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See also: | Other events of 1866 History of Germany • Timeline • Years |
These are events from the year 1866 in Germany.
8 April | The kingdoms of Italy and Prussia form an alliance against the Austrian Empire. |
14 June | Austro-Prussian War: Prussia declared war on Austria. |
3 July | Battle of Königgrätz: Prussian forces broke an Austrian line and dealt them a decisive defeat at modern Hradec Králové. |
7 May | Student Ferdinand Cohen-Blind makes a failed attempt to assassinate Otto von Bismarck in Unter den Linden in Berlin.[1] |
27–29 June | Battle of Langensalza: The Prussians defeat the Hanoverian Army. |
3 July | Battle of Königgrätz: the Prussian army under King Wilhelm and Helmuth von Moltke defeats the Austrian army of Ludwig von Benedek, leading to a decisive Prussian victory in the Austro-Prussian War. |
18 August | Prussia and fifteen smaller northern German states signed the North German Confederation Treaty, transferring their armed forces to the North German Confederation under the command of the Prussian king William I, German Emperor.[2] |
23 August | Austro-Prussian War: Prussia and Austria signed the Peace of Prague, in which the latter agreed to some small territorial concessions and the dissolution of the German Confederation, ending the war. |