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3 days ago · Wilhelm II [b] (Friedrich Wilhelm Viktor Albert; 27 January 1859 – 4 June 1941) was the last German Emperor and King of Prussia from 1888 until his abdication in 1918, which marked the end of the German Empire as well as the Hohenzollern dynasty's 300-year rule of Prussia. Born during the reign of his granduncle Frederick William IV of ...
4 days ago · Back on February 9, 2021, Princess Eugenie and Jack Brooksbank decided to announce the birth of son August in their own way. Traditionally, new royal parents introduce their babies to the world...
4 days ago · When on March 23, 1819, an unbalanced student, Karl Ludwig Sand, assassinated the conservative playwright and publicist August von Kotzebue, Vienna persuaded the princes of the German Confederation that they were facing a dangerous attempt to overthrow the established order in the German states.
3 days ago · The empire was forged not as the result of the outpouring of nationalist feeling from the masses but through traditional cabinet diplomacy and agreement by the leaders of the states in the North German Confederation, led by Prussia, with the hereditary rulers of Bavaria, Baden, Hesse-Darmstadt, and Württemberg.
2 days ago · Since the Austrian government had already indicated that it would oppose the establishment of a federal government in Germany, the imperial crown was offered to the king of Prussia. Frederick William IV refused a crown whose source he deplored and whose authority seemed too restricted.
1 day ago · Prussia ( / ˈprʌʃə /, German: Preußen [ˈpʁɔʏsn̩] ⓘ; Old Prussian: Prūsa or Prūsija) was a German state located on most of the North European Plain, also occupying southern and eastern regions. It formed the German Empire when it united the German states in 1871.
4 days ago · His main conclusion regarding Wilhelmine Germany is that from 1897 it was run as a “functioning monarchy” with power concentrated in the hands of one man (thought by many who knew him to be mad) and that, as a result, “the Kaiser, the royal family, the Kaiser’s circle of friends, the [imperial entourage and the court form [ed] the heart of this ...
