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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.
Choose your own religion!
Like several other late-17th-century German princes, Frederick Augustus I, Elector of Saxony, really wanted to be a king. When the Polish king died, Frederick Augustus entered into secret negotiations with the Polish nobility to be elected to the Polish throne. [...]
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