897. * 1754 – Population: 125,385. * 1755 – Population: 126,661. * 1756 – Population: 99,224. * 1757 ** 16 October: 1757 raid on Berlin. Austrian general

András Hadik Count András Hadik de Futak ( hu, gróf futaki Hadik András; german: Andreas Graf Hadik von Futak; sk, Andrej Hadík; 16 October 1710 – 12 March 1790) was a Hungarian nobleman and Field MarshalDarrell Berg (editor): ''The Correspondence o ...

raids Berlin. ** Population: 94,219. * 1758 – Population: 92,356. * 1759 – Population: 94,433. * 1760 ** 9–12 October:

Raid on Berlin The Raid on Berlin took place in October 1760 during the Third Silesian War (part of the Seven Years' War) when Austrian and Russian forces occupied the Prussian capital of Berlin for several days. After raising money from the city, and with the ...

. City taken by Russian and Austrian forces. ** Population: 95,245. * 1761 – Population: 98,238. * 1762 – Population: 98,090. * 1763 ** 19 September:

Royal Porcelain Factory, Berlin The Royal Porcelain Factory in Berlin (german: Königliche Porzellan-Manufaktur Berlin, abbreviated as KPM), also known as the Royal Porcelain Manufactory Berlin and whose products are generally called Berlin porcelain, was founded in 1763 by Kin ...

founded in Charlottenburg. ** Population: 119,219. * 1764 ** Döbbelinsches Theater opened, the first permanent German-language theater in Berlin. ** Population: 122,667. * 1765 ** Bank established. ** Population: 125,139. * 1766 ** Ephraim Palace built in

Nikolaiviertel Founded about 1200, the (Nicholas' Quarter) of Alt-Berlin, together with nearby Cölln, jointly make up the reconstructed historical heart of the German capital of Berlin. It is located in Mitte locality (in the homonymous district), five minu ...

. ** Population: 125,878. * 1767 – Population: 127,140. * 1768 – Population: 130,359. * 1769 ** Brick Friedrichs Bridge built. ** Population: 132,365. * 1770 ** Bergakademie Berlin established. ** Population: 133,520. * 1771 – Population: 133,639. * 1772 – Population: 131,126. * 1773 ** 1 November: St. Hedwig's Church consecrated. ** Population: 132,204. * 1774 ** Französisches Komödienhaus established. ** Population: 134,414. * 1775 – Population: 136,137. * 1776 – Population: 137,468. * 1777 – Population: 140,719. * 1778 – Population: 124,963. * 1779 – Population: 138,225. * 1780 ** (library) built. ** Population: 140,625. * 1781 – Population: 142,375. * 1782 – Population: 143,098. * 1783 ** Wednesday Society active. ** ''

Berlinische Monatsschrift The ''Berlinische Monatsschrift'' was a monthly magazine published by Johann Erich Biester and Friedrich Gedike (though the latter resigned his editorship in 1791). It served primarily as the mouthpiece for the Berliner Mittwochsgesellschaft ...

'' (magazine) begins publication. ** Population: 144,224. * 1784 – Population: 145,021. * 1785 – Population: 146,647. * 1786 ** Bellevue Palace built. ** Population: 147,338. * 1787 – Population: 146,167. * 1788 – Population: 149,274. * 1789 – Population: 149,875. * 1790 – Population: 150,803. * 1791 ** 24 May:

Sing-Akademie zu Berlin The Sing-Akademie zu Berlin, also known as the Berliner Singakademie, is a musical (originally choral) society founded in Berlin in 1791 by Carl Friedrich Christian Fasch, harpsichordist to the court of Prussia, on the model of the 18th-century ...

(choral society) founded. ** Brandenburg Gate dedicated. ** Population: 155,211. * 1792 – Population: 157,534. * 1793 – Population: 157,121. * 1794 – Population: 157,603. * 1795 ** First steam engine in Berlin, used to power spinning machines. ** Population: 156,218. * 1796 ** Zuckerbäckerei Johann Josty & Co. established. ** Population: 160,733. * 1797 ** Pfaueninsel Palace built. ** Population: 164,978. * 1798 – Population: 169,019. * 1799 ** 18 March: Bauakademie founded. ** Population: 169,510.

19th century

1800s–1860s

* 1800 – Population: 172,132. * 1801 – Population: 176,709. * 1802 – Population: 177,029. * 1803 – Population: 178,309. * 1804 ** Royal Prussian Iron Foundry established. ** Population: 182,157. * 1805 ** 25 October: Alexanderplatz renamed in honor of Tsar

Alexander I of Russia Alexander I (; – ) was Emperor of Russia from 1801, the first King of Congress Poland from 1815, and the Grand Duke of Finland from 1809 to his death. He was the eldest son of Emperor Paul I and Sophie Dorothea of Württemberg. The son o ...

. ** Population: 155,706. * 1806 ** 24 October: Berlin occupied by the French army. ** 21 November:

Napoleon Napoleon Bonaparte ; it, Napoleone Bonaparte, ; co, Napulione Buonaparte. (born Napoleone Buonaparte; 15 August 1769 – 5 May 1821), later known by his regnal name Napoleon I, was a French military commander and political leader who ...

issues

Berlin Decree The Berlin Decree was issued in Berlin by Napoleon on November 21, 1806, after the French success against Prussia at the Battle of Jena, which led to the Fall of Berlin (1806), Fall of Berlin. The decree was issued in response to the British Order- ...

while passing through city. ** Population: 155,000. * 1807 – Population: 150,489. * 1808 ** December: French occupation ends. ** Population: 145,941. * 1809 ** Elections to city council held. ** 25 March: Berlin Police formed. ** 4 November: Gesetzlose Gesellschaft zu Berlin founded. ** Population: 151,119. * 1810 ** 15 October:

University of Berlin Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin (german: Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, abbreviated HU Berlin) is a German public research university in the central borough of Mitte in Berlin. It was established by Frederick William III on the initiative ...

established. ***

Natural History Museum A natural history museum or museum of natural history is a scientific institution with natural history collections that include current and historical records of animals, plants, fungi, ecosystems, geology, paleontology, climatology, and more. ...

established as part of the University of Berlin. ** Population: 162,971. * 1811 – Population: 169,763. * 1812 ** Café Josty in business (approximate date). ** Population: 171,000. * 1813 – Population: 178,641. * 1814 – Population: 185,659. * 1815 ** 10 March: Nathan Israel Department Store established. ** City becomes part of the

Province of Brandenburg The Province of Brandenburg (german: Provinz Brandenburg) was a province of Prussia from 1815 to 1945. Brandenburg was established in 1815 from the Kingdom of Prussia's core territory, comprised the bulk of the historic Margraviate of Brandenburg ...

. ** Population: 197,717. * 1816 ** First continental European locomotive built at the Royal Prussian Iron Foundry. ** Population: 197,817. * 1817 – Population: 195,689. * 1818 ** 18 September:

Neue Wache The Neue Wache ( en, New Guard) is a listed building on Unter den Linden boulevard in the historic centre of Berlin, Germany. Erected from 1816 to 1818 according to plans by Karl Friedrich Schinkel as a guardhouse for the Royal Palace and a memor ...

inaugurated. ** Population: 198,125. * 1819 – Population: 209,138. * 1820 – Population: 201,900. * 1821 ** 30 March:

Prussian National Monument for the Liberation Wars The Prussian National Monument for the Liberation Wars (german: Preußisches Nationaldenkmal für die Befreiungskriege) is a war memorial in Berlin, Germany, dedicated in 1821. Built by the Prussian king during the sectionalism before the Unific ...

opened. ** 18 June:

Schauspielhaus Berlin The Konzerthaus Berlin is a concert hall in Berlin, the home of the Konzerthausorchester Berlin. Situated on the Gendarmenmarkt square in the central Mitte district of the city, it was originally built as a theater. It initially operated from ...

(theatre) inaugurated. ** Population: 205,965. * 1822 – Population: 209,146. * 1824 ** 29 February:

Berlin Missionary Society The Berlin Missionary Society (BMS) or ''Society for the Advancement of evangelistic Missions amongst the Heathen'' (German: '' Berliner Missionsgesellschaft'' or ''Gesellschaft zur Beförderung der evangelischen Missionen unter den Heiden'') was a ...

constituted. **

Schlossbrücke Schlossbrücke is a bridge in the central Mitte district of Berlin, Germany. Built between 1821 and 1824 according to plans designed by Karl Friedrich Schinkel, it was named after the nearby City Palace (''Stadtschloss''). The bridge marks the ...

rebuilt. * 1825 ** 1 December: Population: 220,277. ** Sing-Akademie building constructed. ** First

horsebus A horse-bus or horse-drawn omnibus was a large, enclosed, and sprung horse-drawn vehicle used for passenger transport before the introduction of motor vehicles. It was mainly used in the late 19th century in both the United States and Europe ...

line operational. * 1826 **

Glienicke Palace Glienicke Palace (german: Schloss Glienicke) is a historic palace located on the peninsula of Berlin- Wannsee in Germany. It was designed by Karl Friedrich Schinkel around 1825 for Prince Carl of Prussia. Since 1990, Glienicke Palace and the p ...

built. ** First gas lighting in Berlin at the Unter den Linden. ** Crelle's Journal founded. * 1827 – 29 April: Premiere of Mendelssohn's opera '' Hochzeit des Camacho''. * 1828 ** 1 December: Population: 236,830. **

Berlin Geographical Society Berlin ( , ) is the capital and List of cities in Germany by population, largest city of Germany by both area and population. Its 3.7 million inhabitants make it the European Union's List of cities in the European Union by population within ci ...

founded. * 1830 ** 3 August: Königliches Museum opens. ** Museum Vaterländischer Altertümer formed. * 1831 ** 10 July:

Friedrichswerder Church Friedrichswerder Church (german: Friedrichswerdersche Kirche, french: Temple du Werder) was the first Neo-Gothic church built in Berlin, Germany. It was designed by an architect better known for his Neoclassical architecture, Karl Friedrich Schink ...

inaugurated. ** 1 December: Population: 248,682. * 1834 ** 3 December: Population: 265,122. **

Café Kranzler Café Kranzler is a famous coffeehouse in Berlin, Germany. Opened in 1834 on the Unter den Linden boulevard in the central Mitte district, its Western branch on Kurfürstendamm in Charlottenburg became an icon of West Berlin after World War II. ...

in business. * 1835 – 24 April:

Berlin Observatory The Berlin Observatory (Berliner Sternwarte) is a German astronomical institution with a series of observatories and related organizations in and around the city of Berlin in Germany, starting from the 18th century. It has its origins in 1700 w ...

opened. * 1837 ** 13 August: Ss. Peter and Paul inaugurated. ** 3 December: Population: 283,722. ** August Borsig founds Machine factory on

Chausseestraße Chausseestraße () is a major street in the centre of Berlin, located in the district of Mitte. It is 1.7 kilometres long. Many notable buildings and structures are located along the street, including the Headquarters of the Federal Intelligence ...

. ** Old Palace built. ** Schinkelplatz laid out. * 1838 ** 22 September:

Berlin-Zehlendorf station Berlin-Zehlendorf (in German Bahnhof Berlin-Zehlendorf) is a railway station in southwestern Zehlendorf (Berlin) within the city of Berlin, Germany. It is served by the Berlin S-Bahn The Berlin S-Bahn () is a rapid transit railway system in and ...

opened. ** 29 October: *** first railway in Prussia, the Berlin–Potsdam railway opened. ***

Berlin Potsdamer Bahnhof The Potsdamer Bahnhof is a former railway terminus in Berlin, Germany. It was the first railway station in Berlin, opening in 1838. It was located at Potsdamer Platz, about 1 km south of the Brandenburg Gate, and kick-started the transfor ...

opened. ** Bote & Bock music publisher in business. * 1839 – 13 June:

Berlin Rathaus Steglitz station Berlin Rathaus Steglitz (in German Bahnhof Berlin Rathaus Steglitz, meaning ''Steglitz Town Hall Station'') is the name of both a railway station on the Wannsee Railway and a U-Bahn station in the district of Steglitz in Berlin, Germany, which are ...

opened. * 1840 ** 3 December: Population: 330,230. ** Zwei Friedenssäulen erected outside Charlottenburg Palace. * 1841 ** 1 July: ***

Berlin–Halle railway The Berlin–Halle railway, sometimes called the Anhalt railway (German: ''Anhalter Bahn''), is a twin-track, electrified main line found in the German city and state of Berlin, and the states of Brandenburg and Sachsen-Anhalt. The railway was or ...

opened. *** Berlin Anhalter Bahnhof opened. ** (artists association) founded. * 1842 ** 1 August:

Bernau bei Berlin station Bernau bei Berlin (in German ''Bahnhof Bernau bei Berlin'', simply known as Bernau) is a railway station in the city of Bernau bei Berlin, Germany. It is served by the Berlin S-Bahn The Berlin S-Bahn () is a rapid transit railway system in and ...

opened. ** 1 October: Stettiner Bahnhof opened. ** 23 October: ***

Berlin–Wrocław railway The Berlin–Wrocław railway (german: Niederschlesisch-Märkische Eisenbahn-Gesellschaft, roughly translating as "Lower Silesian-Marcher Railway", NME) was a German private railway that connected Berlin (then capital of the March of Brandenburg, ...

opened. *** Frankfurter Bahnhof opened. ***

Berlin-Friedrichshagen station Berlin-Friedrichshagen station is a station of the Berlin S-Bahn in district of Friedrichshagen in the Berlin district of Treptow-Köpenick. It is located north of the village of Friedrichshagen on the Berlin-Frankfurt (Oder) railway. History ...

opened. ***

Berlin-Köpenick station Berlin-Köpenick station is a station of the Berlin S-Bahn in the Berlin district of Treptow-Köpenick. It is a two-track through station located at Bahnhofstrasse and Elcknerplatz on the Berlin-Frankfurt (Oder) railway ("Lower Silesian–Markis ...

opened. ** Johann Friedrich Ludwig Wöhlert opens locomotive factory at Chausseestrasse No. 29. **

Springer-Verlag Springer Science+Business Media, commonly known as Springer, is a German multinational publishing company of books, e-books and peer-reviewed journals in science, humanities, technical and medical (STM) publishing. Originally founded in 1842 ...

(publisher) in business. * 1843 ** 3 December: Population: 353,149. ** Royal Opera House rebuilt. * 1844 **

Kroll Opera House The Kroll Opera House (german: Krolloper, Kroll-Oper) in Berlin, Germany, was in the Tiergarten district on the western edge of the '' Königsplatz'' square (today ''Platz der Republik''), facing the Reichstag building. It was built in 1844 as ...

opened. ** Berlin Zoological Garden opened. * 1845 ** 14 January: Physical Society of Berlin established. ** Stadtschloss completed. * 1846 ** 24 September:

Discovery of Neptune The planet Neptune was mathematically predicted before it was directly observed. With a prediction by Urbain Le Verrier, telescopic observations confirming the existence of a major planet were made on the night of September 23–24, 1846, at the ...

planet at the Observatory. ** 15 October: ***

Berlin–Hamburg Railway The Berlin–Hamburg Railway (german: Berlin-Hamburger Bahn) is a roughly long railway line for passenger, long-distance and goods trains. It was the first high-speed line upgraded in Germany to be capable of handling train speeds of over ...

opened. ***

Berlin-Stresow station Stresow is a railway station in the Spandau district of Berlin, named after the ''Stresow'' neighbourhood east of the Havel river. It is served by the Berlin S-Bahn, S-Bahn lines and . History The station opened on 15 December 1846 on the railw ...

opened. ***

Hamburger Bahnhof Hamburger Bahnhof is the former terminus of the Berlin–Hamburg Railway in Berlin, Germany, on Invalidenstrasse in the Moabit district opposite the Charité hospital. Today it serves as a contemporary art museum, the , part of the Berlin Nati ...

opened. *** Nauen station opened. ** 3 December: Population: 408,502. ** 15 December: Berlin–Hamburg Railway completed. * 1847 ** April: Prussian parliament begins meeting in the Stadtschloss. ** 1 October: Siemens founded. ** Stern Gesangverein founded. ** Neue Berliner Musikzeitung begins publishing. * 1848 ** 18 March: "Barricade fights." 303 civilians killed by Prussian troops. King Friedrich Wilhelm promises reforms. ** 22 May: Elected assembly held. ** 15 June:

Political unrest Politics (from , ) is the set of activities that are associated with making decisions in groups, or other forms of power relations among individuals, such as the distribution of resources or status. The branch of social science that studies ...

. ** 21 November: St. Marien am Behnitz consecrated. ** 5 December: Elected assembly dissolved and monarchist constitution imposed. ** Falkensee station opened. * 1849 ** 3 December: Population: 423,902. ** built. ** Berliner Gummiwaarenfabrik founded. **

Wolffs Telegraphisches Bureau Wolffs Telegraphisches Bureau (1849–1934) was founded by the German Bernhard Wolff (1811–1879), the editor of the ''Vossische Zeitung'' and founder of the '' National Zeitung'' (1848–1938). It was one of the first press agencies in Europe a ...

in business. * 1850 ** 31 January:

Prussian House of Lords The Prussian House of Lords (german: Preußisches Herrenhaus) in Berlin was the upper house of the Landtag of Prussia (german: Preußischer Landtag), the parliament of Prussia from 1850 to 1918. Together with the lower house, the House of Re ...

established. ** Berliner Musikschule (music school) founded. ** Friedrich-von-Raumer-Bibliothek founded. * 1851 ** 31 May:

Equestrian statue of Frederick the Great The Equestrian statue of Frederick the Great on Unter den Linden avenue in Berlin's Mitte district commemorates King Frederick II. of Prussia. Created from 1839 to 1851 by Christian Daniel Rauch, it is a masterpiece of the Berlin school of scu ...

inaugurated on

. ** 15 October:

Disconto-Gesellschaft The Disconto-Gesellschaft (full name: Direktion der Disconto-Gesellschaft), with headquarters in Berlin, was founded in 1851. It was, until its 1929 merger into Deutsche Bank, one of the largest German banking organizations. History It was fou ...

founded. ** 19 November: Corps Vandalia-Teutonia founded. **

Schering AG Schering AG was a research-centered German multinational pharmaceutical company headquartered in Wedding, Berlin, which operated as an independent company from 1851 to 2006. In 2006, it was bought by Bayer AG and merged to form the Bayer subs ...

founded. * 1852 ** 3 October: Eisengießerei und Maschinen-Fabrik von L. Schwartzkopff founded. ** 3 December: Population: 438,958. **

Luisenstadt Canal The Luisenstadt Canal, or Luisenstädtischer Kanal, is a former canal in Berlin, Germany. It is named after the Luisenstadt district and ran through today's districts of Kreuzberg and Mitte, linking the Landwehr Canal with the Spree River, and s ...

constructed. * 1853 ** 1 October: C. Bechstein Pianofortefabrik founded. ** delicatessen founded. ** Katholischer Studentenverein Askania-Burgundia Berlin established. * 1855 ** 3 December: Population: 447,483. ** Advertising columns installed in city. **

New Museum The New Museum of Contemporary Art, founded in 1977 by Marcia Tucker, is a museum in New York City at 235 Bowery, on Manhattan's Lower East Side. History The museum originally opened in a space in the Graduate Center of the then-named New Sch ...

opens. * 1856 – J. F. Schwarzlose Söhne perfume maker founded. * 1857 – Berliner Entomologische Zeitschrift scientific journal founded. * 1858 – Population: 458,637. * 1859 ** 10 May:

