| 19.03.1900: |
First trials before being commissioned. |
| 01.04.1900: |
Fürst Bismarck
is commissioned. |
| 30.06.1900: |
Sent to China after shortened tests and trials |
| 13.08.1900: |
Arrives in Tsingtau. |
| -October 1900: |
Operations as part of the international forces against China. |
| November 1900: |
Repairs in Nagasaki. |
| -November 1902: |
Operations off the Chinese coast. |
| November 1902: |
Repairs in Nagasaki. |
| 1903: |
Fürst Bismarck
becomes flagships of the East-Asian Cruiser Squadron |
| -April 1909: |
Operations off the Chinese coast, Japan and Indonesia. |
| 08.04.1909: |
Because of the technical conditions of the ship, Fürst Bismarck
is ordered back to Germany after 9 years in South East Asia. |
| 13.06.1909: |
The ship arrives in Kiel. |
| 26.06.1909: |
Decommissioned. |
| 1910: |
Refits at Kaiserliche Werft Kiel shipyard and modification to torpedo test ship. |
| 28.11.1914: |
Recommissioned, but bad general conditions did not allow to use the ship even for coastal defenses. |
| February 1915: |
Assigned to torpedo trial command as target ship, but the ship was not usable for this role anymore. |
| March 1915: |
Used as engine training ship in Kiel. |
| 1917: |
For a short time, Fürst Bismarck
sailed again as training ship for commanders of transport U-Boats and Naval Airships. |
| 31.12.1918: |
Decommissioned. |
| Spring 1919: |
Used as a floating naval office for a short time. |
| 17.06.1919: |
Stricken from fleet list and scrapped in Audorf near Rendsburg soon after that. |
