17 h 35 min, 6 oct. 1817 ans - Wartburg Festival

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After joint student demonstrations at the Wartburg Festival in October 1817 and the assassination of August von Kotzebue (a German writer who served the Russian tsar) by the nationalistic Burschenschafter Karl Sand in March 1819, the alarmed German governments passed the Carlsbad Decrees (q.v.; 1819), which in part provided for the official suppression of the Burschenschaften.