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Siege of Hamburg
The Vikings burn Hamburg
Historical place archive
Browse historical events and people recorded at Hamburg in Germany. The records below are rendered directly from the World History Database into this page's initial HTML.
The Vikings burn Hamburg
Birth of Johann Franz Encke
Birth of Johannes Brahms
Marx publishes the first volume of Capital, analysing capitalist production and exploitation.
James Franck is born in Hamburg, Germany.
The future Nobel physicist is born into a Hamburg family.
First long-term appointment was at the Hamburg Opera in 1891, where he stays until 1897
Death of Johannes Brahms, died of liver cancer
Martial Law is declared in Hamburg
Birth of Helmut Heinrich Waldemar Schmidt, son of a school teacher
Bloody street fighting breaks out between communists and police in Hamburg.
Bloody street riots in Hamburg between communists and the police
Communists seize control in Hamburg during the October unrest.
Communist takeover of Hamburg
The Hamburg uprising is suppressed.
Hamburg uprising suppressed
Birth of Ralf Gustav Dahrendorf
The British Air Ministry announces that Hamburg lies in ruins
Death of Fedor von Bock during an Allied raid on Hamburg
Birth of Angela Dorothea Merkel
Appointed Professor of sociology in Hamburg (1957-60)
Ensslin is captured
Death of Karl Doenitz
Death of Helmut Schmidt
Provenance
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