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German revolutions of 1848–1849

Closing down the newspaper

Saturday May 19, 1849
Central Europe (Present-Day Germany)

Engels and Marx became editors of the Neue Rheinische Zeitung. Less than a year later, on May 19, 1849, the Prussian authorities closed down the newspaper because of its support for constitutional reforms.


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