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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 bloody end of the Munich Soviet

Although Kurt Eisner, the Berlin-born leader of the Munich branch of the radical socialists (USPD), declared the transformation of the Kingdom of Bavaria into the “Free State of Bavaria” (i.e. free of any royal overlord) on 7 November 1918, subsequent elections gave his party only 2.5% of the vote. [...]

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