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Dresden was a centre of the German Revolutions in 1848 with the May Uprising, which cost human lives and damaged the historic town of Dresden.
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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.
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Dresden was a centre of European modern art until 1933.
Dresden, 1945 — over ninety percent of the city centre was destroyed.
Dresden in the 20th century was a major communications hub and manufacturing center, as well as a leading European centre of art, classical music, culture and science until its complete destruction on 13 February 1945.
The bombing raid on Dresden destroyed almost all of the ancient centre of the city in three waves of attacks.
After the Second World War, Dresden became a major industrial centre in the German Democratic Republic ( former East Germany ) with a great deal of research infrastructure.
Dresden remains a major cultural centre of historical memory, owing to the city's destruction in World War II.
In February 1945, as Soviet forces closed in on the German city of Dresden, which had been largely spared of heavy bombing raids due to its historic status, they asked for attacks to be made on the extensive transport links around the population centre.
He established the Saxon capital of Dresden as a major cultural centre, attracting artists from across Europe to his court.
Moritzburg is a municipality in the district of Meißen in Saxony, Germany, between Meißen as early centre of Saxony and the today's capital Dresden.
* February 13-February 15-The bombing of Dresden by the British Royal Air Force and the United States Army Air Force destroys 13 square miles ( 34 km² ) of the city, and causes a firestorm that consumes the city centre.
It is however – so far – the only Elbe crossing in Dresden east of the city centre up to the neighboring town of Pirna.
Over the centuries it has developed into a huge event with 250 stands, taking up a large part of Dresden city centre and lasting throughout the Advent period.
It is located in Klotzsche, a district of Dresden north of the city centre.
It is served by trains on line S2 of the Dresden S-Bahn, which provide a half-hourly link to Dresden-Neustadt and Dresden Hauptbahnhof stations in the centre of Dresden, with journey times of 13 and 23 minutes respectively.
Dresden Airport is situated some north of the centre of Dresden.
Before the events of May 1849, Dresden was already known as a cultural centre for liberals and democrats ; the anarchist Dresdner Zeitung newspaper was partly edited by the music director Karl August Röckel and contained articles by Mikhail Bakunin, who came to Dresden in March 1849.
Blasewitz is a larger borough ( Ortsamtsbereich ) of Dresden, Germany in the city's eastern centre on the Elbe river.
He adorned Dresden, which under him became the musical centre of Germany ; welcoming foreign musicians and others he gathered around him a large and splendid court, and his capital was the constant scene of musical and other festivals.
It is situated 14 km west of Dresden ( centre ).
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* 1945 – World War II: On the first day of the bombing of Dresden, the British Royal Air Force and the United States Army Air Forces begin fire-bombing Dresden, the capital of the German state of Saxony.
A terminus of the first German long distance railway to Dresden ( the capital of Saxony ) in 1839, Leipzig became a hub of Central European railway traffic, with Leipzig Central Station the largest terminal station by area in Europe.
* 1849 – The May Uprising in Dresden begins – the last of the German revolutions of 1848.
* 1915 – World War I: Cornered off the coast of Chile by the Royal Navy after fleeing the Battle of the Falkland Islands, the German light cruiser SMS Dresden is abandoned and scuttled by her crew.
Those who defend the atrocities say that even if firebombing Dresden, for instance, served very little military purpose, even the slightest purpose justified it and also, German people bore responsibility for the horrors of the war and that they had to be punished for that.
The firebombing raids on German cities, e. g. Dresden and Hamburg, frequently caused death by this mechanism.
Beginning in 1634, Dresden, Munich, and smaller German communities such as Oberammergau recorded large numbers of plague casualties.
The Trabant's designers expected production to extend to 1967 at the latest, and East German designers and engineers created a series of more sophisticated prototypes through the years that were intended to replace the Trabant P601 ; several of these can be seen at the Dresden Transport Museum.
March 14: ( WWI ) Royal Navy forced the German light cruiser SMS Dresden ( 1907 ) | SMS Dresden to scuttle.
** The German football team SG Dynamo Dresden is founded.
** The May Uprising in Dresden ( the last of the German revolutions of 1848 ) begins.
Since the German reunification in 1990, Dresden has regained importance as one of the cultural, educational, political and economic centres of Germany.
Apart from the German army officers ' school ( Offizierschule des Heeres ), there have been no more military units in Dresden since the army merger during German reunification, and the withdrawal of Soviet forces in 1992.
German Federal Minister of Defence Thomas de Maizière has his place of residence and political basis in Dresden.
Being the capital of the German state of Saxony, Dresden had not only garrisons but a whole military borough, the Albertstadt.
Dresden was attacked seven times between 1944 and 1945, and was occupied by the Red Army after German capitulation.
The German Dresden Historians ' Commission, in an official 2010 report published after five years of research concluded there were up to 25, 000 casualties, while right-wing groups continue to claim that up to 500, 000 people died.
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