The Holstein estates appeal to the German…

October 1848 CE

The Holstein estates appeal to the German diet, which takes up their cause, but it is soon clear that the central government has no means of enforcing its views.

In the end the convention is ratified at Frankfurt.

The convention is essentially nothing more than a truce establishing a temporary modus vivendi.

The main issues, left unsettled, continued to be hotly debated.

In October, at a conference in London, Denmark suggests an arrangement on the basis of a separation of Schleswig from Holstein, which is about to become a member of a new German empire, with Schleswig having a separate constitution under the Danish crown.

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London Middlesex United Kingdom View →

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Frederick VII of Denmark View → Frederick William IV of Prussia View → Friedrich Graf von Wrangel View →

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Germans View → Danes (Scandinavians) View → Schleswig, Duchy of View → Holstein, Duchy of View → Denmark, Kingdom of View → Sweden and Norway, Union between the Kingdoms of View → France, constitutional monarchy of View → German Confederation View → France, Second Republic of View →

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German Revolutions: 1840-1851 View → Schleswig War, First View → 1848, Revolutions of View →

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