Alexander von Humboldt Friedrich Wilhelm Heinrich Alexander von Humboldt (14 September 17696 May 1859) was a German polymath, geographer, naturalist, explorer, and proponent of Romantic philosophy and science. He was the younger brother of the Prussian minister, ...

funeral. **

Berlin-Spandau Ship Canal The Berlin-Spandau Ship Canal, or Berlin-Spandauer Schifffahrtskanal in German, is a canal in Berlin, Germany. It was built between 1848 and 1859 to a plan created by Peter Joseph Lenné, and was formerly known as the Hohenzollern Canal or Hohenz ...

opened. **

Charlottenburg Canal The Charlottenburg Canal, or Charlottenburger Verbindungskanal in German, is a canal in Berlin, Germany. With a former length of , the canal was built between 1848 and 1859, and originally connected the River Spree, in Charlottenburg, with the ...

opened. * 1860 – Customs Wall removed. * 1861 **

Moabit Moabit () is an inner city locality in the borough of Mitte, Berlin, Germany. As of 2016, around 77,000 people lived in Moabit. First inhabited in 1685 and incorporated into Berlin in 1861, the former industrial and working-class neighbourhood i ...

and

Wedding A wedding is a ceremony where two people are united in marriage. Wedding traditions and customs vary greatly between cultures, ethnic groups, religions, countries, and social classes. Most wedding ceremonies involve an exchange of marriage vo ...

become part of Berlin. ** Tiergarten locality established. **

Deutsche Allgemeine Zeitung ''Deutsche Allgemeine Zeitung'' (often abbreviated to DAZ) was a German newspaper that appeared between 1861 and 1945. Until 1918 the title of the paper was ''Norddeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung''. Although Wilhelm Liebknecht, one of the founders ...

begins publishing. ** 28 October: St. Michael's Church consecrated. ** 3 December: Population: 547,571. * 1862 – Berthold Kempinski wine shop in business. * 1863 ** Photographers Association founded. ** Exchange built. ** Ed. Westermayer piano manufacturer founded. ** (publisher) in business. * 1864 ** Wallner Theater built. ** 3 December: Population: 632,749. * 1865 – 22 June: First horse-drawn tram line set up. * 1866 ** 27 February: Lette-Verein (women's educational organization) founded. ** 7 May: Ferdinand Cohen-Blind's assassination attempt against Otto von Bismarck. ** 5 September: New Synagogue consecrated. ** 13 September:

Berlin-Grünau station Berlin-Grünau is a railway station in the Treptow-Köpenick district of Berlin. It is served by the S-Bahn The S-Bahn is the name of hybrid urban-suburban rail systems serving a metropolitan region in German-speaking countries. Some of th ...

opened. ** Berlin–Görlitz railway opened. **

Westend (Berlin) Westend () is a locality of the Berlin borough Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf in Germany. It emerged in the course of Berlin's 2001 administrative reform on the grounds of the former Charlottenburg borough. Originally a mansion colony, it is today a ...

locality established. * 1867 ** 29 September:

Friedrichstadt-Palast The Friedrichstadt-Palast, also shortened to Palast Berlin, is a revue in the Berlin district of Mitte (district center). The term Friedrichstadt-Palast designates both the building itself, and the revue theater as a body with his ensemble. The p ...

built. ** 1 October:

Berlin Old Ostbahnhof The old Berlin Ostbahnhof, more commonly referred to as ''Küstriner Bahnhof'', was a short-lived passenger railway terminus in Berlin, Germany, opened on 1 October 1867 as the terminus of the Prussian Eastern Railway (''Ostbahn'') to Küstrin ...

opened. ** 3 December: Population: 702,437. * 1868 ** 24 May: Berlin-Schöneweide station opened. ** 20 September:

Berlin-Lichterfelde Ost station Berlin-Lichterfelde Ost station is on the Anhalt Suburban Line in Lichterfelde in the Berlin borough of Steglitz-Zehlendorf. It is served by S-Bahn line S25, S-Bahn line S26, and Regional-Express lines 3, 4 and 5. History The station was ...

opened. ** City wall dismantled. ** Berliner Pfandbriefinstitut bank established. **

Palais Strousberg The Palais Strousberg was a large city mansion built in Berlin, Germany for the railway magnate Bethel Henry Strousberg. It was designed by the architect August Orth and built between 1867–68 at No.70 Wilhelmstraße. The grandiose splendour of ...

built. ** Biesdorf Palace built. **

Kunstgewerbemuseum Berlin __NOTOC__ The Kunstgewerbemuseum, or Museum of Decorative Arts, is an internationally important museum of the decorative arts in Berlin, Germany, part of the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin (Berlin State Museums). The collection is split between t ...

established. * 1869 ** 25 August: Kaulsdorf station opened. ** 3 October:

Rotes Rathaus The Rotes Rathaus (, ''Red City Hall'') is the town hall of Berlin, located in the Mitte district on Rathausstraße near Alexanderplatz. It is the home to the governing mayor and the government (the Senate of Berlin) of the state of Berlin. The ...

(city hall) opened. **

Royal School of Art in Berlin The Royal School of Art in Berlin (''Königliche Kunstschule zu Berlin'') was a state-sponsored art school founded in 1869. The school was founded through its association with the Prussian Academy of Arts, and after unification stood as one of Be ...

founded. ** St. Thomas inaugurated.

1870s–1890s

* 1870 – 10 March:

Deutsche Bank Deutsche Bank AG (), sometimes referred to simply as Deutsche, is a German multinational investment bank and financial services company headquartered in Frankfurt, Germany, and dual-listed on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange and the New York Sto ...

established. * 1871 ** 18 January: Berlin becomes capital of the newly unified German Empire. ** 17 July:

Berlin Ringbahn The Ringbahn (German for circle railway) is a long circle route around Berlin's inner city area, on the Berlin S-Bahn network. Its course is made up of a double-tracked S-Bahn ring and a parallel freight ring. The S-Bahn lines S41 and S42 prov ...

(railway) begins operating. ** 1 December: Population: 826,341. **

Federal Institute for Materials Research and Testing The Federal Institute for Materials Research and Testing (german: , or BAM) is a German material research institute. History Its historical origins start in 1871, a year in which Germany was unified, as the ''Mechanisch-Technische Versuchsansta ...

founded. * 1872 ** 1 January: *** Berlin-Gesundbrunnen station opened. ***

Berlin-Neukölln station Berlin-Neukölln is a railway station in the Neukölln district of Berlin with the same name. It is served by the S-Bahn lines , , , and and the U-Bahn line . Opened as a station on the Ringbahn The Ringbahn (German for circle railway) i ...

opened. *** Berlin-Tempelhof station opened. ** 1 May: ***

Berlin Frankfurter Allee station Berlin Frankfurter Allee is a railway station situated on Frankfurter Allee in the Friedrichshain district of Berlin, close to the district's border with Lichtenberg. It is served by the S-Bahn lines , (the ringbahn), , and the U-Bahn Ra ...

opened. *** Berlin-Wedding station opened. ** 15 December:

Berlin-Lichterfelde West station Berlin-Lichterfelde West (in German Bahnhof Berlin-Lichterfelde West) is a railway station in Lichterfelde West, within the district of Lichterfelde ( Steglitz-Zehlendorf) in Berlin, Germany. It is served by the Berlin S-Bahn and several local bus ...

opened. ** German Society of Surgery founded. ** Ludwig Loewe & Co. in business. **

built. * 1873 ** 2 September:

Victory Column A victory column, or monumental column or triumphal column, is a monument in the form of a column, erected in memory of a victorious battle, war, or revolution. The column typically stands on a base and is crowned with a victory symbol, such as a ...

inaugurated on Königsplatz. **

Ethnological Museum of Berlin The Ethnological Museum of Berlin (german: Ethnologisches Museum Berlin) is one of the Berlin State Museums (german: Staatliche Museen zu Berlin), the de facto national collection of the Federal Republic of Germany. It is presently located in ...

opened. * 1874 ** 1 June: ***

Wannsee Railway The Wannsee Railway (german: Wannseebahn) is a suburban railway in Berlin running from Potsdamer Platz via the Ring line station of Schöneberg to Wannsee station on Großer Wannsee, a lake after which it is named. Today it is a section of the B ...

opened. ***

Berlin-Schlachtensee station Berlin-Schlachtensee (in German Bahnhof Berlin-Schlachtensee) is a railway station in the '' Schlachtensee'' quarter in the district Steglitz-Zehlendorf of Berlin, Germany. It is served by the Berlin S-Bahn The Berlin S-Bahn () is a rapid tran ...

opened. *** Berlin-Wannsee station opened. ** 1 November:

Berlin-Friedenau station Berlin-Friedenau is a railway station in Berlin, Germany. Though it is named after the nearby Friedenau locality, the station officially is located in the southern area of the Schöneberg district. It was opened in 1891 with the ''Wannseebahn'' r ...

opened. ** Fachschule für Dekomponieren, Komponieren und Musterzeichnen established. ** Twelve Apostels Church opened. * 1875 ** 1 February: Berlin Treptow station opened. ** 1 May:

Berlin Greifswalder Straße station S-Bhf. Greifswalder Straße is a railway station in the Prenzlauer Berg district of Berlin. It is served by the S-Bahn The S-Bahn is the name of hybrid urban-suburban rail systems serving a metropolitan region in German-speaking countries ...

opened. ** 17 June: ***

Berlin Dresdner Bahnhof The Dresdner Bahnhof was a short-lived passenger railway terminus in Berlin, Germany, operating from 1875 to 1882 and handling train services to and from Dresden over the Berlin–Dresden railway. Characteristics The station building was fairl ...

opened. ***

Marienfelde station Berlin-Marienfelde station is a station and a freight yard in Berlin, Germany. It is located on the Berlin–Dresden railway line in the locality of Marienfelde, part of the Tempelhof-Schöneberg borough. The station is part of the Berlin S-Bahn ...

opened. ***

Rangsdorf railway station Rangsdorf station is a station in the locality of Rangsdorf in the district of Teltow-Fläming in the German state of Brandenburg. It is located at kilometre 24.3 of Berlin–Dresden railway. Until 1919, the western part of the station was served ...

opened. ** 15 October:

Royal Prussian Military Railway The Royal Prussian Military Railway (German: ''Königlich Preußische Militär-Eisenbahn''), also called the ''Königliche Militär-Eisenbahn'' (Royal Military Railway, KME), was a Prussian state railway, operated by the army, between Schöneberg ...

opened. ** 1 December: Population: 966,858. **

Socialist Workers' Party of Germany The Socialist Workers' Party of Germany (german: Sozialistische Arbeiterpartei Deutschlands, SAPD) was a centrist Marxist political party in Germany. It was formed as a left-wing party with around 20,000 members which split off from the SPD i ...

headquartered in Berlin. ** Hotel Kaiserhof in business. **

Königliche Hochschule für Musik The Universität der Künste Berlin (UdK; also known in English as the Berlin University of the Arts), situated in Berlin, Germany, is the largest art school in Europe. It is a public art and design school, and one of the four research universiti ...

active. * 1876 ** 1 January:

Reichsbank The ''Reichsbank'' (; 'Bank of the Reich, Bank of the Realm') was the central bank of the German Reich from 1876 until 1945. History until 1933 The Reichsbank was founded on 1 January 1876, shortly after the establishment of the German Empi ...

established. ** 1 April:

Orenstein & Koppel Orenstein & Koppel (normally abbreviated to "O&K") was a major Germany, German engineering company specialising in railway vehicles, escalators, and heavy equipment. It was founded on April 1, 1876 in Berlin by Benno Orenstein and Arthur Koppel. ...

founded. ** 31 December: Population: 980,194. ** Imperial Health Agency established. **

National Gallery The National Gallery is an art museum in Trafalgar Square in the City of Westminster, in Central London, England. Founded in 1824, it houses a collection of over 2,300 paintings dating from the mid-13th century to 1900. The current Director ...

opens. **

Spandau Prison Spandau Prison was located in the borough of Spandau in West Berlin. It was originally a military prison, built in 1876, but became a proto-concentration camp under the Nazis. After the war, it held seven top Nazi leaders convicted in the Nurem ...

built. * 1877 ** 1 June: Berlin-Blankenburg station opened. ** 10 July: *** Berlin-Hermsdorf station opened. *** Berlin-Schönholz station opened. *** Berlin-Wilhelmsruh station opened. *** Berlin-Wittenau station opened. ***

Berlin Wollankstraße station Berlin Wollankstraße (german: Bahnhof Wollankstraße) is a railway station in the Pankow district of Berlin, Germany. It is served by the Berlin S-Bahn and several local buses. History The station opened as ''Bahnhof Prinzenallee'' on 10 July ...

opened. ***

Berlin Old Nordbahnhof The old Berlin Nordbahnhof was a short-lived passenger railway terminus in Berlin, Germany. It was situated in Prenzlauer Berg, close to the borders with Gesundbrunnen, in the area of the "Mauerpark". Geography The station was located at the j ...

opened. ** 15 November: *** Berlin Ringbahn completed. ***

Berlin-Halensee station Halensee is a station in the Halensee (former Wilmersdorf) district of Berlin. It is served by the S-Bahn lines , and . Position It is located at the prosaic western end of the Kurfürstendamm, one of Berlin's most famous and important bouleva ...

opened. ***

Berlin Hermannstraße station Berlin Hermannstraße is a railway station in the Neukölln district of Berlin. It is served by the S-Bahn lines , , , and and the U-Bahn line , of which it is the southern terminus. It was formerly also possible to transfer there to the Neuk� ...

opened. *** Berlin-Westend station opened. **

Berlin Wuhlheide station Wuhlheide station is a station of the Berlin S-Bahn on the Berlin-Frankfurt (Oder) railway (“Lower Silesian–Markish Railway”). It is located at the junction of the line with the Berlin outer ring in the district of Köpenick. In addition to ...

opened. ** 31 December: Population: 1,008,566. ** Wasserturm Prenzlauer Berg water tower completed. * 1878 ** 13 July: City hosts

Congress of Berlin The Congress of Berlin (13 June – 13 July 1878) was a diplomatic conference to reorganise the states in the Balkan Peninsula after the Russo-Turkish War of 1877–78, which had been won by Russia against the Ottoman Empire. Represented at th ...

. **

Berlin Stadtbahn The Berlin Stadtbahn ("city railway") is a major railway thoroughfare in the German capital Berlin, which runs through Berlin from east to west. It connects the eastern district of Friedrichshain with Charlottenburg in the west via 11 interme ...

(city railway) begins operating. * 1879 ** 1 April: Technical University of Berlin formed. ** 15 May:

Berlin-Rahnsdorf station Rahnsdorf station is a station of the Berlin S-Bahn. It is located in the district of Rahnsdorf in the Berlin district of Treptow-Köpenick. History The station was opened on 15 May 1879. The station was rebuilt to a design by the architec ...

opened. ** 26 June:

Berlin-Buch station Berlin-Buch (in German Bahnhof Berlin-Buch) is a railway station in the borough of Pankow, in Berlin, Germany. It is served by the Berlin S-Bahn The Berlin S-Bahn () is a rapid transit railway system in and around Berlin, the capital city of ...

opened. ** 1 August: ***

Berlin-Grunewald station Berlin-Grunewald is a railway station in the upper class Grunewald district of Berlin. It is served by the S-Bahn line . In the Second World War, the station was the principal location for deporting Berlin Jews to the East during The Holocaust. ...

opened. ***

Berlin Schönhauser Allee station Berlin Schönhauser Allee is a railway station in the Prenzlauer Berg district of Berlin. It is located on the Berlin U-Bahn line and also on the Ringbahn (Berlin S-Bahn The Berlin S-Bahn () is a rapid transit railway system in and around ...

opened. ** 1 September: Rangierbahnhof station opened. ** Imperial Treasury headquartered in city. **

Crown Prince Bridge The Crown Prince Bridge (german: Kronprinzenbrücke) is a road bridge over the River Spree in the city of Berlin. It links the Berlin quarters of Mitte and Tiergarten with the parliamentary quarter within the borough of Bezirk Mitte. The struc ...

built. **

Plötzensee Prison Plötzensee Prison (german: Justizvollzugsanstalt Plötzensee, JVA Plötzensee) is a juvenile prison in the Charlottenburg-Nord locality of Berlin with a capacity for 577 prisoners, operated by the State of Berlin judicial administration. The d ...

established. * 1880 ** 15 June: New Berlin Anhalter Bahnhof opened. ** 15 August: Südende station opened. ** 9 September:

Weißensee cemetery Weißensee (German: ''white lake'') may refer to: Places * Weissensee (Berlin), a district of Berlin *Weißensee, Thuringia, a town in Thuringia, Germany * Weissensee, Austria, a municipality in Carinthia, Austria * Weissensee (Carinthia), a lake i ...

inaugurated. ** 15 October:

Berlin-Pankow station Berlin-Pankow is a station on the Berlin–Szczecin railway, situated in Berlin's Pankow district. It is served by the S-Bahn lines , and and is the northern terminus of the U-Bahn line . Overview Pankow is a station on Berlin S-Bahn a ...

opened. ** 1 December: Population: 1,122,330. **

Berlin movement The Berlin movement was an anti-Semitic intellectual and political movement in the German Empire in the 1880s. The movement was a collection of unassociated individuals and organizations. The movement developed in the aftermath of the Panic of 1 ...

initiated. ** Matthew Church (Berlin-Steglitz) built. * 1881 ** 29 April:

Electromote The Electromote was the world's first vehicle run like a trolleybus, which was first presented to the public on April 29, 1882, by its inventor Dr. Ernst Werner von Siemens in Halensee, a suburb of Berlin, Germany. In 1847, Siemens told his bro ...

presented. ** 4 May:

Berlin Storkower Straße station Storkower Straße is a railway station in the Prenzlauer Berg locality of Berlin, close to the locality's border with Fennpfuhl. Located at the Ringbahn it is served by the S-Bahn The S-Bahn is the name of hybrid urban-suburban rail system ...

opened. ** 16 May:

Gross-Lichterfelde Tramway The Gross Lichterfelde Tramway was one of the world's first electric tramways ( Miller's line was electrified in 1875). It was built by the Siemens & Halske company in Lichterfelde, a suburb of Berlin, and went in service on 16 May 1881. Ove ...

in service, the world's first electric tram line. ** 15 October:

Berlin Julius-Leber-Brücke station Julius-Leber-Brücke is a railway station in the Schöneberg district of Berlin. Located under a bridge over the cutting created for the Berlin-Potsdam-Magdeburg railway. It was officially opened on 2 May 2008 and is served by the S-Bahn line . ...

opened. ** Berlin administrative district separates from

. **

Martin-Gropius-Bau Martin-Gropius-Bau, commonly known as Gropius Bau, is an important exhibition building in Berlin, Germany. Originally a museum of applied arts, the building has been a listed historical monument since 1966. It is located at 7 Niederkirchnerstra� ...

built. **

Berlin-Lichtenberg station Berlin-Lichtenberg is a railway station in Berlin, Germany. It is located on the Eastern Railway, Wriezen Railway and Berlin Frankfurter Allee–Berlin-Rummelsburg railway lines in the Lichtenberg district. The station is also part of the Berli ...

