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Important events in the TL How many Sixes does Adolf Nazi have to Roll?.
Since the PoD[]
The first new Six:[]
- 25th of May 1940 (PoD): The Panzer troops of Guderian take Dunkirk, therefore the last accessible harbor for the 400,000 cut-off Brits and French is lost.
- 2nd of June: BEF capitulates at Ypres
- 2nd to 9th of June: Wehrmacht advances to the Seine
- 7nd to 9th of June: British Troops (somewhat more than 10,000) evacuated from Le Havre.
- 8th of June: Italy declares war on the Allies.
- 9th of June: Last Norwegians capitulate
- 10th of June: The Wehrmacht occupies Paris; Spain occupies Tangier.
- 10th to 12th of June: The Sowjetunion occupies Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania.
- 12th to 19th of June: Close to 150,000 Allied Soldiers evacuated from France.
- 14th of June: Free France proclaimed in London by Charles de Gaulle. Meanwhile, Vichy France under Philippe Pétain is ready for an Armistice.
- 19th of June: Armistice between the Axis Powers and France effective.
- 22nd of June: The Sowjetunion occupies Bessarabia and northern Bukovina. That's why on June 28th, the Romanian government falls.
- 25th of June: Winston Churchill acknowledge Free France as the legitimate government in Exile.
- 27th of June: "Operation Catapult": Great Britain strikes against the French Fleet at Oran.
- 30th of June: The Wehrmacht occupies the Channel Islands.
The second new Six:[]
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The past[]
Back to front!
Before diverging from OTL:[]
- 10th of May 1940: Invasion of the Benelux States
- 9th of April 1940: "Operation Weserübung" - Denmark und Norway invaded and occupied by the Wehrmacht
- November 1939 to März 1940: Finnish-Soviet Winter War
- 8th of October 1939: Poland defeated and divided, leaving only the "General Government".
- 17th of September: The Soviet Union invads Poland from the East
- 3rd of September: Great Britain and France declaration of war to Nazi Germany
- 1st of September: Invasion of the Wehrmacht in Poland
Before World War II:[]
- March 1939: Memel land "returns to the Reich", rest of Czechia occupied
- 9th of November 1938: Reichspogromnacht against the Jews
- 1938: Austria and Sudetenland "return to the Reich"
- 7th of July 1937: Japan openly makes war against China
- 7th of March 1936: Remilitarisation of the Rhineland
- 15th of September 1935: Nuremberg Laws against the Jews
- 16th of March 1935: Reichswehr renamed to Wehrmacht
- 13rd of January 1935: Saar "returns to the Reich"
- 2nd of August 1934: Death of the Reich's president Hindenburg, Adolf Nazi is "Führer und Reichskanzler"
- 22nd of March 1933: Concentration camp of Dachau opened
- 30th of January 1933: Adolf Nazi appointed chancellor
Before the Nazi Dictatorship:[]
- 18th of September 1931: Japan starts occupying Manchuria
- 24th of October 1929: Great Depression begins
- 28th of June 1919: (Unpopular) Peace treaty of Versailles signed
- 9th of November 1918: Revolution in Germany, soon in Austria-Hungary as well. The Kaiser and the princes step back, Republic proclaimed. Start of the (not very successful) Weimar Republic.
- 28th of July 1914: World War I starts.
- 1910: First Hollywood Film
- 20th of April 1889: Birth of Adolf Nazi
- June of 1888: Kaiser Wilhelm the II and last rises to the Throne
- 18th of January 1871: The Second German Reich proclaimed in Versailles. "Gründerzeit" (a boom time) in Germany begins.
Before the Kaiserreich:[]
- 1861: Bismarck become Minister president of Prussia. Under his government, Prussia wins the German Unification Wars.
- 1831: Goethe finishes his Faust, the peak of German Literature
- 1815: Napoleon I finally defeated. The Hopes of German Patriots for a Constitution, democracy, or even a Republic are disappointed by the princes.
