In the early 20th century Dresden was particularly well known for its camera works and its cigarette factories.

Although less central to modern conflict, vast areas of 20th century cities such as Warsaw, Dresden, Coventry, London and Berlin were left in ruins following World War II, and a number of major cities around the world – such as Beirut, Kabul, Sarajevo, Grozny and Baghdad – have been partially or completely ruined in recent years as a result of more localised warfare.

In 19th and 20th centuries the Radziwiłłs owned property in European capitals like Vienna, Dresden, Berlin and Paris.

" The 18th-and 19th-century cultural landscape of Dresden Elbe Valley .. features low meadows, and is crowned by the Pillnitz Palace and the centre of Dresden with its numerous monuments and parks from the 16th to 20th centuries.

By the start of the 20th century, the gallery was among the most prominent German collections of classic Pan-European art ; the other such collections open to the public were the Dresden Gallery, the Alte Pinakothek in Munich, and the Altes Museum in Berlin.

* 1813-On 13 January the Guard crosses the Nieman river in the presence of the Emperor ; on 2 April participates in the grand parade in the presence of the Emperor and King Frederick William III of Prussia ; on 14 April triumphantly enters Dresden ; on 2 May takes part in the battle of Lutzen ; on the 19th, 20th and 21 May the regiment is a central reserve under the command of Grand Duke in the battle of Bautzen ; on 28 August and 29 August, being a part of 1st Guards Infantry Division under the command of General Yermolov, is distinguished in the Battle of Kulm.

In 1810, Weber visited several cities throughout Germany ; from 1813 to 1816 he was director of the Opera in Prague ; from 1816 to 1817 he worked in Berlin, and from 1817 onwards he was director of the prestigious Opera in Dresden, working hard to establish a German Opera, in reaction to the Italian Opera which had dominated the European music scene since the 18th century.

In the 18th century, Rinaldo d ' Este was twice driven from his city by French invasions, and Francesco III built many of Modena's public buildings, but the Este pictures were sold and many of them wound up in Dresden.

In an attempt to make the film relevant to the 21st century, Neil Tennant and Chris Lowe ( of the Pet Shop Boys ) composed a soundtrack in 2004 with the Dresden Symphonic Orchestra.

Dam Square in Amsterdam with view of City Hall in the late 17th century: painting by Gerrit Adriaenszoon Berckheyde ( Gemäldegalerie, Dresden )

Through these extravagances a reactionary movement arose at the beginning of the 18th century ; one leader was Valentin Ernst Löscher, superintendent at Dresden.

Built in the 18th century, the church was destroyed in the firebombing of Dresden during World War II.

During the latter half of the 17th century Biber was, together with the composers of the Dresden school ( Johann Jakob Walther and Johann Paul von Westhoff ), regarded as one of the best and most influential violinists in Europe.

By the middle of the 18th century, the cities of Vienna, Dresden, Berlin and Mannheim had become the center for orchestral music.

Depiction of a judicial combat in the Dresden codex of the Sachsenspiegel ( early to mid 14th century ), illustrating the provision that the two combatants must " share the sun ", i. e. align themselves perpendicular to the Sun so that neither has an advantage.

In addition, he appreciated the stricter architects of the 19th century such as Gottfried Semper, who built the Dresden Opera House, the Picture Gallery in Dresden, the court museums in Vienna and Theophil Freiherr von Hansen, who designed several buildings in Athens in 1840.

In Dresden alone, it reached its 100th performance in 1873 and 200th in 1908 and it was regularly performed throughout the 19th century in major opera houses throughout Europe and beyond, including those in America and England in 1878 / 9.

From the late 18th century onwards, cities like Dresden, Munich, Weimar and Berlin were major stops on a European Grand tour.

Early in the twentieth century, a group of Dresden artists adapted the Printmaking techniques for Woodcut prints to linoleum, thus creating the Linocut printmaking technique.

Martin Stephan ( 1777 – 1846 ) was pastor of St. John Lutheran Church in Dresden, Germany during the early 19th century.

Christmas Stollen in Dresden was already baked in the 15th century.

Heinrich Gustav Reichenbach ( Dresden, 3 January 1823 – Hamburg, 6 May 1889 ) was an orchidologist, botanist and the foremost German orchidologist of the 19th century.

* In the last quarter of the 18th century, Professor Jacob Seydelmann of Dresden developed a process to extract and produce a more concentrated form of sepia for use in watercolors and oil paints.

