| 19.11.1893 |
Brandenburg
is commissioned. |
| 23.11.1893 |
First trials with Kaiser Wilhelm II on board. |
| 16.02.1894 |
During high speed trials, a steam line explodes in the engine room, killing 44 crew members. |
| -16.04.1894 |
Repairs. |
| - August 1894 |
Training and trials in the Baltic sea, after that the ship is sent to the North Sea. |
| 21.08.1894 |
Attached to the 2nd Division of the Manouversqadron. |
| -1896 |
Maneuvers in the North and Baltic Sea. |
| 06.12.1897 |
Collision with the armored ship Würtemberg
, both ships were damaged and had to be repaired. |
| Spring 1900 |
Training in the North Sea. |
| 04.07.1900 |
Together with the other ships of the 2nd Squadron, the Brandenburg
is send to South-East Asia. |
| Jan - Feb 1901 |
Repairs in Hong Kong. |
| 01.06.1901 |
Sent back to Germany. |
| 11.08.1901 |
Arrival in Wilhelmshaven. |
| -Autumn 1902 |
Fleet services and exercises. |
| 23.10.1902 |
Decommissioned. |
| 1903/1904 |
Modernization and refits at the Kaiserliche Weft, Wilhelmshaven. |
| 04.04.1905 |
Recommissioned, used for fleet operations. |
| 30.09.1907 |
Decommissioned, put into fleet reserve. |
| Autumn 1910 |
Recommissioned, used as a training ship. |
| 16.10.1912 |
Decommissioned. |
| August 1914 |
After the outbreak of World War I, the Brandenburg
is attached to the 5th Squadron, used for coast defence duties in the North Sea. |
| September 1914 |
Sent to the eastern Baltic Sea. |
| 15.01 - Feb 1915 |
Again used for coast defence in the North Sea. |
| 20.12.1915 |
Decommissioned, used as a floating barrack in Libau. The main guns were removed and were ordered to sent to Turkey, but this was never done. |
| 1918 |
After the war, the ship was transferred to Danzig where it was paned to rebuild it as a target ship. |
| 13.05.1919 |
Reconstruction stopped, removed from fleet lists. |
| 1920 |
Scrapped in Danzig. |
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