Representatives from numerous Germanic states, many of them influenced by the revolutionary fervor spreading throughout Europe in 1848, meet in Frankfurt to discuss German unification and to draw up a provisional constitution. (By Brian Bockelman)
Source Citation
John Powell, ed., Chronology of European History, 15,000 B.C. to 1996, vol. 2 (Pasadena, California: Salem Press, 1997), 903.