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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.

„Das Theater glich einem Irrenhaus“ Badge „Das Theater glich einem Irrenhaus“
“The theatre resembled a madhouse”
Jan 13 1782
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“The theatre resembled a madhouse”

Celebrating the ideal of freedom, Frederick Schiller’s The Robbers was written as a criticism of aristocratic rule and explains why its author, the young military doctor Frederick Schiller, published his work anonymously. [...]

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