1701
|
Frederick I of Brandenburg declared himself "King in Prussia"
in
Königsbert. |
1740-1748 |
Silesia was
taken from Austria in the War of the Austrian Succession. |
1756-1763 |
Seven Years'
War - Prussia fought against Austria, Russia and France. Prussia was the
winner. |
1772 |
Prussia, Austria and Russia all took portions of Poland. Prussia gained the
smallest portion, but it
connected East Prussia to Brandenburg. |
1793 |
Prussia, Austria and Russia again partitioned off Poland. Prussia gained
the city of Danzig and Thorn
District. |
1795 |
Prussia, Austria and Russia divided up Poland for the third time. Poland
ceased to exist until 1918. |
1806 |
Prussia declared war against France, however, France defeated Prussia. |
1807 |
Prussia lost lost all of its land west of the Elbe River and the last two
partitions of Poland, which left
only
Brandenburg, East Prussia, Pomerania and Silesia. |
1814 |
Prussia, Austria, Russia and Great Britain defeated Napoleon. |
1815
|
Prussia gained German citizens and lost much of its Polish people when it
regained Posen, Danzig and Thorn. More than half of Saxony was given to Prussia which formed the
province of Saxony. The Rhineland and Westphalia was given to Prussia. Denmark traded Swedish Pomerania for Lauenburg (Kreis Lauenburg). Prussia gave up Hohenzollern land in Ansbach and Bayreuth to Bavaria. |
1817 |
King Friedrich Wilhelm III merges the Lutheran and Reformed churches. |
1831 |
Dozens of Lutheran pastors are imprisoned because they continued to conduct
Lutheran services. Parishioners at these services are fined and punished. |
1838 |
A group of Old Lutherans from Pommern and Brandenburg emigrate to Australia |
1839-1846 |
Many Old Lutherans from Pommern, Brandenburg and Silesia emigrate to the United
States and Canada: Buffalo - New York, Freistadt and Lebanon in Wisconsin. |
1862
|
Otto von Bismarck became prime minister of Prussia, with intentions of unifying
Germany. |
1864 |
Prussian and Austrian armies took Schleswig and Holstein when Denmark threatened
to annex Schleswig. Prussia ruled Schleswig and Austria ruled Holstein until 1866. |
1866 |
Austria became permanently separated from Prussia when it was defeated in the
Seven Weeks' War. Holstein, Hanover, Hesse-Cassel, Nassau and Frankfurt am Main became a part of Prussia. |
1870-1871 |
France was separated
from from any power in Germany after the Franco-Prussian War. Alsace and part of Lorraine were made Imperial states of the German Empire as a
buffer between Germany and France. |
1871-1918 |
German Empire formed (The
Second Reich). |
1918 |
The Weimar Republic was formed and the last Hohenzollern ruler was unseated. |
1947 |
Prussia was dissolved in February of 1947. |