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Thursday, July 17, 2025

Collection of facts about Prussia

This post is a collection of facts about Prussia (1525-1947). There are 36 facts listed below.

• Based in North European Plain
• Capitals: Königsberg (1525-1701) and Berlin (1701-1947)
• Old Prussians conquered by Teutonic Knights (12th century)
• Prussian Confederation formed (1440)
• Thirteen Years' War (1454-1466)
• Second Peace of Thorn (1466)
• Royal Prussia province of Kingdom of Poland (1466-1569)
• Duchy of Prussia (1525-1701)
• Brandenburg-Prussia union (1618-1701)
• Thirty Years' War (1618-1648)
• Second Northern War (1654-1660)
• Franco-Dutch War (1671-1678)
• Great Northern War (1700-1721)
• Kingdom of Prussia (1701-1918)
• Frederick the Great (r. 1740-1786)
• War of the Austrian Succession (1740-1748)
• Silesian Wars (1740-1763)
• Seven Years' War (1756-1763)
• Partitions of Poland (1772-1795)
• War of the Bavarian Succession (1778-1779)
• French Revolutionary Wars (1792-1802)
• Napoleonic Wars (1803-1815)
• German Confederation (1815-1866)
• German Revolutions of 1848-1849
• First War of Schleswig (1848-1851)
• Second War of Schleswig (1864)
• Austro-Prussian War (1866)
• North German Confederation (1867-1871)
• Franco-Prussian War (1870-1871)
• German Empire (1871-1918)
• World War I (1914-1918)
• Free State of Prussia (1918-1947)
• Weimar Republic (1918-1933)
• Law on the Reconstruction of the Reich (1934)
• World War II (1939-1945)
• Prussia abolished by Allied Control Council (1947)

Sources

Wikipedia: Prussia, Royal Prussia, Franco-Dutch War, Great Northern War, Seven Years' War, Partitions of Poland, War of the Bavarian Succession, French Revolutionary wars, Napoleonic Wars, German Confederation, Franco-Prussian War, Weimar Republic