Information
Name: Electorate of Hesse
Type: Polity
Nation: hesse-kassel
Start: 1803
End: 1866
Groups:
Holy Roman Empire,German Confederation
Electorate of Hesse: All Data
This page is about the data available for this polity, the chronology of the events of the polity is available here.
During the Napoleonic reorganisation of the Empire in 1803, the Landgrave of Hesse-Kassel was elevated to an Electorate. In 1807, with the Treaties of Tilsit, the area was annexed to the Kingdom of Westphalia, but in 1814, the Congress of Vienna restored the Electorate. The state was annexed by Prussia in 1866 following the Austro-Prussian War.
