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On August 14, 1688, Frederick William I is born in Berlin Germany.
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The war shaped Frederick William I's future, which lead him to realize that the army was his vocation.
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Frederick William, I married Sophia Dorothea.
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Prussia's military totaled 38,000 soldiers,
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Frederick William comes into power after the death of his father in 1713.
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Frederick William I introduces a yearly tax system which replaced aristocracy’s feudal war service.
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Frederick William I institutes mandatory primary education. Due to the mass amount of illiterate subjects.
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Frederick William I obtained Swedish Pomerania by the Treaty of Stockholm.
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Frederick William I centralized his administration under a general directory through which his ministers executed his orders.
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The canton system of recruitment and replacement provided half of the manpower to Frederick Willaim I's army from the Prussian pesantry.
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Relations with Austria and England calmed down. By 1739 Prussia has an alliance with France.
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On May 31, 1740 Frederick William in Potsdam, Prussia at the age of 51.
