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1865
 
    
Richard Wagner's opera Tristan and Isolde has its premiere in the Munich court theatre       
1866
 
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Prussia invades its neighbouring German states and launches the Seven Weeks' War     
1866
 
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The Prussians achieve the first blitzkrieg in their Seven Weeks' War defeat of the Austrians      
1866
 
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The terms of the treaty of Prague, ending the Seven Weeks War, make plain the transfer of German leadership from Austria to Prussia      
1867
 
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The first volume of Das Kapital is completed by Marx in London and is published in Hamburg       
1867
 
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A revival of the Prussian Zollverein, or customs union, includes all the German states except Austria      
1868
 
    
Richard Wagner's opera The Mastersingers of Nuremberg has its premiere in Munich       
1869
 
     
Johannes Brahms' German Requiem, setting passages from Luther's translation of the Bible, has its first complete performance in Leipzig        
1869
 
     
Das Rheingold, with its premiere in Munich, is the first part of Richard Wagner's Ring cycle to be staged        
1870
 
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Otto von Bismarck adjusts the Prussian king's telegram from Ems in a way calculated to provoke the French