- 1756 – Frederick the Great attacks Saxony, beginning the Seven Years' War
- 1885 – Gottlieb Daimler patents the world's first motorcycle
- 1904 – Birth of Werner Forssmann, recipient of the 1956 Nobel Prize in Medicine
- 1756 – Frederick the Great attacks Saxony, beginning the Seven Years' War
- 1885 – Gottlieb Daimler patents the world's first motorcycle
- 1904 – Birth of Werner Forssmann, recipient of the 1956 Nobel Prize in Medicine