History and chronology of Maximilian Johannes Hubert von Spee in Germany

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Maximilian Johannes Hubert von Spee History of Germany


1861	Birth
22nd June Copenhagen Birth of Maximilian Johannes Hubert von Spee
1908	Commander
Appointed Commander of the North Sea Fleet
1910	Rear Admiral
27th Jan Appointed Rear Admiral
1912	Commander
Appointed Commander of the East Asia Squadron
1914	Battle of Coronel
1st Nov Coronel British defeat by Admiral Spee including the Scharnhorst, Gneisenau & Nurnberg
1st Nov Coronel Defeats Craddock then sails around Cape Horn to scour the South Atlantic
1st Nov Coronel Spee's forces sink the HMS Good Hope & HMS Monmouth
1st Nov Coronel The British are outnumbered & defeated & lose 2 cruisers & 1,500 crew
1st Nov Coronel The British under Craddock fail to prevent German commerce raiding in the sth Pacific
1914	Battle of Falklands
8th Dec Falklands Bombards the Falkland Islands not knowing of the presence of Admiral Sturdee
8th Dec Falklands British reversal of the defeat at Coronel
8th Dec Falklands Spee attempts a raid on the coaling station at Stanley in the Falkland Islands, unaware the British had sent reinforcements
8th Dec Falklands Sturdee sinks Spee's flagship, SMS Scharnhorst, together with SMS Gneisenau, SMS Nrnberg & SMS Leipzig
8th Dec Falklands The German Navy's Sth American commerce raiding force is destroyed
8th Dec Falklands The Scharnhorst is sunk & von Spee drowns
1914	Commander
Aug Appointed Commander of the Far East Squadron, patrols the Pacific
1914	Death
8th Dec Death of Maximilian Johannes Hubert von Spee
1914	Sinking Scharnhorst
Falklands Death of Maximilian Johannes Hubert von Spee, during the sinking of the Scharnhorst
Falklands Goes down with the Scharnhorst, sunk by the British under Admiral Sturdee