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12 July – The German tariff of 1879 is voted for by a majority of 100 in the Reichstag.; 21 June – German chemical company Linde is founded.; 31 May – German inventor Werner von Siemens demonstrates the first electric locomotive using an external power source at Berlin.
1879: 7 October: Germany and Austria-Hungary joined a mutual defense treaty, the Dual Alliance. 1880: July: Kulturkampf: The First Mitigation Law was passed, resuming government payments to Prussian dioceses. 16 December: First Boer War: Boer rebels laid siege to a British fort at Potchefstroom. 1882: 20 May
John Marks' The Wall (1999) [168] in which an American spy defects to the East just hours before the Wall falls. Marcia Preston's West of the Wall (2007, published as Trudy's Promise in North America), in which the heroine, left behind in East Berlin, waits for news of her husband after he makes his escape over the Berlin Wall. [169]
In 1873 free trade won its last victory in Germany with the abolition of the duty on iron. [4] Tariffs were now for raising revenue and not for protective purposes, with the German Empire therefore almost a completely free-trading state. [5] In 1850 two-thirds of Germany was employed in agriculture and this proportion declined slowly until 1870 ...
The second, finished in 1998, was given as a gift from the United States to Germany, and is located at Clayallee near the Allied Museum in the former American sector of Berlin. [2] Each sculpture weighs approximately seven tons and measures 30 feet (9.1 m) long by 18 feet (5.5 m) wide by 12 feet (3.7 m) high.
Germany's dominance in physics and chemistry was such that one-third of all Nobel Prizes went to German inventors and researchers. The German cartel system (known as Konzerne), being significantly concentrated, was able to make more efficient use of capital. Germany was not weighted down with an expensive worldwide empire that needed defense.
In a stunning decision last week, the Biden administration announced it would build an additional 20 miles of border wall barriers. The decision was met with much criticism from both sides of the ...
Heinrich von Treitschke's History of Germany in the Nineteenth Century, published in 1879, has perhaps a misleading title: it privileges the history of Prussia over the history of other German states, and it tells the story of the German-speaking peoples through the guise of Prussia's destiny to unite all German states under its leadership.