1904 CE - 1942 CE: Life of Reinhard Heydrich, the head of the Nazi police forces.

1904 CE: Reinhard Heydrich is born in Halle, Germany.

1922 CE: Reinhard Heydrich joins the German navy.

1931 CE: Reinhard Heydrich joins the German Nazi party.

1931 CE: Reinhard Heydrich marries Lina von Osten.

1934 CE: Reinhard Heydrich creates the SS military intelligence unit, the SD or Sicherheitsdienst.

1934 CE: Reinhard Heydrich is promoted to Obergruppenführer or lieutenant-general of the SS.

1936 CE: Reinhard Heydrich is appointed the head of the Nazi security police, known as Sipo or Sicherheitspolizei.

1939 CE: Reinhard Heydrich is appointed head of the Reich Security Main Office or RSHA (Reichssicherheitshauptamt).

1941 CE: Reinhard Heydrich is appointed the Deputy Reichsprotektor of Bohemia and Moravia.

1942 CE: The Wannsee Conference, chaired by Reinhard Heydrich, begins the first practical steps of the Final Solution or Holocaust.

1942 CE: Czech Resistance fighters attempt to assassinate the top Nazi Reinhard Heydrich in Prague.

1942 CE: Reinhard Heydrich dies of injuries sustained after an assassination attempt by the Czech Resistance.

1942 CE: In reprisals for the death of Reinhard Heydrich, the Czech village of Lidice is razed to the ground and its inhabitants either shot or deported.