Prussian officials take formal control of the newly annexed former Free City of Frankfurt am Main.

Although Frankfurt am Main, one of the four "free cities" in the German Confederation, had remained neutral during the recent Austria-Prussia War, Prussia had annexed the area by proclamation backed with the threat of force on September 20, 1866. Two and a half weeks later, Prussian officials took formal possession of the city along with its 90,000 inhabitants and incorporated them into the Prussian state of Hesse-Nassau.  (By John Osborne) 

Source Citation

"Frankfort," The American Cyclopedia and Register of Important Events of the Year 1866 (New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1873), 336.

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