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100 thaler banknote from 1857. The Kingdom of Hanover (German: Königreich Hannover) was established in October 1814 by the Congress of Vienna, with the restoration of George III to his Hanoverian territories after the Napoleonic era.
The Province of Hanover (German: Provinz Hannover) was a province of the Kingdom of Prussia and the Free State of Prussia from 1866 to 1946. During the Austro-Prussian War, the Kingdom of Hanover had attempted to maintain a neutral position, along with some other member states of the German Confederation.
May 5, 2020 · The Prussian crown annexed the kingdom and organized it as the newly formed Prussian province of Hanover in 1866. Hanover was notable for the fact that the British monarch came from the House of Hanover starting with George I in 1714 and ending in 1837 with the death of William IV.
On October 6, 1866, in Hanover and on October 8 in Kassel, Wiesbaden, and Frankfurt am Main, civil and military ceremonies completed the Prussian annexations of the Kingdom of Hanover, the Electorate of Hesse-Kassel, the Duchy of Nassau, and the Free City of Frankfurt.
- Hans A. Schmitt
- 1975
The German Empire consisted of 25 constituent states and an imperial territory, the largest of which was Prussia. These states, or Staaten (or Bundesstaaten , i.e. federal states , a name derived from the previous North German Confederation ; they became known as Länder during the Weimar Republic ) each had votes in the Bundesrat ...
Between 1863 and 1866 Schleswig-Holstein, Nassau, Hesse-Kassel, Hesse-Homburg, Frankfurt, and Hanover were incorporated into Prussia. Thus about two-thirds of the total German Empire consisted of Prussia. This in effect made Prussia lose its identity to the bigger German state.
The Kingdom of Hanover (German: Königreich Hannover) was a kingdom in northwest Germany. It was created in October 1814 by the Congress of Vienna. It came after the Electorate of Hanover (officially the Electorate of Brunswick-Lüneburg).
