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Events on Sunday 20 December 1812 1
1812Grimm's Fairy Tales first publishedJacob and Wilhelm Grimm release the first volume of "Children's and Household Tales"On 20 December 1812 Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm published the first volume of "Kinder- und Hausmarchen" in Berlin, collecting German folk tales gathered from oral storytellers. The collection grew through later editions into one of the most translated and widely read works of world literature. Stories such as "Cinderella," "Hansel and Gretel," and "Snow White" originate from it.