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Name: Anhalt Duchy

Type: Polity

Start: 1806 AD

End: 1871 AD

Nation: anhalt

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Was a State located in Central Germany, in the actual state of Saxony-Anhalt. In 1806, Napoleon elevated Anhalt to a Duchy.

Establishment


  • May 1806: In April 1806, Alexius Friedrich Christian von Anhalt-Bernburg became the first of the princes of Anhalt to become duke.
  • October 1806: Napoleon entered Berlin on 27 October 1806.
  • 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.


    1.1.War of the Fourth Coalition

    Was a war between the French Empire and a coalition of European monarchies, mainly Prussia and Russia.

    1.1.1.Prussian Campaign (War of the Fourth Coalition)

    Was a French military campaign in Prussia during the War of the Fourth Coalition.


    1.1.2.Peace of Tilsit

    Were a series of treaties that ended the War of the Fourth Coalition.

  • July 1807: The treaty signed between Prussia and France at Tilsit, following the War of the Fourth Coalition, was highly disadvantageous to Prussia. As a result of this agreement, the Kingdom lost most of its Polish territories to the newly created Duchy of Warsaw. Additionally, it ceded most of its territories in central Germany and the Rhineland to France, the Grand Duchy of Berg, and the Kingdom of Westphalia. The remnant territories occupied by France in Germany were evacuated.

  • 1.2.War of the Sixth Coalition

    Was a war between France and a a coalition of Austria, Prussia, Russia, Spain, the United Kingdom, Portugal, Sweden, and a number of German States. The coalition emerged after the decimation of the French army in the French invasion of Russia. The coalition ultimately invaded France and forced Napoleon to abdicate and go into exile.

  • August 1813: In the Battles of Großbeeren and neighboring Blankenfelde and Sputendorf an allied Prussian-Swedish army under Crown Prince Charles John - formerly Marshal of France Jean-Baptiste Bernadotte - defeated the French.

  • 1.3.Congress of Vienna

    Was a series of international diplomatic meetings after the end of the Napoleonic wars whose aim was a long-term peace plan for Europe. It redraw the borders of Europe and partially restored the Monarchies of the pre-revolutionary period.

  • June 1815: Territories awarded to the Duchy of Anhalt by the Congress of Vienna.

  • 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.

  • 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


  • 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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