opened. **

Zentralfriedhof Friedrichsfelde The Friedrichsfelde Central Cemetery (german: Zentralfriedhof Friedrichsfelde) is a cemetery in the borough of Lichtenberg in Berlin. It was the cemetery used for many of Berlin's Socialists, Communists, and anti-fascist fighters. History W ...

cemetery built. ** Städtischer Friedhof III cemetery built. ** Industrial museum established. * 1882 ** 7 February: ***

(railway) begins operating. ***

Berlin Alexanderplatz station Berlin Alexanderplatz is a German railway station in the Mitte district of Berlin's city centre. It is one of the busiest transport hubs in the Berlin area. The station takes its name from its location on Alexanderplatz, near the Fernsehturm a ...

opened. ***

Berlin Bellevue station Bellevue is a railway station on the Berlin Stadtbahn in the Hansaviertel district of Berlin, Germany. It is located on the elevated Stadtbahn line and served by Berlin S-Bahn trains. The station is named after nearby Bellevue Palace, the reside ...

opened. *** Berlin-Charlottenburg station opened. ***

Berlin Hackescher Markt station Berlin Hackescher Markt is a railway station in the Mitte district of Berlin, Germany. It is named after the adjacent ''Hackescher Markt'' square. Overview The station is located on the elevated Berlin Stadtbahn line, which crosses central Berli ...

opened. ***

Berlin Zoologischer Garten railway station Berlin Zoologischer Garten station (german: Bahnhof Berlin Zoologischer Garten, colloquially Bahnhof Zoo, ) is a railway station in Berlin, Germany. It is located on the Berlin Stadtbahn railway line in the Charlottenburg district, adjacent to t ...

opened. ***

Berlin Jannowitzbrücke station Berlin Jannowitzbrücke is a station in the Mitte district of Berlin. It is served by the Berlin S-Bahn, S-Bahn lines , , , and and the Berlin U-Bahn, U-Bahn line . It is located next to the Jannowitz Bridge (Jannowitzbrücke) and is a public tra ...

opened. ***

Berlin Friedrichstraße station Berlin Friedrichstraße () is a railway station in the German capital Berlin. It is located on the Friedrichstraße, a major north-south street in the Mitte district of Berlin, adjacent to the point where the street crosses the river Spree. Under ...

opened *** Stralau-Rummelsburg station opened. ** 1 May:

Berlin Philharmonic The Berlin Philharmonic (german: Berliner Philharmoniker, links=no, italic=no) is a German orchestra based in Berlin. It is one of the most popular, acclaimed and well-respected orchestras in the world. History The Berlin Philharmonic was fo ...

established. ** 15 November: ***

Berlin-Karow station Berlin-Karow station is a railway station on the Berlin–Szczecin railway in the Pankow district of Berlin. It is served by the S-Bahn line and the line NE27 (also known as the Heidekrautbahn), operated by the Niederbarnimer Eisenbahn. 2009 ...

opened. *** Neu-Rahnsdorf station opened. ** Pestalozzi-Fröbel Haus founded. **

Berlin-Blankenheim railway The Berlin-Blankenheim railway or Wetzlarer Bahn ("Wetzlar Railway") is a railway line in the German states of Berlin, Brandenburg and Saxony-Anhalt. It is a section of the Kanonenbahn (''Cannons Railway'') between Berlin and Metz, built between ...

opened. ** Kietz-Rummelsburg station opened. * 1883 ** 1 June:

Lichtenrade station Berlin-Lichtenrade station is a station on the Berlin–Dresden railway in the locality of Lichtenrade in the Berlin borough of Tempelhof-Schöneberg. It is served by Berlin S-Bahn line S2. History The railway line from Berlin to Dresden was ope ...

opened. ** 15 December: Berlin Heidelberger Platz station opened. ** AEG founded. ** ''

Berliner Lokal-Anzeiger The ''Berliner Lokal-Anzeiger'' was a daily newspaper published in Berlin, with one of the highest national circulations of its time. Its publisher was newspaper magnate August Scherl, who also owned ''Die Woche ''Die Woche'' (, "The Week") was ...

'' founded. * 1884 ** Dankeskirche (church) built. ** 20 May: Berlin-Waidmannslust station opened. ** 11 August:

Berlin Warschauer Straße station Warschauer Straße station is an S-Bahn and U-Bahn station on Warschauer Straße on the northern bank of the river Spree in the Friedrichshain neighborhood of Berlin, Germany. The two train stations as well as the trams that terminate adjacent ...

opened. ** 7 September:

Dahlewitz railway station Dahlewitz (german: Bahnhof Dahlewitz) is a railway station in the town of Dahlewitz, Brandenburg, Germany. The station lies on the Berlin–Dresden railway The Berlin–Dresden railway is a double track, electrified main line railway in the Ge ...

opened. ** 15 November: City hosts West Africa Conference. * 1885 ** 5 January:

Berlin-Tiergarten station Berlin Tiergarten is a railway station on the Berlin Stadtbahn line in the Tiergarten district of Berlin. It lies between the stations of Zoologischer Garten and Bellevue on the Straße des 17. Juni in the Hansaviertel locality of the Mitte bor ...

opened. ** 26 February: West Africa Conference concluded. ** 1 August: Berlin-Biesdorf station opened. ** 19 November: St. George's Anglican Church inaugurated. ** 1 December: Population: 1,315,287. ** St. George's Anglican Church built. * 1886 – Ethnological museum established. * 1887 **

German Colonial Society The German Colonial Society (german: Deutsche Kolonialgesellschaft) (DKG) was a German organisation formed on 19 December 1887 to promote German colonialism. The Society was formed through the merger of the (; established in 1882 in Frankfurt) an ...

headquartered in Berlin. ** (bridge) and Heiligekreuzkirche (church) built. ** Society for Friends of Photography founded. * 1888 ** 3 March:

Urania Urania ( ; grc, , Ouranía; modern Greek shortened name ''Ránia''; meaning "heavenly" or "of heaven") was, in Greek mythology, the muse of astronomy, and in later times, of Christian poetry. Urania is the goddess of astronomy and stars, he ...

founded. ** 15 April:

BFC Germania 1888 BFC Germania 1888 is a German football club from Berlin. Founded on 15 April 1888, it is the oldest active football club in the country. History BFC Germania 1888 was founded as ''BFC Germania'' by 17-year-old Paul Jestram, his three brothers, ...

founded. ** 11 September: Lessing Theater opened. * 1889 ** 6 June:

BFC Viktoria 1889 Berliner Fußball-Club Viktoria 1889 was a German sports club based in the Tempelhof district of Berlin. Football, rugby, and cricket came to continental Europe in the late 19th century, and these "English games" became immediately popular in ma ...

founded. ** 14 June:

Treaty of Berlin (1889) The Treaty of Berlin (1889) (also known as the Samoan Treaty) was the concluding document of the conference at Berlin in 1889 on Samoa. The conference was proposed by German foreign minister Count Herbert von Bismarck (son of chancellor Otto von ...

signed over Samoa. **

Museum of Natural History A natural history museum or museum of natural history is a scientific institution with natural history collections that include current and historical records of animals, plants, fungi, ecosystems, geology, paleontology, climatology, and more ...

opens. ** Academic Alpine Club of Berlin formed. * 1890 ** 5 February: Allianz founded. ** 20 May:

Baumschulenweg station Berlin-Baumschulenweg is a railway station in the Treptow-Köpenick district of Berlin, served by the S-Bahn The S-Bahn is the name of hybrid urban-suburban rail systems serving a metropolitan region in German-speaking countries. Some of t ...

opened. ** 1 December: Population: 1,578,794. **

May Day May Day is a European festival of ancient origins marking the beginning of summer, usually celebrated on 1 May, around halfway between the spring equinox and summer solstice. Festivities may also be held the night before, known as May Eve. Tr ...

begins. **

Wittenbergplatz Wittenbergplatz is a square in the central Schöneberg district of Berlin, Germany. One of the main plazas in the "City West" area, it is known for the large ''Kaufhaus des Westens'' (KaDeWe) department store on its southwestern side. It was la ...

laid out. * 1891 ** April: Moltke Bridge opened. ** 1 July:

Robert Koch Institute The Robert Koch Institute (RKI) is a German federal government agency and research institute responsible for disease control and prevention. It is located in Berlin and Wernigerode. As an upper federal agency, it is subordinate to the Federa ...

founded. ** 1 October: Western

Berlin Yorckstraße station Berlin Yorckstraße (german: Bahnhof Berlin Yorckstraße) is an S-Bahn and U-Bahn station located in the Schöneberg locality of central Berlin, Germany. Overview The eponymous street is named after ''Generalfeldmarschall'' Ludwig Yorck von Wart ...

opened. **

Oder–Spree Canal The Oder–Spree Canal (german: Oder-Spree-Kanal ), is a canal in the east of Germany. It links the Dahme river, at Schmöckwitz in the south-eastern suburbs of Berlin, with the River Oder, at Eisenhüttenstadt. It provides an important commerci ...

opened. **

Hotel Bristol The Hotel Bristol is the name of more than 200 hotels around the world. They range from grand European hotels, such as Hôtel Le Bristol Paris and the Hotel Bristol in Warsaw or Vienna to budget hotels, such as the SRO (single room occupancy) ...

in business. * 1892 ** 4 January: ''

Berliner Illustrirte Zeitung The ''Berliner Illustrirte Zeitung'', often abbreviated ''BIZ'', was a German weekly illustrated magazine published in Berlin from 1892 to 1945. It was the first mass-market German magazine and pioneered the format of the illustrated news magazine. ...

'' begins publishing. ** 1 May: **

Berlin Bundesplatz station Berlin Bundesplatz is a railway station in the Wilmersdorf district of Berlin. It is served by the S-Bahn lines , and and the U-Bahn Rapid transit in Germany consists of four U-Bahn systems and fourteen S-Bahn systems. The U-Bahn commonly u ...

opened. **

Berlin Prenzlauer Allee station Prenzlauer Allee is a railway station in the Prenzlauer Berg neighbourhood of Berlin, named after the Prenzlauer Allee road. Situated on the Berlin Ringbahn, it is served by the S-Bahn lines , , and . The station is barrier-free. History The st ...

opened. ** 2 July:

Berliner SV 1892 Berliner SV 1892 is a German association football club from the district of Wilmersdorf, Berlin. ''BSV'' is one of the country's oldest clubs and was a founding member of the DFB (German Football Association) in 1900. The club also operates a r ...

founded. ** 25 July: Hertha BSC founded. ** 24 September:

Komische Oper Berlin The Komische Oper Berlin is a German opera company based in Berlin. The company produces opera, operetta and musicals. The opera house is located on Behrenstraße, just a few steps from Unter den Linden. Since 2004, the Komische Oper Berlin, al ...

opened. ** 20 December:

Wriezen Railway The Wriezen Railway is a line in the northeast of the German states of Berlin and Brandenburg. It runs from Berlin to Werneuchen and formerly extended via Wriezen to Jädickendorf (now Godków in Poland). Its terminus in Berlin from 1903 to 1949 ...

opened. ** Neues Theater opens. ** Luther Bridge opened. * 1893 ** 26 February:

Gethsemane Church Gethsemane Church (german: link=no, Gethsemanekirche) is one of four church buildings of the Lutheran Northern Prenzlauer Berg Evangelical Congregation (german: link=no, Evangelische Kirchengemeinde Prenzlauer Berg-Nord), within the Evangelical ...

inaugurated. ** 26 June: St. Sebastian opened. ** 1 August: Lichterfelde Süd station opened. ** 1 October: *** First section of the

Kremmen Railway The Kremmen Railway (german: Kremmener Bahn) is a line in northern Berlin and Brandenburg, Germany. It branches off the Prussian Northern Railway in the Berlin district of Reinickendorf, north of Schönholz station (formerly ''Schönholz-Reinicke ...

opened. *** Berlin Alt-Reinickendorf station opened. *** Berlin Karl-Bonhoeffer-Nervenklinik station opened. *** Berlin-Pankow-Heinersdorf station opened. *** Schulzendorf railway station opened. ***

Berlin-Tegel railway station Berlin Tegel is a railway station in Tegel, a locality of the Reinickendorf borough of Berlin. It is served by the Berlin S-Bahn, S-Bahn line . Whilst the U6 (Berlin U-Bahn), U6 is located a couple of streets away, it is not possible to reach Be ...

opened. *** Hennigsdorf station opened. ** 20 December: Second section of the Kremmen Railway opened. ** Department of Medical Microbiology (Schering AG) established. ** Mendelssohn Palace built. * 1894 ** 8 January:

Adlershof station Adlershof is a railway station in the district of Adlershof in Berlin. It is located on the Berlin–Görlitz railway and is served by lines S45, S46, S8, S85, and S9 of the Berlin S-Bahn The Berlin S-Bahn () is a rapid transit railway ...

opened. ** 1 May: *** Berlin Beusselstraße station opened. *** Berlin Jungfernheide station opened. ** 1 October: Eichborndamm station opened. ** 5 December: Reichstag building completed. ** Friedrichs Bridge completely rebuilt. **

Chapel of Reconciliation The Chapel of Reconciliation (german: Kapelle der Versöhnung) is a place of worship in Berlin, Germany. It stands on the site of the old Church of Reconciliation ( de) (german: Versöhnungskirche), on Bernauer Strasse in the Mitte district. ...

built. ** Ss. Constantine and Helena Church built. * 1895 ** 15 February: Attilastraße station opened. ** 1 May: ***

Berlin-Karlshorst station Berlin-Karlshorst station is a station served by regional and S-Bahn services in the suburb of Karlshorst in the Berlin district of Lichtenberg. History The station was opened on 1 May 1895 on the Berlin-Frankfurt (Oder) railway (“Lower Sile ...

opened. ***

Berlin Landsberger Allee station Landsberger Allee is a railway station in the Prenzlauer Berg district of Berlin, close to the district's border with Fennpfuhl. It is served by the S-Bahn The S-Bahn is the name of hybrid urban-suburban rail systems serving a metropolit ...

opened. ** 1 September: ***

Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church The Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church (in German: Kaiser-Wilhelm-Gedächtniskirche, but mostly just known as Gedächtniskirche ) is a Protestant church affiliated with the Evangelical Church in Berlin, Brandenburg and Silesian Upper Lusatia, a reg ...

consecrated. ***

Mahlsdorf railway station Berlin-Mahlsdorf is a railway station in the Marzahn-Hellersdorf district of Berlin. It is served by the S-Bahn The S-Bahn is the name of hybrid urban-suburban rail systems serving a metropolitan region in German-speaking countries. Some ...

opened. ** 15 September: Spandau Synagogue dedicated. ** 1 December: *** Population: 1,677,304. *** Lankwitz station opened. ** 13 December: Premiere of Mahler's '' Symphony No. 2''. ** 17 December:

Berolina Berolina is the female personification of Berlin and the allegorical female figure symbolizing the city. One of the best-known portraits of Berolina is the statue that once stood in Alexanderplatz. Statue In 1871, emperor William I ordered an ...

unveiled. **

Pan (magazine) ''Pan'' (1895-1915) was a Berlin-based German arts magazine, published by the PAN co-operative of artists, poets and critics. Focused on literature, theatre and music, the magazine published more than 20 issues "without reference to commercial, ...

begins publishing. * 1896 **

Oberbaum Bridge The Oberbaum Bridge (german: Oberbaumbrücke) is a double-deck bridge crossing Berlin's River Spree, considered one of the city's landmarks. It links Friedrichshain and Kreuzberg, former boroughs that were divided by the Berlin Wall, and has ...

rebuilt. ** 1 May: Great Industrial Exposition of Berlin opened. ** 8 June: Baumschulenweg–Neukölln link line opened. ** 1 August: Berlin Savignyplatz station opened. ** September: Treptow Observatory opened. ** 17 September:

Weidendammer Bridge The Weidendammer Bridge is a bridge where the Friedrichstraße crosses the Spree river in the central Mitte district of Berlin, Germany. It is notable for its ornate wrought iron railings, lanterns, and Imperial eagles. History In 1685, ...

rebuilt. ** 15 October: Great Industrial Exposition of Berlin closed. **

Messter Film Messter Film was a German film production company which operated during the silent era. It was founded by the German film pioneer Oskar Messter who already owned a chain of cinemas.Hardt p.12 It was based in Berlin which had emerged as the centre o ...

in business. * 1897 ** 22 March:

National Kaiser Wilhelm Monument The National Kaiser Wilhelm Monument (''Kaiser-Wilhelm-Nationaldenkmal'') was a memorial structure in Berlin dedicated to Wilhelm I, first Emperor of Imperial Germany. It stood in front of the Berlin Palace from 1897 to 1950, when both structures ...

unveiled. ** 1 May: Heiligensee station opened. ** 30 September: International Automobile Exhibition begins. ** Rot-Weiss Tennis Club founded. * 1898 ** 1 May: ***

Ahrensfelde station Ahrensfelde station is a station serving regional and S-Bahn services in the Berlin borough of Marzahn-Hellersdorf. It is located on the border of Berlin just outside the municipality of Ahrensfelde, which is in the state of Brandenburg. The stat ...

opened. *** Berlin-Marzahn station opened. ** 31 August: Population: 1,820,000. ** 1 October:

Berlin Westhafen station Berlin Westhafen is a railway station, station in the Moabit district of Berlin. It is served by the Berlin S-Bahn, S-Bahn lines and and the Berlin U-Bahn, U-Bahn line . Overview The S-Bahn station was opened in 1898 under the name ''Putlitzst ...

opened. ** 15 October: Wriezen Railway completed. ** Jewel Palace (Berlin) built. ** Einkaufsgenossenschaft der Kolonialwarenhändler im Halleschen Torbezirk zu Berlin established. **

Berlin Secession The Berlin Secession was an art movement established in Germany on May 2, 1898. Formed in reaction to the Association of Berlin Artists, and the restrictions on contemporary art imposed by Kaiser Wilhelm II, 65 artists "seceded," demonstrating ag ...

(art group) founded. ** Café des Westens in business. * 1899 ** 18 March: ''

Die Woche ''Die Woche'' (, "The Week") was an illustrated weekly newspaper published in Berlin from 1899 to 1944. It reported on popular entertainment, including "sensationalist crime stories", and covered celebrities in sports and show business. Its publish ...

'' begins publishing. ** 30 April: Kopenhagener Straße opened. ** 2 December:

Tripartite Convention The Tripartite Convention of 1899 concluded the Second Samoan Civil War, resulting in the formal partition of the Samoan archipelago into a German colony and a United States territory. Forerunners to the Tripartite Convention of 1899 were the ...

signed, dividing Samoa into German and American spheres of influence. ** (museum) opens.

