In 1440 several western and eastern Prussian towns formed the Prussian Confederation, which led the revolt of Prussia against the rule of the Teutonic Knights in 1454.

During the Siege of Paris in 1871, the North German Confederation, supported by its allies from southern Germany, formed the German Empire with the proclamation of the Prussian king Wilhelm I as German Emperor in the Hall of Mirrors at the Palace of Versailles, to the humiliation of the French, who ceased to resist only days later.

* 1440 – The Prussian Confederation is formed.

* 1454 – In the Thirteen Years ' War, the Secret Council of the Prussian Confederation sends a formal act of disobedience to the Grand Master.

Forced to flee arrest, he made his way, with the help of the Duc of Luxembourg and Prince de Conti, to Neuchâtel, a Canton of the Swiss Confederation that was a protectorate of the Prussian crown.

They served in the Prussian navy, the navy of the North German Confederation, the Imperial German Navy and briefly in the modern Federal German Navy, the Bundesmarine.

The fortress, ancestral seat of the medieval Luxembourgers, was taken over by Prussian forces, following Napoleon's defeat, and Luxembourg became a member of the German Confederation with Prussia responsible for its defense.

* 1454 – Thirteen Years ' War: Delegates of the Prussian Confederation pledge allegiance to King Casimir IV of Poland who agrees to commit his forces in aiding the Confederation's struggle for independence from the Teutonic Knights.

To solidify Prussian hegemony, Prussia and several other North German states joined the North German Confederation in 1867 ; King Wilhelm I served as its President, and Bismarck as its Chancellor.

The Prussian Confederation (, ) was an organization formed in 1440 by a group of 53 nobles and clergy and 19 cities in Prussia to oppose the monastic state of the Teutonic Knights.

On 14 March 1440, a group of 53 nobles and clergy and 19 Prussian cities, under the leadership of the Hanseatic cities of Danzig ( Gdańsk ), Elbing ( Elbląg ), and Thorn ( Toruń ), founded the Prussian Confederation in Marienwerder ( Kwidzyn ).

In February 1454, the Prussian Confederation rose against the Teutonic Order's rule.

The Prussian Confederation, with its members now practically divided, ceased to exist as such.

Towns which founded the Prussian Confederation on 14 March 1440:

In 1440, the gentry of Thorn formed the Prussian Confederation, and in 1454 rose with the Confederation against the Monastic state of the Teutonic Knights in the Thirteen Years ' War.

* February 4 – In the Thirteen Years ' War, the Secret Council of the Prussian Confederation sends a formal act of disobedience to the Grand Master.

* September 15 – Battle of Zatoka Świeża: The navy of the Prussian Confederation defeats the Teutonic fleet.

* February 21 – The Prussian Confederation is formed.

The combined German forces, under Field Marshal Count Helmuth von Moltke, were the Prussian First and Second Armies of the North German Confederation numbering about 210 infantry battalions, 133 cavalry squadrons, and 732 heavy cannon totaling 188, 332 officers and men.

Allenstein joined the Prussian Confederation in 1440.

Though the status quo was restored, the conflict lingered on and on 1 February 1864 the German Confederation, i. e. Prussian and Austrian troops crossed the Eider sparking off the Second Schleswig War, after which Denmark had to cede Schleswig and Holstein according to the Treaty of Vienna.

In 1451 the town council joined the Prussian Confederation that was fighting against the Teutonic Order, but bishop Kaspar Linke expelled the councilors and confiscated their property.

The league was created on 30 September 1923 at Nuremberg, where Hitler joined other patriotic nationalist leaders to celebrate German Day, which marked the anniversary of the Prussian victory over France in 1870.

ISBN 3-520-37105-7 .</ ref >< ref > However, only merchants from the six Prussian Hanseatic cities of Braunsberg ( Braniewo ), Culm ( Chełmno ), Danzig, Elbing, Königsberg, and Thorn ( Toruń ) were considered fully fledged members of the league, while merchants from other Prussian cities did not enjoy the full solidarity, but underlay all the Hanseatic rules, in order to be tolerated enjoying Hanseatic privileges.

During the Weimar Republic, he was president of the Prussian State Council ( Preußischer Staatsrat ) from 1922 to 1933, which was the representative of the Prussian cities and provinces.

In 1938, the Nazi government ( 1933 – 1945 ) changed thousands of toponyms ( especially names of cities and villages ) of Old Prussian and Polish origin to newly-created German names ; about 50 % of the existing names were changed in 1938 alone, despite resistance by the Prussian people, who continued to use their traditional place names.

This marked the beginning of the Thirteen Years ' War between the Teutonic Knights and Poland, with the Prussian cities financing the military costs of the latter.

In 1900 alone, the Prussian provinces of East Prussia, West Prussia, Posen, Silesia, and Pomerania lost about 1, 600, 000 people to the cities, where these former agricultural workers were absorbed into the rapidly growing factory labor class ; One of the causes of this mass-migration was the decrease in rural income compared to the rates of pay in the cities.

The treaty concluded the Thirteen Years ' War ( 1454 – 1466 ) which had begun in February 1454 with the revolt of the Prussian Confederation, led by the cities of Danzig ( Gdańsk ), Elbing ( Elbląg ), Kulm ( Chełmno ) and Thorn, and the Prussian gentry against the rule of the Teutonic Knights in the Monastic State.

