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William I or Wilhelm I[2] was King of Prussia from 2 January 1861 and German Emperor from 18 January 1871 until his death in 1888. A member of the House of Hohenzollern, he was the first head of state of a united Germany. He was de facto head of state of Prussia from 1858, when he became regent for his brother Frederick William IV, whose death three years later would make him king.

William I, 1797–1888, emperor of Germany (1871–88) and king of Prussia (1861–88), second son of the future King Frederick William III of Prussia and Louise of Mecklenburg. Essentially conservative, William fled to England during the revolutionary uprisings of 1848 in Prussia, and upon his return (1849) he commanded the troops that crushed ...

William I, German Emperor. William I, or in German Wilhelm I. (full name: William Frederick Louis of Hohenzollern, 22 March 1797 – 9 March 1888), of the House of Hohenzollern, was King of Prussia from 2 January 1861 and the first German Emperor from 18 January 1871 to his death, the first head of state of a united Germany.

The Truce of Ratisbon guaranteed these new borders for twenty years, but concerns among European Protestants over French expansion and anti-Protestant policies led to the creation of the Grand Alliance, headed by William of Orange .

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3 June 1865<br>George V, King of Great Britain was born.<br> <br> <br>George V. From the Saxe-Coburg-Goth dynasty, since 1917 from the Windsor dynasty.<br>He was born on 3 June 1865 at Marlborough House, London, and was christened Georg Friedrich Ernst Albert. His father was Edward VII, the eldest son of Queen Victoria; his mother was Alexander of Denmark. She is the sister of Maria Fedorovna ...