...Holstein declare themselves independent of Denmark on…
March 1848 CE
...Holstein declare themselves independent of Denmark on the same day that the French Second Republic comes into being, March 24.
The Schleswig-Holsteiners, being inspired from the successes of the French in the revolution in Paris of February 1848, had sent a deputation to Copenhagen to demand the immediate recognition by King Frederick VII of a joint state of Schleswig-Holstein previous to its admittance into the German Confederation.
King Frederick's reply had admitted the right of Holstein as a German confederate state to be guided by the decrees of the Frankfurt diet, but declared that he had neither "the power, right, nor wish" to incorporate Schleswig into the confederation.
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