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| 1845 | Kautsky, Karl |  |
| Birth of Karl Kautsky |
| 1865 | Scheidemann, Phillip | |
| 25th July Birth of Phillip Scheidemann |
| 1869 | Liebknecht, Karl | |
| Berlin Founded by Liebknecht at the Congress of German Socialists |
| 1871 | Ebert, Friedrich | |
| 4th Feb Heidelberg Birth of Friedrich Ebert |
| 1878 | Bismarck-Schonhausen, Otto Furst von | |
| Berlin The SPD defends itself by conventions in London & Switzerland |
| 1881 | Bismarck-Schonhausen, Otto Furst von | |
| Berlin The Septennat Law financing the Army for 7 years is passed through the Reichstag |
| 1891 | Kautsky, Karl | |
| Kautsky's Erfurt Program is adopted by the SDP |
| 1893 | Kautsky, Karl | |
| Founds Neue Zeit |
| 1897 | Haase, Hugo | |
| Appointed President of the Social Democratic Party |
| 1903 | Scheidemann, Phillip | |
| Berlin Appointed Member of the Reichstag |
| 1905 | Ebert, Friedrich | |
| Appointed Party Secretary of the Social Democratic Party |
| 1911 | Scheidemann, Phillip | |
| Appointed Member of the SDP executive |
| 1912 | Ebert, Friedrich | |
| Berlin Elected Member of the Reichstag |
| 1913 | Brandt, Willy | |
| 18th Dec Birth of Willy Brandt |
| 1913 | Ebert, Friedrich | |
| Appointed Chairman of the SDP |
| Persuades the SDP to vote for war credits to defend Germany from the Tsarist autocracy |
| 1916 | Ebert, Friedrich | |
| Berlin Appointed Party Leader in the Reichstag |
| 1917 | Haase, Hugo | |
| Appointed leader of the Independent Social Democratic Party |
| 1917 | Scheidemann, Phillip | |
| Appointed co-Chairman of the SDP |
| 1918 | Ebert, Friedrich | |
| Appointed Party Leader of the Social Democratic Party |
| 9th Nov Berlin Opposes Scheidemann's declaration of a republic, wants a constitutional monarchy |
| 1918 | Liebknecht, Karl | |
| 20th Dec Berlin The National Conference of Spartacists is held in Berlin |
| 1918 | Luxemburg, Rosa | |
| Nov Berlin Uprising led by the Communist Party of Germany, KPD. |
| 1918 | Schmidt, Helmut Heinrich Waldemar | |
| 23rd Dec Hamburg Birth of Helmut Heinrich Waldemar Schmidt, son of a school teacher |
| 1919 | Liebknecht, Karl | |
| 5th Jan Berlin A General strike & communist uprising takes place in Berlin |
| 15th Jan Berlin Death of Karl Liebknecht, murdered while under arrest |
| 15th Jan Berlin Murdered while under arrest |
| 1919 | Luxemburg, Rosa | |
| 15th Jan Berlin Murdered while under arrest |
| 1919 | Scheidemann, Phillip | |
| 9th Nov Death of Phillip Scheidemann |
| 1924 | Schumacher, Kurt | |
| Wurtemberg Appointed Member of the Wurtemburg Parliament |
| 1930 | Brandt, Willy | |
| Appointed Member of the Social Democratic Party |
| 1930 | Schumacher, Kurt | |
| Appointed Member of the Reichstag |
| 1931 | Henlein, Konrad | |
| Appointed leader of the German Nationalist movement in Czechoslovakia by Hitler |
| 1932 | Schumacher, Kurt | |
| "The entire Natinal Socialist agitation is a constant appeal to the swine in man" |
| 1933 | Henlein, Konrad | |
| The Party newspaper receives 120,000 Czech crowns from the 3rd Reich |
| Sudetenland The Party receives a subsidy of 8 million crowns from Rudolf Hess |
| 1st Oct Sudetenland Founds & leads new German Nationalist political Party in Czech |
| 1933 | Scheidemann, Phillip | |
| Scheidemann goes into exile following the Nazi takeover |
| 1933 | Schumacher, Kurt | |
| Dachau Arrested & sent to Dachau |
| Berlin Votes against Hitler's Enabling Act |
| 1933 | Wels, Otto | |
| 23rd Mar Berlin Hitler tells Wels that his death-knell had sounded |
| 23rd Mar Berlin Thw Kroll Opera House, where the voting will be held, is surrounded by SA & SS |
| 1934 | Henlein, Konrad | |
| Sudetenland Holds the 1st mass meeting of the Sudeten Deutsche Partei, over 20,000 attend |
| 1935 | Henlein, Konrad | |
| The SDP wins 44 Deputies, 60% of the German speaking people of Czech |
| 1938 | Henlein, Konrad | |
| Appointed Reichskommissar after the Munich agreement |
| Sudetenland Asks for complete autonomy for Sudeten Germans in the Karlsbad Decrees |
| 28th Mar Sudetenland Hitler promises to support Henlein & make him Viceroy of Czech |
| 24th April Sudetanland Henlein demands full independence for the Sudeten Germans |
| 4th Sep Sudetenland Henlein rejects Benes ' offer of full autonomy for Sudetenland |
| 29th Sep Sudetanland Destabilizes the Czech government prior to the Munich agreement |
| 1938 | Kautsky, Karl | |
| Death of Karl Kautsky |
| 1939 | Henlein, Konrad | |
| 1st May Appointed heads of the civil administration in Czechoslovakia |
| 1943 | Schumacher, Kurt | |
| Released from Dachau |
| 1944 | Schumacher, Kurt | |
| Arrested after the July plot to kill Hitler |
| 1946 | Schmidt, Helmut Heinrich Waldemar | |
| Appointed Member of the Social Democratic Party |
| 1946 | Schumacher, Kurt | |
| Appointed Party Leader of the Social Democratic Party |
| 1953 | Schmidt, Helmut Heinrich Waldemar | |
| Bonn Appointed Member of the Bundestag, Federal Parliament |
| 1957 | Brandt, Willy | |
| Appointed Mayor of West Berlin |
| 1966 | Schmidt, Helmut Heinrich Waldemar | |
| Appointed Chairman of the SPD group in the Bundestag |
| 1998 | Schroder, Gerhard | |
| 1st Mar Saxony The Social Democrats win the state lections in Lower Saxony |