- 1806: Holy Roman Empire officially dissolved
- 1789: French Revolution
- 1776: Declaration of Independence of the USA
Before modern civilization:[]
- 1740-86: Friedrich/Frederick the Great in Prussia
- 1685-1750: Johann Sebastian Bach, Peak of German Music
- 1684: After developing calculus independently from Isaac Newton, Leibniz publishes his results first.
- 1618-48: Thirty-Year War
- 1517: Martin Luther starts the Protestant Reformation
Before the Modern Age:[]
- 1474: First time the term "German Nation" is used in the context of the Holy Roman Empire
- 1346-53: Black Death in Europe
- 1250: After the death of Holy Roman Emperor Friedrich/Frederick II, the Interregnum starts, which will cause great damage to the Empire. The Legend emerges that the Emperor was really sleeping in Kyffhäuser mountain, but will return as soon as the country is truly in dire. (Later, this Legend will be twisted to be about his Grandfather Friedrich Barbarossa.)
- 1241: Battle of Legnica. Central Europe only is saved because the Mongols surprisingly retreat.
- 1095: Crusades start
Before the Millennium:[]
- 962: Proclamation of the Holy Roman Empire
- 955: Otto the Great defeats the Hungarians at the Lechfeld. An Event people will still remember a thousand years later.
- 843: First "German" State, the realm of East Francia under King Ludwig the German
- 800: Charlemagne crowned emperor by the Pope
- 732: Charles Martell defeats the Saracenes, Central Europe won't become Islamic
- 6th to 10th century: Christianisation of the Germanics, esp. by Boniface. Michael becomes the National saint of the Germans.
- 476: Odoaker destroys the last Remains of the Western Roman Empire.
Before the Medieval Ages:[]
- 451: Battle of the Catalaunian Plains, victory over Attila the Hun. But the Burgundian realm is eradicated, as are 90% of its population.
- 5th century: Angels, Saxons and Jutes emigrate to Britain
- 375-568: Völkerwanderung
- ~200: Runes invented
- 96-180: The five good emperors in Rome, peak of the empire
- 33: Crucifixation of Jesus
- 9: Germanics under Arminius (Hermann?) the Cheruskian defeat three Roman Legions
- +1: Start of Christian calendar
- -113 - 101: The Germanic Cimbri and Teutones try to conquer Rome, but are defeated by the imperator Gaius Marius.
Before Germanic History:[]
- -216: Battle of Cannae in the Second Punic War, the "greatest hour" of the Romans
- -356 - 323: Alexander the Great
- -431 - 404: Peloponnensian War
- -480: Battle at Salamis
- -509: Start of the Roman Republic
- -753: Rome founded
- -11th century: Kings Saul, David, Salomo of Israel
- -12th century: Start of the Iron Age
- -2nd/1st millennium: Ur-Germanic language
Before the Germanics:[]
- -16th to 13th century: History of Moses and the Exodus of the Israelites from Egypt
- -18th century: King Hammurabi of Babylon creates the first written Code of Law
- -2,000 (very roughly): History of Abraham from Ur of the Chaldaes
- -26th century: First Egyptian Pyramids
- -3rd/2nd millennium: Pre-Germanic language
- -33rd century: Start of the Bronze Age
- -4th millennium: Ur-Indoeuropean language. Horse domesticated for the first time, in Central Asia.
- -10,000: Start of the Holocene Era. End of the last Ice Age (very roughly).
- -11th millennium: Start of Agriculture
Before Civilisation:[]
- -40,000: First humans in Europe
- -200,000: First humans outside of Africa
- -2.5 Millions: First humans
Before Mankind:[]
- -20 millions: First great Apes
- -55 millions: First Proto-Primates
- -65 millions: Extinction of the Dinosaurs
- -300 millions: First mammals
Before Mammals:[]
- -540 millions: Cambrian Explosion
- -850 millions: First Plants on Land
- -2,000 millions: Sexual reproduction
- -4,400 to -3,400 millions: First Lifeforms on Earth
Before Earth:[]
- -4,600 millions: The Solar System forms
- -13,800 millions: The Big Bang
