North German Confederation
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The North German Confederation was a confederated state that united the region of Germany north of the Main river from July 1867 to December 1870. It was a milestone of German Unification that put the
First session of the constituent North German Reichstag on 24 February 1867
Third version of Anton von Werner's Proclamation of the German Empire (painted 1885)
German Empire
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The German Empire, also referred to as Imperial Germany or the Second Reich, was the period of the German Reich from the unification of Germany in 1871 until the November Revolution in 1918, when Germ
North German Confederation
…Confederation, it took important steps to unify the nation legally and administratively. The states of the North German Confederation became the core of the German Empire when it was founded on 18 January 1871 after the German victory over France in the Franco-Prussian War. The German Confederation, the main predecessor…
Chancellor Otto von Bismarck (pictured in 1873)
Emperor Wilhelm I (pictured c. 1870)
Berlin Palace, the main residence of the House of Hohenzollern