1810 in Germany
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{{Year in Germany|1810}}
Events from the year 1810 in Germany.
Incumbents
= Kingdoms =
- Kingdom of Prussia
- Monarch – Frederick William III of Prussia (16 November 1797 – 7 June 1840){{Cite web|date=30 July 2018|title=Frederick William III|url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Frederick-William-III|website=Encyclopaedia Britannica}}
- 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 Württemberg
- Frederick I (22 December 1797 – 30 October 1816)
= Grand Duchies =
- Grand Duke of Baden
- Charles Frederick (25 July 1806 – 10 June 1811)
- Grand Duke of Hesse
- Louis I (14 August 1806 – 6 April 1830){{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}}
- Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin
- Frederick Francis I– (24 April 1785 – 1 February 1837)
- Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Strelitz
- Charles II (2 June 1794 – 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 –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 - 21 May 1829)
- Grand Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach
- Karl August (1809–1815)
= Principalities =
- Schaumburg-Lippe
- George William (13 February 1787 - 1860)
- Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt
- Friedrich Günther (28 April 1807 - 28 June 1867){{cite web|title=Monarchies of Europe|url=http://www.btinternet.com/~allan_raymond/Mecklenburg_Strelitz_Royal_Family.htm#24.7336|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070614023242/http://www.btinternet.com/~allan_raymond/Mecklenburg_Strelitz_Royal_Family.htm|archive-date=14 June 2007}}
- Schwarzburg-Sondershausen
- Günther Friedrich Karl I (14 October 1794 - 19 August 1835)
- Principality of Lippe
- Leopold II (5 November 1802 - 1 January 1851){{cite book |year=1850 |publisher=Justus Perthes |edition=87th |title=Almanach de Gotha |page=38 }}
- 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)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 – 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 and Gotha
- Ernest I (9 December 1806 – 12 November 1826){{Cite EB1911|wstitle=Ernest I.|volume=9|page=751}}
- Duke of Saxe-Meiningen
- Bernhard II (24 December 1803 – 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 – 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}}
Events
- 27 April – Beethoven composes his famous piano piece, Für Elise.
- 16 May – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe publishes his book Zu Farbenlehre (Theory of Colours).Götz Hoeppe, Why the Sky is Blue: Discovering the Color of Life (Princeton University Press, 2007) p126
- 12 October – First Oktoberfest: Bavarian royalty invites the citizens of Munich to join the celebration of the marriage of Crown Prince Ludwig of Bavaria, to Princess Therese of Saxe-Hildburghausen.
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- Friedrich Krupp establishes a steel foundry in Essen.
- Germaine de Staël's study of Germany De l'Allemagne is published in Paris but suppressed by order of Napoleon.
- Brandenburger Symphoniker established.
- Prussian Staff College established.
Births
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- 29 January – Ernst Kummer, German mathematician (d. 1893)
- 24 May – Abraham Geiger, German rabbi, founder of European Reform Judaism (d. 1874)
- 8 June – Robert Schumann, German composer, pianist (d. 1856){{cite book|author=John Daverio|title=Robert Schumann: Herald of a "New Poetic Age"|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Z8yLxsRJucoC&pg=PT29|date=10 April 1997|publisher=Oxford University Press|isbn=978-0-19-983931-5|pages=29}}
- 9 June – Otto Nicolai, German composer, conductor (d. 1849){{Cite EB1911|wstitle=Nicolaï, Otto |volume=19 |page=662}}
- 17 July – Georg Heinrich Busse, German landscape painter and engraver (died 1868)
- 20 July – Leonhard Graf von Blumenthal, Prussian field marshal (d. 1908){{EB1911|wstitle=Blumenthal, Leonhard|volume=4}}
- 11 October – Anton Zwengauer, German painter (d. 1884)
- 7 December – Theodor Schwann, German physiologist (d. 1882)
Deaths
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- 23 January – Johann Wilhelm Ritter, German chemist, physicist (b. 1776)
- 14 March – Ludwig Timotheus Spittler, German historian (born 1752)
- 1 May – Christoph Meiners, German philosopher (born 1747)
- 19 July – Louise of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, Queen of Prussia (b. 1776)
- 11 November – Johan Zoffany, German-born painter (b. 1733){{EB1911 poster|Zoffany, Johann}}
- 2 December – Philipp Otto Runge, German painter (b. 1777)