1820 in Germany
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Events from the year 1820 in Germany.
Incumbents
Kingdoms
- Kingdom of Prussia
- Monarch – Frederick William III of Prussia (16 November 1797 – 7 June 1840)[1]
- Kingdom of Bavaria
- Maximilian I (1 January 1806 – 13 October 1825)
- Kingdom of Saxony
- Frederick Augustus I (20 December 1806 – 5 May 1827)
- Kingdom of Hanover
- George III (25 October 1760 –29 January 1820)
- George IV (29 January 1820 – 26 June 1830)
- Kingdom of Württemberg
- William (30 October 1816 – 25 June 1864)
Grand Duchies
- Grand Duke of Baden
- Grand Duke of Hesse
- Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin
- Frederick Francis I– (24 April 1785 – 1 February 1837)[2]
- Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Strelitz
- Grand Duke of Oldenburg
- Grand Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach
- Charles Frederick (14 June 1828 - 8 July 1853)
Principalities
- Schaumburg-Lippe
- George William (13 February 1787 - 1860)
- Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt
- Friedrich Günther (28 April 1807 - 28 June 1867)[5]
- Schwarzburg-Sondershausen
- Günther Friedrich Karl I (14 October 1794 - 19 August 1835)
- Principality of Lippe
- Leopold II (5 November 1802 - 1 January 1851)[6]
- Principality of Reuss-Greiz
- Heinrich XIX (29 January 1817 - 31 October 1836)[7]
- Waldeck and Pyrmont
- George II (9 September 1813 - 15 May 1845)
Duchies
- Duke of Anhalt-Dessau
- Leopold IV (9 August 1817 - 22 May 1871)[8]
- Duke of Brunswick
- Charles II (16 June 1815 – 9 September 1830)[9]
- Duke of Saxe-Altenburg
- Duke of Saxe-Hildburghausen (1780–1826) - Frederick[2]
- Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha
- Duke of Saxe-Meiningen
- Bernhard II (24 December 1803 – 20 September 1866)[11]
- Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Beck
- Frederick William (25 March 1816 – 6 July 1825)[12]
Events
- 28 January - German-Russian explorer Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen discovered the continent of Antarctica during First Russian Antarctic Expedition
- 15 April – King William I of Württemberg marries his cousin, Pauline Therese, in Stuttgart.
- 8 June - Constitution of the German Confederation
- 27 August - German Josef Naus first ascent of Germany's highest mountain, the Zugspitze.
- 19 November - Congress of Troppau
Births
- 13 January - Leopold Hoesch, German entrepreneur (died 1899)
- 16 January - Johannes Rebmann, German missionary (died 1878)
- 20 January - Wilhelm Paul Corssen, German philologist (died 1875)
- 22 January - Hermann Lingg, German poet (died 1905)
- 25 January - Adelbert Heinrich von Baudissin, German writer (died 1871)
- 23 February - David Kalisch, German playwright and humorist (died 1872)
- 4 March - Ludwig von Henk, German naval officer (died 1894)
- 7 April - Amand Goegg, German journalist and politician (died 1897)
- 10 April - Karl Gustav Ackermann, German politician (died 1901)
- 11 April - Hermann Knoblauch, German physicist (died 1895)
- 22 April - Karl Twesten, German politician and writer (died 1870)
- 2 May - Robert Gerwig, German civil engineer and politician (died 1882)
- 24 May - Carl Ferdinand Appun, German naturalist (died 1872)
- 13 June - Julius Faucher, German politician (died 1878)
- 21 June - Heinrich Burgers, German journalist and politician (died 1878)
- 27 June - Hermann Abeken, German political writer (died 1854)
- 8 August - Julius Stern, German composer and pedagogue (died 1883)
- 11 July - Friedrich von Spiegel, German orientalist (died 1905)
- 14 July - Sigismund Koelle, German missionary (died 1902)
