This effectively means a declaration of war by the whole British Empire against the German Empire.

It would become part of the German Empire with the unification of German states in 1871.

There were only three Kaisers of the (second) German Empire.

The formation was used in combat against the German Empire.

After the founding of the German Empire in 1871, the Empire assumed the control of the customs union.

In 1866 he had sided with this power against the Austrian Empire and had joined the North German Confederation, and in 1871 the grand duchy became a state of the German Empire.

January 18 The member states of the North German Confederation and the south German states unite into a single nation state known as the German Empire.

Among the last of the empires in the 20th century were the Central African Empire, Ethiopia, Vietnam, Manchukuo, the German Empire, and Korea.

The members of the confederation were German princes ( Fürsten ) from the Holy Roman Empire.

It was a sovereign member state of the German Confederation and became a federated state of the North German Confederation and finally of the German Empire in 1871.

As Austria was not willing to relinquish its German speaking territories to what would become the German Empire of 1848, the crown of the newly formed empire was offered to the Prussian King Friedrich Wilhelm IV.

German Cameroon () was a West African colony of the German Empire from 1884 to 1916 in the region of today's Republic of Cameroon.

In 925, it became part of the eastern German Kingdom, later the Holy Roman Empire.

Reuss Lobenstein () was a state located in the German part of the Holy Roman Empire.

There were only three Kaisers of the Austrian Empire, the successor empire to the Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation (Heiliges Römisches Reich Deutscher Nation), and they have all belonged to the Habsburg dynasty.

The Treaty of Versailles was signed with the German Empire before this treaty to annul German concessions including economic rights and enterprises in the Ottoman sphere.

France was allied with Russia and so was ready to commit to war against the German Empire.

The Unification of Germany in 1871 turned Breslau into the sixth largest city in the German Empire.

During World War I, the German Empire was one of the Central Powers that lost the war.

Formation and name The states which made up the German Empire each had their own separate armies.

With the launch of in 1906, the British Empire expanded on its significant advantage over its German rival.

Bundesrath (from 1901 on Bundesrat, according to a general spelling reform) was the name of similar bodies in the North German Confederation (1867) and the German Empire (1871).

The German Empire claimed the territory as the colony of Kamerun in 1884 and began a steady push inland.

It ceased to exist during World War I after the German Empire took control of the region in 1915.

Despite its meager beginnings in the sandbox of the Holy Roman Empire, the Hohenzollern Kingdom of Prussia achieved the unification of Germany and the creation of the German Empire in 1871.

The German Army was formed after the unification of Germany under Prussian leadership in 1871, and dissolved in 1919, after the defeat of the German Empire in World War I.

During this time, the territories of Belarus were acquired by the Russian Empire under the reign of Catherine II and held until their occupation by the German Empire during World War I.

In the early months of World War I, the empire of Japan occupied all German islands north of the equator.

The Austrian Empire like the Holy Roman Empire was a multi ethnic state, but the German speaking people there did not have an absolute numerical majority the creation of the Austro Hungarian Empire was one result of the growing nationalism of other ethnicities especially the Hungarians.

Guelders or Gueldres (Dutch Gelre , German Geldern ) is a historical county, later duchy of the Holy Roman Empire, located in the Low Countries.

A German Confederation of 38 states was created from the previous 360 of the Holy Roman Empire, under the presidency of the Austrian Emperor.

German speaking Central Europe in the early nineteenth century Prior to 1806, German speaking Central Europe included more than 300 political entities, most of which were part of the Holy Roman Empire or the extensive Habsburg hereditary dominions.

In 1866, Austria was completely defeated in the Austro Prussian War and its position as the leading state of Germany ended forever, as the remaining German minor states were soon absorbed into the German Empire created by Prussia.

In 1871, there was much debate about the exact title for the monarch of those German territories (such as free imperial cities, principalities, duchies, and kingdoms) that agreed to unify under the leadership of Prussia, thereby forming the German Empire.

The German Spanish Treaty of 1899 was a treaty between the German Empire and the Kingdom of Spain, with the latter selling the remainder of its Pacific Ocean islands to Germany for 25 million pesetas (equivalent to 17 million Marks).

France used teargas in 1914, but the first large scale successful deployment of chemical weapons was by the German Empire in Ypres, Belgium in 1915, when chlorine gas was released as part of a German attack at the Battle of Gravenstafel.

Crispi worked to build Italy as a great world power through increased military expenditures, advocacy of expansionism, and trying to win the favour of the German Empire.

Among the German speaking states, the Holy Roman Empire administrative and legal mechanisms provided a venue to resolve disputes between peasants and landlords, between jurisdictions, and within jurisdictions.

Early Italian city states The first Italian city states appeared in northern Italy as a result of a struggle to gain independence from the German Holy Roman Empire.

Some 19th century historians, such as Heinrich von Treitschke, saw the reforms as the first steps towards the unification of Germany and the foundation of the German Empire.

They had underestimated the strength of German national feeling in the East. And they grossly overestimated the Soviet Union s ability and will to keep its empire at all costs.

In response, Germany rapidly moved the 8th Field Army, from its previous role as reserve for the invasion of France, to East Prussia by rail across the German Empire.

The Landgraviate of Hesse Marburg was a German landgraviate, and independent principality, within the Holy Roman Empire, that existed between 1485 and 1500, and between 1567 and 1604 1650.

The formation was to be used in combat against the German Empire, but morale was affected by the rumors it would be used against Austria Hungary and its Polish Legions.

In December 1914 the Ottoman Empire, with German support, invaded Persia (modern Iran) in an effort to cut off British and Russian access to petroleum reservoirs around Baku near the Caspian Sea.