* Albert I, Duke of Prussia ( 1490 – 1568 ), first Duke of Prussia

Albert of Prussia (; ) ( 17 May 1490 – 20 March 1568 ) was the 37th and last sovereign Grand Master of the Teutonic Knights and, after converting to Lutheranism, the first duke of the Duchy of Prussia, which was the first state to adopt the Lutheran faith and Protestantism as the official state religion.

Albert also paid for the printing of the Astronomical " Prutenic Tables " compiled by Erasmus Reinhold and the first maps of Prussia by Caspar Hennenberger.

* Albert of Prussia, Grand Master of the Teutonic Order and the first duke of Prussia.

His successor, Frederick II Irontooth, established Berlin as capital of the margraviate, and subsequent members of the Hohenzollern family ruled until 1918 in Berlin, first as electors of Brandenburg, then as kings of Prussia, and eventually as German emperors.

With the coronation of Frederick I in 1701 as king ( in Königsberg ), Berlin became the new capital of the Kingdom of Prussia ( instead of Königsberg ); this was a successful attempt to centralize the capital in the very outspread Prussian Kingdom, and it was the first time the city began to grow.

Lithuanian was first attested in a hymnal translation in 1545 ; the first printed book in Lithuanian, a Catechism by Martynas Mažvydas was published in 1547 in Königsberg, Prussia ( now Kaliningrad, Russia ).

) 1245 ) was the first missionary bishop of Prussia.

In 1215 he went to Rome in order to report to the Curia on the condition and prospects of his mission, and was consecrated first " Bishop of Prussia " at the Fourth Council of the Lateran.

The first systematic population on the European continent was taken in 1719 in Prussia ( roughly corresponding to today's northern Germany and western Poland ).

The German-language Elbinger Rechtsbuch, written in Elbing, Prussia documented among other laws for the first time Polish common law.

* 1643 – Johann Kasimir Kolbe von Wartenberg, first Prime Minister of the Kingdom of Prussia ( d. 1712 )

The first Freikorps were recruited by Frederick II of Prussia in the 18th century during the Seven Years ' War.

# Albert of Prussia ( 17 May 1490, Ansbach – 20 March 1568, Castle Tapiau ), Grand Master of the Teutonic Order and later first Duke of Prussia.

In the first partition ( 1772 ), northern parts of Greater Poland along the Noteć ( German Netze ) were taken over by Prussia, becoming the Netze District.

Spain, Naples, Great Britain, and the Netherlands joined Austria and Prussia in The First Coalition ( 1792 – 1797 ), the first major concerted effort of multiple European powers to contain Revolutionary France.

After the defeat of Napoleon, who caused the dissolution of that first German Empire, Prussia, and the German states continued to stand aloof from imperialism, preferring to manipulate the European system through polices such as those of Metternich.

After he became regent in 1859, Prussia bought its first 312 steel cannon from Krupp, which became the main arms manufacturer for the Prussian military.

He dictated the manual of Regulations for State Officials, containing 35 chapters and 297 paragraphs in which every public servant in Prussia could find his duties precisely set out: a minister or councillor failing to attend a committee meeting, for example, would lose six months ' pay ; if he absented himself a second time, he would be discharged from the royal service.

In Germany Napoleon set up the " Confederation of the Rhine ," comprising most of the German states except Prussia and Austria.

According to his The New York Times obituary published on April 3, 1872, Morse received respectively the decoration of the Atiq Nishan-i-Iftikhar ( English: Order of Glory ) medal on wearer's right depicted in photo of Morse with medals, set in diamonds, from the Sultan Ahmad I ibn Mustafa of Turkey ( c. 1847 ), a golden snuff box containing the Prussian gold medal for scientific merit from the King of Prussia ( 1851 ); the Great Gold Medal of Arts and Sciences from the King of Württemberg ( 1852 ); and the Great Golden Medal of Science and Arts from Emperor of Austria ( 1855 ); a cross of Chevalier in the Légion d ' honneur from the Emperor of France ; the Cross of a Knight of the Order of the Dannebrog from the King of Denmark ( 1856 ); the Cross of Knight Commander of the Order of Isabella the Catholic, from the Queen of Spain, besides being elected member of innumerable scientific and art societies in this States and other countries.

