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In France, fewer than one elector in two voted; in Britain, fewer than one in four did.
This was further enhanced by the Great Elector’s son, who in 1701 crowned himself in Königsberg (now Kaliningrad) King Friedrich in (not of) Prussia.
In 1539, at a time when citizens of the other German principalities had to observe the religion of their prince, Berliners were successful in pressuring Prince Elector Joachim II to accept the Protestant creed as preached by Martin Luther.
Berlin continued as a virtually autonomous outpost of the German empire until 1448, when Brandenburg’s Kurfürst (Prince Elector) Friedrich II took over control of the city after crushing the citizens’ violent resistance, the so-called Berliner Unwillen.
With his ambition of uniting the states of Brandenburg and Prussia, it was the Great Elector Friedrich Wilhelm (1640–1688) who prepared Berlin to become a strong capital, and fortified it as a garrison town.