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1802 in Germany

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{{Year in Germany|1802}}

Events from the year 1802 in Germany.

Incumbents

= Holy Roman Empire =

==Important Electors==

  • 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}}

= Kingdoms =

  • Kingdom of Prussia
  • Monarch – Frederick William III of Prussia (16 November 1797{{snd}}7 June 1840){{Cite web |last=Tikkanen |first=Amy |date=30 July 2018 |title=Federick William III |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Frederick-William-III |access-date=2022-09-21 |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 =

  • 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 Brunswick
  • Frederick William (16 October 1806{{snd}}16 June 1815)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.
  • 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
  • Bernhard II (24 December 1803{{snd}}20 September 1866){{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 (1797–1803){{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}}

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}}
  • Margrave of Baden- Charles Frederick (21 October 1771{{snd}}27 April 1803)

Events

  • 3 March – Ludwig van Beethoven publishes his Piano Sonata No. 14, commonly known as the "Moonlight Sonata" (Mondschein), in Vienna; the availability of the sheet music is announced by Giovanni Cappi in the newspaper Wiener Zeitung.Timothy Jones, Beethoven: The 'Moonlight' and Other Sonatas, Op. 27 and Op. 31 (Cambridge University Press, 1999) p20, p129
  • Johann Wilhelm Ritter builds the first electrochemical cell.{{cite journal|last=Berg|first=Hermann|year=2008|title=Johann Wilhelm Ritter: the Founder of Scientific Electrochemistry|journal=Review of Polarography|volume=54|pages=99–103|doi=10.5189/revpolarography.54.99|doi-access=free|number=2}}{{cite book|last=Wetzels|first=Walter D.|title=Selected Topics in the History of Electrochemistry|publisher=Electrochemical Society|year=1978|editor-last1=Dubpernell|editor-first1=G.|location=Princeton|pages=68–73|chapter=J. W. Ritter: the Beginnings of Electrochemistry in Germany|editor-last2=Westbrook|editor-first2=J. H.}}

Births

=Date unknown=

Deaths

References

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{{Year in Europe|1802}}

Category:Years of the 19th century in Germany

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