Saxony History Timeline

• 0919-05-12 Duke Henry of Saxony becomes King Henry I of Oostfrankischreich
• 1180-04-13 Diet of Gelnhausen; Henry the Lion deprived of the Duchy of Saxony
• 1526-02-27 Saxony and Hesse form League of Gotha (league of Protestant princes)

• 1664-04-06 France & Saxony sign alliance
• 1697-06-02 August, Elector of Saxony becomes Catholic
• 1697-06-27 Polish parliament selects monarch August of Saxony as king
• 1700-02-12 The Great Northern War begins in Northern Europe between Denmark–Norway, Saxony and Russia and the Swedish Empire.
• 1719-01-05 Britain, Hannover, Saxony-Poland and Austria sign anti-Prussian Russian pact
• 1745-01-08 Britain, Austria, Netherlands & Saxony sign anti-Prussian Quadruple Alliance
• 1760-11-03 Battle at Torgau, Saxony: Prussia beats Austria
• 1763-02-15 Austria, Prussia and Saxony sign the Treaty of Hubertusburg, marking the end of the French and Indian War and of the Seven Years' War
• 1923-10-10 Saxony gets Social Democratic & Communist coalition government

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• 0975-07-25 Thietmar, German chronicler and Bishop of Merseburg, born in Hildesheim, Saxony (d. 1018)
• 1370-04-11 Frederick I the Warlike, Elector of Saxony, born in Dresden, Margravate of Meissen, Holy Roman Empire (d. 1428)
• 1443-01-27 Albert, Duke of Saxony (d. 1500)
• 1461-12-25 Christina of Saxony, queen of Denmark and Norway (d. 1521)
• 1463-01-17 Frederick III [Frederick the Wise], Elector of Saxony (1486-25) who protected his subject Martin Luther, born in Torgau, Holy Roman Empire (d. 1525)
• 1468-06-30 Johann the Steadfast, Elector of Saxony (1525-32), born in Meissen, Electorate of Saxony, Holy Roman Empire (d. 1532)
• 1471-08-27 George the Bearded, Duke of Saxony (1500-39), born in Meissen, Germany (d. 1539)
• 1473-03-16 Henry IV the Pious, Duke of Saxony (d. 1541)
• 1473-10-26 Duke Friedrich of Saxony, 36th Grand Master of the Teutonic Knights (1498-1510), born in Torgau, Germany (d. 1510)