In view of rising taxes, several local nobles and Hanseatic cities in 1440 established the Prussian Confederation at Kwidzyn ( Marienwerder ) protesting against the Order's internal and financial policies.

With the Prussian army reduced to a handful of harried fugitives after Jena-Auerstedt, Napoléon occupied the major cities of Germany and marched on east in pursuit of the remaining forces opposed to him.

In 1928, under the Prussian local government reforms, the cities of Gelsenkirchen and Buer along with the Amt of Horst together became a new kreisfreie Stadt called Gelsenkirchen-Buer, effective as of 1 April that year.

The Prussian government began offering military assistance to other states in suppressing the revolts in their territories and cities, i. e. Dresden, the Palatinate, Baden, Wűrttemberg, Franconia, etc.

On October 12, 1655, with permission of King John Casimir, Frederick William, Elector of Brandenburg signed the Treaty of Rinsk, in which Royal Prussian nobility agreed to allow Brandenburgian garrisons in their province to defend it against the Swedish invasion ( the treaty did not include the cities of Gdańsk, Elbląg and Toruń ).

* Prussian Confederation, an alliance of German Hanseatic cities in Prussia who rebelled against the Teutonic Knights

Prussian cities, changed to the current Mrągowo in 1947, in honor of Pastor Christoph Mrongovius ( 1764 – 1855 ), known in Polish as Krzysztof Celestyn Mrongowiusz.

In 1744, Frederick II of Prussia limited the number of Jews allowed to live in Breslau to only ten so-called " protected " Jewish families and encouraged a similar practice in other Prussian cities.

In 1454, the city joined the Prussian Confederation, an association of cities and gentry that opposed the policy of the Order.

In any case, the names of many cities, including Berlin ( meaning ' little swamp '), and some surnames, most notably those of ' typically Prussian ' nature like ' von Clausewitz ' or ' Virchow ', still reflect the Slavic roots of this part of Germany.

Whereas the cities ' debts, especially those of Berlin often billetted on, were not assumed by the Prussian government.

At the Battle of Gravelotte, they formed the extreme left of the German army, and with the Prussian Guard carried out the attack on St Privat, the final and decisive action in the battle.

After 1871 there appeared resistance among the Masurians towards Germanization efforts, the so called Gromadki movement was formed which supported use of Polish language and came into conflict with German authorities ; while most of its members viewed themselves as loyal to Prussian state, a part of them joined the Pro-Polish faction of Masurians.

It was formed from the northern part of the French Occupation Zone, which included parts of Bavaria ( the Rhenish Palatinate ), the southern parts of the Prussian Rhine Province ( including the District of Birkenfeld which formerly belonged to Oldenburg ), parts of the Prussian Province of Nassau ( see Hesse-Nassau ), and parts of Hesse-Darmstadt ( Rhinehessen on the western banks of the Rhine ); the constitution was legally confirmed by referendum on 18 May 1947.

After World War I Sambia formed part of the East Prussian exclave of Weimar Germany.

The Prussian Rhine province was formed in 1822 and Prussia had the tact to leave them in undisturbed possession of the liberal institutions they had become accustomed to under the republican rule of the French.

Leaving the Prussian First and Second Armies besieging Metz, Moltke formed the Army of the Meuse under the Crown Prince of Saxony by detaching three corps from them, and took this army and the Prussian Third Army northward, where they caught up with the French at Beaumont on 30 August.

Kaller was also appointed apostolic visitator to the then 8, 000 Catholic faithful in Memelland, a Lithuanian-annexed formerly East Prussian area, whose then four Catholic parishes had been seceded from Ermland diocese and subsequently formed part of the Territorial Prelature of Memel ( Klaipėda ); ; ; ) existing between 1926 and 1991.

In 1815 it was incorporated into the newly formed Prussian Province of Pomerania.

From 1866-1920 Tinglev was part of the Prussian Province of Schleswig-Holstein, and formed a part of Imperial Germany.

From the High Middle Ages the Oker between the villages of Ohrum and Börßum formed the eastern boundary of the Prince-Bishopric of Hildesheim with the Duchy of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel, and further south to Wiedelah ( today part of Vienenburg ) with the Prince-Bishopric of Halberstadt, which became the Prussian Principality of Halberstadt following its secularization in 1648.

His Défense du système de guerre moderne, a reply to his many critics ( Neuchâtel, 1779 ) is a reasoned and scientific defence of the Prussian method of tactics, which formed the basis of his work when in 1775 he began to co-operate with the count de St Germain in a series of much-needed and successful reforms in the French army.

Another Young Hegelian, Karl Marx, was at first sympathetic with this strategy of attacking Christianity to undermine the Prussian establishment, but later formed divergent ideas and broke with the Young Hegelians, attacking their views in works such as The German Ideology.

In 1818, he arranged a £ 5 million loan to the Prussian government, and the issuing of bonds for government loans formed a mainstay of his bank ’ s business.

* Hesse-Nassau, Prussian province formed by annexation of the Duchy of Nassau

The French public resented the Prussian victory and demanded " Revanche pour Sadova " or " Revenge for Sadowa ", which formed part of the build-up to the Franco-Prussian War of 1870.

The recruits were transported across Finland's western border via Sweden to Germany, where the volunteers were formed into the Royal Prussian 27th Jäger Battalion.