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Prussia worked hard
Prussia had worked for control of a unified German state since 1640 and the Prussian king became the hereditary German emperor -
Bismarck and Parliament
In the 1860s Bismarck was faced with a hostile liberal majority in Parliament -
New prime minister
In 1862 Wilhelm I of Prussia appointed Otto von Bismarck prime minister -
Bismarck leds good wars
In 1866 Bismarck led a good war against Austria and gave up the shared affairs in Schleswig and Holstein -
Prussia gets more states
In 1867 as a result of Bismarck’s diplomacy Prussia gained three more states and the free city of Frankfurt -
a new emperor
On January 18, 1871, Wilhelm I of Prussia was officially crowned emperor of Germany
