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1796 in Germany

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{{Year in Germany|1796}}

Events from the year 1796 in Germany.

Incumbents

= Holy Roman Empire =

==Important Electors==

  • Bavaria- Charles I (30 December 1777 – 16 February 1799)
  • Saxony- Frederick Augustus I (17 December 1763{{snd}}20 December 1806){{Cite web|title=General German Biography – Wikisource|url=https://de.wikisource.org/wiki/Allgemeine_Deutsche_Biographie|access-date=24 January 2021}}

= Kingdoms =

  • Kingdom of Prussia
  • Monarch – Frederick William II of Prussia (17 August 1786 – 16 November 1797){{Cite web|last=Encyclopaedia Britannica|date=30 July 2018|title=Frederick William III|url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Frederick-William-III|website=Encyclopaedia Britannica}}

= Grand Duchies =

  • Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin
  • Frederick Francis I– (24 April 1785{{snd}}1 February 1837)
  • Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Strelitz
  • Charles II (2 June 1794{{snd}}6 November 1816){{cite book |last= Huish |first= Robert | title =Public and Private Life His Late Excellent and most Gracious Majesty George The Third | publisher =T. Kelly | year =1821 | page =170 }}
  • Grand Duke of Oldenburg
  • Wilhelm (6 July 1785{{snd}}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.{{cite web |title=Oldenburg Royal Family |url=http://www.btinternet.com/~allan_raymond/Oldenburg_Royal_Family.htm |website=Monarchies of Europe |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060317161934/http://www.btinternet.com/~allan_raymond/Oldenburg_Royal_Family.htm |access-date=1 January 2021|archive-date=17 March 2006 }}
  • Peter I (2 July 1823{{snd}}21 May 1829)
  • Grand Duke of Saxe-Weimar
  • Karl August (1758–1809) Raised to grand duchy in 1809

= Principalities =

= Duchies =

=Other=

  • Landgrave of Hesse-Darmstadt
  • Louis I (6 April 1790{{snd}}14 August 1806){{cite book|title=Genealogie ascendante jusqu'au quatrieme degre inclusivement de tous les Rois et Princes de maisons souveraines de l'Europe actuellement vivans| trans-title=Genealogy up to the fourth degree inclusive of all the Kings and Princes of sovereign houses of Europe currently living |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=AINPAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA38|year=1768|publisher=Frederic Guillaume Birnstiel|location=Bourdeaux|language=fr|page=38}}

Events

29 March: Carl Friedrich Gauß determines a construction method for the heptadecagon.

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7 August: Württemberg cedes its property on the left bank of the Rhine, Mömpelgard, to France in the Peace of Paris in exchange for the promise of later compensation.

25 August: In a separate peace between Sigismund von Reitzenstein on behalf of the Margraviate of Baden and France, Baden has to cede its possessions on the left bank of the Rhine to France and make high reparation payments. In addition, the escaped Margrave Karl Friedrich is supposed to renounce his status as imperial prince.

2 September: Under pressure from its citizens, after experiencing French occupation in the War of the First Coalition, the imperial city of Nuremberg concludes a treaty that will place the city under Prussian sovereignty. Confirmation by the Prussian government did not materialize later due to foreign policy considerations and the necessary assumption of the Nuremberg debt burden.

3 September: In the First Coalition War, Archduke Charles of Austria and his army defeat France's troops under the command of Marshal Jean-Baptiste Jourdan in the Battle of Würzburg . The second defeat after the previous Battle of Amberg on 24 August caused Jourdan to resign his command.

Ludwig van Beethoven dedicates his three piano sonatas Piano Sonata No. 1, Piano Sonata No. 2 and Piano Sonata No. 3 to his teacher Joseph Haydn .

Johann Christoph Friedrich GutsMuths publishes the work Gymnastik für die Jugend ( Gymnastics for Youth: Or a practical guide to Delightful and Amusing exercises for the Use of Schools, An Essay Toward the Necessary Improvement of Education Chiefly as It Relates to Body), in which, among other things, rules for the game of baseball can be found for the first time.{{cite book |last=Todd |first=Jan |title=Physical Culture and the Body Beautiful: Purposive Exercise in the Lives of American Women, 1800–1870 |date=1998 |publisher=Mercer University Press |isbn=0865545618 |page=60 |chapter=Souls of fire in iron hearts |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=W1PnCu9k6OEC&pg=PA60}}

Births

= January =

1 January

7 January

  • Peter Nead, German Baptist Brethren theologian (died 1877)

8 January

21 January

23 January

29 January

31 January

= February =

21 February

28 February

29 February – Germanicus Mirault, surgeon (died 1879)

= March =

8 March

11 March – Johann Ludwig Casper, German forensic pathologist (died 1864)

13 March

22 March – Heinrich Karl Beyrich, German botanist (died 1834)

23 March

31 March

= April =

13 April

19 April

24 April

27 April

= May =

6 May

7 May

9 May

12 May

15 May

23 May

  • Vince Stingl, Hungarian-German porcelain manufacturer (died 1850)

18 June

28 June

2 July

3 July – Heinrich Moritz Chalybäus, German philosopher (died 1862)

12 July

13 July

15 July

22 July

27 July

29 July

31 July

3 August – Carl Friedrich Naumann, German geologist (died 1873)

6 August

10 August

12 August – Maximilian II of Bavaria, King of Bavaria (died 1864)

13 August

15 August

16 August

22 August

  • Wilhelm von Humboldt, German statesman, philosopher, linguist, and educational reformer (died 1835)

26 August

8 September

10 September – Hermann Kopp, German chemist (died 1872)

13 September – Johann Georg Wagler, German naturalist (died 1832)

14 September – Theodor Kliefoth, German Lutheran theologian (died 1895)

15 September

19 September – Friedrich Wilhelm Rembert von Berg, Baltic German field marshal (died 1874)

22 September

29 September

1 October

5 October

7 October – Karl Krazeisen, German painter (died 1885)

9 October – Emil Otto Grundmann, German-American painter (died 1890)

13 October

14 October – Theodor Kotschy, Austrian-German botanist and explorer (died 1866)

17 October – Wilhelm von Kaulbach, German painter (died 1874)

18 October

20 October – Moritz von Schwind, German painter (died 1871)

= October =

4 October

10 October

11 October

16 October

19 October

  • Carl Wagner, German painter known for romantic landscape painting (died 1867)

24 October

26 October

28 October

31 October

= November =

3 November

13 November

14 November

19 November

25 November

30 November

= December =

20 December – Simon Meister, German painter (died 1844)

29 December

Deaths

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References

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