An unemployed tinsmith, Emil Max Hödel, tries…
May 1878 CE
An unemployed tinsmith, Emil Max Hödel, tries to assassinate the German Emperor on May 11.
Nine days later, Bismarck introduces in the Reichstag a law for the suppression of socialist meetings, clubs, and publications, but the Reichstag defeats the Bismarck law on May 24 by a vote of 251 to 57.