The League of the Three Emperors, or Dreikaiserbund, was an alliance of the German Empire, Austria-Hungary and Russia, formed on the initiative of the German chancellor Otto von Bismarck to bind the three conservative monarchies together, to isolate France and to prevent Russia from allying with it. It grew out of an earlier convention between Russia and Austria-Hungary signed at Schönbrunn in 1873, which Germany joined. The members pledged to consult each other if one was attacked by another power and to defend the monarchical principle against revolution. The alliance broke down in the Eastern Crisis of the late 1870s over rivalry in the Balkans, was renewed in 1881, and lapsed in 1887, when it was replaced by the Reinsurance Treaty between Germany and Russia.
Before and after
- 9 January 1873Death of Napoleon III
- 20 January 1873Birth of Johannes V. Jensen
- 20 March 1873Birth of Sergei Rachmaninoff
- 3 July 1873Discovery of 10P/Tempel
- 11 October 1873League of the Three Emperors
- 17 November 1873Founding of Budapest
- 1874Founding of Universal Postal Union
- 25 January 1874Birth of William Somerset Maugham
- 8 March 1874Death of Millard Fillmore
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