Germany · Government / Government of Germany. Chronological records rendered directly from the World History Database.
The Erfurt Parliament fails to bring about unification because of the opposition of Prussia & Austria. The Erfurt Parliament discusses German unification but Bismarck is opposed. Appointed one of Prussia's representatives at the Erfurt Parliament, an assembly of German states that meets to discuss plans for union, but only in order to oppose that bodys proposals more effectively
Bismarck opposes the unification of Germany arguing Prussia would lose its independence in the process
Develops a union under Prussia & forces the constitution through the Union Parliament
A plan for the unification of Germany under Prussian leadership proposed by Prussia's Minister President Radowitz is abandoned
Attempts to establish the Erfurt Union, a union of German states excluding Austria, but abandons the idea by the Punctuation of Olmutz, in the face of Austrian resistance
Prussia will defend Austria if it accepts Prussia within the German Confederation
Under the "February Conditions" Prussian troops garrison a Confederate fortress
Under the "February Conditions" Schleswig & Holstein enter the Zollverein
The North German Confederation is the alliance of 22 German states (Augustbundnis)
Refuses the crown offered to him by the new Confeferation of a united Germany
The North German Confederation adopts a new constitution, which was written under the title of a new "German Confederation" but already gave it the name "German Empire"
The south German states of Baden, Hesse-Darmstadt, Wurttemberg and Bavaria join the North German Confederation
Lets it be known to Honecker that the army will not fire on the population
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