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365 days of German history

Every day is historic! Do you want to know which key events took place in history on your date of birth? Or are you preparing for the next school presentation or Trivial Pursuit evening? The historical calendar from the Deutschlandmuseum shows you what happened in German history on each day of the year: major events, historical anniversaries, significant inventions, important birthdays and much more.

A new constitution

In the final phase of the revolution of 1848/49, the newly elected National Assembly convened in St Paul’s Church in Frankfurt and published a constitution for a united Germany on 27 March 1849. Providing for a constitutional monarchy presided over by a hereditary emperor, the constitution stipulated that the government was to be appointed by the ruler, whilst laws would be passed by parliament. [...]

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