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1220 Conrad of Masovia drives out the heathen Prussians from a Masovian territory of Chelmno Land
1255 Königsberg (now Kaliningrad) is founded in Prussia.
1456 The university of Greifswald, later Ernst Moritz Arndt University of Greifswald is established, making it the second oldest university in northern Europe
(also for a period the oldest in Sweden
, and Prussia)
1466 The Thirteen Years' War
ended with the Second Treaty of Torun. Gdansk Pomerania and Prussia as a whole was incorporated into Poland
; the Teutonic Knights
were allowed to rule its eastern part as Polish vassals.
1688 Neuruppin becomes a Prussian garrison town.
1701 Frederick I becomes King of Prussia.
1719 Prussia conducts Europe
's first systematic census
1720 Sweden
and Prussia sign the (2nd Treaty of Stockholm) declaring pea
1742 Frederick the Great's army defeats Austria
ns in Chotusitz; later Austria cedes Silesia
to Prussia
1745 Treaty of Dresden gives Prussia full possession of Silesia
1758 Seven Years' War: Battle of Domstadtl - Austrian forces under Ernst Gideon von Laudon
and Joseph von Siskovits routed an enormous convoy with supplies for Prussian army guarded by strong troops of Hans Joachim von Zieten.
1762 The Treaty of Saint Petersburg ends the war between Russia
and Prussia.
1763 the Treaty of Hubertusburg puts an end to the Seven Years' War
between Prussia and Austria
and their allies
1772 First partition of Poland
, by Russia
and Prussia, later including Austria
1787 Princess Wilhelmina of Orange, sister of the king of Prussia is captured by patriots at Goejanverwellesluis.
1787 Prussian
troops enter the Netherlands
. More than 100,000 (out of a population of 2,000,000) patriots must go into exile for eight years.
1793 Russia
and Prussia partition Poland
1794 Battle of the Vosges between French
forces and those of Prussia and Austria
1806 Prussia declares war on France
, and is joined by Saxony
and other minor German states.
1806 The last major Prussian field force, under Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher, surrenders to the French
near Lübeck
. The king of Prussia has by this time fled to Russia
.
1807 Napoléon
's French Empire begin fighting against Russia
n and Prussian forces of the Fourth Coalition at the Battle of Eylau in Eylau, Poland
.
1807 Serfdom
is abolished in Prussia by law.
1813 Through a newspaper, the Prussian
king
Frederick William III of Prussia
calls for resistance against the Napoleonic
occupation
ew
1815 Austria
, Prussia and Russia
sign a Holy Alliance to uphold the European status quo.
1815 Austria
, Britain
, and Bourbon-restored France
form a secret defensive alliance treaty against Prussia and Russia
.
1840 Austria
, Britain
, Prussia, and Russia
sign a London Treaty with the Sublime Porte, ruler of the Ottoman Empire
.
1850 The treaty called Punctation of Olmütz was signed in Olomouc
. It meant diplomatic capitulation of Prussia to Austrian Empire
, which took over the leadership of German Confederation.
1860 Austria
, Britain
, France
, Prussia and the Ottoman Empire
form a commission to investigate causes of clashes between Maronites and Druze
s in Lebanon
earlier in the year.
1862 Otto von Bismarck
becomes prime minister of Prussia.
1864 Second war of Schleswig
concluded. Denmark
renounces all claim to Schleswig
, Holstein and Lauenburg, which come under Prussian and Austria
n administration.
1866 At the Battle of Königgratz, the Prussian army under King Wilhelm and Helmuth von Moltke
defeats the Austrian army of Ludwig von Benedek, leading to a decisive Prussian victory in the Austro-Prussian War.
1867 Otto von Bismarck
organises a North German Confederation under the leadership of Prussia
1870 The ''Ems Dispatch'' serves as a reason for a war
between Prussia and France
1870 Franco-Prussian War
: France
declares war on Prussia.
1870 Franco-Prussian War
: Battle of Sedan - Prussian forces defeat the French
armies and take emperor Napoleon III and 100,000 of his soldiers prisoner at Sedan.
1906 The Captain of Köpenick fools a city hall in Köpenick by impersonating a Prussian officer.
1947 Prussia is legally abolished in March by the Allied Control Council following World War II
and the establishment of the Oder-Neisse line as Germany
's eastern border.
1947 State of Prussia ceases to exist
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