Military Usage
Time: 1939
Place: Germany
Details: The German Volksgrenadier units each had a battalion of bicycle infantry attached. The Invasion of Poland saw many bicycle-riding scouts in use, with each bicycle company using 196 bicycles and 1 motorcycle. By September 1939, there were 41 bicycle companies mobilized.
‹ Earlier in historyGerman troops reached the suburbs of WarsawFriday Sep 8, 1939 Later in history ›Battle of the BzuraSaturday Sep 9, 1939
Best-effort ordering. Some events may appear out of order since many are only known to the year, but they are usually around the same period.
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994 - Germany
Adolf Hitler-U.S. Stock Market crashed
Thursday Oct 24, 1929 - Germany
Michael Ballack-Ballack made his return from injury
Sunday Feb 20, 2011 - Germany
Adolf Hitler-Elections of September 1930
Sunday Sep 14, 1930 - Germany
Holy Roman Empire-German mediatization
1795 - Germany, Holy Roman Empire
Adolf Hitler-1932 Presidential Elections
Sunday Apr 10, 1932 - Germany
World War II-World War I ended
Tuesday Nov 11, 1919 - Europe
Martin Bormann-Finishing his Service
Feb, 1919 - Germany
Holy Roman Empire-Heiliges Römisches Reich Deutscher Nation
1512 - Germany
Holy Roman Empire-Local wars
15th Century - Holy Roman Empire
Johann Valentin Birth
Friday Apr 3, 1682 - Oberelsbach
Adolf Hitler-Reichstag assembled under turbulent circumstances
Thursday Mar 23, 1933 - Germany
Incandescent light bulb-The Nernst Lamp
1897 - Germany
Holy Roman Empire-1220 Confoederatio cum principibus ecclesiasticis
Sunday Apr 26, 1220 - Germany, Holy Roman Empire
Michael Ballack-Divorce
2012 - Germany
Dahomey Amazons-Cobra Verde (flm)
1987 - Gremany
Adolf Hitler-"My Political Awakening"
Friday Sep 12, 1919 - Germany
Albrecht Kossel-Histidine
1896 - Germany
Adolf Hitler-The happiest day of his life
Tuesday Jun 18, 1935 - Germany
Heinrich Himmler-Prussian secret police force
1933 - Germany
Unification of Germany-Central Europe included more than 300 political entities
1789 - Central Europe (Present-Day Germany)
Adolf Hitler-Verbindungsmann
Jul, 1919 - Germany
Cameras-Johann Heinrich Schulze
1727 - Germany
Albrecht Kossel-Luise's Death
1913 - Germany
Marie Curie-Discovering The Existence of X-Rays
1895 - Germany
Michael Ballack-Ballack's shin injury consequences
Wednesday Oct 6, 2010 - Germany
Albrecht Kossel-Honesty
1917 - Germany
IBM-Quantum Computer
Mar, 2020 - Germany
Heinrich Himmler-Himmler in charge of Jews Extermination
Tuesday Jan 20, 1942 - Germany
Holy Roman Empire-The 1232 Statutum in favorem principum
1232 - Germany, Holy Roman Empire
Revolutions of 1848-A depiction of Leopold I of Belgium's symbolic offer to resign the crown
1848 - Germany
Cameras-Leica I
1925 - Germany
Cameras-The First camera to use a Pentaprism
1948 - Germany
Johann Sebastian Bach-Ueber Johann Sebastian Bachs Leben, Kunst und Kunstwerke
1802 - Germany
Heinrich Himmler-Reichsleiter (Ranks after Ranks)
Jun, 1933 - Germany
Heinrich Himmler-Abandon Catholicism
1924 - Germany
Cameras-The First practical reflex Camera
1928 - Germany
Heinrich Himmler-Joining The Schutzstaffel
