{"slug": "otto-von-bismarck", "label": "Otto von Bismarck", "wikipedia": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otto_von_Bismarck", "wikidata": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q8442", "qid": "Q8442", "description": "German statesman and Chancellor (1815-1898)", "entries": 20, "years": 15, "span": [1815, 1899], "span_label": ["1815 CE", "1899 CE"], "topics": [{"title": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "count": 8}, {"title": "Conflict & Security", "count": 4}, {"title": "Religion & Belief", "count": 2}, {"title": "Health & Medicine", "count": 2}, {"title": "Births", "count": 1}, {"title": "Technology & Infrastructure", "count": 1}, {"title": "Deaths", "count": 1}, {"title": "Culture & Society", "count": 1}], "also_known_as": [], "related": [{"slug": "prussia", "label": "Prussia", "shared": 3}, {"slug": "chancellor-of-germany", "label": "Chancellor of Germany", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "russian-empire", "label": "Russian Empire", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "austria-hungary", "label": "Austria-Hungary", 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& Belief", "date": "December 10", "text": "10 December – Otto von Bismarck tries to ban Catholics from the political stage by introducing harsh laws concerning the separation of church and state.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1330911621#Events", "title": "1871 in Germany", "revid": 1330911621, "section": "Events"}}, {"year": 1873, "year_label": "1873 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": "October 22", "text": "22 October – Bismarck negotiates the League of the Three Emperors, ensuring an alliance between Austria-Hungary and the Russian Empire.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1330911663#Events", "title": "1873 in Germany", "revid": 1330911663, "section": "Events"}}, {"year": 1878, "year_label": "1878 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Otto von Bismarck abandons his Kulturkampf, and forces through legislation outlawing the Social Democrats.", "cite": {"url": 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It establishes a system of Publicly funded health care, one of the first worldwide. It is signed into law on June 15.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1366127181#May", "title": "1883", "revid": 1366127181, "section": "Events › May"}}, {"year": 1885, "year_label": "1885 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": "March 26", "text": "March 26 – Prussian deportations: The Prussian government, motivated by Otto von Bismarck, expels all ethnic Poles and Jews without German citizenship from Prussia.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1366156062#March", "title": "1885", "revid": 1366156062, "section": "Events › March"}}, {"year": 1886, "year_label": "1886 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": "January 16", "text": "January 16 – A resolution is passed in the German Parliament to condemn the Prussian deportations, the politically motivated mass expulsion of ethnic Poles and Jews from Prussia, initiated by Otto von Bismarck.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1372679431#January", "title": "1886", "revid": 1372679431, "section": "Events › January"}}, {"year": 1887, "year_label": "1887 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": "October 2", "text": "2 October – Prime Minister Crispi visits Germany and meets German Chancellor Otto von Bismarck, for consultation upon the working of the Triple Alliance.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1305815291#October", "title": "1887 in Italy", "revid": 1305815291, "section": "Events › October"}}, {"year": 1890, "year_label": "1890 CE", "section": "Geopolitics & Diplomacy", "date": "March 20", "text": "March 20 – Kaiser Wilhelm II forces Otto von Bismarck to resign as Chancellor of Germany.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1364071388#March", "title": "1890", "revid": 1364071388, "section": "Events › March"}}, {"year": 1898, "year_label": "1898 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": "July 30", "text": "July 30 – Otto von Bismarck, German statesman (b. 1815)", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1367547011#July–December", "title": "1898", "revid": 1367547011, "section": "Deaths › July–December"}}, {"year": 1899, "year_label": "1899 CE", "section": "Culture & Society", "date": "March 16", "text": "16 March – Memorial ceremonies are held for the burial of the late German hero Otto von Bismarck and his wife, Johanna von Puttkamer with their re-interment at the Bismarck Mausoleum, a modern-day tourist attraction at Friedrichsruh in Aumühle. Bismarck, who had died on July 30 last, had been buried along with his wife at the estate of his home in Varzin, the modern-day city of Warcino in Poland.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1367120407#Events", "title": "1899 in Germany", "revid": 1367120407, "section": "Events"}}]}