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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.

Workers of Germany unite!

Two parties vied for the support of industrial workers in the run-up to German unification in 1871. Whilst the General German Workers’ Union (Allgemeiner Deutscher Arbeiterverein – ADAV) had been founded in 1863 by Ferdinand Lasalle, the Social Democratic Workers’ Party (Sozialdemokratische Arbeiterpartei – SDAP) was formed six years later by the duo of August Bebel and Wilhelm Liebknecht. [...]

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