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.

During the Siege of Paris on 18 January 1871, King Wilhelm I of Prussia was proclaimed German Emperor in the Hall of Mirrors at the Palace of Versailles.

During the Siege of Paris, the German princes assembled in the Hall of Mirrors of the Palace of Versailles and proclaimed the Prussian King Wilhelm I as the " German Emperor " on 18 January 1871.

During the war against Austria in 1866 as well as in the wars against France in 1870 and 1871, Abeken stayed in the Prussian headquarters.

During the 19th century, after Schleswig-Holstein had come under the government of Prussia ( from 1871 the German Empire ) following the Second Schleswig War in 1864, a combination of naval interests — the German navy wanted to link its bases in the Baltic and the North Sea without the need to sail around Denmark — and commercial pressure encouraged the development of a new canal.

During the foundation of the German Empire in 1871, a large military facility called Albertstadt was built.

During Queen Victoria's widowhood, Edward pioneered the idea of royal public appearances as we understand them today — for example, opening Thames Embankment in 1871, Mersey Tunnel in 1886, and Tower Bridge in 1894.

During the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, " La Marseillaise " was recognised as the anthem of the international revolutionary movement ; as such, it was adopted by the Paris Commune in 1871.

During the Meiji period an edict was passed in 1871 abolishing the requirement of the wearing of daishō by samurai, and in 1876 the wearing of swords in public by most of Japan's population was banned ; this ended the use of the daishō as the symbol of the samurai, and the samurai class was abolished soon after the sword ban.

During the Franco-Prussian War of 1870 – 1871, Metz was the headquarters of the army under the command of General Bazaine.

During the 1916 Easter Rising in Ireland several prominent figures involved in it were in Lewes Prison, including Éamon de Valera ( 1882 – 1975 ); Thomas Ashe ( 1885 – 1917 ); Frank Lawless ( 1871 – 1922 ); and Harry Boland ( 1887 – 1922 ).

During the Franco-Prussian War ( 1870 – 1871 ) it was moved from the Louvre to the Brest Arsenal.

During the Franco-Prussian War ( 1870 – 1871 ) the château was used as a field hospital.

During the spring of 1871 the last of the combatants of the Commune entrenched themselves in the cemetery.

During these three periods, the Iron Cross was an award of the Kingdom of Prussia, although given Prussia's pre-eminent place in the German Empire formed in 1871, it tended to be treated as a generic German decoration.

During the 18th and 19th centuries, it was common for lawyers to speak of bringing an " action " at law and a " suit " in equity ; an example of that distinction which survives today may be found in the text of the Civil Rights Act of 1871.

During the Siege of Paris on 18 January 1871, King Wilhelm I of Prussia was proclaimed German Emperor in the Hall of Mirrors at the Palace of Versailles.

During this period, between the 1815 Congress of Vienna ( after the defeat of Napoleonic France ) and the end of the Franco-Prussian War ( 1870 – 1871 ), Britain reaped the benefits of being the world's sole modern, industrial power.

During the following year Eliot resumed work, fusing together several stories into a coherent whole, and during 1871 – 72 the novel appeared in serial form.

During the Paris Commune, he held important commands in the army of Versailles, occupying the burning Tuileries and the Louvre on May 23, 1871.

During the course of the story, Laura is between the ages of seven to nine years old, but in 1871 her real age would have been 4 or 5.

During the Paris Commune in 1871, Courbet proposed that the Vendôme Column be disassembled and re-erected in the Hôtel des Invalides.

During a serious illness in 1871, the Queen dictated her journal entries to Beatrice, and in 1876 she allowed Beatrice to sort the music that she and the Prince Consort had played, unused since his death fifteen years earlier.

During the Meiji period, the area was organized into villages under Ama District, Aichi Prefecture, including the village of Tsushima in 1871.

During the mid 1860s the Heungseon Daewongun was the main proponent of isolationism and the instrument of the persecution of native and foreign Catholics, a policy that led directly to the French invasion and the United States expedition to Korea in 1871.

During the 1983 – 86 seasons, North Dakota buyers purchased an average of 7, 913 pelts annually, for an average annual combined return to takers of $ 255, 458.

During this time Duchamp began exhibiting " readymades " ( everyday objects found or purchased and declared art ) such as a bottle rack, and was active in the Society of Independent Artists.

During the siege, he purchased a captaincy in the grenadier company of the 40th Regiment of Foot.

During the 1950s and 1960s, Afghanistan purchased moderate quantities of Soviet weapons to keep the military up to date.

Her painting Two Women Throwing Flowers During Carnival was well received in the Salon of 1872, and was purchased.

During the campaign, the Kerrs purchased a Sydney apartment, as Sir John was prepared to resign in the event that the ALP triumphed.

During the final years of his life, Mantle purchased a luxury condominium on Lake Oconee near Greensboro, Georgia, near Greer Johnson's home, and frequently stayed there for months at a time.

During the season, Daryl Katz, owner of the Rexall pharmaceutical company, purchased the Oilers from the Edmonton Investors Group.

During the late 1920s and early 1930s, Pan Am purchased a number of ailing or defunct airlines in Central and South America and negotiated with postal officials to win most of the government's airmail contracts to the region.

* During the 1970s, the oil industrialist Bill Noël of Odessa purchased orchards in Comanche County.

During the American Civil War, the bolt-action Palmer carbine was patented in 1863, and by 1865, 1000 were purchased for use as cavalry weapons.

During the Great Depression, Witt purchased municipal bonds for ten cents on the dollar, confident that the bonds would be redeemable under President Franklin D. Roosevelt's Reconstruction Finance Corporation.

During the 1910s, the Delaware State Fair Association purchased land and built a new fairgrounds within Elsmere's town limit.

During the 1990s, members of Cambridge City's historic preservation group Western Wayne Heritage, Inc. purchased the famous Vinton House hotel.

During the making of their third album, they purchased their first commercial synthesisers for the studio, the Minimoog and EMS Synthi AKS.

During the rebuilding of the linseed oil mill, French included a machine he had invented and patented in 1898, a " cake trimmer ", and purchased the most modern equipment then available.

During the Summer of 2007, not a single bus purchased was in operation ( though several were due to weak A / C systems ) and litigation was underway.

During World War I, the Patriots Committee of Aspinwall purchased wristwatches from a watch factory in Canton, Ohio, which they presented to the approximately 164 Aspinwall men entering the service.

During the late 18th century, Patrick Cassidy, a native of Newry, Ireland and an American soldier in the American Revolutionary War, purchased three hundred acres of land in Huntingdon County, Pennsylvania.

During these periods, parcels of adjacent land or woodland were purchased and subdivided for new house construction.

During the land purchase of 1755 James Sterrat of Carlisle purchased 400 acres including the sleeping place called John Hart ’ s log on the Juniata River, which is now Alexandria.

During this decade, New York businessman James F. O. Shaugnesy purchased the Red Boiling Springs tract and began development of the area as a resort.

During the trip, he ceremonially purchased biscuits from Amon G. Carter, who had grown up in the city.

During World War II the citizens of Montesano purchased war bonds to pay for a B-24 named the Spirit of Montesano.

During the 1990s, Airtours purchased Scandinavian Leisure Group ( SLG ) including award winning tour operators such as Ving and airline ; Premiair.