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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.

Death of the “Fairytale King”

Ascending to the Bavarian throne in 1864 at the age of only 18, Ludwig II was forced to reconcile his belief in the divine right of kings with the reality of late 19th-century constitutional government. [...]

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