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Erfurt Union

Germany · Government / Government of Germany. Chronological records rendered directly from the World History Database.

4Records
1850Date range
1Named people
2Places

Chronological records

1850

Frederick William IV20 March 1850

Erfurt · Government / Government of Germany

The Erfurt Union Parliament lasts from March 20 to April 29, 1850, opened at the former Augustinian monastery in Erfurt

Frederick William IV20 March 1850

Erfurt · Government / Government of Germany

The Erfurt Union is union of German states under a federation, proposed by Prussia at Erfurt

Frederick William IV20 March 1850

Erfurt · Government / Government of Germany

The union never came into effect, and undermined in the Punctation of Olmutz under pressure from the Austrian Empire.

Frederick William IV29 November 1850

Olmutz · Government / Government of Germany

Attempts to establish the Erfurt Union, a union of German states excluding Austria, but abandons the idea in the face of Austrian resistance

Names involved

Frederick William IV

Provenance

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