• 1483-12-03 Nicolaus von Amsdorf, German reformation theologist, born in Torgau, Saxony (d. 1565)
• 1494-03-24 Georgius Agricola, German mineralogist (De Re Metallica), born in Glauchau, Saxony (d. 1555)
• 1495-04-16 Petrus Apianus [Peter Apian], German mathematician, astronomer and cartographer of "Astronomicum Caesareum", born in Leisnig, Saxony (d. 1552)
• 1501-04-19 Erasmus Sarcerius, German Lutheran theologian and reformer, born in Annaberg, Saxony (d. 1559)
• 1503-06-30 John Frederick I, Elector of Saxony (1532-47), born in Torgau, Electorate of Saxony, Holy Roman Empire (d. 1554)
• 1511-10-22 Erasmus Reinhold, German mathematician (calculated planetary table), born in Saalfeld, Electorate of Saxony (d. 1553)
• 1521-03-21 Maurice, Duke and later Elector of Saxony (1547-53), (d. 1553)
• 1563-11-05 Anna of Nassau, daughter of William I Prince of Orange and his second wife, Anna of Saxony, wife of William Louis, Count of Nassau-Dillenburg, born in Breda, Netherlands (d. 1588)
• 1609-10-05 Paul Fleming, German poet, born in Hartenstein, Saxony (d. 1640)
• 1613-06-10 Johann Georg II, Elector of Saxony (1656-80), born in Dresden, Electorate of Saxony, Holy Roman Empire (d. 1680)
• 1630-10-14 Sophia of Hanover, Princess Palatine and Electress of Saxony, born in The Hague, Netherlands (d. 1714)
• 1647-06-20 Johann Georg III, Elector of Saxony (1680-91), born in Dresden, Electorate of Saxony, Holy Roman Empire (d. 1691)
• 1651-04-10 Ehrenfried Walther von Tschirnhaus, German mathematician (Tschirnhaus transformation), born in Kieslingswalde, Margraviate Upper Lusatia, Saxony (d. 1708)
• 1654-11-05 Christian Liebe, German composer, born in Freiberg, Saxony (d. 1708)
• 1668-10-18 John George IV, Elector of Saxony (1691-94), born in Dresden, Electorate of Saxony, Holy Roman Empire (d. 1684)
• 1670-05-12 Frederick Augustus I/ August II, the Strong, Elector of Saxony and King of Poland (reputed to have sired 355 children) (d. 1733)
• 1682-07-10 Bartholomäus Ziegenbalg, German Lutheran missionary to India, born in Pulsnitz, Saxony (d. 1719)
• 1682-09-13 Theodor Christlieb Reinhold, German composer, born in Eppendorf, Saxony (now Germany) (d. 1755)
• 1698-04-05 Georg Gottfried Wagner, German composer, born in Mühlberg, Electorate of Saxony, Holy Roman Empire (d. 1756)
• 1700-05-26 Nicolaus Ludwig, Imperial Count von Zinzendorf und Pottendorf, German religious and social reformer, born in Dresden, Electorate of Saxony, Holy Roman Empire (d. 1760)
• 1715-07-04 Christian Fürchtegott Gellert, German poet and novelist (Fables & Tales), born in Hainchen, Germany (d. 1769)
• 1719-09-27 Abraham Gotthelf Kästner, German mathematician, born in Leipzig, Electorate of Saxony (d. 1800)
• 1722-09-05 Frederick Christian, Elector of Saxony, born in Dresden Castle, Dresden, Electorate of Saxony, Holy Roman Empire (d. 1763)
• 1724-11-24 Maria Amalia of Saxony, queen of Spain (d. 1760)
• 1728-08-29 Maria Anna Sophia of Saxony, Electress of Bavaria, born in Dresden Castle, Dresden, Electorate of Saxony, Holy Roman Empire (d. 1797)
• 1728-12-25 Johann Adam Hiller, German composer, born in Wendisch-Ossig, Saxony (d. 1804)
• 1736-11-18 Carl Friedrich Christian Fasch, German composer, born in Zerbst, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany (d. 1800)
• 1738-07-11 Albert Casimir, Duke of Teschen and Governor of the Austrian Netherlands, born in Moritzburg, Electorate of Saxony (d. 1822)
• 1748-02-05 Christian Gottlob Neefe, German composer, conductor and tutor of Ludwig van Beethoven, born in Shimnitz, Electorate of Saxony, Holy Roman Empire (d. 1798)
• 1750-08-10 Daniel Gottlob Türk, German organist and composer, born in Claußnitz, Saxony (d. 1813)
• 1750-12-23 Frederik Augustus I of Saxony (1806-27) last Elector of Saxony, (d. 1827)
• 1753-11-03 August Gottlieb Meißner, German Enlightenment author who helped develop the detective story genre in German literature, born in Bautzen, Electorate of Saxony, Holy Roman Empire (d. 1807)
• 1756-08-29 Heinrich Graf von Bellegarde, Austrian field marshal and statesman, born in Dresden, Electorate of Saxony, Holy Roman Empire (d. 1845)
• 1756-11-30 Ernst Chladni, German physicist and musician (Estimating the speed of sound Chladni's law), born in Wittenberg, Electorate of Saxony (d. 1827)
• 1760-10-27 August Neidhardt von Gneisenau, Prussian field marshal, born in Schildau, Saxony (d. 1831)
• 1763-01-29 Johann Gottfried Seume, German writer (Spaziergang nach Syrakus), born in Poserna, Saxony-Anhalt, (d. 1810)
• 1772-05-02 Novalis [Georg Philipp Friedrich Freiherr von Hardenberg], German romantic writer ('Heinrich von Ofterdingen), born in Oberwiederstedt, Saxony (d. 1801)
• 1777-09-07 Heinrich David Stölzel, German horn player who developed the first valve for brass instruments, born in Schneeberg, Saxony (d. 1844)
• 1778-03-08 Friedrich August Kanne, Austrian-German composer, born in Delitzsch, Electorate of Saxony, Holy Roman Empire (d. 1833)
• 1780-07-25 Christian Theodor Weinlig, German composer, teacher and choir master, born in Dresden, Electorate of Saxony, Holy Roman Empire (d. 1842)
• 1781-06-05 Christian August Lobeck, German classical scholar, born in Naumburg, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany (d. 1860)
• 1794-03-26 Julius Schnorr von Carolsfeld, German painter and designer who figured importantly in the German Nazarene movement, born in Leipzig, Saxony (d. 1872)
• 1795-06-24 Ernst Heinrich Weber, German anatomist and physiologist (one of the founders of experimental psychology), born in Wittenberg, Saxony, Holy Roman Empire (d. 1878)
• 1795-08-16 Heinrich August Marschner, German opera composer, born in Zittau, Saxony (d. 1861)
• 1795-09-20 Charles Zeuner, German-American composer and organist, born in Eisleben, Saxony (d. 1857)

• 1797-05-18 Frederick Augustus II, King of Saxony (1836-54), born in Dresden, Electorate of Saxony, Holy Roman Empire (d. 1854)
• 1801-11-13 Amalie Auguste of Bavaria, Queen of Saxony, born in Munich (d. 1877)
• 1801-12-12 John of Saxony, King of Saxony (1854-73) translated Divina Commedia, born in Dresden, Electorate of Saxony, Holy Roman Empire (d. 1873)
• 1801-12-15 August Freyer, Polish organist (Warsaw Evangelical Church, 1837-83), composer, and pedagogue, born in Mildenau, Electorate of Saxony (d. 1883)
• 1803-12-07 Maria Josepha of Saxony, Queen consort of Spain, born in Dresden Castle, Dresden, Electorate of Saxony, Holy Roman Empire (d. 1829)
• 1805-01-27 Maria Anna of Bavaria, queen consort of Saxony (d. 1877)
• 1808-08-29 Hermann Schulze-Delitzsch, German politician and reformer, born in Delitzsch, Saxony (d. 1883)
• 1808-10-24 Ernst Richter, German musical theorist and composer, born in Großschönau, Saxony, Germany (d. 1879)
• 1809-07-10 Friedrich August Quenstedt, German geologist and paleontologist, born in Eisleben, Saxony (d. 1889)

