1799 in Germany

Events from the year 1799 in Germany.

Incumbents

Holy Roman Empire

• Francis II (5 July 17926 August 1806)

Important Electors

• Bavaria- Charles I (30 December 1777 – 16 February 1799)
• Saxony- Frederick Augustus I (17 December 176320 December 1806)

Kingdoms

• Kingdom of Prussia
• Monarch – Frederick William III (16 November 17977 June 1840)

Grand Duchies

• Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin
• Frederick Francis I– (24 April 17851 February 1837)
• Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Strelitz
• Charles II (2 June 17946 November 1816)
• Grand Duke of Oldenburg
• Wilhelm (6 July 17852 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.
• Peter I (2 July 182321 May 1829)
• Grand Duke of Saxe-Weimar
• Karl August (1758–1809) Raised to grand duchy in 1809

Principalities

• Schaumburg-Lippe
• George William (13 February 17871860)
• Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt
• Louis Frederick II (13 April 179328 April 1807)
• Schwarzburg-Sondershausen
• Günther Friedrich Karl I (14 October 179419 August 1835)
• Principality of Reuss-Greiz
• Heinrich XI, Prince Reuss of Greiz (12 May 1778-28 June 1800)
• Waldeck and Pyrmont
• Friedrich Karl August (29 August 176324 September 1812)

Duchies

• Duke of Anhalt-Dessau
• Leopold III (16 December 17519 August 1817)
• Duke of Saxe-Altenburg
• Duke of Saxe-Hildburghausen (1780–1826) - Frederick
• Duke of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld
• Ernest Frederick, Duke of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld (16 September 1764 – 8 September 1800)
• Duke of Saxe-Meiningen
• Georg I (1782–1803)
• Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Beck
• Frederick Charles Louis (24 February 177525 March 1816)
• Duke of Württemberg
• Frederick I (22 December 179730 October 1816)

Other

• Landgrave of Hesse-Darmstadt
• Louis I (6 April 179014 August 1806)

Events

• December 3 – War of the Second Coalition: Battle of Wiesloch: Austrian Lieutenant Field Marshal Anton Sztáray defeats the French at Wiesloch.

• Frankenthal Porcelain Factory closed by the French forces.

Births

• January 7 – Eduard Magnus, German painter (died 1872)
• May 26 – August Kopisch, German poet and painter (died 1853)
• March 22 – Friedrich Wilhelm Argelander, German astronomer (d. 1875)
• March 28 – Karl Adolph von Basedow, German physician, noted for reporting the symptoms of Graves–Basedow disease (d. 1854)
• October 18 – Christian Friedrich Schönbein, German chemist (d. 1868)
• Eduard Clemens Fechner, German portrait painter and etcher (died 1861)

Deaths

• February 1 – Ferdinand Kobell, German painter and engraver (born 1740)
• February 16 – Charles Theodore, Elector of Bavaria (b. 1724)
• February 18 – Johann Hedwig, German bryologist (born 1730)
• February 24 – Georg Christoph Lichtenberg, German scientist, satirist, and Anglophile (b. 1742)
• March 18 – Adam Friedrich Oeser, German etcher, painter and sculptor (born 1717)
• March 29 – Helena Dorothea von Schönberg, German industrialist (d. 1729)

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