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Gastein Convention

Germany · Warfare / Seven Weeks War. Chronological records rendered directly from the World History Database.

4Records
1865–1866Date range
1Named people
2Places

Chronological records

1865

Otto Eduard Leopold Bismarck Bismarck-Schonhausen, Prince von14 August 1865

Bad Gastein · Warfare / Seven Weeks War

Negotiates the Gastein Convention, temporarily dividing administration of the Elbe duchies.

Otto Eduard Leopold Bismarck Bismarck-Schonhausen, Prince von14 August 1865

Bad Gastein · Warfare / Seven Weeks War

Signs the convention as an interim settlement of Schleswig, Holstein, and Lauenburg.

Otto Eduard Leopold Bismarck Bismarck-Schonhausen, Prince von14 August 1865

Bad Gastein · Warfare / Seven Weeks War

Treats the Gastein arrangement as a temporary compromise rather than a final solution.

1866

Otto Eduard Leopold Bismarck Bismarck-Schonhausen, Prince von1 June 1866

Holstein · Warfare / Seven Weeks War

Victory enables Prussia to pursue German unification without Austrian participation.

Names involved

Otto Eduard Leopold Bismarck Bismarck-Schonhausen, Prince von

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