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| 1893 | Birth |  |
| 12th Jan Rosenheim Birth of Herman Goering, in Rosenheim, Upper Bavaria, the son of a colonial official |
| 1918 | Commander | |
| Appointed Commander of the Jagdeshwader |
| 1918 | Medal | |
| Awarded the Iron Cross , 1st class |
| Awarded the Pour le Merite Medal |
| 1922 | Commander | |
| Appointed Supreme Commander of the Sturmabteilung |
| 1922 | Marriage | |
| Marries Carin von Kantzow, a 29 yr old Swedish woman |
| 1922 | Meeting Hitler | |
| 1st meets Hitler & joins the Nazi Party |
| 1922 | NSDAP | |
| Appointed Member of the NSDAP |
| 1923 | Arrest | |
| Arrested for part played in the Beer Hall Putsch |
| 1923 | Exile of Goering | |
| Nov Escapes to Austria after the Munich Beer Hall Putsch then lives in Italy & Sweden |
| 1923 | Munich Beer Hall Putsch | |
| 8th Nov Munich Severely wounded after the police open fire, wounds which effect his future health |
| 1926 | Exile of Goering | |
| Escapes to Sweden |
| 1927 | Exile of Goering | |
| Returns to Germany after the amnesty & reestablishes contact with Hitler |
| 1928 | Reichstag | |
| Appointed Member of the Reichstag, 1 of 12 Nazis |
| Appointed Spokesman for the Lufthansa, with a fee of 1,000 Marks a month |
| 1930 | Political Agent | |
| Berlin Appointed Hitler's Political Agent in Berlin |
| 1930 | Reichstag | |
| Appointed Member of the Reichstag, 2nd time |
| 1931 | Carinhall | |
| Berlin Goering founds a mausoleum in memory of his former wife |
| 1931 | Death | |
| Death of Carin Goering, dies of TB, Goering's 1st wife |
| 1931 | Mausoleum | |
| Berlin Goering founds a mausoleum in memory of his former wife |
| 1932 | President | |
| Appointed President of the Reichstag after the Nazis become the largest Party |
| 1933 | Armament | |
| Given responsibility for the secret development of the Luftwaffe |
| 1933 | Dismissal | |
| Berlin Dismisses all the police in Prussia who are not Nazi sympathisers |
| 1933 | Election | |
| 20th Feb Business leaders meet at Goering's President's Palace & agree to finance Hitler |
| 20th Feb Helps agree to an election fund of 3 million Reichsmarks from leading industrialists |
| 1933 | Luftwaffe | |
| Given responsibility for the secret development of the Luftwaffe |
| 1933 | Minister of Aviation | |
| Appointed Minister of Aviation |
| 1933 | Minister President | |
| 30th Jan Appointed Minister President for Prussia |
| 1933 | Mobilization | |
| Berlin Calls up SA & SS members as "police auxiliaries" |
| 1933 | Plot | |
| Berlin Has 4,000 Communists & Social Democrats arrested |
| Berlin Has the Marxist Press banned |
| 24th Feb Berlin Launches a raid on the Communist Party HQ |
| 27th Feb Berlin Suspected of being involved because a tunnel leads from his office to the Reichstag |
| 28th Feb Berlin Claims van der Lubbe was a pawn in in Communist Plot to lunch a campaign of terror |
| 1933 | Police | |
| Feb Establishes an auxilliary police force of 50,000 composed of SA & SS members |
| 1933 | Purge | |
| Feb Purges the Prussian administration & appoints loyal party supporters |
| 1933 | Raid Communist HQ | |
| 24th Feb Berlin Launches a raid on the Karl Liebknecht Haus |
| 1933 | Reich Air Marshal Goering | |
| Appointed Interior Minister for Prussia |
| Appointed Reich Air Marshal |
| 1934 | Purge | |
| 30th June Berlin Goering & Himmler organize the arrest of the SA in Berlin |
| 30th June Berlin Has a list of those who are executed |
| 1934 | Reform | |
| 20th April Berlin Goering hands over the Gestapo to Himmler |
| 1935 | Commander | |
| Berlin Appointed Commander-in-Chief of the Airforce |
| 1935 | Marriage | |
| Berlin Marries Emmy Sonnemann, an actress, 2nd wife |
| 1935 | Reform | |
| Sep Berlin Announces the 1st of the Nuremberg Laws |
| 1936 | Bombing of Geurnica | |
| 26th April Guernica The kondor legion bombs the basque town of Geurnica killing over 6,000 |
| 1936 | Economy | |
| Sep Berlin Directs the 4 year economic plan in preparation for War |
| 1936 | Four Year Plan | |
| Sep Berlin Directs the 4 year economic plan in preparation for War |
| Sep Berlin Hitler announces the 2nd 4 Year Plan with Goring as plenipotentiary |
| 1937 | Four Year Plan | |
| Berlin Presides over the first four year plan |
| 1937 | Minister of Economics | |
| Appointed to temporarily take over the Ministry of Economics |
| 1937 | Reichswerke | |
| Berlin Founds the Hermann Goering Reichswerke, the biggest industrial enterprise in Europe |
| 1938 | Anschluss | |
| 26th Mar Herman Goering warns all Jews to leave Austria |
| 1938 | Commander | |
| 4th Feb Berlin Appointed Commander-in-Chief |
| 1938 | Conference of Munich | |
| 28th Sep Munich Draws up the draft for the memorandum which Mussolini uses for the Munich Agreement |
| 1938 | Diplomacy | |
