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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.

The Weavers’ Revolt

Whilst the industrialization of the textile industries in the 1830s and 40s destroyed the livelihoods of many artisans organized in cottage industries, the specialized nature of the craft of the cotton weavers in the Silesian Owl Mountains south-west of Breslau (now Wroclaw) meant that they kept their jobs. [...]

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