Reinsurance Treaty
June 17, 1887
In a last desperate piece of Bismarckian juggling, Germany secretly agreed with Russia that each would stay neutral in most wars the other got into. It was incompatible with the Austro-German alliance and only Bismarck could have signed both treaties at once. His successors, in 1890, let the Reinsurance Treaty lapse - and Russia drifted toward France.
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Also in 1887 (3 other events on record)
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Era
Industrial Age (1801–1900), one of 513 events from that era on Saeculum.