On #ThisDayInHistory in 1918, #KurtEisner ended 700 years of the #Bavarian #Wittelsbach monarchy. It started with a #GeneralStrike and tame speeches by #SPD. The workers defied social democratic moderates, stormed parliament, chased #LudwigIII out, and Eisner declared a republic.

Bavaria

Ludwig III

#LudwigIII was born #OnThisDay in 1845, becoming king of #Bavaria in 1913 but was deposed in the midst of the revolution of 1918 that led to the dissolution of the #KönigreichBayern & the end of the #Wittelsbach's 738-year rule in Bavaria...

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