1925 - Germany
Angela Merkel-Chancellor of Germany
Tuesday Nov 22, 2005 - Germany
Holy Roman Empire-Roman-German Empire
1971 - (then Germany)
Heinrich Himmler-The shooting of 100 Jews at Minsk
Aug, 1941 - Germany
Johann Sebastian Bach-Bach-Werke-Verzeichnis
1950 - Germany
Oskar Schindler (Schindler's List)-Getting arrested
Monday Jul 18, 1938 - Germany
Adidas-Adidas Sued The NCAA
1998 - Germany
Antibiotic-The First Sulfonamide and The First Systemically Active Antibacterial Drug Was Developed
1932 - Germany
Heinrich Himmler-Hitler became the Führer
Wednesday Aug 1, 1934 - Germany
German revolutions of 1848–1849-Austria and Prussia withdrew their delegates from the Assembly
Wednesday Jun 6, 1849 - Central Europe (Present-Day Germany)
German revolutions of 1848–1849-D'Ester had been elected to the Central committee of the German Democrats
Monday Oct 30, 1848 - Central Europe (Present-Day Germany)
Heinrich Himmler-Planning secret Peace Negotiation
1945 - Germany
Heinrich Himmler-Release of Jewish Concentration Camp
Saturday Apr 21, 1945 - Germany
Weimar Republic-Treaty of Rapallo
Sunday Apr 16, 1922 - Germany
Heinrich Himmler-SS-Obergruppenführer
Sunday Jan 1, 1933 - Germany
Gustav Stresemann-Becoming the National Liberals' de facto leader
1917 - German Empire (Present Day Germany)
Michael Ballack-His professional debut
Friday Aug 4, 1995 - Germany
Johann Sebastian Bach-Bach's Missa of 1733
1733 - Germany
Heinrich Himmler-Commander-In-Chief of Army Group Upper Rhine
1944 - Germany
Heinrich Himmler-First role under Hitler
Feb, 1925 - Germany
Weimar Republic-Hitler was appointed as Chancellor
Monday Jan 30, 1933 - Germany
Johann Sebastian Bach-Bach was preparing to enter Lorenz Christoph Mizler's Society of Musical Sciences
1746 - Germany
Johann Sebastian Bach-Bach copied, transcribed, expanded or programmed music in an older polyphonic style
1740 - Germany
Heinrich Himmler-Reinhard Heydrich
1941 - Germany
Lothar Meyer-Marriage
1866 - Germany
Cameras-Peter Friedrich Voigtländer All-Metal Camera
1840 - Germany
Heinrich Himmler-Discharged
Wednesday Dec 18, 1918 - Germany
Heinrich Himmler-Deputy Reichsführer-SS
Sep, 1927 - Germany
Heinrich Himmler-Generalplan Ost
Jul, 1942 - Germany
Antibiotic-The First Synthetic Antibacterial Organoarsenic Compound Salvarsan
1907 - Germany
Adolf Hitler-A Four Year Plan to prepare Germany for war
Aug, 1936 - Germany
Holy Roman Empire-Roman power in Gaul declined
5th Century - (Present Day France, Luxembourg, Belgium, most of Switzerland, and parts of Northern Italy, Netherlands, and Germany)
Gustav Stresemann-Joining the German Democratic Party
1918 - Weimar Republic (Present day Germany)
Johann Sebastian Bach-Clavier-Übung III
1735 - Germany
Heinrich Himmler-Night of the Long Knives
Jul, 1934 - Germany
World War 1-Germany defeat
Saturday Nov 9, 1918 - Germany
Oskar Schindler (Schindler's List)-Joining the Nazi Party
Tuesday Nov 1, 1938 - Germany
Johann Sebastian Bach-Trinity of 1724
1724 - Germany
Treaty of Versailles-Germany was occupied
Thursday Dec 12, 1918 - Berlin
The Holocaust-Sterilization Law
Friday Jul 14, 1933 - Germany
