Information
Name: Second Schleswig War
Type: Event
Start: 1863
End: 1865
Parents: Schleswig Wars, German Unification Wars
Children: Bundesexekution of Holstein und Lauenburg of 1863, Gastein Convention, Treaty of Vienna (1864)
Second Schleswig War: All Data
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Was a war caused by the status of the duchies of Schleswig, Holstein and Lauenburg, that were Dnish possession but at the same also part of the German confederation. When the Danish King died without an heir acceptable to the German Confederation, Prussian and Austrian troops invaded and occupied the duchies.
