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This is a revision of a prior timeline wherein Germany retains its Kaiser and its 1871 borders, along with uniting with Austria in the 20th century to form Groß-Deutschland. Helpful suggestions are welcome, and if you're interested in making maps, I'd be appreciative of that also.

1848: Frederick William, Prince of Prussia, is profoundly influenced by the Revolutions of 1848. He disagrees with the rabble in the streets, but strongly believes in the constitution and the parliament, and that both must be respected.
1859: on January 28, future Kaiser Frederick III has his first daughter, Charlotte von Preußen. She is an active girl, very interested in social causes. She is fascinated by the British and tries to be British, but was sometimes tactless in speech. She eventually marries a British duke.
1862: Prince Henry, future Kaiser Heinrich I, is born in August. He eventually marries Princess Victoria of the United Kingdom.
1866: Austro-Prussian War - Prussia fights its southern German counterpart Austria, much as OTL, and succeeds. The Dreyse needle gun, telegraph, and railways aid the Prussians to victory over the more outdated technology of the Austrians.
1867: Prussia forms the North German Confederation
-Austria concludes its Ausgleich with Hungary, forming Austria-Hungary, mostly due to von Beust's desire for revenge against Prussia. While they don't ally with France, they remain open to the idea.1870: Much as OTL, the Franco-Prussian war erupts. Prior to the war, Bismarck leaks communications with the French ambassador regarding annexing Belgium and Luxembourg to the UK, who then stood back from offering France aid on the continent, and turned the southern German states to Prussia's side. Russia promised neutrality in exchange for help from Prussia in dealing with the Poles since 1863, and Austria and Italy decide against aiding France; Hungarian Prime Minister Gyula Andrássy cools von Beust's desire for revanche, while Italy stayed out due to the French garrison in Rome and bitter opposition from the public.
-380,000 German troops mobilize within 18 days of the July 14th mobilization, as opposed to the ill-equipped or late-arriving French forces
-equipped with the aging Dreyse needle gun, and Krupp 6-pounder cannon, the German forces were much better equipped than their French counterparts fielding a bronze muzzle-loading cannon.
-After the September 2nd peace, the outlook seemed fair with very mild peace conditions, but the declaration of Jules Favre not to yield an inch of territory restarted the war, lasting till January of 1871
-The German Empire is declared on January 18 in Versailles Palace.
-Both Prussia and the United Kingdom supply Paris with free food and fuel following the ceasefire. Prussia concentrates its forces back to Alsace-Lorraine, now part of the German Empire.
1886: Kaiser Wilhelm I dies at 89, bringing Frederick III to the throne. He professed a hatred of warfare, and was praised by friend and foe for his humane conduct. His first daughter, Charlotte von Preußen, married two years prior. Frederick III receives Queen Victoria, and sees his son, Prince Henry, marry Princess Victoria of the United Kingdom. Victoria adopts Queen of Prussia first, dropping her title of Princess Royal of Britain, to aid the opinion of her adopted homeland towards her, as her father advised. Victoria relied on her father's letters, but managed to get along with Augusta while her husband was away, easing her time alone.
1888: Kaiser Frederick dieds after two years into his reign in October, leaving Prince Henry to assume the throne as Kaiser Heinrich I. His mother Victoria, along with his grandparents Albert and Queen Victoria, have had a greater influence on him and his upbringing than Frederick had known, making Henry more liberal than his father. He was able to see the marriage of Henry to his wife, Victoria, Princess of England. Unlike his older sister, Charlotte, he was well-liked across north Germany. He once later remarked, "Had Charlotte been born male, I fear my older brother's erratic nature and egotism would have doomed the German Empire to destruction." Henry was a good diplomat, able to strike the right tone, and made a very favorable impression with the American press in his 1902 trip to the United States, winning over them along with the large German-American population. He was quite the pragmatist, and forward thinking. He ordered electrical lighting installed at his palace and the Reichstag, was interested in motor cars, flight, and submarines. In his honor, the Kaiser-Heinrich-Fahrt was established in 1908, the precursor to the German Grand Prix. He had a steamship converted to a primitive aircraft carrier for operations in the Baltic Sea.
1890s-1900s - Emperor Henry exerts his influence and popularity in several important reforms: electrification, elimination of the Dreiklassenrecht (replaced with universal male suffrage and secret ballot), colonial reform (including electricity, paved roads, proper sewage, and lighted streets at night), and several rights from the 1848 Revolutions (freedom of movement, equality before the law, speech, press, assembly, religion, privacy of mail, etc.). Alsace-Lorraine is granted home rule as a part of the empire. With his wife's heritage, Henry sought closer ties to the United Kingdom, though some in the German Navy sought to rival them. Germany concluded a treaty with the United Kingdom in 1889, giving the UK a 2:1 naval tonnage ratio, traded
Tanganyika for payment in gold, and the right to develop a 20 sq mile naval base for German shipping. This went far in fostering Anglo-German relations, not to mention the intermarriage between their royal families. All the while, France was seeking its own alliances, with Boulanger and Gambetta fomenting Revanchist attitudes across the nation.
1892: France concludes a Franco-Russian Alliance, after German Emperor Heinrich I lets his treaty with Russia lapse 2 years prior. France floats loans to Russia to aid its military.
1907: France agrees to cede Tunis to Italy as a colony in return for alliance against Germany and the UK, in a reversal of its prior position.

