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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 “Man of the Millennium” is dead
Born in Mainz around 1400, Johannes Gutenberg founded a printing workshop in his hometown in 1450, where he pioneered the use of movable metal type letter printing. This method involved assembling individual characters or letters to form a text, which was then covered with ink and applied to a piece of paper in a press to produce a notice, flyer, book or other form of publication. [...]
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