1800 in Germany

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Events from the year 1800 in Germany.

Incumbents

Holy Roman Empire

• Francis II (5 July 1792 –6 August 1806)

Important Electors

• Bavaria – Maximilian I (16 February 1799 –6 August 1806) ^[1]
• Saxony – Frederick Augustus I (17 December 1763 –20 December 1806) ^[2]

Kingdoms

• Kingdom of Prussia
  • Monarch – Frederick William III of Prussia (16 November 1797 –7 June 1840) ^[3]

Grand Duchies

• 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
  • Wilhelm (6 July 1785 –2 July 1823) Wilhelm, who suffered from mental illness, was duke in name only, with his cousin Peter, Prince-Bishop of Lübeck, acting as regent throughout his entire reign. ^[6]
  • Peter I (2 July 1823 –21 May 1829) ^[6]
• Grand Duke of Saxe-Weimar
  • Karl August (1758–1809) Raised to grand duchy in 1809

Principalities

• 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

• 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
  • Georg I (1782–1803) ^[9]
• 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

• Landgrave of Hesse-Darmstadt
  • Louis I (6 April 1790 –14 August 1806) ^[4]

Events

December 3: Battle of Hohenlinden.

• 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

Friedrich Wöhler

Helmuth von Moltke the Elder

• 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

• Abraham Rice, German-born rabbi, first ordained rabbi to serve in the United States (died 1862)

Deaths

Charlotte Sophie of Aldenburg

• 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

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2. "General German Biography - Wikisource" . Retrieved 24 January 2021.
3. "Federick William III". Encyclopaedia Britannica. 30 July 2018.
4. 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.
5. Huish, Robert (1821). Public and Private Life His Late Excellent and most Gracious Majesty George The Third. T. Kelly. p. 170.
6. "Oldenburg Royal Family". Monarchies of Europe. Archived from the original on 17 March 2006. Retrieved 1 January 2021.
7. 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.
8. J. Morley, "The Bauhaus Effect," in Social Utopias of the Twenties (Germany: Müller Bushmann press, 1995), 11.
9. "Biografie Georg I (German)". Meininger Museen. Archived from the original on 15 September 2011. Retrieved 8 September 2014.
10. Albinus, Robert (1985). Lexikon der Stadt Königsberg Pr. und Umgebung (in German). Leer: Verlag Gerhard Rautenberg. p. 371. ISBN   3-7921-0320-6.
11. 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.
12. 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.
13. Timothy Blanning. The French Revolutionary Wars, New York, Oxford University Press. p. 200.
14. ADB: Bernhardy, Gottfried @ Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie
15. Genealogisches Handbuch des Adels, Fürstliche Häuser IV. "Portland". C.A. Starke Verlag, 1956, pp. 484-485. (German).

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