This part can change if anyone thinks it better to run differently:
1914: Serbian national assassinates the Austrian Archduke. Austria-Hungary sends an ultimatum to the Serbian government (July Crisis), which gets forwarded to France and Russia, which declare war on Austria-Hungary; Germany declares war on France, the UK declares war on France and Russia, and France brings the Ottoman Empire in on promises of extending Ottoman control into the Balkans in some former territories. Europe is now at war.
1916: United States forces join the fight in exchange for Britain ceding the Virgin Islands territory; American forces are sent to Europe. French St. Pierre et Miquelon are captured by British-American forces. The American President tried to stay out of the war, but the Bermuda Incident prompted American entry into the war.
1917: Armistice signed late in the year. France gains much of the blame, and Emperor Henry I puts a stipulation in the peace treaty ceding Alsace-Lorraine and the Territory of Belfort to Germany 'in perpetuity'. The UK forces France to cede all her colonies, to be divided between the victors. Austria-Hungary, despite its victory is split in two with its ethnic divisions tearing it apart. Sudeten Germans request annexation to the relatively stable German Empire.
1918: Austria-Hungary collapses into a number of kingdoms, which the UK and Germany bring to the table to negotiate, where the Sudeten territories are annexed to Germany, and Austria, Bohemia and Moravia become a Czech protectorate of Germany for 10 years, and Austria becomes its own nation.
-a little-known Austrian painter marries a Jewish nurse, and settles in Vienna, eking out a moderate success at painting.
1929: With the collapse of the world market, Austria is hit harder than Germany, which has colonies and trade relations with a number of other countries. Salzburg and Vorarlberg petition independently of the Austrian Kaiser to join Germany. Prince Waldemar, eldest son of Kaiser Heinrich I, assumes the throne upon his death, as Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany, with his wife, Rose Leveson-Gower. Austria, failing to pay its debts from the war, unites with Germany with the marriage of Archduchess Elisabeth to Prince Sigismund of Prussia (or Prince Henry and Gertrud?), uniting the two houses.


It's 2 AM, so if the WW1 isn't up to par, that's why. It can be re-written.

Possible prior events if we wish to keep "Neu-Preußen":
1763: Seven Years War ends in North America. France gains Cuba in exchange for Louisiana from the Spanish.
1783: USA succeeds in its war of independence from the United Kingdom; due to the Quebec Act's difference from OTL, the Province of Quebec, along with the Nova Scotia colony, join the revolution. Loyalists are moved to the island of Newfoundland, as well as the British West Indies
1806: as part of the Anglo-Spanish War, the United Kingdom invades Rio de la Plata, with a detachment of 6500 soldiers and 1600 cavalry. Several German states sent detachments as well: Hesse-Kassel (1200), Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel (800), Hessen-Hanau (600), Ansbach-Bayreuth (300), Waldeck (100), Anhalt-Zerbst (400). The United Kingdom holds Buenos Aires, and Loyalists in Newfoundland and the West Indies express interest in colonizing the land, as it would be more hospitable than the cold north Atlantic and the hot Caribbean. In contrast to their treatment of Quebec, the British promise to respect the Catholic faith, and the elites, religious leaders, and politicians welcome them, while the merchants and regular folk reject both the British and the Spanish.
1807: In February, Montevideo is captured, led by 6000 British led by General Auchmuty, with 2000 of the German soldiers. The British and German forces march south and manage to capture Lobos, Chascomos, and several other cities in summer and fall of 1807. A combined Hessian-British force marches south, setting up an outpost at Fort Stirling (OTL Mar del Plata) along the way, named in honor of Admiral Stirling of the Royal Navy, and Fort Brunswick (OTL Bahia Blanca) at White Bay (Bahia Blanca).
-2000 loyalists from Newfoundland sail for Buenos Aires, Fort Stirling, and Fort Brunswick.
-British capture Valdivia with aid from natives and mestizos.
-General Auchmuty sends 2000 troops south and west to capture the land, finding it sparsely populated with few except natives. Auchmuty travels to Cordoba to capture the Viceroy, succeeding in capturing him on November 11, and signing a treaty of surrender.
-Another 2500 British sail for Rio de la Plata, hearing that they had captured the Viceroy.
1808: Anglo-Spanish War concludes, including the return of Minorca to the British and the recognition of the loss of the Rio de la Plata. Spain cedes Patagonia to the British.
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