20th century

1900s–1945

* 1900 ** 15 August:

Berlin-Staaken station Berlin-Staaken is a railway station located in Staaken, a locality in the Spandau district of Berlin. It is one of only two Deutsche Bahn stations in Berlin not served by the S-Bahn; Albrechtshof station is the other. Overview The station is s ...

opened. ** 1 December: Population: 1,888,848. ** Berlin Automobile Association founded. **

Viktoria-Luise-Platz Viktoria-Luise-Platz is a hexagonal place on Motzstraße in Schöneberg, Berlin. It was laid out in 1900. It is named after Princess Viktoria Luise of Prussia german: Viktoria Luise Adelheid Mathilde Charlotte , house = Hohenzollern ...

laid out. * 1901 ** Population: 1,901,567. ** 18 January:

Überbrettl Überbrettl ( ''super-cabaret'') was the first venue in Germany for literary cabaret, or Kabarett, founded 1901 in Berlin by Ernst von Wolzogen. The German Kabarett concept was imported from French venues like Le Chat Noir in Paris, from which it k ...

cabaret opened. ** 1 October:

Teltow railway station Teltow station is located in the town of Teltow on the Anhalt Railway south of Berlin and was opened in 1901. Since then, the station has been repeatedly remodelled. The station served regional passenger and freight traffic and was the terminus ...

opened. ** 1 December: **

Anhalt Suburban Line The Anhalt suburban line (german: Anhalter Vorortbahn) is a suburban railway in Berlin and Brandenburg. It originally ran from Potsdamer Ringbahnhof in Berlin over the Berlin–Halle railway (also called the ''Anhalter Bahn'' or Anhalt Railway). ...

opened. ** Berlin Papestraße station opened. **

Neuer Marstall The Neuer Marstall ( en, New Stables) is a listed historic building in Berlin, Germany located on the Schloßplatz and the Spree River. Completed in 1901 and facing the former Royal Palace, the neo-Baroque "New Stables" once sheltered the Roya ...

built. **

Catholic Apostolic Church The Catholic Apostolic Church (CAC), also known as the Irvingian Church, is a Christian denomination and Protestant sect which originated in Scotland around 1831 and later spread to Germany and the United States.Berlin U-Bahn The Berlin U-Bahn (; short for , "underground railway") is a rapid transit system in Berlin, the capital and largest city of Germany, and a major part of the city's public transport system. Together with the S-Bahn, a network of suburban train li ...

begins operating. ***

Kottbusser Tor (Berlin U-Bahn) Kottbusser Tor () is a Berlin U-Bahn station located on lines U1, U3, and U8. Many Berliners use the affectionate term ''Kotti'' (; see Berlin dialect). It is located in central Kreuzberg. The area has a bad reputation for the relatively ...

station opened. *** Möckernbrücke (Berlin U-Bahn) station opened. ** 18 February: ***

Görlitzer Bahnhof (Berlin U-Bahn) Görlitzer Bahnhof is a Berlin U-Bahn station on the viaduct of lines U1 and U3. It is located in Kreuzberg, in an area that offers a wide range of nightlife Nightlife is a collective term for entertainment that is available and gener ...

station opened. ***

Hallesches Tor (Berlin U-Bahn) Hallesches Tor is a Berlin U-Bahn station in the central Kreuzberg quarter, served by lines U1, U3, and U6. It is named after the historic ''Hallsches Tor'' (Halle Gate) of the Berlin Customs Wall, erected in the 18th century. Overview Th ...

station opened (U1 line). ***

Berlin Potsdamer Platz station Berlin Potsdamer Platz is a railway station in Berlin. It is completely underground and situated under Potsdamer Platz in central Berlin. Regional and S-Bahn services call at the station, and it is also served by U-Bahn line U2. History ...

station opened. ***

Schlesisches Tor (Berlin U-Bahn) Schlesisches Tor is a Berlin U-Bahn station on lines U1 and U3. Many Berliners use the affectionate term ''Schlesi'' (see Berlin dialect). Overview The station is located in eastern Kreuzberg, near Oberbaumbrücke, in the Bohemian quarter ...

station opened. ** 11 March: ***

Bülowstraße (Berlin U-Bahn) Bülowstraße is a Berlin U-Bahn station on line U2, located in the Schöneberg district. It opened in 1902 on the western branch of the ''Stammstrecke'', Berlin's first U-Bahn line. Like the eponymous street, the station is named after the Pru ...

station opened. ***

Nollendorfplatz (Berlin U-Bahn) Nollendorfplatz is a Berlin U-Bahn station on lines U1, U2, U3, and U4. It opened in 1902, and today is the only station in Berlin that is served by four U-Bahn lines, and the only one served by all of the ''Kleinprofil'' (small profile) li ...

station opened. *** Berlin Zoologischer Garten U-Bahn station opened. *** Wittenbergplatz (Berlin U-Bahn) station opened. ** 1 May: Berlin-Nikolassee station opened. ** 22 July:

Capernaum Church Capernaum Church (german: link=no, Kapernaum-Kirche) is one of the two places of worship of the Lutheranism, Lutheran Capernaum Congregation, a member of the Evangelical Church of Berlin-Brandenburg-Silesian Upper Lusatia, an umbrella comprising ...

completed. ** 17 August:

Warschauer Straße (Berlin U-Bahn) Warschauer Straße is the eastern terminus station of lines U1 and U3 of the Berlin U-Bahn. History Designed by Paul Wittig under contract with Siemens & Halske and opened on 17 August 1902 under the name ''Warschauer Brücke'', the station ...

station opened. ** 14 December: ***

Ernst-Reuter-Platz (Berlin U-Bahn) Ernst-Reuter-Platz is a Berlin U-Bahn station on line U2, located in the Charlottenburg district. History After Werner von Siemens had presented the city fathers of Berlin, Schöneberg and Charlottenburg the elevated railway system several ...

station opened. * 1903 ** 1 May: Western Berlin Yorckstraße station opened. ** 27 May:

Telefunken Telefunken was a German radio and television apparatus company, founded in Berlin in 1903, as a joint venture of Siemens & Halske and the ''Allgemeine Elektrizitäts-Gesellschaft'' (AEG) ('General electricity company'). The name "Telefunken" ap ...

founded. ** 1 October: Berlin-Friedrichsfelde Ost station opened. ** built. **

American Church in Berlin The American Church in Berlin (ACB) (''Amerikanische Kirche in Berlin'') is an ecumenical and international congregation in Berlin that was established in the 19th century. ACB's members come from more than seventeen Christian denominations and f ...

built. * 1904 ** 4 September: Rykestrasse Synagogue inaugurated. ** 1 November: Zehlendorf-Beerenstraße station opened. **

Kaiser-Friedrich-Museum The Bode-Museum (English: ''Bode Museum''), formerly called the Kaiser-Friedrich-Museum (''Emperor Frederick Museum''), is a listed building on the Museum Island in the historic centre of Berlin. It was built from 1898 to 1904 by order of Germ ...

opens. **

Tietz Tietz is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: * Anton Ferdinand Tietz (1742–1810), German composer * Gerold Tietz (1941–2009), German author * Hermann Tietz (1837–1907), merchant and founder of one of the first German departm ...

department store in business on Alexanderplatz. * 1905 ** 27 February:

consecrated after rebuilding. ** 20 May:

Charlottenburg Town Hall Charlottenburg Town Hall (german: Rathaus Charlottenburg) is an administrative building situated in the Charlottenburg locality of Berlin in Germany. It was built between 1899 and 1905 at the behest of the then independent city of Charlottenburg in ...

opened. ** 1 June:

Siemensstadt-Fürstenbrunn station Siemensstadt-Fürstenbrunn station was a suburban station on the Berlin–Hamburg railway in Westend, a locality of the Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf borough in Berlin. It was primarily built for workers at its nearby Siemens Works in the neighbou ...

opened. ** 20 December: Tabor Church consecrated. **

Neues Schauspielhaus The Metropol, formerly Neues Schauspielhaus ( en, New Theatre), at 5 Nollendorfplatz in the Schöneberg district of Berlin was built in 1905 as a theatre, with a separate concert hall (the Mozartsaal) above, in the then-fashionable Art Nouveau s ...

built. ** Population: 2,040,148. * 1906 ** 14 May: ***

Deutsche Oper (Berlin U-Bahn) Deutsche Oper is a station of the Berlin U-Bahn on line U2, located in the Charlottenburg district. It is named after the Deutsche Oper Berlin. Overview The station opened on 14 May 1906 under the name ''Bismarckstraße'' in the course of th ...

station opened. ***

Richard-Wagner-Platz (Berlin U-Bahn) Richard-Wagner-Platz is a Berlin U-Bahn station located on the in the Charlottenburg district. History The original station opened on 14 May 1906 under the name ''Wilhelmplatz'', together with Deutsche Oper the first of several U-Bahn stati ...

station opened. ** 2 June:

Teltow Canal The Teltow Canal, also known as the in German, is a canal to the south of Berlin, the capital city of Germany. The canal lies in both the states of Berlin and Brandenburg, and at points forms the boundary between the two. It takes its name from ...

opened. ** 23 September:

Hackesche Höfe The Hackesche Höfe ( en, Hacke's Courtyards) is a notable courtyard complex situated adjacent to the Hackescher Markt in the centre of Berlin. The complex consists of eight interconnected courtyards, accessed through a main arched entrance at n ...

courtyard opened. ** 8 November: Museum of East Asian Art founded. ** Britz Canal opened. **

Griebnitz Canal The Griebnitz Canal (german: Griebnitzkanal, ), formerly known as the Prinz-Friedrich-Leopold-Kanal, is a canal in the western suburbs of Berlin, the capital city of Germany. It consists of a chain of small lakes: the Stölpchensee (), Pohlesee () ...

opened. ** Virchow Hospital opens in

. * 1907 ** 1 January:

Schiller Theater The Schiller Theater is a theatre building in Berlin, Germany. It is located in the central Charlottenburg district at Bismarckstraße 110, near Ernst-Reuter-Platz. Opened in 1907, the building served as a second venue for the Prussian State ...

opened. ** 17 February: Reformation Church consecrated. ** 27 March:

Kaufhaus des Westens The Kaufhaus des Westens (), abbreviated to KaDeWe, is a department store in Berlin, Germany. With over of retail space and more than 380,000 articles available, it is the second-largest department store in Europe after Harrods in London. It att ...

established. ** 16 November:

Glienicke Bridge The Glienicke Bridge (german: Glienicker Brücke, ) is a bridge across the Havel River in Germany, connecting the Wannsee district of Berlin with the Brandenburg capital Potsdam. It is named after nearby Glienicke Palace. The current bridge, the ...

inaugurated. ** Hotel Fürstenhof built. ** Märkisches Museum built in Köllnischer Park. * 1908 ** 29 March: ***

Kaiserdamm (Berlin U-Bahn) Kaiserdamm is a Berlin U-Bahn station located on line U2. It is linked to the Messe Nord/ICC station of the Berlin S-Bahn. Opened in 1908, this station was built by A. Grenander. In 1936, it was renamed to Kaiserdamm/Messedamm; in 1967 it go ...

station opened. *** Sophie-Charlotte-Platz (Berlin U-Bahn) station opened. ***

Theodor-Heuss-Platz (Berlin U-Bahn) Theodor-Heuss-Platz is a station on line U2 of the Berlin U-Bahn, located in the Westend district. Overview When the station first opened on 29 March 1908, it was named ''Reichskanzlerplatz'' after the eponymous square laid out between 1904 a ...

station opened. ** 2 April:

Hotel Excelsior Hotel Excelsior was a hotel in Berlin, Germany. It occupied number 112/113, Königgrätzer Straße (today's Stresemannstrasse) on Askanischer Platz in the Berlin district of Kreuzberg. It was once one of the largest and most luxurious hotels in ...

opened. ** 1 October: *** Hausvogteiplatz (Berlin U-Bahn) station opened. *** Kaiserhof U-Bahn station opened. ***

Spittelmarkt (Berlin U-Bahn) Spittelmarkt is a Berlin U-Bahn station on line U2, located in Mitte at the eastern end of Leipziger Straße. History The station was opened on 1 October 1908, and was then the terminus of Berlin's second U-Bahn line, connecting it with Pot ...

station opened. *** Stadtmitte (Berlin U-Bahn) U2 platform opened. **

Reichskanzlerplatz Theodor-Heuss-Platz (; colloquially called Theo by locals, ) is a large city square in the Westend district of Berlin, Germany. It is named after Theodor Heuss (1884–1963), the first President of Germany after World War II. Location The sq ...

laid out. **

Charlottenburg Gate Charlottenburg Gate (german: Charlottenburger Tor) with Charlottenburg Bridge (''Charlottenburger Brücke'') is a Neo-Baroque structure in the Charlottenburg district of Berlin. Erected in 1907 at the behest of the then independent City of Char ...

opened. ** Hotel Esplanade Berlin opened. ** Friedrichstraßenpassage shopping arcade built. ** Shot Ball Tower (Berlin) built. * 1909 ** 1 May:

Berlin Botanischer Garten station Berlin Botanischer Garten (in German Bahnhof Berlin Botanischer Garten) is a railway station in the Lichterfelde locality of Berlin, Germany, named after the nearby Botanical Garden. It is served by the Berlin S-Bahn The Berlin S-Bahn () is a r ...

opened. ** 23 May: Rennbahn station opened. ** 26 September:

Johannisthal Air Field The Johannisthal Air Field, located southeast of central Berlin, between Johannisthal and Adlershof, was Germany's first commercial airfield. It opened on 26 September 1909, a few weeks after the world's first airfield at Rheims, France. Ov ...

opened. ** 1 November: Berlin Heerstraße station opened. ** AEG turbine factory built. ** Expressionist

Der Neue Club ''Der Neue Club'' was an Expressionist club founded in the Hackesche Höfe courtyards, Berlin by Kurt Hiller and Jakob van Hoddis. The Neopathetic Cabaret The Neopathetic Cabaret was a short-lived by influential event held at ''Der Neue Club'' wi ...

founded. * 1910 ** April: Liebermann Villa completed. ** 1 May: Berlin-Frohnau station opened. ** 24 May:

Berlin-Dahlem Botanical Garden and Botanical Museum The Berlin Botanic Garden and Botanical Museum (german: Botanischer Garten und Botanisches Museum Berlin) is a botanical garden in the locality of the borough of , Berlin, Germany. Constructed between 1897 and 1910 under the guidance of archi ...

opened. ** 15 July:

Berlin-Spandau station Berlin-Spandau station is a Deutsche Bahn station in the Berlin district of Spandau on the south-western edge of the old town of Spandau. The railway junction station is one of the 80 stations classified by Deutsche Bahn as a category 2 station. ...

opened. ** 7 August: Last horse-drawn tram line closed. ** 17 November: Hohenzollern-Sport-Palast opened. ** 1 November:

Berlin Hohenzollerndamm station Hohenzollerndamm is a station in the Wilmersdorf district of Berlin. It is served by the S-Bahn lines , and . The station is located on the eponymous street named after the House of Hohenzollern The House of Hohenzollern (, also , german: H ...

opened. ** 1 December: *** Population: 2,071,257. ***

Bayerischer Platz (Berlin U-Bahn) Bayerischer Platz is a Berlin U-Bahn List of Berlin U-Bahn stations, station on the and the lines. The station is located under the square of the same name in the centre of the ''Bayerisches Viertel'' neighbourhood in Schöneberg. The U4 statio ...

station opened. ***

Berlin Innsbrucker Platz station Berlin Innsbrucker Platz is a railway station in the Schöneberg district of Berlin and located on the square of the same name. It is served by the Ringbahn lines , and of the Berlin S-Bahn. It is also the terminus of the U-Bahn line . His ...

station opened. *** Rathaus Schöneberg (Berlin U-Bahn) station opened. *** Viktoria-Luise-Platz (Berlin U-Bahn) station opened. **

built. ** Rathaus Schöneberg (Berlin U-Bahn) opened. ** ''

Der Sturm ''Der Sturm'' () was a German avant-garde art and literary magazine founded by Herwarth Walden, covering Expressionism, Cubism, Dada and Surrealism, among other artistic movements. It was published between 1910 and 1932. History and profile ' ...

'' magazine begins publication. * 1911 ** 9 April: Tabor Church (Berlin-Wilhelmshagen) consecrated. ** 5 September: Berlin-Pichelsberg railway station opened. ** 1 October:

Berlin Sonnenallee station Sonnenallee is a railway station in the Neukölln district of Berlin. It is served by the S-Bahn lines and and is located at the southeastern end of the major street of the same name, about which a film was produced in 1999. Notable places ...

opened. ** 29 October: Altes Stadthaus inaugurated. ** 31 December: Population: 2,084,045. ** Kaiser Wilhelm Society for the Advancement of Sciences founded. **

Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Physical Chemistry and Electrochemistry The Fritz Haber Institute of the Max Planck Society (FHI) is a science research institute located at the heart of the academic district of Dahlem, in Berlin, Germany. The original Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Physical Chemistry and Electrochem ...

founded. ** Hotel Esplanade built. **

Haus Cumberland The Haus Cumberland (simply translated as Cumberland House) is a Grade II listed building on the Kurfürstendamm avenue between Bleibtreu, Charlottenburg, Bleibtreu and Schlüterstraße in Charlottenburg, Berlin. It was built in 1911, and has serv ...

built. **

Spandau Suburban Line The Spandau suburban railway (german: Spandauer Vorortbahn) is a suburban railway in Berlin. It is an extension of the Stadtbahn (city railway) from Westkreuz to Spandau. Its last kilometre runs parallel with the Lehrte and Hamburg lines. It ...

opened. ** ''

Die Aktion ''Die Aktion'' ("The Action") was a German literary and political magazine, edited by Franz Pfemfert and published between 1911 and 1932 in Berlin-Wilmersdorf; it promoted literary Expressionism and stood for left-wing politics. To begin with, '' ...

'' magazine begins publication. * 1912 ** February: Haus Potsdam built. ** 26 August:

Fasanenstrasse Synagogue The Fasanenstrasse Synagogue was a liberal Jewish synagogue in Berlin, Germany opened on 26 August 1912. It was located in an affluent neighbourhood of Charlottenburg on Fasanenstrasse off Kurfürstendamm at numbers 79–80, close to the Berlin ...

opened. ** 22 September: Mater Dolorosa church consecrated. ** 3 November:

Gleisdreieck (Berlin U-Bahn) Gleisdreieck is an elevated Berlin U-Bahn station located on a viaduct in the Kreuzberg district, and served by lines U1, U2, and U3. The U1/ U3 platform is at a higher level than, and perpendicular to, that of the U2. Overview ''Gleisd ...

station opened. ** 7 November:

Deutsche Oper Berlin The Deutsche Oper Berlin is a German opera company located in the Charlottenburg district of Berlin. The resident building is the country's second largest opera house (after Munich's) and also home to the Berlin State Ballet. Since 2004, the D ...

opened. ** 31 December: Population: 2,095,030. * 1913 ** 8 June: ***

Deutsches Stadion (Berlin) Deutsches Stadion was a multi-use sports stadium in Berlin, Germany. It was located at Deutsches Sportforum in the present-day Westend quarter on the northern rim of the large Grunewald forest. Built according to plans designed by Otto March, ...

opened. *** Stadion U-Bahn station opened. ** 15 June: Märchenbrunnen opened. ** 1 July: ***

U-Bahn line U2 opened. *** Klosterstraße (Berlin U-Bahn) station opened. ***

Märkisches Museum (Berlin U-Bahn) Märkisches Museum is a Berlin U-Bahn station located on the in the Mitte district. Since 1935 it has been named after the nearby Märkisches Museum, the municipal museum of the history of Berlin and the Mark Brandenburg. Design In the cours ...

station opened. ** 27 July: ***

Eberswalder Straße (Berlin U-Bahn) Eberswalder Straße is an overground station located on the line of the Berlin U-Bahn network. It is located in the Prenzlauer Berg area of the city on Schönhauser Allee, a major street running from the city centre north towards Pankow. The ...

station opened. *** Schönhauser Tor U-Bahn station opened. ***

station opened. *** Senefelderplatz (Berlin U-Bahn) station opened. ** 12 October: *** Breitenbachplatz (Berlin U-Bahn) station opened. *** Dahlem-Dorf (Berlin U-Bahn) station opened. ***

Fehrbelliner Platz (Berlin U-Bahn) Fehrbelliner Platz is a station of the Berlin U-Bahn located in the Wilmersdorf district on the and the lines. The U3 section was opened on 12 October 1913 as one of the line's original stations, the U7 section on 29 January 1971 with the line ...

station opened. *** Berlin Heidelberger Platz U-Bahn station opened. *** Hohenzollernplatz (Berlin U-Bahn) station opened. *** Podbielskiallee (Berlin U-Bahn) station opened. ***

Rüdesheimer Platz (Berlin U-Bahn) Rüdesheimer Platz is a Berlin U-Bahn station located in the Wilmersdorf district on the line. The station opened on 12 October 1913. The eponymous square was named after the town of Rüdesheim am Rhein in Hesse, famous for its Rheingau wine ...

station opened. *** Freie Universität (Thielplatz) (Berlin U-Bahn) station opened. *** Thielpalatz U-Bahn station opened. ** 17 October:

Johannisthal air disaster The Johannisthal air disaster was one of the first multiple-fatality air disasters in history. It involved the Imperial German Navy's L 2 airship manufactured by Luftschiffbau Zeppelin as LZ 18. Its test flight resulted in the death of all 28 ...

