3 events with tag "Frederick III"
1688
ID: 3433
The 'Pietist Prince' Frederick III Becomes Elector of Brandenburg - Educated by Pietist tutors - Makes Pietism fashionable among nobility - Beginning of formal Pietist-Hohenzollern alliance
ID: 3433
1694
ID: 3440
University of Halle Founded by Frederick III - Explicitly designed as Pietist institution - August Hermann Francke appointed professor - Becomes training ground for Prussian bureaucrats and pastors - Francke's principle: 'Der Wille muss gebrochen werden' (The will must be broken)
ID: 3440
1888
ID: 1080
Year of Three Emperors: Wilhelm I dies, Frederick III rules 99 days, Wilhelm II becomes Kaiser
ID: 1080