1800 in Germany

Events from the year 1800 in Germany.

Incumbents

Holy Roman Empire

• Francis II (5 July 17926 August 1806)

Important Electors

• Bavaria – Maximilian I (16 February 17996 August 1806)
• 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) Wilhelm, who suffered from mental illness, 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 XIII (28 June 180029 January 1817)
• 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
• Francis (8 September 18009 December 1806)
• 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

• 2 April – Ludwig van Beethoven's Symphony No. 1 premieres at the Burgtheater, in Vienna.
• May 3
• Battle of Stockach: French victory
• Battle of Engen: French victory
• 4–5 May– Battle of Messkirch: French victory
• 9 May – Battle of Biberach: French victory
• 15 May – Battle of Erbach: French victory
• 19 June – War of the Second Coalition: Battle of Höchstädt – General Jean Victor Marie Moreau leads French forces to victory, opening the Danube passageway to Vienna.
• 27 June – Battle of Neuburg: French victory
• 22 November – War of the Second Coalition: Hostilities resume.
• 1 December – Battle of Ampfing
• 3 December – War of the Second Coalition: Battle of Hohenlinden – The French army defeats Habsburg and Bavarian troops.

Births

• 26 January – Johann Gerhard Oncken, German Baptist preacher (died 1884)
• 3 March – Heinrich Georg Bronn, German geologist, paleontologist (died 1862)
• 10 March – Victor Aimé Huber, German social reformer (died 1869)
• 17 March – Rudolf Ewald Stier, German Protestant churchman, mystic (died 1862)
• 20 March – Gottfried Bernhardy, German philologist, literary historian (died 1875)
• 25 March – Ernst Heinrich Karl von Dechen, German geologist, mineralogist (died 1889)
• 28 March – Johann Georg Wagler, German herpetologist (died 1832)
• 16 April – Jakob Heine, German orthopaedist (died 1879)
• 30 May – Karl Wilhelm Feuerbach, German geometer (died 1834)
• 31 July – Friedrich Wöhler, German chemist (died 1882)
• 20 August – Bernhard Heine, German physician, bone specialist and inventor (died 1846)
• 26 October – Helmuth von Moltke the Elder, German Field Marshal (died 1891)

Approximate date

• Abraham Rice, German-born rabbi, first ordained rabbi to serve in the United States (died 1862)

Deaths

• 3 January – Count Karl-Wilhelm Finck von Finckenstein, Prime Minister of Prussia (born 1714)
• 6 January – Friedrich Adolf Riedesel, German soldier (born 1738)
• 11 January – Kyra Frosini, Greek heroine (born 1773)
• 16 January – Johann Christian Wiegleb, German chemist (born 1732)
• 4 February – Charlotte Sophie of Aldenburg, Countess of Varel and Kniphausen (born 1715)
• 20 June – Abraham Gotthelf Kästner, German mathematician (born 1719)
• 28 June – Heinrich XI, Prince Reuss of Greiz, German noble (born 1722)
• 10 September – Johann David Schoepff, German naturalist, doctor (born 1752)
• 4 October – Johann Hermann, German physician, naturalist (born 1738)

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