The Thirty Years' War 1618 ~ 1648
The War of the Austrian Succession 1740 ~ 1748
The Seven Years' War 1754 ~ 1763
The War of the Bavarian Succession 1778 ~ 1779
The Napoleonic Wars 1799 ~ 1815
The Rhine Confederation "Rheinbund" 1806 ~ 1813
The German Confederation "Deutscher Bund" 1815 ~ 1866
50,000 Germans Immigrate 1820 ~ 1829	Henry Ludwig 1820 ~ 1898 From Hanover, Germany NLT 1857		Ferdinand Baumgartner 1820 ~ ???? From Baden, Germany NLT 1851
			Katherina Akermann 1824 ~ ???? From Wurttemberg, Germany NLT 1851
	Maggie Ludwig 1825 ~ 1913 From Hanover, Germany NLT 1857			Peter Knuewe 1825 ~ ???? From Prussia NLT 1855
				Margarethe Knuewe 1828 ~ ???? From Prussia NLT 1855
210,000 Germans Immigrate 1830 ~ 1839
480,000 Germans Immigrate 1840 ~ 1849			Adam Gangloff 1841 ~ ????
			Anna (Jennie) Bauer 1842 ~ ???? From Wurttemberg, Germany NLT 1865
			Jacob Gangloff 1842 ~ ????
			Magdalina Muller 1843 ~ 1926 *From Baden, Germany 1847
The March Revolution 1848 ~ 1849		Adam Scheu 1849 ~ 1907 From Germany 1865
* Magdalina Muller may have been born in Elsass (Alsace) and not in Baden, Germany
1,161,000 Germans Immigrate 1850 ~ 1859			Mary (Emily) Baumgartner 1851 ~ ????
			Eliza BAumgartner 1854 ~ ????
782,000 Germans Immigrate 1860 ~ 1869
		Theckla Schmidt 1864 ~ 1950 From Hanover, Germany 1886
The Austro-Prussian War (The Seven Weeks War) 1866
North German Federation "Norddeutscher Bund" 1867~1871
626,000 Germans Immigrate 1870 ~ 1879
The Franco-Prussian War 1870 ~ 1871
The German Empire "Deutsches Reich" 1871 ~ 1918
1,343,000 Germans Immigrate 1870 ~ 1879
539,000 Germans Immigrate 1870 ~ 1879
280,000 Germans Immigrate 1900 ~ 1909
69,000 Germans Immigrate 1910 ~ 1919
World War I 1914 ~ 1918
Weimar Republic 1919 ~ 1933
"Nazi" Germany The Third Reich 1933 ~ 1945
World War II 1939 ~ 1945
"Cold War" Germany 1945 ~ 1990
Federal Republic of Germany 1990 ~ Present