H108Chronology

US ARMY COMMAND AND GENERAL STAFF COLLEGE US Army Command and General Staff School Command and General Staff Officer Course (CGSOC) Common Core H100: History, Theory, Doctrine, Practice Advance Sheet for Lesson H108 Brain of the Modern Army Chronology 1806 Jena-Auerstadt 1809 Cabinet order mandated staff officer rotation between staff and line. 1813 Landwehr created. 1813–15 “War of Liberation” 1814 Prussian military law 1832 On War published. 1833 Moltke joined Prussian General Staff. 1836 Dreyse offered a working model of a breech-loading needle gun. 1840 Prussian government ordered sixty thousand needle guns. 1848 15 June 1848 Revolutionaries stormed Berlin arsenal. 1850 Chaotic Prussian mobilization exercise occurred. 1851 Prussian government ordered use of needle guns to fill all future small arms requirements. 1854–56 Crimean War 20 September 1854 Battle of the Alma River 17 October 1854 Bombardment of Sevastopol began 25 October 1854 Battle of Balaclava H108 Chronology H108AS-330 March 2023

5 November 1854 Battle of Inkerman 8 September 1855 Malakhov fortress captured. 30 March 1856 Peace of Paris 1857 Moltke became chief of staff. 1859 Franco-Austrian War 1860–63 Prussian constitutional crises occurred. 1862 Bismarck became Prussian prime minister. 1864–65 Danish War 18 April 1864 Battle of Dybboel 30 October 1864 Peace of Vienna 14 August 1865 Gastein Convention 1866–67 Seven Weeks’ War 2 June 1866 Prussian General Staff made independent from ministry of war. 26 June 1866 Battle of Podol 27 June 1866 Battles of Nachod and Trautenau 28 June 1866 Battles of Custoza and Skalitz 3 July 1866 Battle of Königgrätz 12 October 1866 Treaty of Vienna 1 July 1867 North German Confederation created. 1870–71 Franco-Prussian War 13 July 1870 Bismarck published Ems Dispatch. 19 July 1870 Napoleon III declared war. 5 August 1870 Battle of Worth 6 August 1870 Battle of Spichern 16 August 1870 Battle of Mars-la-Tour 18 August 1870 Battle of Gravelotte-St. Privat 19 August–27 October 1870 Siege of Metz 30 August 1870 Battle of Beaufort 1 September 1870 Battle of Sedan 2 September 1870 Surrender of Sedan 19 September 1870 Siege of Paris began 27 December 1870 Bombardment of Paris began. 1871 18 January 1871 Second German Empire proclaimed. 28 January 1871 Surrender of Paris and signing of armistice 28 March 1871 Paris Commune proclaimed. H108 Chronology H108AS-331 March 2023