1880 – Fedor von Bock was born on the 3rd of December in Küstrin, Germany.
1897 – He attended a military academy then joined the German Army.
– At the age of 17, von Bock became an officer candidate in the Imperial Foot Guards Regiment at Potsdam; he received an officer’s commission a year later.
– He entered service with the rank of Sekondeleutnant.
1905 – Bock married Mally von Reichenbach, a young Prussian noblewoman, whom he had originally met in Berlin.
1908 – He was promoted to the rank of Oberleutnant.
1914 – By the time the First World War began, von Bock was a Hauptmann.
– He was assigned as a divisional staff officer in von Rupprecht’s army group on the Western Front.
1918 – Served in the First World War and had attained the rank of major.
1939 – Assigned to lead Army Group North during the successful invasion of Poland.
– After his success with the blitzkrieg against France, Belgium, and The Netherlands, he was promoted to field marshal.
1941 – Served as Army Group Center’s commander during the attack on the Soviet Union.
– Invaded Soviet-occupied Poland, destroying the non-aggression pact between Germany and the Soviets.
– He was dismissed from his post as Commander of Army Group Center.
1942 – Re-assigned to lead Army Group South in January.
– In July, Hitler blamed him for the failure of "Operation Braunschweig".
1945 – Von Bock was killed in an Allied bombing raid at Hamburg on 4th of May.