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Name: schaumburg-lippe

Type: Cluster

Start: 1290 AD

End: 1871 AD

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The cluster includes all the forms of the country.

The cluster includes the following incarnations of the same nation:

  • Schaumburg County
  • Schaumburg-Lippe County
  • Principality of Schaumburg-Lippe
  • Establishment


  • December 1290: Schauenburg is elevated ot County.
  • Chronology


    Interactive Chronologies with maps are available in the section Changes Navigation

    1. French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars


    Were a series of conflicts between France and several European monarchies between 1792 and 1815. They encompass first the French Revolutionary Wars against the newly declared French Republic and from 1803 onwards the Napoleonic Wars against First Consul and later Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte. They include the Coalition Wars as a subset: seven wars waged by various military alliances of great European powers, known as Coalitions, against Revolutionary France - later the First French Empire - and its allies.

  • April 1807: Schaumburg-Lippe is raised to the rank of principality.

  • 2. German Unification Wars


    Were a series of wars that resulted in the creation of the German Empire under Prussian leadership in 1871.

    2.1.Franco-Prussian War

    Was a war that saw the Second French Empire fight against an alliance of German states led by the Kingdom of Prussia. The war was caused by the struggle over dominance in continental Europe between Prussia and France. The German states were victorious and in 1871 merged to form the German Empire. France was occupied and forced to cede Alsace-Lorraine to Germany.

    2.1.1.Unification of Germany (1871)

    Was the unification of 25 German states into the German Empire under the leadership of the Kingdom of Prussia, officially proclaimed on 18 January 1871, in the Hall of Mirrors at the Palace of Versailles in France.

  • January 1871: Unification of Germany into a German Empire with tight political and administrative integration, replacing the decentralized German Confederation and Holy Roman Empire, was officially proclaimed on 18 January 1871, in the Hall of Mirrors at the Palace of Versailles in France.

  • 3. Further events (Unrelated to Any War)


  • January 1291: Territorial change based on available maps.

  • January 1642: Territorial change based on available maps.

  • January 1642: In 1640, the County of Schaumburg was divided between the House of Brunswick-Lüneburg, the Landgraves of Hesse-Kassel and the Counts of Lippe.

  • July 1647: Schaumburg-Lippe came into being in 1647 through the division of the County of Schaumburg between the House of Brunswick-Lüneburg, the Landgraves of Hesse-Kassel and the Counts of Lippe.

  • Disestablishment


  • January 1871: Unification of Germany into a German Empire with tight political and administrative integration, replacing the decentralized German Confederation and Holy Roman Empire, was officially proclaimed on 18 January 1871, in the Hall of Mirrors at the Palace of Versailles in France.
  • Selected Sources


  • Droysen, G. (1886): Historischer Handatlas, Bielefeld and Leipzig (Germany), p. 26-49
  • Köbler, G. (2014) Historische Enzyklopädie der Länder der Deutschen, C.H. Beck München, pp. 28-31
  • O'Mahony, C. I. (2013). War within the Walls: Conflict and Citizenship in the Murals of the Hôtel de Ville, Paris. Journal of War & Culture Studies, 6(1), 6-23.
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