Sedantag
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Key facts
- Holiday.holiday_name
- Day of Sedan
- Holiday.type
- National
- Holiday.image
- SedanBrandenburgerTor.jpg
- Holiday.caption
- Illuminated Brandenburg Gate on Sedantag in 1898, (text on the banner: “What a turnaround through God’s guidance”)
- Holiday.official_name
- Sedantag
- Holiday.observedby
- Germans
- Holiday.begins
- 1871
- Holiday.ends
- 1918
- Holiday.date
- 2 September
- Holiday.frequency
- Annual
- Holiday.celebrations
- Victory Day
- Holiday.relatedto
- Unification of Germany
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- holiday
- Image
- SedanBrandenburgerTor.jpg
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thumb|Sedantag in Schüttorf in 1895 thumb|Sedantag in Berlin in 1914 thumb|The exhibited trophies of Sedan Festival (Lübeck)
Sedantag (, Day of Sedan) was a semi-official memorial holiday in the German Empire celebrated on the second day of September to commemorate the victory in the 1870 Battle of Sedan. After the outbreak of the Franco-Prussian War a few weeks earlier, French emperor Napoleon III and his army were taken prisoner in the fortress of Sedan by Prussian troops, a major step to eventual victory.