Adolf Hitler-Other parties had been intimidated into disbanding
Thursday Jun 29, 1933 - Germany
Computer-The world's First working Electromechanical Programmable
1941 - Germany
Holy Roman Empire-Martin Luther launched what later be known as the Reformation
1517 - Germany, Holy Roman Empire
Adolf Hitler-World War I Ended
Monday Nov 11, 1918 - Germany
Oculus-Decision Criticisms
Sep, 2020 - Germany
Heinrich Himmler-Operation North Wind
Monday Jan 1, 1945 - Germany
The Holocaust-Law for the Restoration of the Professional Civil Service was passed
Friday Apr 7, 1933 - Germany
World War II-Delayed attack
Wednesday Aug 23, 1939 - Germany
Heinrich Himmler-Nuremberg Laws
Sunday Sep 15, 1935 - Germany
Heinrich Himmler-Appointing Reinhard Heydrich
1931 - Germany
Heinrich Himmler-Einsatzgruppen
1941 - Germany
Heinrich Himmler-The Nazi Party Growth
1933 - Germany
Nobel Prize-Forbidden laureates
1938 - Germany
Albert Einstein-The Federal Polytechnic teaching diploma
1900 - Kingdom of Württemberg, German Empire, Germany
Michael Ballack-Retirement
Tuesday Oct 2, 2012 - Germany
Heinrich Himmler-Himmler's Orders
1941 - Germany
Joseph Goebbels-Hitler announced that Goebbels was replaced as Reich leader of NSDAP
Apr, 1930 - Germany
Adolf Hitler-The Sino-German alliance
Feb, 1938 - Germany
Holy Roman Empire-Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation
1512 - (Then Germany)
Heinrich Himmler-Running The SS as a separate Organization
1930 - Germany
World War 1-Germany entered into World War I
Saturday Aug 1, 1914 - Germany
Hot Dog-Suspicion that sausages contained dog meat
20th Century - Germany
Heinrich Himmler-Chief of German Police and a State Secretary in the Ministry of the Interior
Wednesday Jun 17, 1936 - Germany
1939
Computer-One of The Earliest Examples of an Electromechanical relay Computer.
1939 - Germany
Oskar Schindler (Schindler's List)-His role in the invasion of Poland
Jan, 1939 - Ostrava, Czech Republic
Heinrich Himmler-Invasion of Poland
1939 - Germany
Alan Turing-Ludwig Wittgenstein's Lectures about The Foundations of Mathematics
1939 - Cambridge, England
Igor Stravinsky-His Wife's Death
1939 - France
Returning to Cambridge
1939 - Cambridge, England
Howard Hughes: The Aviator-TWA Takeover
1939 - U.S.
Antibiotic-The Discovery of The First Naturally Derived Antibiotic
1939 - U.S.
Cameras-Argus C9
1939 - U.S.
Charles de Gaulle-De Gaulle was put in command of the French Fifth Army's tanks
1939 - France
Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh-Philip completed a term as a cadet at the Royal Naval College
1939 - Dartmouth, Devon, England, United Kingdom
Spanish Civil War-Franco's troops conquered Catalonia
Jan, 1939 - Catalonia, Spain
Disasters with highest death tolls-Black Friday Bushfires
Thursday Jan 12, 1939 - Victoria, Australia
Library of Congress-Putnam retired in 1939
1939 - Washington D.C., U.S.
The Holocaust-Germany began a genocide policy against Jews
Monday Jan 30, 1939 - Berlin, Germany
Joseph Goebbels-Goebbels continued his intensive antisemitic
Monday Jan 30, 1939 - Berlin, Germany
Frank Sinatra-1st Marriage
Saturday Feb 4, 1939 - Long Branch, New Jersey, U.S.
