Hamburg History Timeline

• 1762-05-22 Sweden and Prussia sign the Treaty of Hamburg, reaffirming the status quo that existed before the Seven Years' War

• 1842-05-05 City-wide fire burns for over 100 hours in Hamburg, Germany
• 1844-12-30 Opera "Stradella" after being rewritten is produced (Hamburg)
• 1858-09-13 Hamburg-US ship Austria catches fire & sinks, 471 die
• 1860-02-10 Johannes Brahms' orchestral music piece "Serenade No. 2 in A" premieres in Hamburg
• 1876-07-07 Hamburg massacre: white farmers attack a black militia in Hamburg, South Carolina with 7 killed

• 1919-06-25 Revolt of Spartacus in Hamburg

• 1921-04-14 Prince Henry opens Rotterdam-Amsterdam-Bremen-Hamburg air route
• 1923-05-26 Socialist Workers Youth International forms in Hamburg
• 1927-05-14 German ocean liner SS Cap Arcona is launched at the Blohm & Voss shipyard in Hamburg
• 1939-05-13 SS St Louis departs Hamburg, Germany with 937 Jewish refugees, bound for Havana, Cuba; authorities refused to admit them, and most of the passengers returned to Europe [1]
• 1940-11-16 World War II: In response to Germany's leveling of Coventry, England two days before, the Royal Air Force bombs Hamburg.
• 1943-07-24 Operation Gomorrah: RAF begins bombing Hamburg (till 3rd August), creating a firestorm and killing 42,600 people
• 1943-07-27 772 British bombers attack Hamburg
• 1943-07-28 Operation Gomorrah: RAF bombing over Hamburg causes a firestorm that kills 42,600 German civilians
• 1943-07-29 1 million inhabitants flee Hamburg
• 1944-08-27 200 RAF Halifax bombers attack oil installations in Hamburg

• 1960-08-18 The Beatles give their 1st public performance at the Indra Club in Hamburg, Germany

• 1961-06-22 Beatles record "Ain't She Sweet", "Cry for a Shadow", "When the Saints Go Marching In", "Why", "Nobody's Child" & "My Bonnie", in Hamburg, Germany

• 1961-06-24 Tony Sheridan, backed by the Beatles, records "If You Love Me Baby" (aka "Take Out Some Insurance On Me, Baby") in Hamburg, Germany
• 1962-02-17 Storm in Hamburg kills 265
• 1962-05-24 The Beatles record "Sweet Georgia Brown" & "Swanee" in Hamburg, Germany to close out their contract with producer Bert Kaempfert; Tony Sheridan later dubs vocal over tracks
• 1962-08-28 Tony Sheridan & Beat Brothers (The Beatles) record "Ya Ya (Parts 1 + 2)" in Hamburg, Germany
• 1962-10-18 Tony Sheridan & Beat Brothers (later known as The Beatles) record "Let's Dance" in Hamburg, Germany
• 1973-03-07 Comet (Lubos) Kohoutek discovered at Hamburg Observatory
• 1977-04-06 Judge rules Beatles 1962 Hamburg album can be released
• 1977-05-25 "Beatles Live! At Star-Club in Hamburg Germany" released

• 1978-12-27 Ballon d'Or: Hamburg's English forward Kevin Keegan wins his 1st of 2 consecutive trophies as best football player in Europe; beats Barcelona striker Hans Krankl and Anderlecht winger Rob Rensenbrink
• 1979-12-25 Ballon d'Or: Hamburg's English forward Kevin Keegan wins his 2nd consecutive trophy as best football player in Europe; beats Bayern Munich forward Karl-Heinz Rummenigge and Ajax sweeper Ruud Krol
• 1980-05-28 24th European Cup: Nottingham Forest beats Hamburg 1-0 at Madrid
• 1983-05-25 27th European Cup: Hamburg beats Juventus 1-0 at Athens

• 1992-12-19 Robert Wilson, Tom Waits, and Kathleen Brennan's avant garde opera "Alice", based on the life and work of Lewis Carroll, premieres at the Thalia Theater, Hamburg, Germany

• 2017-07-07 G-20 summit of world leaders begins in Hamburg, Germany amid violent protests
• 2018-05-23 Hamburg, Germany, becomes the first city to ban diesel cars on some roads

