A successful insurrection establishes a republic in…

March 1848 CE

A successful insurrection establishes a republic in Neuchâtel in March 1848, when the Swiss are revising their constitution and when France, Germany, Austria, and Italy are all being shaken by revolutionary movements.

The principality of Neuchâtel had passed to Frederick I, the first king of Prussia, with the extinction of the house of Orléans-Longueville in 1707.

The Congress of Vienna (1814-15), in its general settlement of territorial questions after the Napoleonic Wars, had ordained that Neuchâtel (or Neuenburg) should have a dual status: it was to be the 21st canton (and the only nonrepublican member) of the reorganized Swiss Confederation and, at the same time, a hereditary principality belonging personally to the king of Prussia but separate from the Prussian kingdom.

This arrangement has caused dissatisfaction among the people of Neuchâtel.

Frederick William IV of Prussia, preoccupied with his kingdom's troubles, can take no effective counteraction at this time.

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Neuchâtel Neuchatel Switzerland View →

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Frederick William IV of Prussia View →

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