Francisco Franco-United kingdom and France officially recognized the Franco regime
Monday Feb 27, 1939 - Spain
Spanish Civil War-Peace deal
Sunday Mar 5, 1939 - Spain
Spanish Civil War-Negrín fled to France
Monday Mar 6, 1939 - France
League of Nations-A total of 63 countries became member states of the League of Nations
1939 - Geneva, Switzerland
World War II-Germany invaded the remainder of Czechoslovakia
Mar, 1939 - Czechoslovakia (Present Day Czechia and Slovakia)
Adolf Hitler-Invade Prague
Wednesday Mar 15, 1939 - Czech Rep. (Czechoslovakia that time)
World War II-1939 German ultimatum to Lithuania
Monday Mar 20, 1939 - Lithuania
World War II-Free City of Danzig
1939 - Danzig (Present Day Gdańsk, Poland)
Spanish Civil War-Nationalists started a general offensive
Sunday Mar 26, 1939 - Spain
Francisco Franco-Madrid fell to the Nationalists
Tuesday Mar 28, 1939 - Madrid, Spain
Adolf Hitler-Offended by the British "guarantee"
Friday Mar 31, 1939 - Germany
Spanish Civil War-Nationalists occupied all Spanish territory
Friday Mar 31, 1939 - Spain
Francisco Franco-Victory was proclaimed
Saturday Apr 1, 1939 - Spain
World War II-Spanish Civil War ended
Saturday Apr 1, 1939 at 09 PM - Spain
Spanish Civil War-Franco proclaimed victory in a radio speech
Saturday Apr 1, 1939 - Spain
Black Friday-President Franklin D. Roosevelt issued a presidential proclamation proclaiming Thanksgiving to be the fourth Thursday in November rather than the last Thursday
1939 - U.S.
Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh-Philip met the Princess
1939 - Royal Naval College, Dartmouth, England, United Kingdom
World War II-Italy conquered Albania
Wednesday Apr 12, 1939 - Albania
Anna May Wong-Wong visited Australia for more than three months
1939 - Australia
Anna May Wong-The Campbell Playhouse
1939 - New York., U.S.
Anna May Wong-Support of the Chinese struggle against Japan
1939 - U.S.
Second Sino-Japanese War-The Battle of Suixian–Zaoyang
Thursday Apr 20, 1939 - Zaoyang, Xiangyang, Hubei, China
DC Comics-The introduction of Batman
May, 1939 - U.S.
Spanish Civil War-There were harsh reprisals against Franco's former enemies
1939 - Spain
The Holocaust-100,000 Austrian Jews had left the country
May, 1939 - Austria
Edward VIII-NBC radio broadcast
May, 1939 - France
Benito Mussolini-The Pact of Steel
Monday May 22, 1939 - Berlin, Germany
World War II-Pact of Steel
Monday May 22, 1939 - Berlin, Germany
David Ben-Gurion-The British 1939 White paper
Tuesday May 23, 1939 - Palestine
Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh-Philip repatriated to Greece
1939 - Athens, Greece
Library of Congress-Roosevelt appointed Archibald MacLeish
1939 - Washington D.C., U.S.
Alan Turing-Warsaw Meeting
Jul, 1939 - Warsaw, Poland
Laser-Valentin A. Fabrikant predicted the use of stimulated emission to amplify "short" waves
1939 - Moscow, U.S.S.R.
Nikola Tesla-The Medal of the University St. Clement of Ochrida
1939 - Sofia, Bulgaria
KFC-The Idea
1939 - Kentucky, U.S.
Adolf Hitler-Military mobilization is ordered
Tuesday Aug 22, 1939 - Germany
Joseph Stalin-Non-aggression pact with Nazi Germany
Wednesday Aug 23, 1939 - Soviet Union (Present-Day Russia)
World War II-Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact
Wednesday Aug 23, 1939 - Moscow, Russia
World War II-Delayed attack
Wednesday Aug 23, 1939 - Germany
Adolf Hitler-Anglo-Polish alliance
Friday Aug 25, 1939 - England, United Kingdom
The Holocaust-List of 30,000 people to send to concentration camps
Tuesday Aug 29, 1939 - Germany
World War II-Hitler demanded that a Polish plenipotentiary immediately travel to Berlin
Wednesday Aug 30, 1939 - Berlin, Germany
World War II-Stormy meeting
Thursday Aug 31, 1939 - Berlin, Germany
Adolf Hitler-WWII Begun
Friday Sep 1, 1939 - Western Poland
Joseph Stalin-WWII Began
Friday Sep 1, 1939 - Poland
John F. Kennedy-Europe tour
Friday Sep 1, 1939 - Europe & Middle East
World War II-World War II Begins
Friday Sep 1, 1939 - Poland
The Holocaust-Germany invaded Poland
Friday Sep 1, 1939 - Poland
United Nations-World War II was broke up
Friday Sep 1, 1939 - Poland (and then Europe)
Igor Stravinsky-Stravinsky sailed (alone) for The United States
Sep, 1939 - Cambridge, Massachusetts, U.S.
