Historical place archive

Dresden in History

Browse historical events and people recorded at Dresden in Russia. The records below are rendered directly from the World History Database into this page's initial HTML.

4 records3 event labels3 people1813–1985

Historical events in Dresden

1813

26 August 1813
Battle of Dresden
Alexander I · Napoleonic Wars

Napoleon wins at Dresden against the allied armies, including Russian forces, during the 1813 campaign.

1968

March 1968
Dresden Warsaw Pact Meeting
Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev · Communist Party Government

Joins Warsaw Pact leaders in criticizing the direction of political reforms in Czechoslovakia.

1985

1985
KGB (Committee for State Security)
Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin · KGB (Committee for State Security)

Assigned to recruit spies in Dresden, East Germany

1985
KGB (Committee for State Security)
Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin · KGB (Committee for State Security)

From 1985 to 1990 the KGB stationed Putin in Dresden, East Germany

Provenance

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These entries are generated from stored World History Database records whose country and place fields match Russia and Dresden. Names, dates, event labels and descriptions are reviewed and normalised as the database develops. Historical place names may not match modern administrative boundaries.

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