- 15 August - Adolph von Pfretzschner, German politician (died 1901)
- 5 September - Georg Vierling, German composer [died 1901)
- 15 September - Hermann Heinrich Becker, German politician (died 1885)
- 27 September – Wilhelm Siegmund Teuffel, German classical scholar (died 1878)
- 1 October - Ludwig Meyn, Germann agricultural scientist, soil scientist, geologist, journalist, and mineralogist (died 1878)
- 4 October - Joseph Maximilian von Maillinger, Bavarian General der Infanterie and War Minister (died 1901)
- 13 October - Hans von Raumer, German politician (died 1851)
- 23 November Ludwig von Hagn, German painter (died 1898)
- 28 November – Friedrich Engels, German social philosopher (died 1895)
- 29 November - Ferdinand Ludwig Herff, German-American physician (died 1912)
- 8 December - Rochus von Liliencron, German Germanist and historian (died 1912)
- 18 December - Karl Becker, German painter (died 1900)
- 31 December - Helene Demuth, German housekeeper (died 1890)
Deaths
- 10 February - Margravine Elisabeth Louise of Brandenburg-Schwedt, German noblewomen (born 1738)
- 11 February – Karl von Fischer, German architect (born 1782)
- 29 February - Johann Joachim Eschenburg, German historian (born 1743)
- 7 March - Louis Engelbert, 6th Duke of Arenberg, German nobleman (born 1750)
- 27 March - Gerhard von Kügelgen, German painter (born 1772)
- 26 April - Christian Zais, German architect (born 1770)
- 14 May - Paul Struck, German composer (born 1776)
- 20 May - Karl Ludwig Sand, German university student and member of a liberal Burschenschaft (born 1795)
- 1 Jun - August Ferdinand Bernhardi, German linguist and writer (born 1769)
- 9 June - Wilhelmine, Gräfin von Lichtenau, German noblewomen (born 1753)
- 11 July - Frederick Traugott Pursh, German-Canadian botanist (born 1774)
- 13 September - Princess Adelheid of Anhalt-Bernburg-Schaumburg-Hoym, German noblewomen (born 1800)
- 19 September - Johann Georg Meusel, German historian (born 1743)
- 6 December - Karl Christian Tittmann, German protestant theologian (born 1744)
- 29 December – Princess Pauline of Anhalt-Bernburg, German regent, social reformer (born 1769)
External links
References
- Encyclopaedia Britannica, The Editors of (30 July 2018). "Federick William III". Encyclopaedia Britannica.
- 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.
- Bogue, David (1852). The Men of the Time in 1852, Or, Sketches of Living Notables. G. Barclay. pp. 287.
- "Oldenburg Royal Family". Monarchies of Europe. Retrieved 1 January 2021.
- "Monarchies of Europe". Archived from the original on 14 June 2007.
- Almanach de Gotha (87th ed.). Justus Perthes. 1850. p. 38.
- "House of Reuss". European Heraldry. Retrieved 28 December 2020.
- Almanach de Gotha. 1867. p. 3.
- Gerhard Schildt: Von der Restauration zur Reichsgründungszeit, in Horst-Rüdiger Jarck / Gerhard Schildt (eds.), Die Braunschweigische Landesgeschichte. Jahrtausendrückblick einer Region, Braunschweig 2000, pp. 753–766.
- Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). . Encyclopædia Britannica. 9 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 751.
- "Biografie Georg I (German)". Meininger Museen. Archived from the original on 15 September 2011. Retrieved 8 September 2014.
- Bille-Hansen, A. C.; Holck, Harald, eds. (1829) [1st pub.:1801]. Kongelig Dansk Hof- og Stats-Calender for Aaret 1829 [Court and State Calendar of the Kingdom of Denmark for the Year 1829] (PDF). Kongelig Dansk Hof- og Statskalender (in Danish). Copenhagen: J.H. Schultz A.-S. Universitetsbogtrykkeri. pp. 5, 8, 51. Retrieved 16 September 2019 – via da:DIS Danmark.
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