Key Documents of German-Jewish History
A Digital Source Edition

Historical Epochs and Events

9th Century BCE

800 BCE–476 Antiquity

6th Century BCE

597 BCE–538 BCE Babylonian exile

3rd Century

284–610 Late antiquity

6th Century

500–1500 Middle Ages

8th Century

711–1492 Reconquista

13th Century

1250–1500 Spätmittelalter

15th Century

1420–1600 Renaissance
1450–1789 Early modern period

16th Century

1500– Modern era
August 23, 1572–August 24, 1572 St. Bartholomew's Day massacre

17th Century

1618–1648 Thirty Years' War
1655–1660 Second Northern War
1657–1660 Dano-Swedish Wars
1680–1790 Age of Enlightenment

18th Century

1720–1780 Rococo
1756–1763 Seven Years' War
1770–1840 Neoclassicism
1789–1799 French Revolution
1790–1830 Romanticism

19th Century

1800–1900 Industrielle Revolution
1803–1815 Napoleonic Wars
1813–1815 Wars of Liberation
October 16, 1813–October 19, 1813 Battle of Leipzig
1815–1830 Restoration
1815–1848 Vormärz
August 06, 1819–August 31, 1819 Carlsbad Decrees
1848–1849 Revolutions of 1848
1861–1865 American Civil War
1870–1871 Franco-Prussian War
1871–1873 Gründerzeit
1871–1918 German Empire

1900s

1904–1905 Russo-Japanese War
1905–1907 1905 Russian Revolution

1910s

1912–1913 Balkan Wars
1914–1918 World War I
November 1918–August 1919 German Revolution of 1918–19
November 09, 1918–January 30, 1933 Weimar Republic

1920s

1920–1930 The New Objectivity
1929–1932 Great Depression

1930s

1933–1934 "Take-over of power" by the National Socialists
January 30, 1933–May 08, 1945 National Socialist era
June 30, 1934–July 01, 1934 The Night of the Long Knives
1936–1939 Spanischer Bürgerkrieg <1936-1939>
November 09, 1938–November 10, 1938 November pogroms of 1938
1939–1945 World War II

1940s

December 07, 1941– Attack on Pearl Harbor
December 07, 1941–August 02, 1945 Pacific War
1945–1949 Post-war era
1947–1989 Cold War
1947–1949 1948 Palestine war

1960s

June 05, 1967–June 10, 1967 Six-Day War

1980s

1989–1990 German reunification