Timeline Tuesday 23 March 1819

Events on Tuesday 23 March 1819 1

• 1819 Assassination of August von Kotzebue Radical student kills the German playwright The German dramatist August von Kotzebue was stabbed to death in Mannheim by Karl Ludwig Sand, a radical nationalist theology student who viewed him as a reactionary agent of Russia. The killing shocked the German states and was used to justify a crackdown on liberal and nationalist movements. It directly led to the Carlsbad Decrees later that year.