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13th March 1920: Start of the Kapp Putsch in Berlin

13th March 2023
Tagged as: Berlin, Ebert, Germany, Kapp, Putsch, Revolt, Strike, Uprising, Weimar

The right-wing Kapp Putsch attempted to overthrow the Weimar Republic.

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15th January 1919: Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Liebknecht killed by members of the Freikorps after the Spartacist Revolt

15th January 2023
Tagged as: Berlin, Communism, Ebert, First World War, Freikorps, Germany, Revolution, Socialism, Spartacist Revolt, Uprising, Wilhelm II

The two German socialists were joint-founders of the Spartacist League and the Communist Party of Germany, and were captured following the Spartacist uprising that began on 4 January.

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11th August 1919: The Weimar Republic officially established when Friedrich Ebert signs the new constitution into law

11th August 2022
Tagged as: Constitution, Ebert, First World War, Germany, Kaiser Wilhelm II, Politics, Weimar, Wilhelm II

It took the best of part of seven months for the delegates of the new German National Assembly to agree on the terms of the new Weimar constitution, which Ebert signed into law whilst on holiday in Schwarzburg.

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15th January 1919: Karl Liebknecht and Rosa Luxemburg killed by Freikorps

15th January 2021
Tagged as: Assassination, Communism, Ebert, Freikorps, Germany, Socialist, SPD

On the 15^th January 1919, Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Liebknecht were killed by members of the Freikorps.

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13th March 1920: Start of the Kapp Putsch in Berlin

15th January 1919: Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Liebknecht killed by members of the Freikorps after the Spartacist Revolt

11th August 1919: The Weimar Republic officially established when Friedrich Ebert signs the new constitution into law

15th January 1919: Karl Liebknecht and Rosa Luxemburg killed by Freikorps

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21st June 1919: The German High Seas naval fleet is scuttled at Scapa Flow

HistoryPod Extra: The Myth of Gavrilo Princip’s Sandwich

11th November 1918: WW1 Armistice of Compiègne is signed

2nd August 1934: Hitler becomes Führer after President Hindenburg dies

22nd September 1776: Nathan Hale hanged by the British for spying for the Continental Army during the American Revolution

21st September 1931: Britain abandons the gold standard after Parliament passes the Gold Standard (Amendment) Act

20th September 1973: Billie Jean King defeats Bobby Riggs in the ‘Battle of the Sexes’ tennis match

19th September 1870: The Siege of Paris began during the Franco-Prussian War when the city was encircled by forces of the North German Confederation

28th June 1914 & 1919: Trigger and end of the First World War

11th November 1918: WW1 Armistice of Compiègne is signed

8th July 1932: Dow Jones falls to lowest point in the Great Depression

9th November 1989: East Germany opens the Berlin Wall

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