Wilhelm II Becomes Kaiser
June 15, 1888
Within ninety-nine days, three German emperors sat on the throne: old Wilhelm I died in March, his dying son Friedrich III in June, and the crown passed to Friedrich's twenty-nine-year-old son Wilhelm II. Impulsive, theatrical, and contemptuous of Bismarck, the new Kaiser would dismiss the Iron Chancellor within two years and pilot Germany toward 1914.
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Industrial Age (1801–1900), one of 513 events from that era on Saeculum.
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