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Conflict Europe

Franco-Prussian War

1870 CE – 1871 CE · 1 year

The war that unified Germany and humiliated France — Bismarck engineered a conflict that crowned a Kaiser at Versailles and sowed the seeds of two World Wars.

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Franco-Prussian War on Wikipedia.

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Belligerents

The main peoples, kingdoms and states involved.

  • Prussia & German states
  • French Empire

Key moments

Defining events in the Franco-Prussian War.

  1. 1870 Sedan
  2. 1870–1871 Siege of Paris

Elsewhere in Europe at the time

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3000 BCE – still standing

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Danube Delta

3000 BCE – still standing

Dated moments inside this span

Events the timeline places between 1870 CE and 1871 CE.

1870 CE Battle of Sedan

And in the rest of the world

Records running through the same years, on the other side of the map.

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