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Round 1 · 1880 AD
Completion of the Cologne Cathedral
After centuries of halted construction, the massive twin spires of the Kölner Dom were finally completed in 1880, briefly making it the tallest building in the world to the cheer of the newly unified German Empire.
Round 2 · 1926 AD
Opening of the Bauhaus Building in Dessau
Walter Gropius relocated his pioneering art and design school to Dessau, opening a radically modern complex that became a global icon of modernist, functionalist architecture before the Nazis forced its closure.
Round 3 · 1888 AD
Bertha Benz's First Long-Distance Automobile Drive
Without telling her husband Karl, Bertha Benz took the Patent-Motorwagen on the first long-distance drive, stopping at a pharmacy in Wiesloch to buy ligroin fuel, inadvertently creating the world's first filling station.
Round 4 · 1648 AD
Signing of the Peace of Westphalia
The treaties ending the catastrophic Thirty Years' War were negotiated over years in Münster and Osnabrück, establishing a new political order in Europe based on the concept of co-existing sovereign states.
Round 5 · 1832 AD
Pro-Democracy Rally at Hambach Castle
Thirty thousand students, burghers, and workers marched to the hilltop ruins of Hambach Castle to demand a unified, democratic Germany, hoisting the black-red-gold flag that would later become the national standard.