Timeline of the Holocaust: 1933 - 1936
January 30 - Hitler becomes Chancellor of Germany.
February 28 - Nazis set fire to the Reichstag. Hitler acquires "emergency" powers as the German constitution is suspended.
March 10 - Dauchau, the first concentration camp, is established.
April 1 - Hitler orders a one-day boycott of Jewish shops and institutions.
April 7 - Germany passes the first anti-Jewish law.
February 7 - Hitler's Defense Council declares intention to prepare for war.
June 30 - To consolidate their power, Hitler kills Ernst Roehm and other Nazi leaders.
August 3 - Hitler becomes the self-declared President and Chancellor of Germany.
September 15 - German Jews lose their citizenship as the first of the Nuremburg laws are passed. These laws would systematically exclude Jews from German society.
November 14 - Under Nazi law, a Jew is defined as anyone with three Jewish grandparents, or anyone having two Jewish grandparents who claims to be Jewish.