1800 in Germany
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Events from the year 1800 in Germany.
Incumbents[edit]
Holy Roman Empire[edit]
- Francis II (5 July 1792 – 6 August 1806)
Important Electors[edit]
- Bavaria – Maximilian I (16 February 1799 – 6 August 1806)[1]
- Saxony – Frederick Augustus I (17 December 1763 – 20 December 1806)[2]
Kingdoms[edit]
- Kingdom of Prussia
- Monarch – Frederick William III of Prussia (16 November 1797 – 7 June 1840)[3]
Grand Duchies[edit]
- Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin
- Frederick Francis I– (24 April 1785 – 1 February 1837)[4]
- Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Strelitz
- Charles II (2 June 1794 – 6 November 1816)[5]
- Grand Duke of Oldenburg
- Grand Duke of Saxe-Weimar
- Karl August (1758–1809) Raised to grand duchy in 1809
Principalities[edit]
- Schaumburg-Lippe
- George William (13 February 1787 – 1860)
- Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt
- Louis Frederick II (13 April 1793 – 28 April 1807)[7]
- Schwarzburg-Sondershausen
- Günther Friedrich Karl I (14 October 1794 – 19 August 1835)
- Principality of Reuss-Greiz
- Heinrich XIII (28 June 1800 – 29 January 1817)
- Waldeck and Pyrmont
- Friedrich Karl August (29 August 1763 – 24 September 1812)
Duchies[edit]
- Duke of Anhalt-Dessau
- Leopold III (16 December 1751 – 9 August 1817)[8]
- Duke of Saxe-Altenburg
- Duke of Saxe-Hildburghausen (1780–1826) – Frederick[4]
- Duke of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld
- Francis (8 September 1800 – 9 December 1806)
- Duke of Saxe-Meiningen
- Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Beck
- Frederick Charles Louis (24 February 1775 – 25 March 1816)[10]
- Duke of Württemberg
- Frederick I (22 December 1797 – 30 October 1816)[11]
Other[edit]
Events[edit]
- 2 April – Ludwig van Beethoven's Symphony No. 1 premieres at the Burgtheater, in Vienna.
- May 3
- Battle of Stockach: French victory[12]
- Battle of Engen: French victory[12]
- 4–5 May– Battle of Messkirch: French victory
- 9 May – Battle of Biberach: French victory
- 15 May – Battle of Erbach: French victory
- 19 June – War of the Second Coalition: Battle of Höchstädt – General Jean Victor Marie Moreau leads French forces to victory, opening the Danube passageway to Vienna.
- 27 June – Battle of Neuburg: French victory[13]
- 22 November – War of the Second Coalition: Hostilities resume.
- 1 December – Battle of Ampfing
- 3 December – War of the Second Coalition: Battle of Hohenlinden – The French army defeats Habsburg and Bavarian troops.
Births[edit]
- 26 January – Johann Gerhard Oncken, German Baptist preacher (died 1884)
- 3 March – Heinrich Georg Bronn, German geologist, paleontologist (died 1862)
- 10 March – Victor Aimé Huber, German social reformer (died 1869)
- 17 March – Rudolf Ewald Stier, German Protestant churchman, mystic (died 1862)
- 20 March – Gottfried Bernhardy, German philologist, literary historian (died 1875)[14]
- 25 March – Ernst Heinrich Karl von Dechen, German geologist, mineralogist (died 1889)
- 28 March – Johann Georg Wagler, German herpetologist (died 1832)
- 16 April – Jakob Heine, German orthopaedist (died 1879)
- 30 May – Karl Wilhelm Feuerbach, German geometer (died 1834)
- 31 July – Friedrich Wöhler, German chemist (died 1882)
- 20 August – Bernhard Heine, German physician, bone specialist and inventor (died 1846)
- 26 October – Helmuth von Moltke the Elder, German Field Marshal (died 1891)
Approximate date[edit]
- Abraham Rice, German-born rabbi, first ordained rabbi to serve in the United States (died 1862)
Deaths[edit]
- 3 January – Count Karl-Wilhelm Finck von Finckenstein, Prime Minister of Prussia (born 1714)
- 6 January – Friedrich Adolf Riedesel, German soldier (born 1738)
- 11 January – Kyra Frosini, Greek heroine (born 1773)
- 16 January – Johann Christian Wiegleb, German chemist (born 1732)
- 4 February – Charlotte Sophie of Aldenburg, Countess of Varel and Kniphausen (born 1715)[15]
- 20 June – Abraham Gotthelf Kästner, German mathematician (born 1719)
- 28 June – Heinrich XI, Prince Reuss of Greiz, German noble (born 1722)
- 10 September – Johann David Schoepff, German naturalist, doctor (born 1752)
- 4 October – Johann Hermann, German physician, naturalist (born 1738)
References[edit]
- ^ Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 17 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 921.
- ^ "General German Biography - Wikisource". Retrieved 24 January 2021.
- ^ "Federick William III". Encyclopaedia Britannica. 30 July 2018.
- ^ a b c Genealogie ascendante jusqu'au quatrieme degre inclusivement de tous les Rois et Princes de maisons souveraines de l'Europe actuellement vivans [Genealogy up to the fourth degree inclusive of all the Kings and Princes of sovereign houses of Europe currently living] (in French). Bourdeaux: Frederic Guillaume Birnstiel. 1768. p. 38.
- ^ Huish, Robert (1821). Public and Private Life His Late Excellent and most Gracious Majesty George The Third. T. Kelly. p. 170.
- ^ a b "Oldenburg Royal Family". Monarchies of Europe. Archived from the original on 17 March 2006. Retrieved 1 January 2021.
- ^ Apfelstedt, F.; Apfelstedt, Heinrich Friedrich Theodor (1996). Das Haus Kevernburg-Schwarzburg von seinem Ursprunge bis auf unsere Zeit. Thüringer Chronik-Verlag Müllerott. ISBN 978-3-910132-29-0.
- ^ J. Morley, "The Bauhaus Effect," in Social Utopias of the Twenties (Germany: Müller Bushmann press, 1995), 11.
- ^ "Biografie Georg I (German)". Meininger Museen. Archived from the original on 15 September 2011. Retrieved 8 September 2014.
- ^ Albinus, Robert (1985). Lexikon der Stadt Königsberg Pr. und Umgebung (in German). Leer: Verlag Gerhard Rautenberg. p. 371. ISBN 3-7921-0320-6.
- ^ David, Saul (1998). Prince of pleasure : the Prince of Wales and the making of the Regency. New York : Atlantic Monthly Press. ISBN 978-0-87113-739-5. Retrieved 24 January 2021.
- ^ a b Arnold, James R. (2005). Marengo & Hohenlinden: Napoleon's Rise to Power. Barnsley, South Yorkshire: Pen and Sword. pp. 197–201. ISBN 1-84415-279-0.
- ^ Timothy Blanning. The French Revolutionary Wars, New York, Oxford University Press. p. 200.
- ^ ADB: Bernhardy, Gottfried @ Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie
- ^ Genealogisches Handbuch des Adels, Fürstliche Häuser IV. "Portland". C.A. Starke Verlag, 1956, pp. 484-485. (German).
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