1797 Birth of William First. 1807 Received officer’s patent. 1813 Appointed Captain. 1814-1815 Served in Napoleonic campaign. 1829 Married Augusta of Saxe-Weimar. 1840 Heir presumptive. 1848 German revolution. 1849 Suppressed the insurrection in Baden and the Palatinate. 1854 Field Marshal and Governor at Mainz. 1858 Regency for his brother Frederick William. 1861 Ascended the throne of Prussia. 1862 Appointed Bismarck Minister of Foreign Affairs. 1864 War with Denmark. 1866 Austro-Prussian War. 1867 President of the North German Confederation. 1870-1871 Franco-Prussian War. 1871 Proclaimed German Emperor at Versailles. 1871 Returned with the army to Berlin. 1888 Died at Berlin. LIFE STORIES FOR YOUNG PEOPLE _Translated from the German by_ GEORGE P. UPTON 24 Volumes Now Ready _Historical and Biographical_ Barbarossa William of Orange Maria Theresa The Maid of Orleans Frederick the Great The Little Dauphin Herman and Thusnelda The Swiss Heroes Marie Antoinette’s Youth The Duke of Brittany Louise, Queen of Prussia The Youth of the Great Elector Emperor William First Elizabeth, Empress Of Austria _Musical Biography_ Beethoven Mozart Johann Sebastian Bach Joseph Haydn _Legendary_ Frithjof Saga Gudrun The Nibelungs William Tell Arnold of Winkelried Undine Illustrated. Each 60 cents _net_ A. C. McCLURG & CO., Chicago Transcriber’s Notes --Copyright notice provided as in the original—this e-text is public domain in the country of publication. --In the text versions, delimited italics text in _underscores_ (the HTML version reproduces the font form of the printed book.) --Silently corrected palpable typos; left non-standard spellings and dialect unchanged. End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of Emperor William First, by A. Walter