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Napoleon Invades German Lands
The German Campaign was the campaign which ended the War of the Sixth Coalition, which was a part of the Napoleonic Wars. It took place in Germany after Napoleon's retreat from Russia. In Germany it became known as the Befreiungskriege (Wars of Liberation) or Freiheitskriege (Wars of Freedom). -
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The Congress of Vienna
The Congress of Vienna was a conference of ambassadors of European states chaired by Austrian statesman Klemens Wenzel von Metternich. The objective of the Congress was to settle the issues arising from the French Revolutionary Wars, the Napoleonic Wars, and the dissolution of the Holy Roman Empire. -
Otto Von Bismarck's Birth
Otto von Bismarck, was a Prussian statesman who dominated German and European affairs with his policies from the 1860s to the 1890's when he was asked to step down by Emperor Wilhelm II. -
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The Zollverein
The Zollverein, or German Customs Union, was a band of German states formed to manage tariffs and economic policies within their areas. The Zollverein had actually been in development since 1818 with the creation of a variety of custom unions among the German states. -
William 1st of Prussia becomes emperor
William I was the King of Prussia and the first German Emperor, under the leadership of William and his Minister President Otto von Bismarck, Prussia achieved the unification of Germany and the establishment of the German Empire. -
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Bismarck Becomes Prime Minister
In 1859 Bismarck was sent to Russia as Prussian ambassador, and not long after (May 1862) he moved to Paris as ambassador to the court of Napoleon III. He had 11 years of experience in foreign rule before he became prime minister and foreign minster of Prussia in September 1862. -
Bismarck becomes Pime Minister
He had experience in foreign affairs before he became prime minister and foreign minster of Prussia in September 1862. He had come to know personally the architects of French, Russian, and Austrian foreign policy. -
Blood and Iron Speech
he position of Prussia in Germany will not be determined by its liberalism but by its power ... Prussia must concentrate its strength and hold it for the favourable moment, which has already come and gone several times. Since the treaties of Vienna, our frontiers have been ill-designed for a healthy body politic. Not through speeches and majority decisions will the great questions of the day be decided - that was the great mistake of 1848 and 1849 - but by iron and blood. -
Bismarck Declares War on Denmark
The Austro-Prussian War was a war fought between the German Confederation under the leadership of the Austrian Empire and its German allies on one side and the Kingdom of Prussia with its German allies and Italy on the other. -
Bismarck declares war on Prussia
The Austro-Prussian War was a war fought in 1866 between the German Confederation under the leadership of the Austrian Empire and the German allies on one side and the Kingdom of Prussia with their German allies and Italy on the other side. -
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Franco Prussian War
The Franco-Prussian War (known in France as the war of 1870) was a conflict of the Second French Empire against the Kingdom of Prussia (and their allies) the North German Confederation. -
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Campaign Against the Church
The Kulturkampf refers to German policies in relation to secularity and reducing the role and power of the Roman Catholic Church in Prussia. -
The Second Reich is created
10 days before Paris was taken, William 1 of Prussia was declared emperor of Germany at the military headquarters in Versailles. The Holy Roman Empire ended and the Second Reich was born. -
Bismarck Becomes Chancellor
Bismarck ruled a unified Germany, modernizing its government as it became a more industrial society. Bismarck was didn't support the power of the Catholic Church, and his kulturkampf campaign against the church was not very succesfull. -
Consistution is Drafted by Bismarck
The constitution was a treaty between the North German Confederation and four southern German states, adding those states as members of the confederation and giving the whole a new name/identity as the German empire. -
German campaign against the socialists
The Anti-Socialist Law of 1878 was the most important law of Bismarck’s. Bismarck never hid his disliking for the teachings of socialism, and he made several attempts to sop the growth of German Social Democracy during the 1870s. -
Frederick William 4 is Offered the Throne
Crowned in 1888, he dismissed the Chancellor, Otto von Bismarck, in 1890 and launched Germany on a new course in foreign affairs that helped in his support for Austria-Hungary in the crisis of July 1914 that led to the First World War. erview that cost him most of his power in 1908. His top generals, Paul von Hinde -
William 2 Becomes Kaiser
He was the last German Emperor and King of Prussia, ruling the German Empire and the Kingdom of Prussia. He was the eldest grandson of the British Queen Victoria and related to many monarchs and princes of Europe. -
Bismarck resigns
Bismarck resigned at Wilhelm II's insistence on 18 March 1890, at age 75. Bismarck was promoted to the rank of "Colonel-General with the Dignity of Field Marshal" and given a new title, Duke of Lauenburg, which he joked would be useful when
