In view of this fact, the royal court decided to repeat the race in the next year, and the following, and thus the tradition of the Munich Oktoberfest was born. The event was recurring, canceled only because of wars or plagues. The first cancellation of festivities happened during the Napoleonic was in 1813, because of Bavaria’s involvement. Another breakthrough in the tradition occurred as a result of the cholera epidemic in 1854, and 1873 (3,000 inhabitants of Munich died of cholera, including the queen-wife), in 1866 due to the Seven Weeks’ War (Prussian-Austrian War), and because of the Franco-Prussian War in 1870. The 2020-2021 Oktoberfest also did not take place, this time due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