One ingredient for porcelain was kaolin ; the porcelain manufactory of Meißen, near Dresden, was taking advantage of the first kaolin deposits identified in Europe, but hard-paste porcelain in France had to wait for the first French kaolin, discovered near Limoges later in the eighteenth century.

Dam Square in the late 17th century: painting by Gerrit Adriaenszoon Berckheyde ( Gemäldegalerie, Dresden )

The Dresden Codex, also known as the Codex Dresdensis, is a pre-Columbian Maya book of the eleventh or twelfth century of the Yucatecan Maya in Chichén Itzá.

The painting travelled extensively in the 19th century ; Princess Czartoryski rescued it in advance of the invading Russian army in 1830, hid it, then sent it to Dresden and on to the Czartoryski place of exile in Paris, the Hôtel Lambert, returning it to Kraków in 1882.

AMD's new fab in Dresden came online, allowing further production increases, and the process technology was improved by a switch to copper interconnects.

This version was also played in Hamburg, Dresden, Hanover, and Berlin, although, in the wake of protests and a lack of success, Niemann-Raabe eventually restored the original ending.

Anthony ( Dresden, 27 December 1755 – Dresden, 6 June 1836 ), also known by his German name Anton ( full name: Anton Clemens Theodor Maria Joseph Johann Evangelista Johann Nepomuk Franz Xavier Aloys Januar ), was a King of Saxony ( 1827 – 1836 ) from the House of Wettin.

Mozart's opera Don Giovanni was originally intended to be performed in honor of Anton and his wife for a visit to Prague on 14 October 1787, as they traveled between Dresden and Vienna, and librettos were printed with dedication to them.

It was the Bauhaus contemporaries Bruno Taut, Hans Poelzig and particularly Ernst May, as the city architects of Berlin, Dresden and Frankfurt respectively, who are rightfully credited with the thousands of socially progressive housing units built in Weimar Germany.

In 1884 he became senior physician in the Prussian provincial town of Leubus and the following year he was appointed director of the Treatment and Nursing Institute in Dresden.

Albert ( full name: Frederick Augustus Albert Anton Ferdinand Joseph Karl Maria Baptist Nepomuk Wilhelm Xaver Georg Fidelis ) ( Dresden, 23 April 1828 – Schloss Sibyllenort ( Szczodre ), 19 June 1902 ) was a King of Saxony and a member of the House of Wettin.

The pastel by Liotard was sold in 1745 by Algarotti to Dresden.

Frederick Augustus II ( full name: Frederick Augustus Albert Maria Clemens Joseph Vincenz Aloys Nepomuk Johann Baptista Nikolaus Raphael Peter Xavier Franz de Paula Venantius Felix ) ( Dresden, 18 May 1797 – Brennbüchel, Karrösten, Tyrol, 9 August 1854 ) was King of Saxony and a member of the House of Wettin.

He was buried on the 16 August in the Katholische Hofkirche of Dresden.

The November 2003 party convention was held in Dresden and decided the election platform for the 2004 European Parliament elections.

George the Bearded, Duke of Saxony ( Meissen, 27 August 1471 – Dresden, 17 April 1539 ), was duke of Saxony from 1500 to 1539.

As early as 1488, when his father was in East Frisia fighting on behalf of the emperor, George was regent of the ducal possessions, which included the Margraviate of Meissen with the cities of Dresden and Leipzig.

George was married at Dresden, on 21 November 1496, to Barbara Jagiellon, daughter of Casimir IV, King of Poland and Elisabeth, daughter of Albrecht II of Hungary.

At one point in its history, the southwest corner of Hanover was known as Dresden, which in the 1780s joined other disgruntled New Hampshire towns along the Connecticut River that briefly defected to what was then the independent Republic of Vermont.

For a time, Dresden was capital of the republic.

After participating in the May Uprising in Dresden of 1849, he was imprisoned and shipped to Siberia, but eventually escaped and made his way back to Europe.

Following the Royal Navy's revenge at the Battle of the Falkland Islands a month later, the only surviving German cruiser, SMS Dresden, was finally hunted down and cornered at Más a Tierra early in 1915, where she was scuttled after a brief battle with British cruisers.

It was on Bach's recommendation that in 1748 he was able to join Johann Adolph Hasse's court orchestra at Dresden where he remained for ten years.

For the remaining 31 years of his life, he resided at Dresden as director of the Museum of Antiquities, and was active as a journalist and public lecturer.