World War II-First battle of the war
Saturday Sep 2, 1939 - Westerplatte, Poland
Joseph Goebbels-Goebbels proclaimed it illegal to listen to foreign radio stations
Saturday Sep 2, 1939 - Germany
Adolf Hitler-Britain and France declared war on Germany
Sunday Sep 3, 1939 - United Kingdom and France
Winston Churchill-Winston is back
Sunday Sep 3, 1939 - London, England, United Kingdom
World War II-France and Britain declared war on Germany
Monday Sep 4, 1939 - France and United Kingdom
Alan Turing-Turing Reported To Bletchley Park
Monday Sep 4, 1939 - Bletchley, Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire, England, United Kingdom
Turing report to Bletchley Park
Monday Sep 4, 1939 - Bletchley Park, England
World War II-German troops reached the suburbs of Warsaw
Friday Sep 8, 1939 - Warsaw, Poland
World War II-Battle of the Bzura
Saturday Sep 9, 1939 - Kutno, Łódź Voivodeship, Poland
Stan Lee-Graduating high school
1939 - New York, U.S.
Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh-Philip returned to Britain
Sep, 1939 - London, England, United Kingdom
Stan Lee-Working at Timely Comics
1939 - Manhattan, New York, U.S.
Charles de Gaulle-De Gaulle attacked at Bitche
Tuesday Sep 12, 1939 - Bitche, France
Edward VIII-Back to the United Kingdom
Sep, 1939 - United Kingdom
Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowdon-Outbreak of World War II in the Balmoral Castle estate
1939 - Scotland, United Kingdom
World War II-Ceasefire with Japan
Sep, 1939 - Russia (U.S.S.R.)
Adolf Hitler-Soviets invaded eastern Poland
Sunday Sep 17, 1939 - Eastern Poland
World War II-Soviets invaded Poland
Sunday Sep 17, 1939 - Poland
World War II-First Battle of Changsha
Sunday Sep 17, 1939 - Changsha, China
World War II-Cash and Carry
Thursday Sep 21, 1939 - Washington D.C., U.S.
The Holocaust-Letter from Reinhard Heydrich to the Einsatzgruppen
Thursday Sep 21, 1939 - Germany
Queen Elizabeth II-Elizabeth and Margaret should be evacuated to Canada
Sep, 1939 - Balmoral Castle, Balmoral Estates, Ballater, United Kingdom
World War II-Mutual assistance pacts
Sep, 1939 - Moscow, Russia
Operation Mincemeat-The deception paper used by the British
Friday Sep 29, 1939 - U.K
Oskar Schindler (Schindler's List)-Arriving in Kraków
Oct, 1939 - Kraków, Poland
World War II-Battle of Kock
Monday Oct 2, 1939 - Kock, Poland
Charles de Gaulle-Reynaud asked for a staff posting under De Gaulle
Oct, 1939 - France
World War II-Public peace overture
Friday Oct 6, 1939 - Germany
The Holocaust-Hitler signed a "euthanasia decree"
Oct, 1939 - Germany
United Nations-Empty headquarters
1939 - Geneva, Switzerland
Thanksgiving-Last Thursday in November
Tuesday Oct 31, 1939 - U.S.
Oskar Schindler (Schindler's List)-Meeting Itzhak Stern
Nov, 1939 - Kraków, Poland
Oskar Schindler (Schindler's List)-Business Consultant
Nov, 1939 - Kraków, Poland