Person1797 – 1888
Wilhelm I
Also called: William I
King of Prussia (1861–1888) who appointed Bismarck, unified Germany and became the first German Emperor in 1871
Where they went
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Bismarck's Prussia defeated France and in 1871 proclaimed the German Empire in the Hall of Mirrors at the Palace of Versailles. France lost Alsace-Lorraine.
People who appear alongside
- Otto von Bismarck1815 – 1898
Minister-president of Prussia (1862–1890) and first chancellor of the German Empire (1871–1890) who unified Germany through three wars by his policy of “blood and iron”
- Napoleon III1808 – 1873
Louis-Napoléon, nephew of Napoleon I, elected president in 1848, who made himself emperor (1852–1870) by a coup but was captured in the Franco-Prussian War and deposed
Themes this person appears in
- Revolutions and Nation-States1776 – 1871
From the Declaration of Independence to the German Empire — a century in which liberalism and nationalism toppled the old order in Europe and the Americas and built nation-states