1820 in Germany
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{{Year in Germany|1820}}
Events from the year 1820 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 Hanover
- George III (25 October 1760 –29 January 1820)
- George IV (29 January 1820 – 26 June 1830)
- Kingdom of Württemberg
- William (30 October 1816 – 25 June 1864)
= Grand Duchies =
- Grand Duke of Baden
- Louis I (8 December 1818 – 30 March 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 Hesse
- Louis I (14 August 1806 – 6 April 1830)
- 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 a 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 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 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
- 28 January – German-Russian explorer Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen discovers the continent of Antarctica during the First Russian Antarctic Expedition
- 15 April – King William I of Württemberg marries his cousin, Pauline Therese, in Stuttgart.
- 8 June – Constitution of the German Confederation
- 27 August – German Josef Naus makes the first ascent of Germany's highest mountain, the Zugspitze.
- 19 November – Congress of Troppau
Births
- 13 January – Leopold Hoesch, German entrepreneur (died 1899)
- 16 January – Johannes Rebmann, German missionary (died 1878)
- 20 January – Wilhelm Paul Corssen, German philologist (died 1875)
- 22 January – Hermann Lingg, German poet (died 1905)
- 25 January – Adelbert Heinrich von Baudissin, German writer (died 1871)
- 23 February – David Kalisch, German playwright and humorist (died 1872)
- 4 March – Ludwig von Henk, German naval officer (died 1894)
- 7 April – Amand Goegg, German journalist and politician (died 1897)
- 10 April – Karl Gustav Ackermann, German politician (died 1901)
- 11 April – Hermann Knoblauch, German physicist (died 1895)
- 22 April – Karl Twesten, German politician and writer (died 1870)
- 2 May – Robert Gerwig, German civil engineer and politician (died 1882)
- 24 May – Carl Ferdinand Appun, German naturalist (died 1872)
- 13 June – Julius Faucher, German politician (died 1878)
- 21 June – Heinrich Burgers, German journalist and politician (died 1878)
- 27 June – Hermann Abeken, German political writer (died 1854)
- 11 July – Friedrich von Spiegel, German orientalist (died 1905)
- 14 July – Sigismund Koelle, German missionary (died 1902)
- 8 August – Julius Stern, German composer and pedagogue (died 1883)
- 15 August – Adolph von Pfretzschner, German politician (died 1901)
- 5 September – Georg Vierling, German composer [died 1901)
- 15 September – Hermann Heinrich Becker, German politician (died 1885)
- 27 September – Wilhelm Siegmund Teuffel, German classical scholar (died 1878)
- 1 October – Ludwig Meyn, Germann agricultural scientist, soil scientist, geologist, journalist, and mineralogist (died 1878)
- 4 October – Joseph Maximilian von Maillinger, Bavarian General der Infanterie and War Minister (died 1901)
- 13 October – Hans von Raumer, German politician (died 1851)
- 23 November – Ludwig von Hagn, German painter (died 1898)
- 28 November – Friedrich Engels, German social philosopher (died 1895)
- 29 November – Ferdinand Ludwig Herff, German-American physician (died 1912)
- 8 December – Rochus von Liliencron, German Germanist and historian (died 1912)
- 18 December – Karl Becker, German painter (died 1900)
- 31 December – Helene Demuth, German housekeeper (died 1890)
Deaths
- 10 February – Margravine Elisabeth Louise of Brandenburg-Schwedt, German noblewomen (born 1738)
- 11 February – Karl von Fischer, German architect (born 1782)
- 29 February – Johann Joachim Eschenburg, German historian (born 1743)
- 7 March – Louis Engelbert, 6th Duke of Arenberg, German nobleman (born 1750)
- 27 March – Gerhard von Kügelgen, German painter (born 1772){{Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie|17|305|307|Kügelgen, Gerhard von|Carl Clauß|118567543}}
- 26 April – Christian Zais, German architect (born 1770)
- 14 May – Paul Struck, German composer (born 1776)
- 20 May – Karl Ludwig Sand, German university student and member of a liberal Burschenschaft (born 1795)
- 1 June – August Ferdinand Bernhardi, German linguist and writer (born 1769)
- 9 June – Wilhelmine, Gräfin von Lichtenau, German noblewomen (born 1753)
- 11 July – Frederick Traugott Pursh, German-Canadian botanist (born 1774)
- 13 September – Princess Adelheid of Anhalt-Bernburg-Schaumburg-Hoym, German noblewomen (born 1800)
- 19 September – Johann Georg Meusel, German historian (born 1743)[https://de.wikisource.org/wiki/ADB:Meusel,_Johann_Georg ADB:Meusel, Johann Georg] In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie
- 6 December – Karl Christian Tittmann, German protestant theologian (born 1744)
- 29 December – Princess Pauline of Anhalt-Bernburg, German regent and social reformer (born 1769){{Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie|25|275|277|Pauline|August Falkmann|ADB:Pauline}}
External links
- [https://www.was-war-wann.de/1800/1820/1820.html Was war wann.de: Das Jahr 1820 (german)]
References
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{{Year in Europe|1820}}
Category:Years of the 19th century in Germany