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| 1711-13 | Russian and Saxon troops occupy Greifswald during the Great Northern War | 1700-21 | Great Northern War | |
| 1701-14 | War of the Spanish Succession | |||
 main building of the university of Greifswald |
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| 1740 | Frederic II., the Great, becomes King of Prussia |
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| 1742 | George Frideric Handel "The Messiah" | |||
| 1747-50 | construction of the main building of the university | 1748 | beginning of excavations in Pompeii | |
| 1750 | death of Johann Sebastian Bach | |||
| 1756 | outbreak of the Seven Years´ War | |||
| 1758-59 | occupation of Greifswald by Prussian troops during the Seven Years´ War | 1759 | inauguration of the British Museum in London | |
| 1765 | James Watt develops the steam engine | |||
| 1770 | James Cook claims Australia for Great Britain | |||
| 1774 | birth of the famous Romantic painter Caspar David Friedrich in Greifswald | |||
 C. D. Friedrich "Moonrise on the Sea" |
1776 | Declaration of Independence of the United States of America | ||
| 1789 | the Bastille is stormed in Paris: beginning of the French Revolution | |||
| 1799 | beginning of the Napoleonic Wars | |||
| 1804 | Napoleon crowns himself Emperor of the French | |||
| 1807 | troops of Napoleon occupy Greifswald | |||
| 1808 | Beethoven, 5th symphony | |||
| 1815 | Prussia acquires Swedish Pomerania: end of Swedish rule in Greifswald | 1814-15 | reorganization of Europe at the Congress of Vienna | |
| ~ 1815 | Caspar David Friedrich "Harbour of Greifswald" | 1815 | the battle of Waterloo:
Napoleon's final defeat |
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| 1859 | Darwin publishes "On the Origin of the Species by Means of Natural Selection" | |||
| 1863 | Greifswald is connected to the railway network | 1861-65 | United States Civil War | |
| 1869 | opening of the Suez Canal | |||
| 1881 | birth of Pablo Picasso | |||
| 1893 | birth of the author Hans Fallada in Greifswald | 1893 | construction of the first diesel engine | |
| 1896 | the first modern Olympic Games take place in Athens | |||
| 1913/14 | construction of the town´s theatre | 1913 | Nils Bohr develops the solar
system model of the atom |
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| 1914-18 | First World War | |||
| 1929 | beginning of the worldwide
economic crisis: New York Stock Exchange crashes |
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| 1936-39 | Spanish Civil War | |||
| 1945 | surrender of Greifswald without a fight: the town remains undamaged | 1939-45 | Seccond World War | |
Frederic II