Austerlitz set the stage for a near-decade of French domination of the European continent, but one of its more immediate effects was to goad Prussia into war in 1806.

Prussia primary and Saxony had set the national example, and France was guided into it by Cousin.

Within a month of being set up, the company was able to supply aircraft to the war ministries of Prussia and Bavaria.

Austerlitz set the stage for a near-decade of French domination on the European continent, but one of its more immediate impacts was to goad Prussia into war in 1806.

The city of Königsberg in Prussia ( now Kaliningrad, Russia ) was set on both sides of the Pregel River, and included two large islands which were connected to each other and the mainland by seven bridges.

He felt bitterly the humiliation of Prussia by Austria after the victory of the reaction ; and in 1852 he set his signature reluctantly to the treaty which, in his view, surrendered the " constitutional rights of Schleswig and Holstein ".

In November 1932, about one year before right-wing parties gave Hitler the Chancellorship, Globke wrote a set of rules to make it harder in Prussia for Germans of Jewish ancestry to change their last names into less recognizably Jewish names, albeit no similar limitations existed for other Germans ; and he followed up with the guidelines for implementation in December 1932.

It was set up by Otto von Bismarck to increase land ownership by Germans at the expense of Poles, by economic and political means, in the German Empire's eastern provinces of West Prussia and the Posen as part of his larger efforts aiming at the eradication of the Polish nation.

This provision was unilaterally set aside by a resolution of Prussia and Austria in 1878.

The Akademie der Künste, Berlin was set up in 1696 by crown-prince Frederick III of Brandenburg, later king Frederick I of Prussia as an " Academy of Painterly, Sculptural and Architectural Art ", providing a model of the learned society for the " Prussian Royal Academy of Art and Mechanical Sciences " ( 1704 – 1790 ) and the " Royal Academy of Berlin for Fine Arts and Mechanical Sciences " ( 1790 – 1809 ).

Commissioned by King Wilhelm I of Prussia to carry gifts to Umar of Borno, sheik of the Bornu Empire, in acknowledgment of kindness shown to German travelers, he set out in 1869 from Ottoman Tripoli and succeeded after a two years journey in accomplishing his mission.

Prince Wilhelm of Prussia, later to become Wilhelm I of Germany, set out for Baden with troops.

As he was authorized by the French government to serve abroad without losing his nationality, he set off for Prussia, then for Russia.

In the first four novels, set in the 22nd century, the point of divergence is the Franco – Prussian War of 1870, where Grimwood posits a reality where Napoléon III's France defeats Otto von Bismarck's Prussia, causing the German Empire never to form and the Second French Empire never to collapse.

Wealthy civilians of East Prussia were often shot by Soviet soldiers, their goods stolen, and their houses set on fire, as a result of Soviet propaganda advocating the eradication of the aristocracy.

He was set free in 1787 by Frederick the Great, king of Prussia, and expressed his gratitude in "" (" Hymn to Frederick the Great ").

While he never again set foot in Italy, in 1556 he made his way to Poland, and conferred with Duke Albrecht of Prussia.

The last time that companies using the Lisowczycy name took part in a major war was during the late 1620s, when they were temporarily reformed to fight in Poland's continuing conflict against the Swedes in Polish Prussia, yet another stage of the Polish-Swedish War-the same conflict that set Aleksander Lisowski on the path to forming the unit that was to bear his name.

Following the defeats Prussia suffered in the 30 Years ' War Frederick William, Elector of Brandenburg, set up the General War Commissariat to oversee the army, as well as to levy taxes necessary to support the army.

In 1851 Police Union of German States was set up by the police forces of Austria, Prussia, Bavaria, Saxony, Hanover, Baden, and Württemberg.

The Prussian Crown Jewels is a set of crowns, orb and scepters used to crown Kings of Prussia of the Hohenzollern dynasty.