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| June–July |
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| Prussia sent troops to Schleswig at request of the Frankfurt Parliament. Armistice of Malmö (Aug. 28) evacuated Schleswig, but Danish and German nationalists renewed the war on March 31, 1849, until new negotiations (July 1849) led to peace (July 2, 1850), with both sides reserving their rights. | 1 |
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| July 15–Aug. 18 |
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| The Artisans' Conference met in Frankfurt at the Römer (the coronation hall for the Holy Roman Empire). It included delegates from most of Germany. However, journeymen were excluded from the negotiations at the conference. | 2 |
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| July 20–Sept. 20 |
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| General German Labor Congress represented the journeymen; they created a program of their own for presentation at the Frankfurt Parliament. Both the conference and the congress agreed with the Industrial Code composed by the former. The Industrial Code demanded the end of economic freedom and a return to a corporatist state and traditional guild systems. | 3 |
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| July 21 |
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| The Frankfurt Parliament assigned a committee to prepare an industrial code. The task was not completed until Feb. and never considered by the Parliament. The Parliament remained committed to laissez-faire economics. | 4 |
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| Aug. 16–18 |
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| Junker Parliament. Alarmed by the Prussian Assembly's debates over the abolition of manorial rights, the Junkers held a conference to protect the rights of property. They managed to obtain widespread support from the countryside. | 5 |
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| Nov. 10 |
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| The troops returned to Berlin under Gen. von Wrangel, and a state of siege was declared all over Prussia. The action met with little popular resistance. It had been sparked by Frederick William's appointment of Count Frederick William Brandenburg as prime minister and the latter's subsequent proclamation of the removal of the Prussian Assembly to Brandenburg. | 6 |
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| Dec. 5 |
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| The Prussian Assembly was dissolved, and the Prussian government imposed a constitution. The constitution granted civil rights but highlighted the divine right of the monarchy. It provided for a bicameral legislature with an upper house elected by males over age 30 who could meet a high property qualification and a lower house elected directly by universal male suffrage. The latter would be undermined by a new election law (May 30, 1849), which established a three-class voting system. This system divided Prussian voters into three uneven classes based on wealth. These classes each chose an equal number of electors who chose the deputies to the lower house. | 7 |
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