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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 Treaty of Versailles

Fresh from signing the armistice to end the First World War in November 1918, representatives from the victor nations met in Paris in early 1919 to lay the conditions for a lasting peace. [...]

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