| Oct Berlin Assures the Slovak leader, Durcansky, that Germany will support Slovak independence |
| 1938 | Rule of Madagascar | |
| 12th Nov Hermann Goering announces he favors Madagascar as a Jewish homeland |
| 1938 | Treaty of Munich | |
| 28th Sep Munich Draws up the draft for the memorandum which Mussolini uses for the Munich Agreement |
| 1939 | Deputy Fuhrer | |
| Berlin Appointed Hitler's successor |
| 1939 | Head of Jewish Emigration | |
| 4th Jan Hermann Goering Appoints Reinhard Heydrich as Head of Jewish Emigration |
| 1939 | Invasion of Poland | |
| 1st Sep The Luftwaffe gains air superiority but loses 500 aircraft during a 4 week campaign |
| 1st Sep The Luftwaffe make a preemptive strike against Polish airfields |
| 1940 | Battle of Britain | |
| 10th July 1st day of the Battle of Britain |
| 10th July 1st phase to 18th Aug |
| 10th July British convoys in the Channel from Dover to Plymouth are harried |
| 8th Aug Gathers a force of 2,800 planes, 900 fighters & 1,300 bombers in 3 fleets |
| 8th Aug Over the next 3 days the Germans lose 35 to the British 29 aircraft over the Channel |
| 8th Aug Renews attacks on the Channel, marks the the next phase |
| 12th Aug Luftwaffe attacks are switched to airfields & radar stations |
| 13th Aug 1st day of the main offensive |
| 15th Aug 1,786 sorties are flown |
| 15th Aug 1st large air battle takes place in nth England |
| 15th Aug 5 major actions are fought but the Germans lose 76 to Britain's 34 aircraft |
| 15th Aug Tyneside About 100 bombers escorted by 40 Me 110's are launched against Tyneside |
| 15th Aug Adlertag, eagle day, opening of the decisive phase of the battle |
| 15th Aug The largest air battle of this period |
| 24th Aug London 2nd phase to 27th Sept, a route to London is to be opened up by destroying the RAF |
| 24th Aug Airfields & commuincations are damaged as German numerical superiority takes effect |
| 24th Aug Berlin Berlin is bombed by the RAF in retaliation for the bombing of London |
| 24th Aug London Concentrates on airfields in the sth east but bombs are dropped in error on London |
| 24th Aug Resumes after bad weather |
| 24th Aug The 3rd phase of the Battle begins |
| 6th Sep End of the 3rd phase of the Battle of Britain |
| 6th Sep The Germans have lost 308 aircraft to the British 273 |
| 7th Sep London London becomes the target for incessant bombing |
| 7th Sep The Luftwaffe diverts its forces from destroying the RAF to bombing London |
| 15th Sep London 1,000 bombers & 700 fighters rage over the London |
| 15th Sep London 56 German planes are downed compared with 26 British |
| 15th Sep London Believing the RAF is broken Goering bombs London, 1,300 sorties are flown |
| 15th Sep London Bombing on London peaks |
| 24th Sep Attacks are shifted to main inland RAF bases |
| 24th Sep More than 450 British fighters are destroyed & 103 pilots killed |
| 14th Nov Coventry Coventry is destroyed during a night raid |
| 1940 | Bombing of Coventry | |
| 14th Nov Coventry 449 German planes bomb Coventry |
| 1940 | Bombing of London | |
| 24th Aug London Concentrates on airfields in the sth east but bombs are dropped in error on London |
| 6th Sep London London is bombed, marking the beginning of the London blitz |
| 7th Sep London Fighter Command concentrates its dwindling force after Goering's change of strategy |
| 15th Sep London Believing the RAF is broken Goering bombs London, 1,300 sorties are flown |
| 1940 | Bombing of Rotterdam | |
| May Rotterdam Rotterdam is reduced to a blazing ruin for the German invasion of France |
| 1940 | Bombing of Southampton | |
| 17th Nov Southampton 150 German aitcraft bomb Southampton |
| 1940 | Evacuation Dunkirk | |
| Dunkirk Advises Hitler to allow the BEF time to gather for an evacuation at Dunkirk |
| 1940 | Reichmarschall | |
| Awarded the specially created title od Reichmarschall |
| 1941 | Barberossa | |
| Placed in charge of the economic exploitation of Russia |
| 1941 | Battle of Stalingrad | |
| Stalingrad Advises Hitler the Luftwaffe can keep the Army supplied in Stalingrad, a mistake |
| 1941 | Bombing of Belgrade | |
| 6th April Belgrade For 3 days Belgrade ie ceaslesly bombed, it is razed to the ground killing 17,000 |
| 1941 | Capture of Crete | |
| 29th May Crete Takes Crete from the British with an airbourne assault |
| 1941 | Invasion of Russia | |
| Tries to dissuade Hitler from invading Russia |
| 24th June By the 2nd day of the invasion the Luftwaffe has destroyed 2,000 Russian aircraft |
| 1944 | Arrest | |
| Surrenders to the USAforces |
| 1945 | Dismissal | |
| 23rd April Stripped of all offices by Hitler after asking if he could succeed |
| 1945 | Expulsion Goering | |
| April Expelled from the Nazi party after trying to seize power |
| 1946 | Nuremberg War Trials | |
| 15th Oct Nuremburg Swallows poison hours before his scheduled execution |
