1817 in Germany
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{{Year in Germany|1817}}
Events from the year 1817 in Germany.
Incumbents
= Kingdoms =
- Kingdom of Prussia
- Monarch – Frederick William III of Prussia (16 November 1797 – 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}}
- 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)
- Kingdom of Württemberg
- William (30 October 1816 – 25 June 1864)
= Grand Duchies =
- Grand Duke of Baden
- Charles 10 June 1811 – 8 December 1818{{cite web|last=von Weech|first=Friedrich|title=Karl Ludwig Friedrich|url=http://www.deutsche-biographie.de/artikelADB_pnd102285020.html |work=Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie|access-date=25 July 2010|page=Onlinefassung|language=German}}
- 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
- George (6 November 1816 – 6 September 1860){{cite book |last= Bogue|first= David| title =The Men of the Time in 1852, Or, Sketches of Living Notables |url= https://archive.org/details/mentimeinorsket01bogugoog| publisher =G. Barclay| year =1852| pages =[https://archive.org/details/mentimeinorsket01bogugoog/page/n299 287]}}
- 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
- 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){{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)
- Heinrich XIX (29 January 1817 – 31 October 1836){{cite web |title=House of Reuss |url=http://www.europeanheraldry.org/germany/princely-houses/house-reuss/ |website=European Heraldry |access-date=28 December 2020 |archive-date=25 February 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210225170707/https://europeanheraldry.org/germany/princely-houses/house-reuss/ |url-status=dead }}
- Waldeck and Pyrmont
- George II (9 September 1813 – 15 May 1845)
= Duchies =
- Duke of Anhalt-Dessau
- Leopold III (16 December 1751 – 9 August 1817){{cite book | first=J. | last=Morley | chapter=The Bauhaus Effect | title=Social Utopias of the Twenties | location=Germany | publisher=Müller Bushmann press | year=1995 | page=11}}
- Leopold IV (9 August 1817 – 22 May 1871){{cite book|title=Almanach de Gotha|year=1867|pages=3}}
- Duke of Brunswick
- Charles II (16 June 1815 – 9 September 1830)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 William (25 March 1816 – 6 July 1825){{cite book |year=1829 |orig-year=1st pub.:1801 |editor1-last=Bille-Hansen |editor1-first=A. C. |editor2-last=Holck |editor2-first=Harald |title=Kongelig Dansk Hof- og Stats-Calender for Aaret 1829 |trans-title=Court and State Calendar of the Kingdom of Denmark for the Year 1829 |url=https://dis-danmark.dk/bibliotek/918037.pdf#page=29 |format=PDF |series=Kongelig Dansk Hof- og Statskalender |language=da |location=Copenhagen |publisher=J.H. Schultz A.-S. Universitetsbogtrykkeri |pages=5, 8, 51 |access-date=16 September 2019 |via=:da:DIS Danmark}}
Events
- 12 June – German inventor Karl Drais drives his dandy horse ("Draisine" or Laufmaschine), the earliest form of bicycle, in Mannheim.
- 18 October – Wartburg Festival
Births
- 22 February – Carl Wilhelm Borchardt, German mathematician (d. 1880)
- 14 September – Theodor Storm, German writer (d. 1888)
- 30 October – Hermann Franz Moritz Kopp, German chemist (d. 1892)
- 30 November – Theodor Mommsen, German writer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1903)
Deaths
- 1 January – Martin Heinrich Klaproth, German chemist who discovered uranium (1789), zirconium (1789), and cerium (1803) (b. 1743)
- 2 April – Johann Heinrich Jung, German writer (b. 1740)
- 30 June – Abraham Gottlob Werner, German geologist (b. 1750)
- 10 August – Leopold III, Duke of Anhalt-Dessau
- 1 December – Justin Heinrich Knecht, German composer, organist and music theorist (b. 1752)
References
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{{Year in Europe|1817}}
Category:Years of the 19th century in Germany