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Bismark completes efforts to unify Purrisa and the German kingdoms into a single nation and has king Willehm I proclaimed Kaiser.
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France forced to sign humiliating treaty with Germany that ends the 1870-71 Franco-Prussian War.
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After his father's untimely death, 29 year-old Wilhelm II becomes ruler, Kaiser Wilhelm II, of Germany.
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Nicolas is crowned Tsar Nicholas II of Russia, a position he did not want.
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Great Britain's Queen Victoria dies.
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