Time+Line

=Timeline=

1848
Revolutions take place accross Europe, spreading into Germany. The Frankfurt Parliament is formed but the liberals are weak and initial concessions are revoked.

1879
Creation of Dual Alliance between Germany and Austria-Hungary

1883
Germany occupies South Wast Africa, Togoland and Cameroons

1886
Germany and Britain partition East Africa

1890
Bismarck dismissed as chancellor of Germany

1871
Franco-Prussian war France loses provinces of Alsace and Lorraine to Germany German Empire proclaimed

Negotiations in January between Britain and Germany for an alliance failed
 * 1901**

Russia defeated by Japan in the Russo-Japanese War. First loss by a European power to an Asian one.
 * 1905**

Balkan War begins
 * 1912**

1914
Archduke Franz Ferdinand assasinated in Sarajevo Outbreak of World War I

Peace Conference which decided the fait of who started World War 1. The final decision was placed on the shoulders of the German people and the Kaiser.
 * 1919**

**1920** First meeting of the League of Nations is held in London This draws to the official end of WWI

Fun fact: Scottish band Franz Ferdinand were formed, named after the Archduke Franz Ferdinand who was assinated in 1914
 * 2002**