Title: German History Timeline – German Culture
Headings: German History Timeline
German History Timeline
Content: Brunswick, Hanover, and Oldenburg enact constitutions
in 1833. Zollverein (Customs Union)
created in 1834. March 1848 revolution in Germany. National Assembly at Frankfurt ( 1848-49)
plans constitutional German nation-state. Friedrich Wilhelm IV, Prussian king (1840-58),
refuses German crown in 1849; National Assembly
dissolved. German Confederation restored in
1851. Prussia agrees to relinquish plans for a Ger-
man union under its leadership in Treaty of
Olmutz. Wilhelm I, Prussian king (1858-88); Otto von Bismarck, chancellor (1862-90), unites
Germany.