Proclamation of the German Empire in the Hall of Mirrors at Versailles

The Proclamation of the German Empire in the Hall of Mirrors at Versailles was the 18 January 1871 ceremony in which King Wilhelm I of Prussia was declared German Emperor, symbolically marking the founding of a unified German nation-state at the end of the Franco-Prussian War.

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