1826 in Germany
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{{Year in Germany|1826}} Events from the year 1826 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
- Monarch - Ludwig I (1825–1848)
- Kingdom of Saxony
- Frederick Augustus I (20 December 1806 – 5 May 1827)
- Kingdom of Hanover
- 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
- 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|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20070614023242/http://www.btinternet.com/~allan_raymond/Mecklenburg_Strelitz_Royal_Family.htm|archivedate=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) and Duke of Saxe-Altenburg (1826–1834) - 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|accessdate=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}}
Events
- July – Ludwig van Beethoven puts the finishing touches on the String Quartet in C sharp Minor, Opus 131, the jewel in the crown of his late string quartets.
- Ludwig van Beethoven composes the Große Fuge.
Births
- February 16- Joseph Victor von Scheffel, German poet (d. 1888)
- March 29 – Wilhelm Liebknecht, German journalist, politician (d. 1900)
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- August 21 – Carl Gegenbaur, German anatomist, professor (d. 1903)
- September 17 – Bernhard Riemann, German mathematician (d. 1866)
Deaths
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- March 29 – Johann Heinrich Voss, German poet (b. 1751)
- April 25 – Karl Ludwig von Phull, German military leader (b. 1757)
- May 16 – Empress Elizabeth Alexeievna, consort of Alexander I of Russia (b. 1779)
- June 5 – Carl Maria von Weber, German composer (b. 1786)
- June 7 – Joseph von Fraunhofer, German optician (b. 1787)
- November 23 – Johann Elert Bode, German astronomer (b. 1747)