Pages in category "Kingdom of Prussia". The following 29 pages are in this category, out of 29 total. This list may not reflect recent changes . Kingdom of Prussia.
24 de ago. de 2023 · King of Prussia was the title Frederick the Great started using in 1772 after he got part of the Kingdom of Poland. Before this he had called himself King in Prussia. The rulers of Berlin kept using the title after they also became German Emperors, up until Kaiser Wilhelm II abdicated in 1918.
Frederick persuaded Emperor Leopold I to allow Prussia to be elevated to a kingdom by the Crown Treaty of 16 November 1700. This agreement was ostensibly given in exchange for an alliance against King Louis XIV in the War of the Spanish Succession and the provision of 8,000 Prussian troops to Leopold's service.
After the Napoleonic Wars ended in 1815, Trier passed to the Kingdom of Prussia. Karl Marx, the German philosopher and one of the founders of Marxism, was born in the city in 1818. As part of the Prussian Rhineland, Trier developed economically during the 19th century.
18 de sept. de 2023 · The monarchs of Prussia were members of the House of Hohenzollern who were the hereditary rulers of the former German state of Prussia from its founding in 1525 as the Duchy of Prussia. The Duchy had evolved out of the Teutonic Order, a Roman Catholic crusader state and theocracy located along the eastern coast of the Baltic Sea. The Teutonic Knights were under the leadership of a Grand Master ...
The Kingdom of Prussia formed when Elector Frederick III assumed the title of Frederick I, King in Prussia, on 18 January 1701. Prussian flag on an 1890 cigarette card civil flag. Hohenzollern monarchical rule of Prussia ceased in 1918 after the fall of the German Empire in the aftermath of World War I; the Kingdom becoming instead the Free ...
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