• 1815-04-06 Robert Volkmann, German composer and pedagogue, born in Lommatzsch, Kingdom of Saxony (d. 1883)
• 1824-11-21 Hieronymus Theodor Richter, German mineralogist and co-discoverer of the element indium, born in Dresden, Kingdom of Saxony (d. 1898)
• 1828-04-23 Albert, King of Saxony (1873-1902), born in Dresden, Kingdom of Saxony (d. 1902)
• 1828-08-11 Edward Saloman, American politician, Governor of Wisconsin (1862-64), born in Ströbeck, Prussian Saxony (d. 1909)
• 1833-08-05 Carola of Vasa, Queen consort of Saxony, born in Vienna (d. 1907)
• 1834-09-15 Heinrich von Treitschke, German historian and political writer, born in Dresden, Kingdom of Saxony (d. 1896)

• 1850-07-12 Otto Schoetensack, German anthropologist, born in Stendal, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany (d. 1912)
• 1857-07-05 Clara Zetkin, German feminist, Socialist, and Communist leader, born in Wiederau, Saxony (d. 1933)
• 1859-09-24 Julius Klengel, German cellist and composer, born in Leipzig, Kingdom of Saxony (d. 1933)
• 1859-12-31 Max Fiedler, German conductor and composer, born in Zittau, Saxony, (d. 1939)
• 1862-04-14 Pyotr Stolypin, 3rd Prime Minister of Russia (1906-11), born in Dresden, Kingdom of Saxony (d. 1911)
• 1863-09-06 Rodolfo Lenz, German-Chilian linguist (El Papiamento), born in Halle, Province of Saxony, Kingdom of Prussia (now Germany) (d. 1938)

• 1865-05-25 Frederick Augustus III, King of Saxony (1904-18), born in Dresden, Kingdom of Saxony (d. 1932)
• 1865-07-02 Lily Braun [Amalie von Kretschmann], German feminist writer (Im Schatten Titanen), and socialist politician, born in Halberstadt, Saxony, Kingdom of Prussia (d. 1916)
• 1866-10-25 Georg Alfred Schumann, German composer, born in Königstein, Saxony, Germany (d. 1952)
• 1868-07-30 Alfred Weber, German economist and sociologist, born in Erfurt, Prussian Saxony (d. 1958)
• 1874-04-18 Oskar Ernst Bernhardt, German author (In the Light of Truth: The Grail Message), born in Bischofswerda, Kingdom of Saxony, German Empire (d. 1941)
• 1883-08-07 Joachim Ringelnatz [Hans Bötticher], German writer and artist, born in Wurzen, Saxony (d. 1934)
• 1889-04-19 Otto Georg Thierack, German jurist and politician (Reich Minister of Justice 1942-45), born in Wurzen, Kingdom of Saxony, German Empire (d. 1946)

• 1897-11-22 Paul Oswald Ahnert, German astronomer, born in Chemnitz, Kingdom of Saxony (d. 1989)
• 1899-11-26 Bruno Hauptmann, German kidnapper of Charles Augustus Lindbergh III, born in Kamenz, Saxony, Germany (d. 1936)
• 1905-09-27 Ernst Baier, German figure skater (Olympic gold 1936), born in Zittau, Saxony, Germany (d. 2001)
• 1912-10-14 Helmut Schelsky, German sociologist (Sociology of Sex), born in Chemnitz, Saxony (d. 1984)
• 1913-02-25 Gert Fröbe [Karl Gerhart Fröbe], German actor (Goldfinger, Lover's Wood, Upper Hand), born in Saxony, German Empire (d. 1988)
• 1914-09-04 Rudolf Leiding, German auto executive and 3rd postwar chairman of Volkswagen, born in Altmark, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany (d. 2003)
• 1921-09-16 Fritz Geissler, German composer, born in Wurzen, Saxony (d. 1984)
• 1923-10-29 Dietrich Manicke, German composer, born in Wurzen, Saxony, Germany (d. 2013)
• 1926-07-01 Carl Hahn, German automotive executive (CEO of Volkswagen Group), born in Chemnitz, Saxony, Germany (d. 2023)
• 1927-12-31 Dieter Noll, German writer (Die Abenteuer des Werner Holt), born in Riesa, Saxony (d. 2008)
• 1930-10-11 Harry Glaß, German ski jumper (Olympic bronze 1956), born in Klingenthal, Vogtland, Saxony, Germany (d. 1997)

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