Portal:Germany/Anniversaries/May/May 31


 * 1740 — Death of "soldier king" Frederick William I of Prussia
 * 1773 — Birth of poet Ludwig Tieck
 * 1903 — VfB Leipzig becomes the first German football champion
 * 1916 — German and British navies clash in the Battle of Jutland
 * 1945 — Birth of movie director Rainer Werner Fassbinder