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Events on Friday 25 February 1803 1
1803Reichsdeputationshauptschluss reorganizes the Holy Roman EmpireImperial Diet secularizes and redistributes dozens of German statesThe Imperial Diet of the Holy Roman Empire approved a sweeping reorganization that abolished nearly all ecclesiastical states and free imperial cities, redistributing their territory to compensate princes for losses west of the Rhine. The settlement eliminated more than a hundred small political entities. It was one of the last major acts of the Holy Roman Empire before its dissolution in 1806.