These are events from the year 1866 in Germany.

1866
in
Germany

Decades:
See also:Other events of 1866
History of Germany  • Timeline  • Years

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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.

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January–March

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April–June

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July–September

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October–December

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Deaths

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July–December

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Bernhard Riemann

References

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  1. ^ Henry Mills Alden (1870). Harper's New Monthly Magazine. Harper & Brothers. p. 658.
  2. ^ Richard Hudson (1892). The North German Confederation. Ginn. p. 425.
  3. ^ Leslie Thomas Morton; Robert J. Moore (1997). A Chronology of Medicine and Related Sciences. Scolar Press. p. 296. ISBN 978-1-85928-215-1.
  4. ^ David Mason Greene; Constance Green (1985). Greene's Biographical Encyclopedia of Composers. Reproducing Piano Roll Fnd. p. 959. ISBN 978-0-385-14278-6.
  5. ^ Ludwig Wiese (1876). "Brüggemann: Theodor B., ein besonders um das katholische Unterrichtswesen in Preußen verdienter Schulmann und Staatsbeamter ..." Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie. Historischen Kommission bei der Bayerischen Akademie der Wissenschaften. pp. 407–409. Retrieved 2 December 2016.
  6. ^ "Hermann Golschmidt". Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 27 (4): 115–117. 1867. doi:10.1093/mnras/27.4.97a.