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Apr 23, 2024 · Died: August 17, 1786, Potsdam, near Berlin (aged 74) Title / Office: king (1740-1786), Prussia. House / Dynasty: Hohenzollern dynasty. Notable Family Members: father Frederick William I. sister Wilhelmina. Top Questions. What is Frederick II known for? When was Frederick II born? When did Frederick II ascend the throne?
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Died: November 16, 1797, Berlin (aged 53) Title / Office: king (1786-1797), Prussia. Role In: French Revolutionary wars. Declaration of Pillnitz.
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1712. Frederick of Hohenzollern, the son and heir of the second King of Prussia, Frederick William I, and Sophia Dorothea of Hanover, is born in Berlin. 1740. Frederick II accedes to the throne of ...
Frederick William II ( German: Friedrich Wilhelm II.; 25 September 1744 – 16 November 1797) was king of Prussia from 1786 until his death in 1797. He was in personal union with the prince-elector of Brandenburg and (via the Orange-Nassau inheritance of his grandfather) sovereign prince of the Canton of Neuchâtel.
Jul 10, 1990 · Frederick the Great, the 18th-Century philosopher-king who made Prussia a military power, is to be reburied at his palace in Potsdam, southwest of Berlin, in a unified Germany.
Apr 28, 2016 · On the Fritz: Rethinking Frederick the Great. Soldier, aesthete, enlightened monarch—but a gambler above all. Tim Blanning, Frederick the Great: King of Prussia (New York: Random House, 2016 ...
Aug 18, 1991 · The remains of Frederick the Great were returned to his beloved Sans Souci palace Saturday for burial alongside his faithful greyhounds, fulfilling the Prussian king's last wish 205 years late in ...
