Berlin in History

Returns home claiming, "peace with honour". Attends the Congress of Berlin with Lord Salisbury

Disraeli signs a Treaty, 1st time the title "Prime Minister" is officially used

Serves with Disraeli and Salisbury in the British delegation to the Congress of Berlin.

Returns home claiming, "peace with honour"

The Congress of Berlin awards Cyprus to Britain. Returns home claiming, "peace with honour". Disraeli signs a Treaty, 1st time the title "Prime Minister" is officially used

Disraeli signs a Treaty, 1st time the title "Prime Minister" is officially used

Signs an agreement with Shuvalov providing for an Anglo-Russian-Ottoman commission to delimit the Alashkerd frontier.

Works with Count Shuvalov to settle major Anglo-Russian differences before and during the congress.

Accepts Russian possession of Batum after Russia declares its intention to make the port essentially commercial and free.

Supports Austro-Hungarian occupation of Bosnia and Herzegovina as part of the revised Balkan settlement.

Supports reducing the Bulgarian state created at San Stefano to limit Russian influence in the Balkans.

Accepts creation of Eastern Rumelia as an autonomous Ottoman province south of the new Bulgarian principality.

Supports provisions allowing the Great Powers to mediate if Greece and the Ottoman Empire cannot agree on frontier changes.

Helps shape the compromise that leaves Kars, Ardahan and Batum to Russia but restores Bayazid and Alashkerd to the Ottoman Empire.

Accepts Russian possession of Kars, Ardahan and Batum while opposing wider Russian expansion in Ottoman Asia.

Signs the Treaty of Berlin as British prime minister and First Lord of the Treasury.

Signs the Treaty of Berlin for Great Britain alongside Salisbury and Odo Russell.

Signs the Treaty of Berlin as Britain's ambassador at the German imperial court.

Signs the final settlement as Britain's foreign secretary.

Represents Britain when the principal instruments of ratification are exchanged in Berlin.

Britain participates in the Berlin Conference negotiations concerning trade and navigation in the Congo basin.

Germany agrees to support Britains claims in Nigeria, against the French

Birth of Victoria, eldest daughter of William II

Discusses naval competition and possible political understandings.

Visits Berlin seeking improved relations with Germany.

Appointed Ambassador of Germany

Meets Hitler to discuss the terms of the London Communique agreed with France

Appointed Ambassador of Germany

Invited by the German Hunting Association, hopes to inprove Anglo-German relations

Hapgood captains England against Germany where Hapgood and his players are made to give the Nazi salute before the match, under pressure from British diplomats, Hitler is not in attendance and England win the match 63

Retaliation for the bombing of London. RAF bombers attack Berlin for the 1st time

RAF bombers attack Berlin for the 1st time, retaliation for the bombing of London

The RAF makes its 1st bombing raid on Berlin

British bombers conduct a night raid on Berlin

1st day of the "battle of Berlin", 700 tons dropped by the RAF

1st day of the "battle of Berlin", 700 tons dropped by the RAF

Worst bombing of Berlin so far, 2,300 tons dropped

Berlin reported as "sea of flames", up to 10,000 dead

The RAF drops 2,300 tons of bombs on Berlin

Asks Eisenhower why the Americans are leaving Berlin to the Russians

The Berlin instrument confirms the final military surrender of Germany.

Present when Generalfeldmarschall Wilhelm Keitel signs the final German Instrument of Surrender entering into force at 23:01 Central European Time

With Allied leaders in Potsdam when he hears news of the succesful test explosion. Sees the atomic bomb as a means of delivering peace to the world

Western powers answer the blockade by supplying Berlin from the air while governments prepare for possible escalation.

The Russians blockade Berlin and the West responds with an airlift; during the Berlin crisis the government makes contingency plans for war

Western governments answer Soviet restrictions with economic countermeasures while refusing to abandon Berlin.

The west announces a counter-blockade from west to east. Announces the British will not withdraw from Berlin

Announces the British will not withdraw from Berlin

First day of the Berlin Airlift

Attlee's government demands restoration of access to Berlin and rejects Soviet pressure on the Western sectors.

Churchill warns that the confrontation over Berlin poses a grave international danger comparable with earlier European crises.

Demands that Russia lift its blockade of Berlin

Makes a speech saying the crisis is potentially as serious as the Munich conference

The lifting of restrictions ends the prolonged confrontation while Western air supply has kept the city functioning.

The Berlin blockade ends after 327 days

Pink Floyd play Berlin, the concert is very close to The Wall and 2,000 East German fans gather at their side to listen

400,000 people watch Roger Waters stage "The Wall" in Berlins Potsdamerplatz with a variety of guests

"The Wall - Live In Berlin" is released

The concert takes place on Potsdamer Platz, part of the former "no-mans land" of the Berlin Wall, and features many guest superstars: The Band, Bryan Adams, Cyndi Lauper, Van Morrison, Sin‚ad OConnor, The Scorpions, Marianne Faithfull, and Joni Mitchel

The concert takes place on Potsdamer Platz, part of the former "no-mans land" of the Berlin Wall, and features many guest superstars: The Band, Bryan Adams, Cyndi Lauper, Van Morrison, Sin‚ad OConnor, The Scorpions, Marianne Faithfull, and Joni Mitchel. After the Berlin Wall came down Waters stages The Wall Concert in Berlin to commemorate the end of the division between East and West Germany