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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 May Uprising in Dresden

When the revolutions launched in the spring of 1848 had run out of steam a year later, and the Imperial Constitution negotiated in Frankfurt proved to be unrealizable, democrats across Germany launched the Imperial Constitution Campaign in an attempt to ensure that the failure of German unification did not imperil the reforms that had already been secured in the individual states. [...]

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