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2 days ago · He felt keenly the departure of his eldest daughter for Prussia when she married her fiancé at the beginning of 1858, and was disappointed that his eldest son, the Prince of Wales, did not respond well to the intense educational programme that Albert had designed for him.
1 day ago · Queen Louise. Born Princess Louise of Hesse-Kassel, Louise became Queen of Denmark in 1863. Because her mother was a sister of King Christian VIII, Louise's marriage to Christian IX was an important factor in his rise to the Danish throne.
1 day ago · The Paris Commune ( French: Commune de Paris, pronounced [kɔ.myn də pa.ʁi]) was a French revolutionary government that seized power in Paris from 18 March to 28 May 1871. During the Franco-Prussian War of 1870–71, the French National Guard had defended Paris, and working-class radicalism grew among its soldiers.
3 days ago · Princess Victoria was born on July 6, 1868, at Marlborough House, near Buckingham Palace, in London, England, the second daughter and the fourth of the six children of the future King Edward VII of the United Kingdom and his wife Alexandra of Denmark.
3 days ago · Princess Louise of Mecklenburg-Strelitz kissing one of the girls lining Unter Den Linden to greet her arrival in Berlin for her marriage to Crown Prince Frederick III of Prussia, 22 December 1793. The Countess of Voss is horrified by the behaviour of the future queen. Illustration from Die Konigin Luise (Paul Kittel, Berlin, 1896 ...
5 days ago · The unification of Germany by Prussia, which brought most of north-central Europe into one kingdom. (more) The German Empire was founded on January 18, 1871, in the aftermath of three successful wars by the North German state of Prussia.
3 days ago · While the Austrian armies were still engaged in the campaign against the revolution in Hungary, Prussia began to exert diplomatic pressure on the smaller German states to join in the formation of a new federal league known as the Prussian Union. If Frederick William IV had acted