. ** 31 December: Population: 2,079,156. ** Cines-Palast (cinema) opened. **

Neukölln Ship Canal The Neukölln Ship Canal, or Neuköllner Schiffahrtskanal, is a long canal in Berlin, Germany. It connects with the Landwehr Canal at its northern end, and with the Teltow Canal and the Britz Canal The Britz Canal, or Britzer Verbindungskanal ...

opened. ** Schillerpark opened. * 1914 ** 25 March:

Rathaus Schöneberg Rathaus Schöneberg is the city hall for the borough of Tempelhof-Schöneberg in Berlin. From 1949 until 1990 it served as the seat of the state senate of West Berlin and from 1949 until 1991 as the seat of the Governing Mayor. History The sa ...

opened. ** 31 December: Population: 1,945,684. **

Volksbühne The Volksbühne ("People's Theatre") is a theater in Berlin. Located in Berlin's city center Mitte on Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz (Rosa Luxemburg Square) in what was the GDR's capital. It has been called Berlin's most iconic theatre. About The Vol ...

(theatre) and

Bendlerblock The Bendlerblock is a building complex in the Tiergarten district of Berlin, Germany, located on Stauffenbergstraße (formerly named ''Bendlerstraße''). Erected in 1914 as headquarters of several Imperial German Navy (''Kaiserliche Marine'') ...

built. ** Pacifist headquartered in city. * 1915 – 31 December: Population: 1,835,094. * 1916 ** 1 April: Witzleben station opened. ** 19 November: Deulig Film company established. ** 1 December: Population: 1,771,491. ** Schleusen Bridge rebuilt. ** Eiserne Bridge rebuilt. **

Körnerpark View from the orangery onto the park with cascade in the back, 2012 The Körnerpark () is situated in Berlin Neukölln between Jonasstraße, Schierker Straße, Selkestraße and Wittmannsdorfer Straße. The approximately 2.4 hectare (about ...

opened. * 1917 ** 22 November: Standardisation Committee of German Industry founded. ** 5 December: Population: 1,744,085. ** 13 December:

Deutsche Luft-Reederei Deutsche Luft-Reederei (D.L.R.), was a German airline established in December 1917 which started operating in 1919. History The name means "German (Deutsche) Air (Luft) Shipping Company (Reederei)". D.L.R. was reorganized as Aero Lloyd AG in 1 ...

founded. ** 18 December:

UFA GmbH UFA GmbH, shortened to UFA (), is a film and television production company that unites all production activities of the media conglomerate Bertelsmann in Germany. Its name derives from Universum-Film Aktiengesellschaft (normally abbreviated as ...

established. ** Rathaus Friedenau built. * 1918 ** 9 November: *** Proclamation of the Republic by

Philipp Scheidemann Philipp Heinrich Scheidemann (26 July 1865 – 29 November 1939) was a German politician of the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD). In the first quarter of the 20th century he played a leading role in both his party and in the young Weimar ...

from the Reichstag building. *** ''

Die Rote Fahne ''Die Rote Fahne'' (, ''The Red Flag'') was a German newspaper originally founded in 1876 by Socialist Worker's party leader Wilhelm Hasselmann, and which has been since published on and off, at times underground, by German Socialists and Communi ...

'' newspaper begins publication. ** 23 December: The

Volksmarinedivision The Volksmarinedivision (People's Navy Division) was an armed unit formed on 11 November 1918 during the November Revolution that broke out in Germany following its defeat in World War I. At its peak late that month, the People's Navy Division ...

occupies the

Reich Chancellery The Reich Chancellery (german: Reichskanzlei) was the traditional name of the office of the Chancellor of Germany (then called ''Reichskanzler'') in the period of the German Reich from 1878 to 1945. The Chancellery's seat, selected and prepared ...

. ** 24 December:

Skirmish of the Berlin Schloss The Skirmish of the Berlin Schloss (German: ''Weihnachtskämpfe'' or ''Weihnachtsaufstand'' i.e. Christmas eve struggle or rebellion ) was a small skirmish between the socialist revolutionary ''Volksmarinedivision'' and regular German army u ...

. ** 31 December: Population: 1,748,000. * 1919 ** 1 January: Communist Party of Germany founded. ** 5–12 January:

Spartacist uprising The Spartacist uprising (German: ), also known as the January uprising (), was a general strike and the accompanying armed struggles that took place in Berlin from 5 to 12 January 1919. It occurred in connection with the November Revolutio ...

. ** 15 January: Socialists Rosa Luxemburg and

Karl Liebknecht Karl Paul August Friedrich Liebknecht (; 13 August 1871 – 15 January 1919) was a German socialist and anti-militarist. A member of the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD) beginning in 1900, he was one of its deputies in the Reichstag fro ...

killed by

Freikorps (, "Free Corps" or "Volunteer Corps") were irregular German and other European military volunteer units, or paramilitary, that existed from the 18th to the early 20th centuries. They effectively fought as mercenary or private armies, rega ...

. ** February: Dadaist '' Jedermann sein eigner Fussball'' published. ** 3–16 March: Berlin March Battles: Socialist uprising crushed by the government, 1,200 killed. ** 10 March: Marxist revolutionary

Leo Jogiches Leon "Leo" Jogiches (Russian: Лев "Лео" Йогихес; 17 July 1867 – 10 March 1919), also commonly known by the party name Jan Tyszka, was a Polish Marxist revolutionary and politician, active in Poland, Lithuania, and Germany. Jogiche ...

killed by right-wing paramilitaries. ** May: Premiere of

LGBT ' is an initialism that stands for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender. In use since the 1990s, the initialism, as well as some of its common variants, functions as an umbrella term for sexuality and gender identity. The LGBT term ...

-themed film '' Anders als die Andern''. ** 22 June: '' Prizyv'' begins publishing. ** 6 July:

Institut für Sexualwissenschaft The was an early private sexology research institute in Germany from 1919 to 1933. The name is variously translated as ''Institute of Sex Research'', ''Institute of Sexology'', ''Institute for Sexology'' or ''Institute for the Science of Sexua ...

opened. ** 8 October: Population: 1,902,508. ** 7 November: SPD politician

Hugo Haase Hugo Haase (29 September 1863 – 7 November 1919) was a German socialist politician, jurist and pacifist. With Friedrich Ebert, he co-chaired of the Council of the People's Deputies after the German Revolution of 1918–19. Early life Hugo Haas ...

killed by Johann Voss. ** 31 December: Population: 1,928,432. ** City becomes capital of the

Weimar Republic The Weimar Republic (german: link=no, Weimarer Republik ), officially named the German Reich, was the government of Germany from 1918 to 1933, during which it was a constitutional federal republic for the first time in history; hence it is ...

. ** Deutsche Luft-Reederei airline begins operating its

Weimar Weimar is a city in the state of Thuringia, Germany. It is located in Central Germany between Erfurt in the west and Jena in the east, approximately southwest of Leipzig, north of Nuremberg and west of Dresden. Together with the neighbouri ...

-Berlin route. * 1920 ** February:

Berlin Psychoanalytic Institute The Berlin Psychoanalytic Institute (later the Göring Institute) was founded in 1920 to further the science of psychoanalysis in Berlin. Its founding members included Karl Abraham and Max Eitingon. The scientists at the institute furthered Sigmun ...

established. ** 13–17 March:

Kapp Putsch The Kapp Putsch (), also known as the Kapp–Lüttwitz Putsch (), was an attempted coup against the German national government in Berlin on 13 March 1920. Named after its leaders Wolfgang Kapp and Walther von Lüttwitz, its goal was to undo th ...

. ** June:

First International Dada Fair The First International Dada Fair took place in Berlin in 1920. It was Grosz, Heartfield and Hausmann. It was to become the most famous of all Berlin Dada's exploits. It featured almost 200 works by artists including Hans Arp, Max Ernst, Hannah Höc ...

held. ** 20 June: SC Berliner Amateure founded. ** 7 August:

Stadion An der Alten Försterei Stadion An der Alten Försterei (; '' en, Stadium at the old forester's house'') is a football stadium in Köpenick and the largest single-purpose football stadium in the German capital of Berlin. It has been home to football club 1. FC Union Be ...

opened. ** 16 August:

Köllnische Heide station Köllnische Heide is a railway station in the Neukölln district of Berlin. It is served by the S-Bahn The S-Bahn is the name of hybrid urban-suburban rail systems serving a metropolitan region in German-speaking countries. Some of the l ...

opened. ** 1 October: City area expands per Greater Berlin Act, incorporating

Köpenick Köpenick () is a historic town and locality (''Ortsteil'') in Berlin, situated at the confluence of the rivers Dahme and Spree in the south-east of the German capital. It was formerly known as Copanic and then Cöpenick, only officially adopt ...

Lichtenberg Lichtenberg () is the eleventh borough of Berlin, Germany. In Berlin's 2001 administrative reform it absorbed the former borough of Hohenschönhausen. Overview The district contains the Tierpark Berlin in Friedrichsfelde, the larger of Berlin ...

, Neukölln,

Schöneberg Schöneberg () is a locality of Berlin, Germany. Until Berlin's 2001 administrative reform it was a separate borough including the locality of Friedenau. Together with the former borough of Tempelhof it is now part of the new borough of Tempe ...

Spandau Spandau () is the westernmost of the 12 boroughs () of Berlin, situated at the confluence of the Havel and Spree rivers and extending along the western bank of the Havel. It is the smallest borough by population, but the fourth largest by land ...

, and

Wilmersdorf Wilmersdorf (), an inner-city locality of Berlin, lies south-west of the central city. Formerly a borough by itself, Wilmersdorf became part of the new borough of Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf in Berlin's 2001 administrative reform. History The v ...

. ** October:

Deutsche Hochschule für Politik The Deutsche Hochschule für Politik (DHfP), or ''German Academy for Politics'', was a private academy in Berlin, founded in October 1920. It was integrated into the Faculty for Foreign Studies (''Auslandswissenschaftliche Fakultät'') of the Fried ...

founded. ** 31 December: Population: 3,879,409. ** Lokomotiv-Versuchsamt Grunewald facility established. ** Akaflieg Berlin founded. * 1921 ** 15 March:

Assassination of Talat Pasha On 15 March 1921, Armenian student Soghomon Tehlirian assassinated Talaat Pasha—former grand vizier of the Ottoman Empire and the main architect of the Armenian genocide—in Berlin. At his trial, Tehlirian argued, "I have killed a man, bu ...

by Soghomon Tehlirian. ** 25 August: U.S.–German Peace Treaty (1921) signed. ** 24 September:

AVUS The Automobil-Verkehrs- und Übungsstraße ('Automobile traffic and training road'), known as AVUS, is a public road in Berlin, Germany. Opened in 1921, it was also used as a motor racing circuit until 1998. Today, the AVUS forms the northern p ...

established. ** 31 December: Population: 3,914,151. ** Archenhold School built. * 1922 ** 28 March: Assassination of

Vladimir Dmitrievich Nabokov Vladimir Dmitrievich Nabokov (russian: Влади́мир Дми́триевич Набо́ков; 21 July Old_Style_and_New_Style_dates">O.S._8_July.html" ;"title="Old_Style_and_New_Style_dates.html" ;"title="nowiki/>O.S._8_July">Old_Style_an ...

by Russian monarchists. ** 17 April: Cemal Azmi assassinated by Armenian revolutionaries. ** 27 April: Release of the first part of '' Dr. Mabuse the Gambler'' by

Fritz Lang Friedrich Christian Anton Lang (; December 5, 1890 – August 2, 1976), known as Fritz Lang, was an Austrian film director, screenwriter, and producer who worked in Germany and later the United States.Obituary ''Variety'', August 4, 1976, p. 6 ...

, filmed and set in Berlin. ** 22 May: Neu-Westend (Berlin U-Bahn) station opened. ** 24 June: Foreign Minister

Walther Rathenau Walther Rathenau (29 September 1867 – 24 June 1922) was a German industrialist, writer and liberal politician. During the First World War of 1914–1918 he was involved in the organization of the German war economy. After the war, Rathenau s ...

assassinated. ** December: International of Revolutionary Syndicalists founded in Berlin. ** 31 December: Population: 3,953,920. * 1923 ** 30 January: *** Französische Straße (Berlin U-Bahn) station opened. *** Berlin Friedrichstraße U-Bahn station opened. *** Hallesches Tor U6 line opened. *** Kochstraße (Berlin U-Bahn) station opened. *** Oranienburger Tor (Berlin U-Bahn) station opened. ***

Naturkundemuseum (Berlin U-Bahn) Naturkundemuseum, formerly Zinnowitzer Straße, is a Berlin U-Bahn station located on the in the district Mitte. History The station was opened on 30 January 1923 as ''Stettiner Bahnhof'' after the then nearby long-distance station Stettiner ...

station opened. *** Stadtmitte (Berlin U-Bahn) U6 platform opened. ** 8 March: ***

Leopoldplatz (Berlin U-Bahn) Leopoldplatz is a Berlin U-Bahn station in the Wedding district which serves as an interchange between the lines and . It is operated by the BVG. Overview Leopoldplatz station first opened on 8 March 1923, along with the rest of the newly bui ...

station opened. *** Reinickendorfer Straße (Berlin U-Bahn) station opened. *** Schwartzkopffstraße (Berlin U-Bahn) station opened. *** Seestraße (Berlin U-Bahn) station opened. *** Berlin-Wedding U-Bahn station opened. ** 25 August: Last

run in Berlin. ** 8 October:

Tempelhof Airport Berlin Tempelhof Airport (german: Flughafen Berlin-Tempelhof) was one of the first airports in Berlin, Germany. Situated in the south-central Berlin borough of Tempelhof-Schöneberg, the airport ceased operating in 2008 amid controversy, leav ...

established. ** 31 December: Population: 3,918,985. * 1924 ** 9 February: Stadion am Gesundbrunnen opened. ** 19 April: ***

Mehringdamm (Berlin U-Bahn) Mehringdamm is a Berlin U-Bahn station located on the and the . History Opened in 1924 as Belle-Alliance Straße it was built by Grenander and later renovated by Rümmler. The station's ceiling collapsed during the Battle of Berlin ...

station opened. *** Gneisenaustraße (Berlin U-Bahn) station opened. ** 31 May: Bank of Workers, Employees, and Civil Servants established. ** 7 July: Stadt und Land founded. ** 14 December: Südstern (Berlin U-Bahn) station opened. ** 31 December: Population: 3,986,458. ** Traffic light installed in Potsdamer Platz. **

Internationale Funkausstellung Berlin The IFA ( ) or Internationale Funkausstellung Berlin (International radio exhibition Berlin, a.k.a. 'Berlin Radio Show') is one of the oldest industrial exhibitions in Germany. Between 1924 and 1939 it was an annual event, but from 1950 it was ...

(radio exhibit) begins. **

Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra The Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra (''Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin'') is a German symphony orchestra based in Berlin. In Berlin, the orchestra gives concerts at the Konzerthaus Berlin and at the Berliner Philharmonie. The orchestra has also ...

active. * 1925 ** 1 February:

Deutsche Werke Deutsche Werke was a German shipbuilding company that was founded in 1925 when Kaiserliche Werft Kiel and other shipyards were merged. It came as a result of the Treaty of Versailles after World War I that forced the German defense industry to shri ...

formed. ** 26 April:

Ahmadiyya Mosque Berlin Berlin Mosque (german: Berliner Moschee, , ) in Berlin is situated on Brienner Straße 7-8 in Berlin-Wilmersdorf. It was designed by Hermann and was built between 1923 and 1925. Berlin Mosque, which has two minarets, was heavily damaged in Wo ...

inaugurated. ** 16 June: Population: 4,024,286. ** 31 December: Population: 4,082,778. **

Hufeisensiedlung The Hufeisensiedlung ("Horseshoe Estate") is a housing estate in Berlin, built in 1925–33. It was designed by architect Bruno Taut, municipal planning head and co-architect Martin Wagner, garden architect Leberecht Migge and Neukölln garden ...

housing estate construction begins. * 1926 ** 6 January:

Deutsche Luft Hansa ''Deutsche Luft Hansa A.G.'' (from 1933 styled as ''Deutsche Lufthansa'' and also known as ''Luft Hansa'', ''Lufthansa'', or DLH) was a German airline, serving as flag carrier of the country during the later years of the Weimar Republic and t ...

founded. ** 14 February:

Kreuzberg Kreuzberg () is a district of Berlin, Germany. It is part of the Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg borough located south of Mitte. During the Cold War era, it was one of the poorest areas of West Berlin, but since German reunification in 1990 it ha ...

U-Bahn station opened. ** 11 April: ***

Hermannplatz (Berlin U-Bahn) Hermannplatz is a station in the Neukölln district of Berlin which serves as an interchange between the lines and . Operated by the BVG, it is one of the busiest stations on the Berlin U-Bahn system. History Hermannplatz station first o ...

U7 platform opened. *** Bergstrasse U-Bahn station opened. ***

Rathaus Neukölln (Berlin U-Bahn) Rathaus Neukölln (Neukölln Town Hall) is a Berlin U-Bahn station located on the line. History The station was built in 1926 by Alfred Grenander Alfred Frederik Elias Grenander (26 June 1863 – 14 March 1931) was a Swedish architect, who ...

station opened. ** 24 April:

Treaty of Berlin (1926) The Treaty of Berlin (German-Soviet Neutrality and Nonaggression Pact) was a treaty signed on 24 April 1926 under which Germany and the Soviet Union pledged neutrality in the event of an attack on the other by a third party for five years. The t ...

signed with the Soviet Union. ** 3 September:

Funkturm Berlin The Berliner Funkturm or Funkturm Berlin (Berlin Radio Tower) is a former broadcasting tower in Berlin. Constructed between 1924 and 1926 to designs by the architect Heinrich Straumer, it was inaugurated on 3 September 1926, on the occasion of ...

(radio tower) erected. ** 24 October: *** Kurfürstenstraße (Berlin U-Bahn) station opened. *** Nollendorfplatz U-Bahn station platforms added. ** 31 December: Population: 4,125,824. **

Das Buddhistische Haus Das Buddhistische Haus (English: Berlin Buddhist Vihara, literally ''the Buddhist house'') is a Theravada Buddhist temple complex ( Vihara) in Frohnau, Berlin, Germany. It is considered to be the oldest and largest Theravada Buddhist center in Eu ...

built. * 1927 ** 10 January: Premiere of film ''

Metropolis A metropolis () is a large city or conurbation which is a significant economic, political, and cultural center for a country or region, and an important hub for regional or international connections, commerce, and communications. A big ci ...

