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| 1518 | Trial |  |
| Rome Albrecht sues Luther in Rome |
| 1885 | Birth | |
| 13th Nov Marhsteft Birth of Albrecht Kesselring, into a family of teachers, councillors & academics |
| 1918 | Captain | |
| Appointed Captain |
| 1919 | Battery Commander Kesselring | |
| Appointed Commander in the Reichswehr |
| 1922 | Major | |
| Appointed Major, serves in the office of the Chief of the Army |
| 1930 | Commander | |
| Appointed Commander of the 4th Artillery Regiment |
| 1933 | Major | |
| 1st Oct Transferred into the air force, at that time a defensive force |
| 1935 | Major | |
| 1st Mar Appointed Major-General for to create the infrastructure of the Luftwaffe |
| 1936 | Chief of General Staff | |
| 3rd June Appointed Chief-of-General-Staff of the Luftwaffe |
| 1936 | Commander | |
| Appointed Commander Luftflotte 3 |
| 1936 | General of the Airforce | |
| Appointed General of the Airforce |
| 1936 | Paratroopers | |
| Creates the Paratroop Arm of the Luftwaffe |
| 1938 | Commander | |
| 1st Oct Appointed Commander Luftflotte 1, based in Berlin |
| 1939 | Invasion of Poland | |
| Commands Lufftflotte 1 which provides most of the air support |
| 1939 | Medal | |
| Awarded the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross for the invasion of Poland |
| 1940 | Armistice | |
| 22nd June Helps secure an armistice with France |
| 22nd June Meets the demands of Army Group B by providing support over the Somme & the Seine |
| 1940 | Battle of River Meuse | |
| 15th May Flanders Suports the German 6th Army in Flanders |
| 1940 | Commander | |
| Appointed Commander Luftflotte 2 in the west |
| 1940 | Dynamo | |
| 4th June Dunkirk The British Royal Navy evacuates 300,000 from Dunkirk |
| 1940 | Eagle Day | |
| 12th Aug 1st of 4 days to destroy British air superiority over Britain |
| 12th Aug The fighters are called back because of the bad weather & 8 bombers are lost |
| 1940 | Evacuation Dunkirk | |
| 4th June Dunkirk The British Royal Navy evacuates 300,000 from Dunkirk |
| 1940 | General Field Marshal | |
| July, appointed General Field Marshal |
| July Appointed General Field Marshal |
| 1940 | Luftwaffe | |
| Responsible for the air war against Britain & the west |
| 1940 | Operation Sea Lion | |
| Sets up a wirless intercept system to hear RAF messages |
| 20th Aug Pas de Calais Kesselring is ordered to concentrate his forces in the Pas de Calais |
| 6th Sep Goering arrives at Kesselring's HQ to take command of Operation Sealion |
| 1940 | Operation Yellow | |
| 10th May Dunkirk The 6 Fliegerkorps of Luftflotte 2 & 3 begin the war in the west |
| 25th May Dunkirk Goering holds back the Army outside Dunkirk, Kesselring objects to this strategy |
| 1941 | Barbarossa | |
| Ordered to provide air support for Army Group Centre under von Bock |
| 15th June In the 1st raid 2,500 enemy aircraft are destroyed |
| 15th June Kesselring's concentration of Luftflotte is completed |
| 1941 | Invasion of Russia | |
| Ordered to provide air support for Army Group Centre under von Bock |
| 1941 | Siege of Moscow | |
| 30th Sep Moscow Provides air support for Guderian's panzer groups |
| 1942 | Alliance | |
| Responsible for land & air forces & keeping Italy in the war |
| 1942 | Bombing of Malta | |
| Malta Orders heavy bombing of Malta because of its strategic importance to the British |
| 1942 | Commander | |
| Appointed Commander-in-Chief, South |
| 1942 | Hercules | |
| Malta At the last moment Hitler decides to cancel Operation Hercules |
| 29th April Malta Kesselring sees Operation Hercules as being essential if Suez is to be captured |
| 29th April Malta Kesselring's plan to capture Malta is agreed by Hitler & Mussolini |
| 1942 | Invasion of Africa | |
| Nov The Allies invade Algeria & Tunisia |
| 1942 | Invasion of Egypt | |
| 26th June Arrives at Rommel's HQ & reluctantly agrees to his continuation into Egypt |
| 1942 | Invasion of Sicily | |
| Nov Sicily Moves HQ to Sicily for an Allied invasion |
| 1943 | Commander | |
| 21st Nov Appointed Supreme Axis Commander in Italy |
| 1943 | Invasion of Italy | |
| Sep Commands 8 German Divisions in Italy against the Allied invasion |
| 11th Sep Launches the German counterattacks after the Allied landings at Salerno |
| 12th Sep Molina Pass Drives the British back to Molina Pass after the Allied invasion at Salerno |
| 16th Oct Gustav Line Defends the Gustav line from Minturno to Cassino |
| 16th Oct Volturno Line Forced to withdraw 15 miles nth of the Volturno Line |
| 1945 | Battle of Rhineland | |
| 23rd Mar Oppenheim Patton crosses the Rhine at Oppenheim |
| 1945 | Commander | |
| 10th Mar Appointed Commander-in-Chief, West |
| 1945 | Surrender | |
| 6th May Surrenders to the Americans |
| 1947 | Trial | |
| 6th June Venice Sentenced to death by a British Military Court for shooting 335 Italian civilians |
| 6th June Venice The death sentence is later commuted to life |
| 1952 | Arrest | |
| Pardoned & freed |
| 1977 | Assassination | |
| 28th April Oberursel Jrgen Ponto, Head of Dresdner Bank, is shot and killed in front of his house in Oberursel in a kidnapping that went wrong, those involved are Brigitte Mohnhaupt, Chris tian Klar, and Susanne Albrecht, the last bei |