Birthdays 1 - 100 of 157

• 1560-08-10 Hieronymus Praetorius, German choral composer, born in Hamburg, Holy Roman Empire (now Germany) (d. 1629)
• 1586-02-08 Jacob Praetorius, German Baroque organist, composer, and pedagogue, born in Hamburg, Holy Roman Empire (d. 1651)
• 1590-10-05 Johann Schop, German composer and violinist, born in Niedersachsen, Duchy of Saxe-Lauenburg (d. 1667) (dates disputed)
• 1611-09-08 Johann Friedrich Gronovius, German classical scholar, born in Hamburg, Germany (d. 1671)
• 1632-07-06 Albert Schop, German composer, born in Hamburg, Holy Roman Empire (d. 1667)
• 1667-02-17 Georg Bronner, German composer and organist, baptized in Hamburg, Holy Roman Empire (d. 1720)
• 1681-09-28 Johann Mattheson, German composer, born in Hamburg, Holy Roman Empire (now Germany) (d. 1764)
• 1693-08-30 Jacobus Nozeman, Dutch composer and organist, born in Hamburg, Holy Roman Empire (now Germany) (d. 1745)
• 1694-12-22 Hermann Samuel Reimarus, German philosopher and writer, born in Hamburg, Germany (d. 1768)
• 1706-09-21 Jacob Wilhelm Lustig, German composer, born in Hamburg, Holy Roman Empire (now Germany) (d. 1796)
• 1708-04-23 Friedrich von Hagedorn, German poet (Versuch einiger Poem), born in Hamburg, Germany (d. 1754)
• 1720-08-12 Konrad Ekhof [Hans Konrad Dieterich Eckhof], German actor and director, born in Hamburg, Germany (d. 1778)
• 1723-09-11 Johann Bernhard Basedow, German educational reformer, born in Hamburg, Germany (d. 1790)
• 1745-03-16 Johann Wilhelm Cornelius von Konigslow, German composer, born in Hamburg, Holy Roman Empire (d. 1833)
• 1747-01-19 Johann Bode, German astronomer (Titius–Bode Law), born in Hamburg, Holy Roman Empire (now Germany) (d. 1826)
• 1780-01-10 Heinrich Lichtenstein, German zoologist, botanist and explorer who collected plants in Southern Africa, born in Hamburg, Germany (d. 1857)

• 1791-09-23 Johann Franz Encke, German astronomer (Encke Comet), born in Hamburg, Holy Roman Empire (d. 1865)
• 1792-04-30 Johann Friedrich Schwencke, German organist and composer, born in Hamburg, Holy Roman Empire (d. 1852)
• 1793-04-15 Friedrich Georg Wilhelm von Struve, German-Russian astronomer, born in Altona, Duchy of Holstein, Holy Roman Empire (now Germany) (d. 1864)
• 1795-02-08 Friedlieb Ferdinand Runge, German chemist (Chinoline), born in Hamburg, Germany (d. 1867)
• 1796-12-29 Johann Christian Poggendorff, German physicist, born in Hamburg, Germany (d. 1877)
• 1797-03-07 Carl Schwencke, German pianist and composer, born in Hamburg, Holy Roman Empire (d. 1870)
• 1805-11-14 Fanny Cacilia Mendelssohn Hensel, German composer, born in Hamburg, Holy Roman Empire (now Germany) (d. 1847)
• 1806-07-23 Eduard Marxsen, German pianist and composer, born in Nienstädten, Hamburg, Holy Roman Empire (d. 1887)
• 1808-06-20 Samson Raphael Hirsch, German Orthodox rabbi and intellectual founder of the Torah im Derech Eretz school of contemporary Orthodox Judaism, born in Hamburg, French Empire (d. 1888)

• 1809-03-19 Fredrik Pacius, German-Finnish composer (Finnish and Estonian national anthems), conductor, and music educator, known as "the Father of Finnish music", born in Hamburg, Germany (d. 1891)
• 1810-06-19 Ferdinand David, German violinist and composer (Hohe Schule des Violinspiels), born in Hamburg, French Empire (d. 1873)
• 1821-02-16 Heinrich Barth, German geographer and explorer (Central Africa), born in Hamburg, Germany (d. 1865)
• 1821-05-25 Diederich Krug, German pianist and composer (Le petit Chevalier), born in Hamburg, German Confederation (d. 1880)
• 1823-12-15 Friedrich Gottlieb Schwencke, German organist and composer, born in Hamburg, German Confederation (d. 1896)
• 1825-07-09 Jules Oppert, French-German Assyriologist (decodes characters), born in Hamburg, Germany (d. 1905)
• 1826-04-07 Johann Hermann Berens, German-born Swedish Romantic composer, born in Hamburg, German Confederation (d. 1880)
• 1829-08-21 Otto Goldschmidt, German composer, born in Hamburg, German Confederation (now Germany) (d. 1907)
• 1831-05-13 Willem van Goltstein van Oldenaller, Dutch minister of Colonies, born in Hamburg (d. 1901)
• 1832-09-21 Friedrich Wilhelm Langhans, German musician and composer, born in Hamburg, German Confederation (now Germany) (d. 1892)

