1818 in Germany

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Events from the year 1818 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)
• Kingdom of Württemberg
  • William (30 October 1816 – 25 June 1864)

Grand Duchies

• Grand Duke of Baden
  • Charles 10 June 1811 – 8 December 1818[2]
  • Louis I (8 December 1818 – 30 March 1830)[3]
• Grand Duke of Hesse
  • Louis I (14 August 1806 – 6 April 1830)[3]
• Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin
  • Frederick Francis I– (24 April 1785 – 1 February 1837)[3]
• Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Strelitz
  • George (6 November 1816 – 6 September 1860)[4]
• 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.[5]
  • Peter I (2 July 1823 - 21 May 1829)[5]
• 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)[6]
• Schwarzburg-Sondershausen
  • Günther Friedrich Karl I (14 October 1794 - 19 August 1835)
• Principality of Lippe
  • Leopold II (5 November 1802 - 1 January 1851)[7]
• Principality of Reuss-Greiz
  • Heinrich XIX (29 January 1817 - 31 October 1836)[8]
• Waldeck and Pyrmont
  • George II (9 September 1813 - 15 May 1845)

Duchies

• Duke of Anhalt-Dessau
  • Leopold IV (9 August 1817 - 22 May 1871)[9]
• Duke of Brunswick
  • Charles II (16 June 1815 – 9 September 1830)[10]
• Duke of Saxe-Altenburg
  • Duke of Saxe-Hildburghausen (1780–1826) - Frederick[3]
• Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha
  • Ernest I (9 December 1806 – 12 November 1826)[11]
• Duke of Saxe-Meiningen
  • Bernhard II (24 December 1803–20 September 1866)[12]
• Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Beck
  • Frederick William (25 March 1816 – 6 July 1825)[13]

Events

Original Laufmaschine of 1817 made to measure.

• 12 January - The Dandy horse (Laufmaschine bicycle) was invented by Karl Drais in Mannheim.[14]
• The University of Hohenheim located in the south of Stuttgart, Germany is founded.
• The Städel, officially the Städelsches Kunstinstitut und Städtische Galerie, an art museum in Frankfurt, is founded.
• Akademisches Kunstmuseum, an art museum in Bonn, is founded.

Births

• 8 April – August Wilhelm von Hofmann, German chemist (d. 1892)
• 5 May – Karl Marx, German political philosopher, co-author of The Communist Manifesto (d. 1883)

Adolph Wilhelm Hermann Kolbe

• 27 September – Adolph Wilhelm Hermann Kolbe, German chemist (d. 1884)
• 18 December – Max Joseph von Pettenkofer, German chemist and hygienist (d. 1901)
• Francis Dutton, Germany-born Premier of South Australia (d. 1877)

Deaths

• 11 January – Johann David Wyss, Swiss children's author writing in German (born 1743)[15] 15 February – Friedrich Ludwig, Fürst zu Hohenlohe-Ingelfingen, Prussian general (b. 1746)
• 22 October – Joachim Heinrich Campe, German linguist and publisher (born 1746)
• 5 November – Heinrich Füger, German portrait and historical painter (born 1751)

Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz

• 17 November – Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, queen of George III of the United Kingdom (b. 1744)

References

1. Encyclopaedia Britannica, The Editors of (30 July 2018). "Federick William III". Encyclopaedia Britannica.
2. von Weech, Friedrich. "Karl Ludwig Friedrich". Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (in German). p. Onlinefassung. Retrieved 25 July 2010.
3. 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.
4. Bogue, David (1852). The Men of the Time in 1852, Or, Sketches of Living Notables. G. Barclay. pp. 287.
5. "Oldenburg Royal Family". Monarchies of Europe. Retrieved 1 January 2021.
6. "Monarchies of Europe". Archived from the original on 14 June 2007.
7. Almanach de Gotha (87th ed.). Justus Perthes. 1850. p. 38.
8. "House of Reuss". European Heraldry. Retrieved 28 December 2020.
9. Almanach de Gotha. 1867. p. 3.
10. 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.
11. Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Ernest I." . Encyclopædia Britannica. 9 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 751.
12. "Biografie Georg I (German)". Meininger Museen. Archived from the original on 15 September 2011. Retrieved 8 September 2014.
13. 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. p. 5, 8, 51. Retrieved 16 September 2019 – via da:DIS Danmark.
14. "DPMA | The ancestor of all bicycle". Deutsches Patent- und Markenamt (in German).
15. J. D. Wyss (5 March 2009). The Swiss Family Robinson. Penguin Adult. p. 409. ISBN 978-0-14-132530-9.