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Last major food crisis and famine throughout Europe begins
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Louis Napoleon wins presidential election in France
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Karl Marx publishes the Communist Manifest
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Uprising in some German states; granting of constitutional reforms in Prussia
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Frankfurt Assembly meets and proposes a plan for the unification of Germany; Prussian king refuses to take the crown
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Revolution in France; overthrow of King Louis-Philippe; French Second Republic proclaimed
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Charles Darwin publishes On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection
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Kingdom of Italy proclaimed with King Victor Emmanuel II as King
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Maximillian crowned emperor of Mexicon and Prussia & Austria at war with Denmark over Schleiswig and Holstein
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Prussia and Austria engage in Seven Weeks' War and Italy acquires Venetia
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Karl Marx publishes Das Kapital
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Ends with the capitulation of French Second Empire
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Prussia Wins!
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