• 1834-02-09 Felix Dahn, German Historian, jurist and poet, born in Hamburg (d. 1912)
• 1835-12-06 Rudolf Fittig, German chemist (synthesizing organic compounds), born in Hamburg, Germany (d. 1910)
• 1842-03-22 Carl Rosa, German-born violinist and composer (founder of the Rosa opera company that toured UK and US), born in Hamburg, German Confederation (d. 1889)
• 1844-06-10 Carl Hagenbeck, German animal trainer (Von Tieren und Menschen), born in Hamburg, Germany (d. 1913)
• 1849-01-11 Oskar Lassar, German dermatologist (electrophysical therapy, advocated for public bath houses), born in Hamburg (d. 1907)
• 1849-10-16 Arnold Krug, German composer, born in Hamburg, German Confederation (now Germany) (d. 1904)
• 1851-04-09 C. E. A. Wichmann, German-Dutch geologist, born in Hamburg, Germany (d. 1927)
• 1854-02-16 Oscar Fetrás [Otto Faster], German composer (Mondnacht auf der Alster), born in Hamburg, German Confederation (d. 1931)
• 1855-05-02 Theodore Moses Tobani, German composer, born in Hamburg, German Confederation (d. 1933)
• 1856-02-05 Otto Brahm, German critic, theatre director (founded Neue Deutsche Rundschau), born in Hamburg (d. 1912)
• 1857-02-22 Heinrich Hertz, German physicist, 1st to broadcast & receive radio waves, born in Hamburg, German Confederation (d. 1894)
• 1857-08-15 Albert Ballin, German inventor and shipping tycoon, born in Hamburg, Germany (d. 1918)
• 1859-03-08 Otto Taubmann, German composer, born in Hamburg, German Confederation (d. 1929)
• 1863-01-15 Adolph Goldschmidt, German historian, born in Hamburg, Germany (d. 1944)
• 1864-01-29 Adolf Philipp, German-American Broadway composer (Adele), born in Hamburg, German Confederation (d. 1936)
• 1865-07-23 Friedrich Aereboe, German landlord and agricultural economist, born in Horn, Hamburg (d. 1942)
• 1868-04-14 Peter Behrens, German architect, born in Hamburg, North German Confederation (d. 1940)
• 1868-08-10 Paul Warburg, German-American investment banker who influenced and encouraged the design of the Federal Reserve, born in Hamburg, Germany (d. 1932)
• 1874-10-14 Margarete Susman, German-Jewish writer, born in Hamburg (d. 1966)
• 1876-10-10 Walter Niemann, German composer, born in Hamburg, German Empire (d. 1953)
• 1877-10-08 Hans Heysen, German-born landscape artist, born in Hamburg, Germany (d. 1968)
• 1878-10-19 Hermann Claudius, German folk poet (Meister Bertram), born in Langenfelde near Hamburg (d. 1980)
• 1878-11-13 Max Dehn, German mathematician (Dehn’s lemma), born in Hamburg, Germany (d. 1952)
• 1879-02-11 Jean Gilbert [Max Winterfeld], German composer, born in Hamburg, German Empire (d. 1942)
• 1880-08-22 Gorch Fock [Johann Wilhelm Kinau], German author and poet, born in Finkenwerder, Hamburg, Germany (d. 1916)
• 1882-08-26 James Franck, German-American physicist (Nobel Prize for Physics 1925), born in Hamburg, Germany (d. 1964)
• 1884-10-11 Robert Müller-Hartmann, German composer, born in Hamburg, German Empire (d. 1950)
• 1884-10-11 Sig Ruman [Siegfried Albon Rumann], German-American actor (Schultz-Life With Luigi), born in Hamburg, Germany (d. 1967)
• 1885-08-17 Clara [G Meijer-] Wichmann, German anarchist and feminist (Wife & society), born in Hamburg, Germany (d. 1922)
• 1886-04-16 Ernst Thälmann, German communist presidential candidate, born in Hamburg, German Empire (d. 1944)
• 1887-07-22 Gustav Hertz, German physicist (Nobel Prize for Physics 1925 for "discovery of the laws governing the impact of an electron upon an atom"), born in Hamburg, Germany (d. 1975)
• 1888-03-27 Agnes Windeck, German actress (A Time to Love and a Time to Die), born in Hamburg, Germany (d. 1975)