''. ** 1 May:

Adolf Hitler Adolf Hitler (; 20 April 188930 April 1945) was an Austrian-born German politician who was dictator of Nazi Germany, Germany from 1933 until Death of Adolf Hitler, his death in 1945. Adolf Hitler's rise to power, He rose to power as the le ...

gives his first speech in Berlin, at the . ** 4 July: ''

Der Angriff ''Der Angriff'' (in English "The Attack") is a discontinued German language newspaper founded in 1927 by the Berlin Gau of the Nazi Party. The last edition was published on 24 April 1945. History The newspaper was set up by Joseph Goebbels, wh ...

'' begins publishing. ** 17 July: ***

U8 (Berlin U-Bahn) U8 is a line on the Berlin U-Bahn. It has 24 stations and is long. The U8 is one of three north–south Berlin U-Bahn lines (U6, U9), and runs from Wittenau to Neukölln via Gesundbrunnen. The original proposal was for a suspended monorail ...

line opened. ***

Boddinstraße (Berlin U-Bahn) Boddinstraße is a Berlin U-Bahn station located on the . It is located below Hermannstrasse at the intersection of Boddinstrasse in the Neukölln district. The station, opened in 1927, is one of the oldest on the line and is operated by the ...

station opened. *** Hermannplatz (Berlin U-Bahn) U8 platform opened. ***

Schönleinstraße (Berlin U-Bahn) Schönleinstraße is a Berlin U-Bahn station located on the . Opened in 1928 and designed by Grenander it was shortly closed in 1945 and renamed in 1951 to Kottbusser Damm. In 1992 the station was named Schönleinstrasse again. On 25 December 2 ...

station opened. ** 10 September:

Paradestraße (Berlin U-Bahn) Paradestraße is a Berlin U-Bahn station on the line. It was opened in 1927 as ''Flughafen'' (airport) and at that time provided the world's first direct connection between a metro system and an airport (Tempelhof Airport). History The station ...

station opened. ** 17 November: Betriebshaltepunkt Nieder-Schöneweide station opened. ** 31 December: Population: 4,195,725. ** Tempelhof Airport terminal built. **

Kaiser Wilhelm Institute of Anthropology, Human Heredity, and Eugenics The Kaiser Wilhelm Institute of Anthropology, Human Heredity, and Eugenics was founded in 1927 in Berlin, Germany. The Rockefeller Foundation partially funded the actual building of the Institute and helped keep the Institute afloat during the Gr ...

founded. * 1928 ** 12 February: Kottbusser Tor U-Bahn station U8 platform opened. ** 6 April: *** Neanderstraße U-Bahn station opened. ***

Moritzplatz (Berlin U-Bahn) Moritzplatz is a Berlin U-Bahn station located on the line. Peter Behrens constructed this unusual subway station in Berlin in 1928. It was closed briefly in 1945, and between 1961 and 1990 it was the last station in West Berlin, after which t ...

station opened. ** 23 August: Berlin Eichkamp station opened. ** 31 August: Premiere of Brecht's ''

The Threepenny Opera ''The Threepenny Opera'' ( ) is a " play with music" by Bertolt Brecht, adapted from a translation by Elisabeth Hauptmann of John Gay's 18th-century English ballad opera, '' The Beggar's Opera'', and four ballads by François Villon, with mu ...

''. ** 1 October: Founding of

NSDAP The Nazi Party, officially the National Socialist German Workers' Party (german: Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei or NSDAP), was a far-right political party in Germany active between 1920 and 1945 that created and supported t ...

Gau Berlin The Gau Berlin was an administrative division of Nazi Germany from 1933 to 1945 in the German capital Berlin. Before that, from 1928 to 1933, it was the regional subdivision of the Nazi Party in that area. From 1926 to 1928 Berlin was part of the ...

. ** 7 October:

Priesterweg station Priesterweg station is on the Anhalt Suburban Line in the district of Schöneberg in the Berlin borough of Tempelhof-Schöneberg. It is served by Berlin S-Bahn lines S2, S25, and S26. Location The station is located in the district of Schöne ...

opened. ** 10 December:

Berlin Westkreuz station Berlin Westkreuz (literally "Berlin West Cross") is a station in the Charlottenburg district of Berlin. It is served by the S-Bahn lines S3, S41, S42, S46, S5, S7 and S9 and so represents a major interchange point on the Berlin S-Bahn net ...

opened. ** 31 December: Population: 4,272,375. ** First TV broadcast in Berlin. ** Titania Palast (theatre) opens. * 1929 ** 11 April: Kino Babylon opened. ** 1–3 May:

Blutmai Blutmai (, ) refers to several days of police brutality against KPD supporters in early May 1929 that led to violence between the communist demonstrators and members of the Berlin Police which was under the control of the Social Democratic Pa ...

unrest. 32 killed, 1,228 arrested and 11,000 rounds of ammunition fired by the police. ** 28 May:

Poststadion The Poststadion is a multi-use stadium in the locality of Moabit of the borough of Mitte in Berlin, Germany. The stadium was built in 1929 for the sports club of the German Reichspost at the site of a former Prussian Uhlan parade ground. It is a ...

opened. ** 4 August:

Leinestraße (Berlin U-Bahn) Leinestraße is a Berlin U-Bahn station located on the line. The station was built by Alfred Grenander and A. Fehse in 1929. In the 1930s the southern tunnel was extended towards Hermanstraße for the then-uncompleted extension of the U-Bahn ...

station opened. ** 22 December: ***

Krumme Lanke (Berlin U-Bahn) Krumme Lanke, literally “Crooked Lake“, is a Berlin U-Bahn station on the . It is the line's southwestern terminus, located in the Zehlendorf district of Berlin. History The station, named after a nearby lake in the Grunewald forest, ope ...

station opened. ***

Onkel Toms Hütte (Berlin U-Bahn) ( en, Uncle Tom's Cabin) is a Berlin U-Bahn station located in the district. Since 12 December 2004 it is served by the line. History The station was designed by Alfred Grenander, and was placed in service on 22 December 1929 as the centr ...

station opened. *** Oskar-Helene-Heim (Berlin U-Bahn) station opened. ***

Ruhleben (Berlin U-Bahn) Ruhleben is a Berlin U-Bahn station, the western terminus of line U2. Named after the adjacent ''Ruhleben'' neighbourhood, it is located in the Westend district close to the border with Spandau. The station, with an elevated platform and su ...

station opened. *** Berlin-Tempelhof U-Bahn station opened. ** 25 December: Lichtburg cinema opens. ** 31 December: Population: 4,328,760. ** Charlotten Bridge rebuilt. **

Spandauer Kirchenmusikschule The (Spandau school of church music) was a music academy in Spandau, Berlin, Germany. Founded in 1929, it was housed in the in Spandau and was closed in 1998. The schools choir appeared and recorded as the Spandauer Kantorei. It was located in t ...

established. * 1930 ** 18 April: *** Berlin Alexanderplatz station U-Bahn line U8 opened. *** Bernauer Straße (Berlin U-Bahn) station opened. *** Berlin-Gesundbrunnen U-Bahn station opened. *** Berlin Jannowitzbrücke U-Bahn station opened. ***

Rosenthaler Platz (Berlin U-Bahn) Rosenthaler Platz is a Berlin U-Bahn station located on the . It opened in 1930 and was designed by A. Grenander, making prominent use of the colour orange. From 1961 to 1989 the station was one of the city's many "ghost stations ''Ghost ...

station opened. *** Voltastraße (Berlin U-Bahn) station opened. *** Weinmeisterstraße (Berlin U-Bahn) station opened. ** 29 June: Vinetastraße (Berlin U-Bahn) station opened. ** 13 August:

Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Berlin The Archdiocese of Berlin is a Latin Church ecclesiastical territory or archdiocese of the Catholic Church in Germany. The archepiscopal see is in Berlin, with the archdiocese's territory extending over Northeast Germany. As of 2004, the arch ...

established. ** 17 August: Mommsenstadion opened. ** 30 September: Berlin rocket launching site opened. ** 21 December: *** Berlin Alexanderplatz station U-Bahn line U8 opened. ***

Frankfurter Allee (Berlin U-Bahn) Frankfurter Allee is a Berlin U-Bahn station located on the line. History The U-Bahn station was opened on 21 December 1930 and called Frankfurter Allee (Ringbahn). This whole of the section of the U5 line that was opened that day was develo ...

station opened. ***

Frankfurter Tor (Berlin U-Bahn) Frankfurter Tor is a station on U-Bahn line in Berlin, Germany. It is situated under Frankfurter Tor, a large square. History Built in 1930 and designed by the architect Alfred Grenander and originally named Petersburger Straße. The Allied ...

station opened. ***

Friedrichsfelde (Berlin U-Bahn) Friedrichsfelde is a Berlin U-Bahn station located on the in the Friedrichsfelde district. History It opened on 21 December 1930 as the terminus of Berlin's new eastern U-Bahn line from Alexanderplatz, then called Line E. Alfred Grenander ...

station opened. ***

Grenzallee (Berlin U-Bahn) Grenzallee is a Berlin U-Bahn station located on the U7. History This station was opened in 1930 and built by Alfred Grenander Alfred Frederik Elias Grenander (26 June 1863 – 14 March 1931) was a Swedish architect, who became one of the ...

station opened. ***

Neukölln (Berlin U-Bahn) Neukölln () is one of the twelve boroughs of Berlin. It is located in the southeastern part from the city centre towards Berlin Schönefeld Airport. It was part of the former American sector under the Four-Power occupation of the city. It featu ...

station opened. ***

Magdalenenstraße (Berlin U-Bahn) Magdalenenstraße is a Berlin U-Bahn station located on the line. The station was designed by the Swedish architect Alfred Grenander Alfred Frederik Elias Grenander (26 June 1863 – 14 March 1931) was a Swedish architect, who became one ...

station opened. ***

U-Bahn station opened. ***

Samariterstraße (Berlin U-Bahn) Samariterstraße is a Berlin U-Bahn station located on the . It is located underneath Frankfurter Allee, at the intersection with Samariterstraße in the district of Friedrichshain. It was opened as part of the then-extant Line E of the Berlin ...

station opened. *** Schillingstraße (Berlin U-Bahn) station opened. *** Strausberger Platz (Berlin U-Bahn) station opened. ***

Weberwiese (Berlin U-Bahn) Weberwiese is a Berlin U-Bahn station located on the line, which currently runs from Berlin Central Station to Hönow. The station is located under Karl-Marx-Allee directly east of Straße der Pariser Kommune. Although the next station on th ...

station opened. ** 31 December: Population: 4,332,834. **

Pergamon Museum The Pergamon Museum (; ) is a listed building on the Museum Island in the historic centre of Berlin. It was built from 1910 to 1930 by order of German Emperor Wilhelm II according to plans by Alfred Messel and Ludwig Hoffmann in Stripped Clas ...

built. * 1931 ** 22 January:

Haus des Rundfunks The Haus des Rundfunks ("Broadcasting House"), located in the Westend district of Berlin, the capital city of Germany, is the world's oldest self-contained broadcasting centre. Designed by Hans Poelzig in 1929 after he won an architectural compet ...

inaugurated. ** 9 August:

Murder of Paul Anlauf and Franz Lenck Murder is the unlawful killing of another human without justification or valid excuse, especially the unlawful killing of another human with malice aforethought. ("The killing of another person without justification or excuse, especially the ...

. ** 31 December: Population: 4,314,466. **

Großsiedlung Siemensstadt The Siemensstadt Settlement (german: Großsiedlung Siemensstadt; also known as ''Ring Settlement'' or ''Ringsiedlung'') is a nonprofit residential community in the Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf district of Berlin. It is one of the six Modernist Hou ...

housing built. * 1932 ** 24 January:

Hitler Youth The Hitler Youth (german: Hitlerjugend , often abbreviated as HJ, ) was the youth organisation of the Nazi Party in Germany. Its origins date back to 1922 and it received the name ("Hitler Youth, League of German Worker Youth") in July 1926. ...

member Herbert Norkus killed by Communists. ** 14–20 March:

Ice Hockey European Championship 1932 The 1932 Ice Hockey European Championship was the 17th edition of the ice hockey tournament for European countries associated to the International Ice Hockey Federation. This was the last time it was played independent of the World Hockey Champions ...

. ** 3–7 November: 1932 Berlin transport strike. ** 31 December: Population: 4,273,701. ** Columbushaus built on

Potsdamer Platz Potsdamer Platz (, ''Potsdam Square'') is a public square and traffic intersection in the center of Berlin, Germany, lying about south of the Brandenburg Gate and the Reichstag (German Parliament Building), and close to the southeast corn ...

. * 1933 ** Nazi headquarters relocated to Berlin from Munich. ** 30 January: Hitler named Chancellor. ** 27 February: Reichstag fire. ** 19 March:

Kirche am Hohenzollernplatz Kirche am Hohenzollernplatz (''Church at Hohenzollernplatz '') is the church of the Evangelical Congregation at Hohenzollernplatz, a member of today's Protestant umbrella Evangelical Church of Berlin-Brandenburg-Silesian Upper Lusatia. The churc ...

inaugurated. ** April: Research Office of the Reich Air Ministry established. ** 26 April: Nazi

Gestapo The (), abbreviated Gestapo (; ), was the official secret police of Nazi Germany and in German-occupied Europe. The force was created by Hermann Göring in 1933 by combining the various political police agencies of Prussia into one orga ...

(secret police) headquartered in Berlin, on Prinz-Albrecht-Straße. ** 6 May: Institut für Sexualwissenschaft destroyed by the

German Student Union The German Student Union (german: Deutsche Studentenschaft, abbreviated ''DSt'') from 1919 until 1945, was the merger of the general student committees of all German universities, including Danzig, Austria and the former German universities in ...

. ** 10 May:

Nazi book burnings The Nazi book burnings were a campaign conducted by the German Student Union (, ''DSt'') to ceremonially burn books in Nazi Germany and Austria in the 1930s. The books targeted for burning were those viewed as being subversive or as representi ...

. ** 6 June: Afghan ambassador to Germany, Prince Shirdar Mohammed Aziz Khan, assassinated by an Afghan student. ** 16 June: Population: 4,242,501. ** 21–26 June: Köpenick's week of bloodshed. ** 1 July:

opened. ** July:

Columbia concentration camp Columbia concentration camp (also known as Columbia-Haus) was a Nazi concentration camp situated in the Tempelhof area of Berlin. It was one of the first such institutions established by the regime. Development Originally called ''Strafgefängni ...

established. ** 19 September: Ufa-Palast am Zoo premiere of the Hitlerjunge Quex, the first major Nazi propaganda film. ** 22 September:

Reich Chamber of Culture The Reich Chamber of Culture (''Reichskulturkammer'') was a government agency in Nazi Germany. It was established by law on 22 September 1933 in the course of the ''Gleichschaltung'' process at the instigation of Reich Minister Joseph Goebbels a ...

established. ** 31 December: Population: 4,221,024. ** City becomes capital of the Greater German Reich. ** Hufeisensiedlung housing built. **

Strength Through Joy NC Gemeinschaft (KdF; ) was a German state-operated leisure organization in Nazi Germany. Richard Grunberger, ''The 12-Year Reich'', p. 197, It was part of the German Labour Front (german: link=no, Deutsche Arbeitsfront), the national labour or ...

national leisure programme headquartered in Berlin. * 1934 ** 30 June – 2 July:

Night of the Long Knives The Night of the Long Knives (German: ), or the Röhm purge (German: ''Röhm-Putsch''), also called Operation Hummingbird (German: ''Unternehmen Kolibri''), was a purge that took place in Nazi Germany from 30 June to 2 July 1934. Chancellor Ad ...

. ***

Kurt von Schleicher Kurt Ferdinand Friedrich Hermann von Schleicher (; 7 April 1882 – 30 June 1934) was a German general and the last chancellor of Germany (before Adolf Hitler) during the Weimar Republic. A rival for power with Hitler, Schleicher was murdered by ...

Ferdinand von Bredow Ferdinand von Bredow (16 May 1884 – 30 June 1934) was a German '' Generalmajor'' and head of the '' Abwehr'' (the military intelligence service) in the Reich Defence Ministry and deputy defence minister in Kurt von Schleicher's short-lived ca ...

Gregor Strasser Gregor Strasser (also german: Straßer, see ß; 31 May 1892 – 30 June 1934) was an early prominent German Nazi official and politician who was murdered during the Night of the Long Knives in 1934. Born in 1892 in Bavaria, Strasser served i ...

Erich Klausener Erich Klausener (25 January 1885 – 30 June 1934) was a German Catholic politician and Catholic martyr in the "Night of the Long Knives", a purge that took place in Nazi Germany from 30 June to 2 July 1934, when the Nazi regime carried out a ser ...

Edgar Jung Edgar Julius Jung ( pen name: Tyll; 6 March 1894 – 1 July 1934) was a German lawyer born in Ludwigshafen in the Kingdom of Bavaria. Jung was a leader of the conservative revolutionary movement in Germany which stood not only in opposition to ...

, Herbert von Bose,

Karl Ernst Karl Ernst (1 September 1904, Berlin – 30 June 1934, Berlin) was an SA-'' Gruppenführer'' who, in early 1933, was the SA leader in Berlin. Prior to joining the Nazi Party, he had been a hotel bellboy and a bouncer at a gay nightclub. He w ...

and Karl-Günther Heimsoth killed. ** 1 July:

Berlin Sundgauer Straße station Berlin Sundgauer Straße (in German Bahnhof Berlin Sundgauer Straße) is a railway station in the Zehlendorf locality of Berlin, Germany, served by the Berlin S-Bahn and a local bus line. The station opened on 1 July 1934 during the electrificat ...

opened. ** 27 September: Ferdowsi millennial celebration in Berlin. ** 31 December: Population: 4,218,332. ** City becomes seat of the Greater Berlin and Mark Brandenburg

Gaue ''Gau'' (German , nl, gouw , fy, gea or ''goa'' ) is a Germanic term for a region within a country, often a former or current province. It was used in the Middle Ages, when it can be seen as roughly corresponding to an English shire. The adm ...

(Nazi administrative divisions). * 1935 ** 31 January:

Berlin Humboldthain station Berlin Humboldthain (in German Bahnhof Berlin Humboldthain) is a railway station in the city of Berlin, Germany. It is served by the Berlin S-Bahn The Berlin S-Bahn () is a rapid transit railway system in and around Berlin, the capital city o ...

opened. ** 22 March: First TV broadcasting service in the world in operation. ** 28 March: Premiere of the film ''

Triumph of the Will ''Triumph of the Will'' (german: Triumph des Willens) is a 1935 German Nazi propaganda film directed, produced, edited and co-written by Leni Riefenstahl. Adolf Hitler commissioned the film and served as an unofficial executive producer; his n ...

