1800 in Germany

Events from the year 1800 in Germany.

Incumbents

Bavaria – Maximilian I (16 February 1799{{snd}}6 August 1806){{Cite EB1911|volume=17|page=921|wstitle=Maximilian I., king of Bavaria}}
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}}

Kingdom of Prussia
Monarch – Frederick William III of Prussia (16 November 1797{{snd}}7 June 1840){{Cite web|date=30 July 2018|title=Federick William III|url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Frederick-William-III|website=Encyclopaedia Britannica}}

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) 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.{{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

Schaumburg-Lippe
George William (13 February 1787{{snd}}1860)
Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt
Louis Frederick II (13 April 1793{{snd}}28 April 1807){{Cite book| publisher = Thüringer Chronik-Verlag Müllerott| isbn = 978-3-910132-29-0| last1 = Apfelstedt| first1 = F.| last2 = Apfelstedt| first2 = Heinrich Friedrich Theodor| title = Das Haus Kevernburg-Schwarzburg von seinem Ursprunge bis auf unsere Zeit| date = 1996}}
Schwarzburg-Sondershausen
Günther Friedrich Karl I (14 October 1794{{snd}}19 August 1835)
Principality of Reuss-Greiz
Heinrich XIII (28 June 1800{{snd}}29 January 1817)
Waldeck and Pyrmont
Friedrich Karl August (29 August 1763{{snd}}24 September 1812)

Duke of Anhalt-Dessau
Leopold III (16 December 1751{{snd}}9 August 1817)J. Morley, "The Bauhaus Effect," in Social Utopias of the Twenties (Germany: Müller Bushmann press, 1995), 11.
Duke of Saxe-Altenburg
Duke of Saxe-Hildburghausen (1780–1826) – Frederick
Duke of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld
Francis (8 September 1800{{snd}}9 December 1806)
Duke of Saxe-Meiningen
Georg I (1782–1803){{cite web|url=http://www.meiningermuseen.de/pages/schloss/personen/herzogliche-familie/georg-i.php|title=Biografie Georg I (German)|publisher=Meininger Museen|access-date=8 September 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110915152148/http://www.meiningermuseen.de/pages/schloss/personen/herzogliche-familie/georg-i.php|archive-date=15 September 2011|url-status=dead}}
Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Beck
Frederick Charles Louis (24 February 1775{{snd}}25 March 1816){{cite book|last=Albinus|first=Robert|title=Lexikon der Stadt Königsberg Pr. und Umgebung|publisher=Verlag Gerhard Rautenberg|year=1985|isbn=3-7921-0320-6|location=Leer|pages=371|language=de}}
Duke of Württemberg
Frederick I (22 December 1797{{snd}}30 October 1816){{Cite book|last=David|first=Saul|url=http://archive.org/details/princeofpleasure00davi|title=Prince of pleasure : the Prince of Wales and the making of the Regency|date=1998|publisher=New York : Atlantic Monthly Press|isbn=978-0-87113-739-5|access-date=24 January 2021}}

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}}

2 April – Ludwig van Beethoven's Symphony No. 1 premieres at the Burgtheater, in Vienna.
May 3
Battle of Stockach: French victory{{cite book|last=Arnold |first=James R. |title=Marengo & Hohenlinden: Napoleon's Rise to Power |location=Barnsley, South Yorkshire |publisher=Pen and Sword |year=2005 |isbn=1-84415-279-0|pages=197-201}}
Battle of Engen: French victory
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 victoryTimothy Blanning. The French Revolutionary Wars, New York, Oxford University Press. p. 200.
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.

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)[http://de.wikisource.org/wiki/ADB:Bernhardy,_Gottfried ADB: Bernhardy, Gottfried] @ Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie
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)

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

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)Genealogisches Handbuch des Adels, Fürstliche Häuser IV. "Portland". C.A. Starke Verlag, 1956, pp. 484-485. (German).
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)