• 1889-10-03 Carl von Ossietzky, German journalist and pacifist (Nobel Peace Prize 1935), born in Hamburg, German Empire (d. 1938)
• 1892-07-26 Philipp Jarnach, French pianist, composer, and music educator (Hamburg Music Academy, 1949-70), born in Noisy-le-Sec, France (d. 1982)
• 1892-09-22 Hans Albers, German actor (Blue Angel), born in Hamburg, Germany (d. 1960)
• 1894-12-19 Paul Dessau, German orchestral, film, and theater composer and conductor (Adventures of Casanova; Deutsches Miserere; Never Trust a Woman), born in Hamburg, German Empire (d. 1979)
• 1895-12-27 Sig Arno [Siegfried Aron], German-Jewish actor (Holiday in Havana, My Friend Irma), born in Hamburg, Germany (d. 1975)
• 1897-01-22 Josef Stanislav, Czech pianist and composer, born in Hamburg, German Empire (d. 1971)
• 1897-04-26 Douglas Sirk, German American film director (All That Heaven Allows), born in Hamburg, Germany (d. 1987)
• 1897-07-25 Hermann Ambrosius, German composer and educator who worked with the Nazi Ministry of Propaganda, born in Hamburg, German Empire (d. 1983)
• 1898-09-16 H. A. Rey, American children's author and creator of "Curious George", born in Hamburg, Germany (d. 1977)
• 1899-08-24 Ruth Schaumann, German painter, writer and sculptor (Rose, Black King), born in Hamburg, Germany (d. 1975)
• 1900-08-29 Oscar Nitzchke, German architect (Alcoa building, Centre Pompidou), born in Altona, Hamburg, Germany (d. 1991)
• 1901-01-30 Hans Erich Nossak, German writer, born in Hamburg (d. 1977)
• 1901-04-25 Ernst Gernot Klussmann, German composer, born in Hamburg, GermanyGerman Empire (d. 1975)
• 1901-05-02 Willi Bredel, German anti-Nazi communist writer (Die Prüfung), born in Hamburg, German Empire (d. 1964)
• 1902-03-21 Carl Jaffe, German actor (1st Man in Space, Escapement), born in Hamburg, Germany (d. 1974)
• 1902-11-01 Eugen Jochum, German conductor (Hamburg Orchestra, 1934-49; Bavarian Radio Symphony, 1949-61), born in Babenhausen, Augsburg, German Empire (d. 1987)
• 1903-01-18 Berthold Goldschmidt, German-British opera composer (Beatrice Cenci), born in Hamburg, German Empire (d. 1996)
• 1904-12-25 Gerhard Herzberg, German-Canadian physicist (molecular structure-Nobel 1971), born in Hamburg, Germany (d. 1999)
• 1905-03-16 Elisabeth Flickenschildt, German actress, born in Hamburg, Germany (d. 1977)
• 1905-04-14 Elizabeth Huckaby, American educator, born in Hamburg, Arkansas (d. 1999)
• 1907-06-25 J. Hans D. Jensen, German physicist (atomic nucleus-Nobel 1963), born in Hamburg, Germany (d. 1973)
• 1911-10-15 James H. Schmitz, American sci-fi author (Lion Game), born in Hamburg, Germany (d. 1981)
• 1912-03-19 Russ Case, American orchestra leader (Julius La Rosa Show), born in Hamburg, Iowa (d. 1964)
• 1912-05-02 Axel Springer, German newspaper magnate (Bild Zeitung), born in Altona, Hamburg, German Empire (d. 1985)
• 1912-06-09 Ingolf Dahl [Marcus], German-American pianist and composer (Allegro and Arioso), born in Hamburg, German Empire (d. 1970)
• 1913-10-02 Karl Miller, German soccer defender (12 caps; Dresdner SC), born in Hamburg (d. 1967)
• 1914-01-18 Arno Schmidt, German writer, born in Hamburg (d. 1979)
• 1915-10-20 Giora Schuster, German-Israeli composer, born in Hamburg, German Empire (d. 2006)
• 1916-06-27 Hallvard Olav Johnsen, Norwegian composer, born in Hamburg, German Empire (d. 2003)
• 1916-12-09 Wolfgang Hildesheimer, German-Swiss architect and writer (Mozart biog), born in Hamburg, Germany (d. 1991)
• 1918-10-09 E. Howard Hunt, American intelligence officer involved in Watergate break-in, born in Hamburg, New York (d. 2007)

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