On February 23
On February 23, the Human Saga records one pivotal event: German federal election: CDU/CSU wins as AfD surges to second (2025).
On this day
In a snap federal election held on 23 February 2025, the conservative CDU/CSU bloc led by Friedrich Merz won with roughly 28.5 percent of the vote, positioning Merz to become chancellor at the head of a coalition.
Also this week in history (Feb 20 to Feb 26)
In late February 1848, around the 21st, a slim pamphlet titled the Manifesto of the Communist Party appeared in London, printed in German and commissioned by the Communist League.
On 24 February 2022 Russia launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine, the largest armed conflict in Europe since the Second World War, escalating a war that had begun with Russia's 2014 annexation of Crimea and intervention in the Donbas.
In 1916 the Western Front produced two of the deadliest battles in history, epitomising the industrialised attrition warfare of World War I.