''. ** 1 October:

Berlin Bornholmer Straße station Berlin ( , ) is the capital and largest city of Germany by both area and population. Its 3.7 million inhabitants make it the European Union's most populous city, according to population within city limits. One of Germany's sixteen constituen ...

opened. ** 29 November:

Deutschlandhalle Deutschlandhalle was an arena located in the Westend (Berlin), Westend neighbourhood of Berlin, Germany. It was inaugurated on 29 November 1935 by Adolf Hitler. The building was granted landmark status in 1995, but was demolished on 3 December 20 ...

inaugurated. ** 31 December: Population: 4,226,584. **

Olympiapark Schwimmstadion Berlin Olympiapark Schwimmstadion Berlin (german: Berlin Olympic Swim Stadium) is an aquatics venue located at Olympiapark Berlin in Berlin, Germany constructed for the 1936 Summer Olympics. Located north of the Olympic Stadium it hosted the diving, sw ...

built. ** Nazi SS-Hauptamt headquartered in Berlin, on Prinz-Albrecht-Straße. * 1936 ** January: Gosen Canal opened. ** 1 April: Luftkriegsschule 2 Berlin-Gatow staff and technical college opened. ** 28 May: ***

Berlin Nord-Süd Tunnel The North–South S-Bahn Tunnel (german: Nord-Süd-Tunnel) is the central section of the North–South transversal Berlin S-Bahn connection crossing the city centre. It is not to be confused with the , the central tunnel part of the North–South ...

opened. *** Berlin Oranienburger Straße station opened. ** July:

Sachsenhausen concentration camp Sachsenhausen () or Sachsenhausen-Oranienburg was a German Nazi concentration camp in Oranienburg, Germany, used from 1936 until April 1945, shortly before the defeat of Nazi Germany in May later that year. It mainly held political prisoner ...

established near the city. ** 16 July: Berlin-Marzahn concentration camp established. ** 27 July:

Berlin Brandenburger Tor station Berlin Brandenburger Tor (in German ''Bahnhof Berlin Brandenburger Tor'') – formerly Berlin Unter den Linden (1936-2009) – is an underground railway station in the central Mitte district of Berlin, Germany, located on the Unter den Linden bo ...

opened. ** 1 August:

Olympic Stadium ''Olympic Stadium'' is the name usually given to the main stadium of an Olympic Games. An Olympic stadium is the site of the opening and closing ceremonies. Many, though not all, of these venues actually contain the words ''Olympic Stadium'' as ...

opened. ** 1–16 August: 1936 Summer Olympics held. ** 2 August:

Waldbühne The Waldbühne (''Woodland Stage'' or ''Forest Stage'') is a theatre at Olympiapark Berlin in Berlin, Germany. It was designed by German architect Werner March in emulation of a Greek theatre and built between 1934 and 1936 as the Dietrich-Eckar ...

amphitheater opened. ** August: Air Ministry Building completed. ** 31 December: Population: 4,267,560. ** Bundesautobahn 9 from Berlin to Munich opened. **

Vorbunker The ''Vorbunker'' (upper bunker or forward bunker) was an underground concrete structure originally intended to be a temporary air-raid shelter for Adolf Hitler and his guards and servants. It was located behind the large reception hall that wa ...

built. * 1937 ** 5 January:

Julius Lippert Julius Lippert (9 July 1895 – 30 June 1956) was a German politician in the Nazi Party. Early life and World War I Born in Basel, Switzerland, he became an extreme anti-Semite in his youth after reading the anti-Semitic philosophers Joseph ...

becomes mayor. ** 30 January: Albert Speer becomes for the Reich capital. ** 28 May:

Volkswagen Volkswagen (),English: , . abbreviated as VW (), is a German motor vehicle manufacturer headquartered in Wolfsburg, Lower Saxony, Germany. Founded in 1937 by the German Labour Front under the Nazi Party and revived into a global brand post-W ...

auto company founded. ** 31 December: Population: 4,314,432. ** 700th anniversary of the city celebrated. **

Messe Berlin Messe Berlin (') are exhibition grounds in the Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf precinct of Berlin, Germany, at Masurenallee opposite the Haus des Rundfunks. Since 2011, they have officially been known as "Berlin ExpoCenter City" and operated by the M ...

built. * 1938 ** 20 April:

Olympia (1938 film) ''Olympia'' is a 1938 German sports film written, directed and produced by Leni Riefenstahl, which documented the 1936 Summer Olympics, held in the Olympic Stadium in Berlin during the Nazi period. The film was released in two parts: ''Olympia 1 ...

released. ** 29 April:

DEST German Earth and Stone Works (german: Deutsche Erd- und Steinwerke GmbH, ) was an SS-owned company created to procure and manufacture building materials for state construction projects in Nazi Germany. DEST was a subsidiary company of ''Amtsgru ...

founded. ** 9–10 November:

Kristallnacht () or the Night of Broken Glass, also called the November pogrom(s) (german: Novemberpogrome, ), was a pogrom against Jews carried out by the Nazi Party's (SA) paramilitary and (SS) paramilitary forces along with some participation fro ...

;

and Spandau Synagogue burned. ** 31 December: Population: 4,347,875. ** Schwimmhalle Finckensteinallee opened. **

Helicopter A helicopter is a type of rotorcraft in which lift and thrust are supplied by horizontally spinning rotors. This allows the helicopter to take off and land vertically, to hover, and to fly forward, backward and laterally. These attributes ...

flight demonstrated. **

Elektro-Mess-Technik Elektromesstechnik (EMT) is a manufacturer of phonograph turntables and professional audio equipment, including a well-regarded line of artificial reverberation devices beginning with the EMT 140 plate reverb. The company was founded by Wilhelm ...

founded. * 1939 ** 10 January: New Reich Chancellery completed. ** 15 April:

opened. ** 20 April: Adolf Hitler's 50th birthday. ** 17 May: Population: 4,338,756. ** 1 September: German declaration of war against Poland. ** 31 December: Population: 4,330,640. * 1940 ** 1 January: Altglienicke station opened. ** July:

Ludwig Steeg Ludwig Steeg (22 December 1894 – 6 September 1945), German Nazi politician, was appointed City President (Lord Mayor) of Berlin from 1940 to 1945. Biography Steeg was born in Ottweiler near Saarbrücken, the son of a teacher. As a young man he ...

becomes mayor. ** 25 August:

Bombing of Berlin in World War II A bomb is an explosive weapon that uses the exothermic reaction of an explosive material to provide an extremely sudden and violent release of energy. Detonations inflict damage principally through ground- and atmosphere-transmitted mechanic ...

begins. ** 31 December: Population: 4,330,810. ** Reichsbank extension ('' Haus am Werderschen Markt'') built. ** Telefunkenwerk Zehlendorf built. * 1941 ** 14 October: Deportation of Jews to the east ordered by

Kurt Daluege Kurt Max Franz Daluege (15 September 1897 – 24 October 1946) was chief of the national uniformed ''Ordnungspolizei'' (Order Police) of Nazi Germany. Following Reinhard Heydrich's assassination in 1942, he served as Deputy Protector for th ...

. ** 11 December:

German declaration of war against the United States On 11 December 1941, four days after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor and the United States declaration of war against the Japanese Empire, Nazi Germany declared war against the United States, in response to what was claimed to be a serie ...

. ** 31 December: Population: 4,383,882. **

terminal built. **

Zoo Tower The Zoo flak tower (German: ''Flakturm Tiergarten'', ''Tiergarten Flak Tower'' or commonly referred to as the "Zoo Tower") was a fortified flak tower that existed in Berlin from 1941 to 1947. It was one of several flak towers that protected Berl ...

built. * 1942 ** 20 January: Wannsee Conference. ** 31 December: Population: 4,478,102. **

Schwerbelastungskörper The (German: "heavy load-exerting body") is a large concrete cylinder located at the intersection of Dudenstraße, General-Pape-Straße, and Loewenhardtdamm in the northwestern part of the borough of Tempelhof in Berlin, Germany. It was built ...

built. * 1943 ** 28 January: Mass deportation of Jews to Auschwitz concentration camp ordered. ** February–March:

Rosenstrasse protest Rosenstrasse (or Rosenstraße) is a street in Berlin. It may more specifically refer to: *Rosenstrasse protest Rosenstrasse (or Rosenstraße) is a street in Berlin. It may more specifically refer to: * Rosenstrasse protests, street protests, Be ...

. ** 18 February: Proclamation of Total War in the

Sportpalast speech The ''Sportpalast'' speech (german: link=no, Sportpalastrede) or Total War speech was a speech delivered by German Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels at the Berlin Sportpalast to a large, carefully selected audience on 18 February 1943, as ...

by Joseph Goebbels. ** 1 April:

Berlin Albrechtshof station Berlin-Albrechtshof is a railway station located in Staaken, a locality in the Spandau district of Berlin. It is one of only two Deutsche Bahn stations in Berlin not served by the S-Bahn; Staaken station is the other. Overview The station is sit ...

opened. ** 18 November:

Battle of Berlin (RAF campaign) The Battle of Berlin (November 1943 to March 1944) was a bombing campaign against Berlin by RAF Bomber Command along with raids on other German cities to keep German defences dispersed. Air Chief Marshal Sir Arthur Harris, Air Officer Commandin ...

begins. ** 31 December: Population: 4,430,204. ** Bunker (Berlin) air raid shelter built. * 1944 ** 31 March:

RAF The Royal Air Force (RAF) is the United Kingdom's air and space force. It was formed towards the end of the First World War on 1 April 1918, becoming the first independent air force in the world, by regrouping the Royal Flying Corps (RFC) and ...

bombing campaign ends. ** 21 July: Execution of 20 July plot conspirators. ** 23 October: Führerbunker completed. ** 31 December: Population: 4,361,398. * 1945 ** 16 April: Battle of Berlin begins. ** 20 April: Operation Clausewitz begins. ** 22 April: '' Panzerbär'' begins publishing. ** 23 April:

Battle in Berlin The battle in Berlin was an end phase of the Battle of Berlin. While the Battle ''of'' Berlin encompassed the attack by three Soviet Army Groups to capture not only Berlin but the territory of Germany east of the River Elbe still under German co ...

begins. ** 24 April: Red Army encirclement of Berlin complete. ** 30 April:

Death of Adolf Hitler Adolf Hitler, chancellor and dictator of Germany from 1933 to 1945, died by suicide via gunshot on 30 April 1945 in the in Berlin after it became clear that Germany would lose the Battle of Berlin, which led to the end of World War II in Eur ...

in the Führerbunker. ** 1 May: Suicides of

Joseph Joseph is a common male given name, derived from the Hebrew Yosef (יוֹסֵף). "Joseph" is used, along with "Josef", mostly in English, French and partially German languages. This spelling is also found as a variant in the languages of the mo ...

and

Magda Goebbels Johanna Maria Magdalena "Magda" Goebbels (née Ritschel; 11 November 1901 – 1 May 1945) was the wife of Nazi Germany's Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels. A prominent member of the Nazi Party, she was a close ally, companion, and politic ...

. ** 2 May: ***

Red Army The Workers' and Peasants' Red Army ( Russian: Рабо́че-крестья́нская Кра́сная армия),) often shortened to the Red Army, was the army and air force of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic and, afte ...

capture of the Reichstag building. *** Battle of Berlin ends. *** Nikolai Berzarin becomes commander of the Soviet sector of city. ** 8 May: Ceremonial

German Instrument of Surrender The German Instrument of Surrender (german: Bedingungslose Kapitulation der Wehrmacht, lit=Unconditional Capitulation of the " Wehrmacht"; russian: Акт о капитуляции Германии, Akt o kapitulyatsii Germanii, lit=Act of capi ...

signed in

Karlshorst Karlshorst (, ; ; literally meaning ''Karl's nest'') is a locality in the borough of Lichtenberg in Berlin. Located there are a harness racing track and the Hochschule für Technik und Wirtschaft Berlin (''HTW''), the largest University of Appli ...

. ** 21 May:

Berliner Zeitung The ''Berliner Zeitung'' (, ''Berlin Newspaper'') is a daily newspaper based in Berlin, Germany. Founded in East Germany in 1945, it is the only East German paper to achieve national prominence since reunification. It is published by Berliner ...

begins publishing. ** Spring–summer: Mass rape of 100,000 German women by the Red Army. ** 5 June:

Berlin Declaration (1945) The Berlin Declaration (german: Berliner Erklärung/Deklaration) of 5 June 1945 or the Declaration regarding the defeat of Germany,Officially, the "Declaration regarding the defeat of Germany and the assumption of supreme authority with respect to ...

. ** 13 June: '' Deutsche Volkszeitung'' begins publishing. ** 4 July:

Floyd L. Parks Lieutenant General Floyd Lavinius Parks (9 February 1896 – 10 March 1959) was a United States Army officer who served with distinction during World War II. During the war, he was chief of staff of the US Army Ground Forces and the First Allied A ...

becomes commander of the U.S. sector of city. ** 5 July:

Lewis Lyne Major-General Lewis Owen Lyne CB DSO (21 August 1899 – 4 November 1970) was a British Army officer who served before and during the Second World War. He saw distinguished active service in command of the 169th Brigade in action in North Afri ...

becomes commander of the British sector of city. ** 7 July: '' Das Volk'' begins publishing. ** 11 July: Geoffroi du Bois de Beauchesne becomes commander of the French sector of city. ** 17 July-2 August:

Potsdam Conference The Potsdam Conference (german: Potsdamer Konferenz) was held at Potsdam in the Soviet occupation zone from July 17 to August 2, 1945, to allow the three leading Allies to plan the postwar peace, while avoiding the mistakes of the Paris P ...

held. ** 21 July: Victory Parade. ** 12 August: Population: 2,807,405. ** 30 August: Allied Control Council constituted. ** 12 December:

Berlin Air Safety Center The Berlin Air Safety Centre (BASC) was established by the Allied Control Council's Coordinating Committee on 12 December 1945. It was located in the former Kammergericht Building, on Kleistpark, Berlin. Operations began in February 1946 under q ...

established. ** 31 December: Population: 3,064,629.

1946–1989

* 1946 ** 15 May:

Buckower Chaussee station Buckower Chaussee station is a station on the Berlin–Dresden railway in the locality of Marienfelde in the Berlin borough of Tempelhof-Schöneberg. It is served by Berlin S-Bahn line S2. History Buckower Chaussee station was established on ...

opened. ** October: City election held. ** 29 October: Population: 3,170,832. ** 31 December: Population: 3,213,966. **

Berlin Schönefeld Airport Berlin Schönefeld Airport () (formerly ) was the secondary international airport of Berlin, the capital of Germany. It was located southeast of Berlin near the town of Schönefeld in the state of Brandenburg and bordered Berlin's southern bou ...

opened. * 1947 ** 8 February: Karlslust dance hall fire. ** Ernst Reuter becomes mayor. ** 31 December: Population: 3,271,179. * 1948 ** 5 April:

1948 Gatow air disaster The 1948 Gatow air disaster was a mid-air collision in the airspace above Berlin, Germany that occurred on 5 April, sparking an international incident. A British European Airways (BEA) Vickers VC.1B Viking airliner crashed near RAF Gatow air ba ...

. ** 24 June: Soviet

blockade A blockade is the act of actively preventing a country or region from receiving or sending out food, supplies, weapons, or communications, and sometimes people, by military force. A blockade differs from an embargo or sanction, which are leg ...

begins. ** 26 June: Allied airlift of supplies begins. ** 4 December:

Free University of Berlin The Free University of Berlin (, often abbreviated as FU Berlin or simply FU) is a public research university in Berlin, Germany. It is consistently ranked among Germany's best universities, with particular strengths in political science and t ...

established. ** 31 December: Population: 3,312,307. **

Berlin Tegel Airport Berlin Tegel "Otto Lilienthal" Airport (german: link=no, Flughafen Berlin-Tegel „Otto Lilienthal“) was the primary international airport of Berlin, the federal capital of Germany. The airport was named after aviation pioneer Otto Lilienth ...

opened. ** Kampfgruppe gegen Unmenschlichkeit formed. **

Handelsorganisation The Handelsorganisation (“Trading Organisation”, or HO) was a national retail business owned by the central administration of the Soviet Zone of occupation in Germany and from 1949 on by the state of the German Democratic Republic. It was cre ...

grocery opens in East Berlin. * 1949 ** 12 May:

Berlin Blockade The Berlin Blockade (24 June 1948 – 12 May 1949) was one of the first major international crises of the Cold War. During the multinational occupation of post–World War II Germany, the Soviet Union blocked the Western Allies' railway, ro ...

ends. ** November:

Berliner Ensemble The Berliner Ensemble () is a German theatre company established by actress Helene Weigel and her husband, playwright Bertolt Brecht, in January 1949 in East Berlin. In the time after Brecht's exile, the company first worked at Wolfgang Langho ...

founded. ** 8 December: Supreme Court of East Germany set up. ** 31 December: Population: 3,328,193. ** City divided into East Berlin and West Berlin. ** East Berlin becomes capital of the German Democratic Republic. ** Currywurst introduced on . * 1950 ** 18 January: Marienfelde refugee transit camp opened. ** 29 April: Liebknecht Bridge opened. ** 20 May: Stadion der Weltjugend, Walter-Ulbricht-Stadion opened. ** 31 December: Population: 3,336,026. ** Werner-Seelenbinder-Halle opened. ** Academy of Arts, Berlin, Academy of Arts established in East Berlin. ** Freedom Bell installed in Rathaus Schöneberg, city hall of West Berlin. * 1951 ** 11 January: Abgeordnetenhaus of Berlin, Landtag (parliament) of West Berlin established. ** 6–17 June: Berlin International Film Festival begins in West Berlin. ** 27 July: Kindl-Bühne Wuhlheide, Ernst Thälmann Pioneer Park opened. ** 3 August: Stalin Statue (Berlin) dedicated. ** 31 December: Population: 3,351,865. ** East Berlin hosts 3rd World Festival of Youth and Students. ** Berliner Festspiele established in West Berlin. * 1952 ** Waggon Union, Deutsche Waggon und Maschinenfabrik in business. ** 1 May: Hochhaus an der Weberwiese completed. ** 20 February: Knaack club opened. ** 1 October: Friedrich-Ludwig-Jahn-Sportpark opened. ** 31 December: Population: 3,374,178. * 1953 ** June: Uprising of 1953 in East Germany, Uprising in East Berlin. ** 31 December: Population: 3,367,406. * 1954 ** 25 January – 18 February: Berlin Conference (1954) held. ** 10 September: Amerika-Gedenkbibliothek opened. ** 31 December: Population: 3,350,957. ** Academy of Arts, Berlin, Academy of Arts established in West Berlin. ** SC Dynamo Berlin founded. * 1955 ** 2 July: Tierpark Berlin opened. ** 31 December: Population: 3,343,182. ** Radrennbahn Weissensee cycling track opened. * 1956 ** 3 May: *** Afrikanische Straße (Berlin U-Bahn) station opened. *** Kurt-Schumacher-Platz (Berlin U-Bahn) station opened. *** Rehberge (Berlin U-Bahn) station opened. ** 3 June: Plänterwald railway station opened. ** 31 December: Population: 3,345,650. ** Westhafen Canal opened. **

