November 5, 1494:
Hans Sachs is born in Nuremberg, a free city of the Holy Roman Empire.
January 19, 1576:
Hans Sachs dies in Nuremberg, a free city of the Holy Roman Empire, aged 81 years, two months, and 14 days.
June 23, 1840:
Hans Sachs, a Fest-Oper mit Tanz by Albert Lortzing (38) to words of Reger after Deinhardstein, is performed for the first time, in Leipzig Stadttheater.
March 21, 1933:
Chancellor Adolf Hitler opens the First Reichstag of the Third Reich in the garrison church, Potsdam. In the evening, a special performance of Richard Wagner’s (†50) Die Meistersinger takes place. At the chorus “Wach auf” the singers are instructed to turn and sing it to Hitler’s box, thus transferring their allegiance from Hans Sachs to the new order.
January 24, 1951:
Music for a radio play after Hans Sachs, der fahrend' Schüler im Paradeis by Bernd Alois Zimmermann (32) is heard for the first time, in a recording over Nordwestdeutscher Rundfunk, Cologne.