Creuzburg is a town in Germany and it belonged to the dukedom of Saxony-Weimar-Eisenach from 1741 to 1920. // Events April 10 - Austrian army attack troops of Frederick the Great at Mollwitz August 10 - Raja of Travancore defeats Dutch East India Company naval expedition at Battle of Colachel December 19 - Vitus Bering dies in his expedition east of Siberia December 25 - Anders Celsius develops his own thermometer scale Celsius... 1920 (MCMXX) was a leap year starting on Thursday (link will take you to calendar) // Events January January 7 - Forces of Russian White admiral Kolchak surrender in Krasnoyarsk. ...

A large part of Creuzburg including the church was destroyed in 1945. When the war had already been won, National Socialists forced their last reserves into a hopeless fight against the United States Army. 1945 (MCMXLV) was a common year starting on Monday (the link is to a full 1945 calendar). ... The Nazi party used a right-facing swastika as their symbol and the red and black colors were said to represent Blut und Boden (blood and soil). ...