1803 in Germany

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Events in the year 1803 in Germany

Incumbents

Holy Roman Empire

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

Important Electors

• Baden- Charles Frederick (27 April 1803 –6 August 1806)
• Bavaria - Maximilian I (16 February 1799 –6 August 1806) ^[1]
• Saxony - Frederick Augustus I (17 December 1763 –20 December 1806) ^[2]
• Württemberg - Frederick I (1803 –30 October 1816) ^[3]

Kingdoms

• Kingdom of Prussia
  • Monarch – Frederick William III of Prussia (16 November 1797 –7 June 1840) ^[4]

Grand Duchies

• Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin
  • Frederick Francis I (24 April 1785 –1 February 1837) ^[5]
• Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Strelitz
  • Charles II (2 June 1794 –6 November 1816) ^[6]
• Grand Duke of Oldenburg
  • Wilhelm (6 July 1785 –2 July 1823) Due to mental illness, Wilhelm was duke in name only, with his cousin Peter, Prince-Bishop of Lübeck, acting as regent throughout his entire reign. ^[7]
  • Peter I (2 July 1823 –21 May 1829) ^[7]
• 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) ^[8]
• Schwarzburg-Sondershausen
  • Günther Friedrich Karl I (14 October 1794 –19 August 1835)
• Principality of Lippe
  • Leopold II (5 November 1802 –1 January 1851) ^[9]
• 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) ^[10]
• Duke of Saxe-Altenburg
  • Duke of Saxe-Hildburghausen (1780–1826) - Frederick ^[5]
• Duke of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld
  • Francis (8 September 1800 –9 December 1806)
• Duke of Saxe-Meiningen
  • Bernhard II (24 December 1803 –20 September 1866) ^[11]
• Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Beck
  • Frederick Charles Louis (24 February 1775 –25 March 1816) ^[12]

Other

• Landgrave of Hesse-Darmstadt
  • Louis I (6 April 1790 –14 August 1806) ^[5]

Events

• 25 February – A major redistribution of territorial sovereignty within the Holy Roman Empire is enacted via an act known as the Reichsdeputationshauptschluss.
• 30 May – Following Britain's declaration of war on France, Édouard Mortier leads 12,000 troops in an Invasion of Hanover
• 5 July – The convention of Artlenburg confirms the French occupation of Hanover (which had been ruled by the British king).

Births

January–June

• 15 February
  • John Sutter, pioneer (died 1880) ^[13]
  • Karl Friedrich Schimper, botanist, naturalist and poet (died 1867) ^[14]
• 26 February – Arnold Adolph Berthold, physiologist and zoologist (died 1861) ^[15]
• 17 March Carl Jacob Löwig, chemist (died 1890) ^[16]
• 12 May – Justus von Liebig, chemist (died 1873) ^[17]

July–December

• 8 July – Julius Mosen, poet (died 1867)
• 17 July – Johann Samuel Eduard d'Alton, anatomist (died 1854)
• 19 July – Wolfgang Franz von Kobell, mineralogist and writer (died 1882)
• 5 October – Friedrich Bernhard Westphal, painter (died 1844)
• 29 November – Gottfried Semper, architect (died 1879)
• 26 September – Adrian Ludwig Richter, German painter (died 1884)
• 6 October – Heinrich Wilhelm Dove, German physicist and meteorologist (died 1879)
• 31 December – Johann Carl Fuhlrott, German paleoanthropologist (died 1877)

Deaths

Johann Gottfried Herder

January–June

• 18 February – Johann Wilhelm Ludwig Gleim, poet (born 1719)
• 14 March – Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock, poet (born 1724)

July–December

• 18 December – Johann Gottfried Herder, philosopher and writer (born 1744)

References

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3. 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.
4. Frederick William III at the Encyclopædia Britannica
5. 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.
6. Huish, Robert (1821). Public and Private Life His Late Excellent and most Gracious Majesty George The Third. T. Kelly. p. 170.
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9. Almanach de Gotha (87th ed.). Justus Perthes. 1850. p. 38.
10. J. Morley, "The Bauhaus Effect," in Social Utopias of the Twenties (Germany: Müller Bushmann press, 1995), 11.
11. "Biografie Georg I (German)". Meininger Museen. Archived from the original on 15 September 2011. Retrieved 8 September 2014.
12. Albinus, Robert (1985). Lexikon der Stadt Königsberg Pr. und Umgebung (in German). Leer: Verlag Gerhard Rautenberg. p. 371. ISBN   3-7921-0320-6.
13. Historisches Lexikon der Schweiz
14. "Karl Friedrich SCHIMPER". GEDBAS. Retrieved 29 August 2018.
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16. Hans Heinrich Landolt (1890). "Nekrolog: Carl Löwig". Berichte der deutschen chemischen Gesellschaft . 23 (3): 905–909. doi:10.1002/cber.18900230395.
17. "J. von Liebig (1803 - 1873)". Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences. Retrieved 26 July 2015.