reconstructed; becomes city hall of East Berlin. * 1957 ** 31 December: Population: 3,338,561. ** International Building Exposition held. ** Haus der Kulturen der Welt built in West Berlin. * 1958 ** 31 May: *** Alt-Tegel (Berlin U-Bahn) station opened. *** Borsigwerke (Berlin U-Bahn) station opened. *** Holzhauser Straße (Berlin U-Bahn) station opened. *** Otisstraße (Berlin U-Bahn) station opened. *** Scharnweberstraße (Berlin U-Bahn) station opened. ** 31 December: Population: 3,316,353. ** Bundesautobahn 100 opened. * 1959 ** 2 June: Spichernstraße (Berlin U-Bahn) station opened. ** 31 December: Population: 3,290,333. ** Institute for European Politics founded in West Berlin. ** Jüdisches Gemeindehaus Fasanenstraße (Jewish centre) inaugurated in West Berlin. * 1960 ** 31 December: Population: 3,274,016. ** Gropiusstadt developed. * 1961 ** 28 January: Birkenstraße (Berlin U-Bahn) station opened. ** 8 May: Augsburger Straße (Berlin U-Bahn) station opened. ** 4 June: Berlin Crisis of 1961 begins. ** 13–15 August: Berlin Wall construction begins between East Berlin and West Berlin. ** 19–20 August: U.S. vice president Lyndon B. Johnson visits West Berlin ** 28 August: *** Amrumer Straße (Berlin U-Bahn) station opened. *** Hansaplatz (Berlin U-Bahn) station opened. *** Kurfürstendamm (Berlin U-Bahn) station opened. *** Leopoldplatz U9 platform opened. *** Spichernstraße U9 platform opened. *** Turmstraße (Berlin U-Bahn) station opened. ***

station opened. *** Berlin Zoologischer Garten U9 platform opened. ** 27–28 October: U.S.–Soviet confrontation at Checkpoint Charlie. ** 31 December: Population: 3,252,691. ** Max Planck Institute for Human Development established. ** Ampelmännchen pedestrian signal introduced in East Berlin. * 1962 ** 27 May: Grünbergallee station opened. ** 17 August: Killing of Peter Fechter at the Berlin Wall by East German border guards. ** 31 December: Population: 3,235,231. * 1963 ** 5 May: Maria Regina Martyrum consecrated. ** 26 June: U.S. president John F. Kennedy, Kennedy gives ''Ich bin ein Berliner'' speech in West Berlin. ** 28 September: *** Blaschkoallee (Berlin U-Bahn) station opened. *** Parchimer Allee (Berlin U-Bahn) station opened. ** 29 September: Britz-Süd (Berlin U-Bahn) station opened. ** 15 October: Berliner Philharmonie opened. ** 15 November: Kino International opened. ** 31 December: Population: 3,251,489. ** Berliner Philharmonie (concert hall) built in West Berlin. ** Berliner Singakademie (East Berlin), Berliner Singakademie founded in East Berlin. ** Hotel Berolina opened. ** Wellblechpalast opened. ** Biotronik founded. * 1964 ** 18 July: Fernmeldeturm Berlin in service. ** 31 December: Population: 3,270,959. ** Old Palace rebuilt. ** Prinzessinnenpalais rebuilt. ** JazzFest Berlin begins in West Berlin. * 1965 ** 2 April: Europa-Center inaugurated. ** 31 December: Population: 3,274,500. * 1966 ** 28 February: *** Alt-Mariendorf (Berlin U-Bahn) station opened. *** Alt-Tempelhof (Berlin U-Bahn) station opened. *** Kaiserin-Augusta-Straße (Berlin U-Bahn) station opened. *** Möckernbrücke U7 platform opened. *** Ullsteinstraße (Berlin U-Bahn) station opened. *** Westphalweg (Berlin U-Bahn) station opened. ** May: Zentraler Omnibusbahnhof Berlin opened. ** 17 September: Deutsche Film- und Fernsehakademie Berlin founded. ** 31 December: Population: 3,265,398. ** Prussian Heritage Image Archive established. * 1967 ** 2 June: Death of Benno Ohnesorg. ** 15 September: Brücke Museum opened. ** 31 December: Population: 3,245,325. ** Strausberger Platz built. ** Sister city relationship established with Los Angeles, USA. * 1968 ** 11 April: Josef Bachmann's assassination attempt against Rudi Dutschke. ** 31 December: Population: 3,225,354. ** Neue Nationalgalerie, New National Gallery opens in West Berlin. * 1969 ** 30 September: World Clock (Alexanderplatz) opened. ** 3 October: Fernsehturm Berlin (TV tower) erected in East Berlin. ** 31 December: Population: 3,218,112. ** Neuer Berliner Kunstverein founded. ** Kulturpark Plänterwald opened. * 1970 ** 2 January: *** Johannisthaler Chaussee (Berlin U-Bahn) station opened. *** Lipschitzallee (Berlin U-Bahn) station opened. *** Wutzkyallee (Berlin U-Bahn) station opened. *** Zwickauer Damm (Berlin U-Bahn) station opened. ** 7 October: Park Inn Berlin, Hotel Stadt Berlin built in East Berlin. ** 31 December: Population: 3,208,719. ** Protestant Church of Plötzensee inaugurated. * 1971 ** 29 January: *** Bayerischer Platz U7 platform opened. *** Berliner Straße (Berlin U-Bahn) station opened. *** Blissestraße (Berlin U-Bahn) station opened. *** Berlin Bundesplatz U-Bahn station opened *** Eisenacher Straße station opened *** Fehrbelliner Platz U7 platform opened. *** Friedrich-Wilhelm-Platz (Berlin U-Bahn) station opened. *** Güntzelstraße (Berlin U-Bahn) station opened. *** Kleistpark (Berlin U-Bahn) station opened. *** Walther-Schreiber-Platz (Berlin U-Bahn) station opened. *** Berlin Yorckstraße U7 platform opened. ** 4 December: Georg von Rauch shot and killed during arrest by West Berlin police. ** 31 December: Population: 3,172,902. ** 2 June Movement anarchist group active in West Berlin. * 1972 ** 15 May: Memorial to Polish Soldiers and German Anti-Fascists dedicated. ** 3 June: Four Power Agreement on Berlin in force. ** 1 July: Rudow (Berlin U-Bahn) station opened. ** 21 December: Basic Treaty, 1972 signed. ** 31 December: Population: 3,152,489. ** Kunstbibliothek Berlin opened. * 1973 ** 25 June: Tierpark (Berlin U-Bahn) station opened. ** 31 December: Population: 3,136,776. ** Großgaststätte Ahornblatt (restaurant) built in East Berlin. * 1974 ** 30 September: *** Berlin Rathaus Steglitz U-Bahn station opened. *** Schloßstraße (Berlin U-Bahn) station opened. ** 13 October: Berlin Marathon begins in West Berlin. ** 31 December: Population: 3,118,134. * 1975 ** 31 December: Population: 3,083,011. ** Berlinische Galerie opened. ** Berlin University of the Arts, Hochschule der Künste Berlin (art school) formed. ** Peter Lorenz becomes president of the Abgeordnetenhaus of Berlin, Landtag of West Berlin. * 1976 ** 23 April: Palace of the Republic, Berlin, Palace of the Republic inaugurated. ** 30 April: *** Nauener Platz (Berlin U-Bahn) station opened. *** Osloer Straße (Berlin U-Bahn) U9 station opened. ** 13 October: Bierpinsel opened. ** 30 December: Berlin Springpfuhl station opened. ** 31 December: Population: 3,056,973. * 1977 ** 5 October: *** Osloer Straße U8 platform opened. *** Pankstraße (Berlin U-Bahn) station opened. ** 31 December: Population: 3,044,968. * 1978 ** 28 April: *** Adenauerplatz (Berlin U-Bahn) station opened. *** Bismarckstraße (Berlin U-Bahn) station opened. *** Konstanzer Straße (Berlin U-Bahn) station opened. *** Wilmersdorfer Straße (Berlin U-Bahn) station opened. ** July: Air Berlin established. ** 31 December: Population: 3,038,689. ** Berlin Motor Show begins in West Berlin. ** Berlin State Library building opens on Haus Potsdamer Straße in West Berlin. * 1979 ** 5 March: BESSY founded. ** 2 April: Internationales Congress Centrum Berlin opened. ** 31 December: Population: 3,042,504. ** Teufel (manufacturer), Teufel company founded. * 1980 ** 1 May: Tempodrom opened. ** 1 October: *** Halemweg (Berlin U-Bahn) station opened. *** Jakob-Kaiser-Platz (Berlin U-Bahn) station opened. *** Berlin Jungfernheide U7 station opened. *** Mierendorffplatz (Berlin U-Bahn) station opened. *** Rohrdamm (Berlin U-Bahn) station opened. *** Siemensdamm (Berlin U-Bahn) station opened. ** founded. ** Memorial to the German Resistance erected. ** 15 December: *** Mehrower Allee station opened. *** Raoul-Wallenberg-Straße station opened. ** 31 December: Population: 3,048,759. * 1981 ** 20 November: Western entrance to Teltow Canal reopened. ** 31 December: Population: 3,050,974. ** AG Märkische Kleinbahn established. * 1982 ** 15 January: 1982 Berlin restaurant bombing. ** 31 December: Population: 3,042,612. * 1983 ** 12 August: Weltkugelbrunnen opened. ** 25 August: Bombing of French consulate in West Berlin. ** 26 September: IAV founded. ** 31 December: Population: 3,040,035. ** German Museum of Technology opened. ** founded. * 1984 ** 9 February: Eberhard Diepgen becomes List of mayors of Berlin, mayor of West Berlin. ** 1 October: *** Altstadt Spandau (Berlin U-Bahn) station opened. *** Haselhorst (Berlin U-Bahn) station opened. *** Paulsternstraße (Berlin U-Bahn) station opened. *** Rathaus Spandau (Berlin U-Bahn) station opened. *** Zitadelle (Berlin U-Bahn) station opened. ** 20 December: Berlin-Hohenschönhausen station opened. ** 31 December: Population: 3,045,456. * 1985 ** 31 December: Population: 3,075,670. ** West Berlin hosts Bundesgartenschau (garden show). ** ESCP Europe school moves to Berlin. * 1986 ** 1 January: Deutsches Herzzentrum Berlin opened. ** 5 April: West Berlin discotheque bombing. ** 31 December: Population: 3,115,473. * 1987 ** 750th anniversary of founding of Berlin celebrated. ** Topography of Terror exhibit opens. ** 27 April: *** Franz-Neumann-Platz (Berlin U-Bahn) station opened. *** Paracelsus-Bad (Berlin U-Bahn) station opened. *** Residenzstraße (Berlin U-Bahn) station opened. ** 1 May: May Day in Kreuzberg begins. ** 12 June: U.S. president Ronald Reagan, Reagan gives ''Tear down this wall!'' speech in West Berlin. ** 31 December: Population: 3,273,630. * 1988 ** 31 March – 2 April: Four Nations Tournament (1988). ** 1 July: *** Biesdorf-Süd (Berlin U-Bahn) station opened. *** Elsterwerdaer Platz (Berlin U-Bahn) station opened. ** 31 December: Population: 3,352,848. ** West Berlin designated a European Capital of Culture. ** 1988 IMF/World Bank protests. ** Metropol Verlag founded. * 1989 ** Population: 1,279,212 in East Berlin. ** 1 July: *** Cottbusser Platz (Berlin U-Bahn) station opened. *** Hellersdorf (Berlin U-Bahn) station opened. *** Hönow (Berlin U-Bahn) station opened. *** Kaulsdorf-Nord (Berlin U-Bahn) station opened. *** Louis-Lewin-Straße (Berlin U-Bahn) station opened. *** Kienberg (Gärten der Welt) (Berlin U-Bahn) station opened. *** Berlin Wuhletal station opened. ** 7 October: Demonstrations in East Berlin. ** 4 November: Alexanderplatz demonstration in East Berlin. ** 9 November: Berlin Wall Fall of the Berlin Wall, opened between East Berlin and West Berlin. ** 31 December: Population: 3,409,737.

1990s

* 1990 ** 13 June: Demolition of the Berlin wall begins. ** 1 August: Most roads between West and East Berlin rebuilt and reopened. ** 28 September: East Side Gallery opened. ** 3 October: German reunification; unified Berlin designated capital of the Federal Republic of Germany. ** 7 November: Stasi Museum opened. ** 1 December: Schichauweg railway station opened. ** 31 December: Population: 3,433,695. ** Federal Commissioner for the Stasi Records and headquartered in Berlin. ** Kunsthaus Tacheles established. * 1991 ** 20 June: Decision on the Capital of Germany. ** 4 July: Alba Berlin founded. ** 31 December: Population: 3,446,031. * 1992 ** 1 January: Weierstrass Institute established. ** 17 September: Mykonos restaurant assassinations. ** 31 December: Population: 3,456,891. ** A-Trane club opened. * 1993 ** 1 October: West and East Berlin Academy of Arts merged. ** 31 December: Population: 3,461,421. ** Max Planck Institute for Infection Biology established. **

renovated. ** Transparency International headquartered in city. ** Magix founded. ** Japanische Internationale Schule zu Berlin established. * 1994 ** March: Max Planck Institute for the History of Science established. ** 26 April: Berlin-Bonn Act. ** 9 September: Russian and Allied occupation of Berlin, Allied forces depart. ** 24 September: *** Berlin Karl-Bonhoeffer-Nervenklinik U-Bahn station opened. *** Lindauer Allee (Berlin U-Bahn) station opened. *** Rathaus Reinickendorf (Berlin U-Bahn) station opened. *** Berlin-Wittenau U-Bahn station opened. ** 31 December: Population: 3,452,284. ** Berlin-Hohenschönhausen Memorial opened. ** Berlin British School founded. * 1995 ** 17 January: Die Pyramide completed. ** 10 May: German-Russian Museum opens. ** June: Artist Christo Christo's Wrapped Reichstag, wraps the Reichstag. ** 31 December: Population: 3,446,039. ** Berlin Central and Regional Library opened. * 1996 ** 13 July: Berlin Hermannstraße U-Bahn station opened. ** 13 December: Max-Schmeling-Halle opened. ** 31 December: Population: 3,428,644. **

rebuilt. ** City website online (approximate date). ** Berggruen Museum and open. * 1997 ** 5 September: Velodrom (Berlin), Velodrom arena opened. ** December: Propeller Island City Lodge founded. ** 31 December: Population: 3,387,901. ** Computerspielemuseum Berlin, Computer Games Museum founded. * 1998 ** 20 May: Treptowers opened. ** 12 June: Gemäldegalerie, Berlin, Gemäldegalerie opened. ** 25 September: Osdorfer Straße station opened. ** 2 October: Mendelssohn-Bartholdy-Park (Berlin U-Bahn) station opened. ** 31 December: Population: 3,358,235. ** Allied Museum opened. * 1999 ** 17 February: 1999 Israeli consulate attack in Berlin. ** 19 April: German Bundestag (legislature) relocated to Berlin from Bonn per Berlin-Bonn Act. ** 31 December: Population: 3,340,887. ** Molecule Man (sculpture) installed in the Spree River. ** Clocktower reinstalled on

. * 2000 ** 14 June: Sony Center opened. ** 31 December: Population: 3,331,232. ** Bahntower built.

21st century

* 2001 ** February: Anhalter Steg bridge built. ** 2 May: Federal Chancellery (Berlin) completed. ** 16 June: Klaus Wowereit becomes Governing Mayor of Berlin, governing mayor. ** 9 September: Jewish Museum, Berlin opened. ** 21 October: Berlin state election, 2001. ** 31 December: Population: 3,337,232. ** Merger of Boroughs and localities of Berlin, boroughs: Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf, Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg, Marzahn-Hellersdorf, Steglitz-Zehlendorf, Tempelhof-Schöneberg, and Treptow-Köpenick formed. ** DZ Bank building constructed. ** Jewish Museum, Berlin, Jewish Museum opens. ** Berlin International Literature Festival begins. * 2002 ** 31 December: Population: 3,336,248. ** SRH Hochschule Berlin established. ** Berlin Philharmonic Chamber Orchestra founded. ** Exberliner English-language magazine founded. * 2003 ** 2 December: AquaDom opened. ** 31 December: Population: 3,330,242. * 2004 ** 1 January: Federal Joint Committee (Germany), Federal Joint Committee health agency established. ** May: Badeschiff opened. ** 3 June: Museum of Photography, Berlin opened. ** 9 December: University Library of the TU Berlin and UdK opened. ** 31 December: Population: 3,333,108. ** Festival of Lights (Berlin), Festival of Lights begins. * 2005 ** 7 February: Honor killing of Hatun Sürücü. ** 24 February: Berlin-Lichterfelde Süd–Teltow Stadt railway opened. ** 10 May: Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe unveiled. ** 30 June: Gustav Heinemann Bridge opened. ** 31 December: Population: 3,339,436. ** Philological Library opened. ** Transradio founded. * 2006 ** February: Institute for Media and Communication Policy. ** 26 May: Berlin Hauptbahnhof (Central station) constructed. ** 27 May: Berlin North–South mainline opened. ** 9 July: 2006 FIFA World Cup Final, FIFA World Cup Final held at Olympiastadion. ** 15 July: DDR Museum opened. ** 17 September: Berlin state election, 2006. ** 31 December: Population: 3,348,805. ** nursing home established. * 2007 ** July: Berlin Fashion Week first held. ** 12 September: Alexa Centre shopping mall opened. ** 31 December: Population: 3,353,858. ** Rocket Internet founded. * 2008 ** July: Scharf-Gerstenberg Collection opened. ** 10 September: Mercedes-Benz Arena (Berlin) opened. ** 1 October: BMG Rights Management founded. ** October: Zalando founded. ** 16 October: Khadija Mosque opened. ** 31 December: Population: 3,362,843. * 2009 ** 8 August: *** U55 (Berlin U-Bahn) line opened. *** Bundestag (Berlin U-Bahn) station opened. *** Berlin Hauptbahnhof U55 platforms opened. ** 15–23 August: 2009 World Championships in Athletics held. ** 16 October: Neues Museum reopened. ** 31 December: Population: 3,369,672. ** International Psychoanalytic University Berlin founded. ** (garden) created. * 2010 – 31 December: Population: 3,387,562. * 2011 ** 29 June: Humboldt Box opened. ** 18 September: Berlin state election, 2011. ** 15 October: Occupy Berlin. ** 31 December: Population: 3,427,114. * 2012 ** March: Waldorf Astoria Berlin, Zoofenster high-rise completed. ** 27 September: Rathaus Bridge inaugurated after rebuilding. ** 31 December: Population: 3,469,621. * 2013 ** 21 March: 2013 Berlin helicopter crash. ** 2 June: Hohenzollern Stadtschloss (palace) reconstruction begins. ** 3 November: Berlin energy referendum, 2013 held. ** 15 November: Museum in the Kulturbrauerei opened. ** 31 December: Population: 3,517,424. ** N26 (bank) founded. * 2014 ** March: .berlin internet domain name begins. ** 28 August: 2014 Conference of Western Balkan States, Berlin held. ** 25 September: Mall of Berlin opened. ** 31 December: Population: 3,562,166. ** Headquarters of the Federal Intelligence Service built. * 2015 ** 7 February: Victoria (2015 film), Victoria released. ** 31 December: Population: 3,610,156. * 2016 ** July: Protest against gentrification in Friedrichshain. ** 18 September: Berlin state election, 2016. ** 1 December: Berlin Police Academy established. ** 19 December: 2016 Berlin truck attack. ** 31 December: Population: 3,670,622. * 2017 ** 13 April: IGA Cable Car opened. ** 13 October: Babylon Berlin TV series released. ** 10 December: Berlin–Munich high-speed railway opened. ** 31 December: Population: 3,711,930. ** Urban art, Urban Nation museum open

* 2018 – 31 December: Population: 3,748,148. * 2022 - 8 June - 2022 Berlin car attack.

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