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Uprisings
Uprisings in some German states; granting of constitutional reforms in Prussia.German states university students demanded national unity and liberal forms. Economic hard times and a potato famine brought peasants and workers into the struggle -
Revolutions
Revolutions in Vienna, Budapest, and Prague. they wanted independent government and an end to serfdom, and a written constitution.however, Austria was mad and regained control of Vienna and Prague and smashed the rebels in Budapest. -
Frankfurt Assembly
Frankfurt Assembly meets and proposes a plan for the unification of Germany; Prussian king refuses to take the crown.he didnt take the crown because he said it was from the gutter -
Napoleon wins election
Louis Napoleon wins presidential election in France. -
February Days
Revolution in France; the overthrow of the monarchy of King Louis-Philippe; proclamation of the creation of the French Second Republic. Church bells rang alarms, while women and men on the barricades sang the revolutionary anthem ''La Marseillaise. A number of demonstrators clashed with royal troops and were killed -
June Days
upper and middle-class interests had won control of the government. They saw workshops as a waste of money and shut them down. liberals turned violent and everyone was having a war. 1,500 people were killed before the government crushed the rebellion. This fighting left a bitter legacy -
Crimean War
Control of access to religious sites in the Holy Land had been a cause of tension between Catholic France and Orthodox Russia for a number of years and in 1853, the conflict came to a head with rioting in Bethlehem, which was then part of the Ottoman empire ruled by Turkey. This action caused to to break into the Crimean War. -
Austria declares war
Austria declares war on the Kingdom of Sardinia, allied with France.
On July 28, 1914, one month to the day after Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria and his wife were killed by a Serbian nationalist in Sarajevo, Austria-Hungary declares war on Serbia, effectively beginning the First World War. -
Sardinia
Sardinia annexes provinces in central Italy after plebiscites; France receives Savoy and Nice. -
Emancipation
Emancipation of Russian serfs. -
The kingdom of Italy
Kingdom of Italy proclaimed with King Victor Immanuel II as king. -
Maximilian
Maximilian crowned emperor of Mexico; Prussia and Austria at war with Denmark over Schleiswig and Holstein. -
American Civil War
The civil war officially began on April 12, 1861 when Confederate forces bombarded the Union controlled Fort Sumter in Charleston Bay. ... There were many causes of the civil war, including differences between northern and southern states on the idea of slavery, as well as trade, tariffs, and states rights. -
Seven weeks War
Seven Weeks' War between Prussia and Austria; Italy acquires Venetia.Seven Weeks' War, also called Austro-Prussian War, (1866), war between Prussia on the one side and Austria, Bavaria, Saxony, Hanover, and certain minor German states on the other. It ended in a Prussian victory, which meant the exclusion of Austria from Germany. -
Franco-Prussian War
Franco-Prussian War ends with capitulation of French Second Empire.Franco-Prussian War or Franco-German War, 1870–71, conflict between France and Prussia that signaled the rise of German military power and imperialism. It was provoked by Otto von Bismarck (the Prussian chancellor) as part of his plan to create a unified German Empire. -
German Empire Proclaimed
Proclamation of the German Empire, 1871 18 January 1871. At the end of the War of 1870, France lay defeated and invaded by its enemies. Chancellor Bismarck proclaimed the German Empire in the Hall of Mirrors. ... France declared war against Prussia on 19 July 1870.
