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Events from the year 1820 in Germany.
Incumbents
Kingdoms
- Kingdom of Prussia
- Monarch – Frederick William III of Prussia (16 November 1797 – 7 June 1840)[1]
- 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
- Grand Duke of Hesse
- Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin
- Frederick Francis I– (24 April 1785 – 1 February 1837)[2]
- Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Strelitz
- Grand Duke of Oldenburg
- 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)[5]
- Schwarzburg-Sondershausen
- Günther Friedrich Karl I (14 October 1794 - 19 August 1835)
- Principality of Lippe
- Leopold II (5 November 1802 - 1 January 1851)[6]
- Principality of Reuss-Greiz
- Heinrich XIX (29 January 1817 - 31 October 1836)[7]
- Waldeck and Pyrmont
- George II (9 September 1813 - 15 May 1845)
Duchies
- Duke of Anhalt-Dessau
- Leopold IV (9 August 1817 - 22 May 1871)[8]
- Duke of Brunswick
- Charles II (16 June 1815 – 9 September 1830)[9]
- Duke of Saxe-Altenburg
- Duke of Saxe-Hildburghausen (1780–1826) - Frederick[2]
- Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha
- Duke of Saxe-Meiningen
- Bernhard II (24 December 1803 – 20 September 1866)[11]
- Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Beck
- Frederick William (25 March 1816 – 6 July 1825)[12]
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)[13]
- 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)[14]
- 6 December – Karl Christian Tittmann, German protestant theologian (born 1744)
- 29 December – Princess Pauline of Anhalt-Bernburg, German regent and social reformer (born 1769)[15]
External links
References
- ↑ "Frederick William III". Encyclopaedia Britannica. 30 July 2018.
- 1 2 3 4 Genealogie ascendante jusqu'au quatrieme degre inclusivement de tous les Rois et Princes de maisons souveraines de l'Europe actuellement vivans [Genealogy up to the fourth degree inclusive of all the Kings and Princes of sovereign houses of Europe currently living] (in French). Bourdeaux: Frederic Guillaume Birnstiel. 1768. p. 38.
- ↑ Bogue, David (1852). The Men of the Time in 1852, Or, Sketches of Living Notables. G. Barclay. pp. 287.
- 1 2 "Oldenburg Royal Family". Monarchies of Europe. Archived from the original on 17 March 2006. Retrieved 1 January 2021.
- ↑ "Monarchies of Europe". Archived from the original on 14 June 2007.
- ↑ Almanach de Gotha (87th ed.). Justus Perthes. 1850. p. 38.
- ↑ "House of Reuss". European Heraldry. Archived from the original on 25 February 2021. Retrieved 28 December 2020.
- ↑ Almanach de Gotha. 1867. p. 3.
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 9 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 751.
- ↑ "Biografie Georg I (German)". Meininger Museen. Archived from the original on 15 September 2011. Retrieved 8 September 2014.
- ↑ Bille-Hansen, A. C.; Holck, Harald, eds. (1829) [1st pub.:1801]. Kongelig Dansk Hof- og Stats-Calender for Aaret 1829 [Court and State Calendar of the Kingdom of Denmark for the Year 1829] (PDF). Kongelig Dansk Hof- og Statskalender (in Danish). Copenhagen: J.H. Schultz A.-S. Universitetsbogtrykkeri. pp. 5, 8, 51. Retrieved 16 September 2019 – via da:DIS Danmark.
- ↑ Carl Clauß (1883), "Kügelgen, Gerhard von", Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (in German), vol. 17, Leipzig: Duncker & Humblot, pp. 305–307
- ↑ ADB:Meusel, Johann Georg In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie
- ↑ August Falkmann (1887), "Pauline", Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (in German), vol. 25, Leipzig: Duncker & Humblot, pp. 275–277
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