1803 in Germany

Events in the year 1803 in Germany

Incumbents

Holy Roman Empire

• Francis II (5 July 17926 August 1806)

Important Electors

• Baden- Charles Frederick (27 April 18036 August 1806)
• Bavaria- Maximilian I (16 February 17996 August 1806)
• Saxony- Frederick Augustus I (17 December 176320 December 1806)
• Württemberg - Frederick I (180330 October 1816)

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 Lippe
• Leopold II (5 November 18021 January 1851)
• 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
• Bernhard II (24 December 180320 September 1866)
• Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Beck
• Frederick Charles Louis (24 February 177525 March 1816)

Other

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

Events

• 25 February – A major redistribution of territorial sovereignty within the Holy Roman Empire is enacted via an act known as the Reichsdeputationshauptschluss.
• 30 May – Following Britain's declaration of war on France, Édouard Mortier leads 12,000 troops in an Invasion of Hanover
• 5 July – The convention of Artlenburg confirms the French occupation of Hanover (which had been ruled by the British king).

Births

January–June

• 15 February
• John Sutter, pioneer (died 1880)
• Karl Friedrich Schimper, botanist, naturalist and poet (died 1867)
• 26 February – Arnold Adolph Berthold, physiologist and zoologist (died 1861)
• 17 March Carl Jacob Löwig, chemist (died 1890)
• 12 May – Justus von Liebig, chemist (died 1873)

July–December

• 8 July – Julius Mosen, poet (died 1867)
• 17 July – Johann Samuel Eduard d'Alton, anatomist (died 1854)
• 19 July – Wolfgang Franz von Kobell, mineralogist and writer (died 1882)
• 5 October – Friedrich Bernhard Westphal, painter (died 1844)
• 29 November – Gottfried Semper, architect (died 1879)
• 26 September – Adrian Ludwig Richter, German painter (died 1884)
• 6 October – Heinrich Wilhelm Dove, German physicist and meteorologist (died 1879)
• 31 December – Johann Carl Fuhlrott, German paleoanthropologist (died 1877)

Deaths

January–June

• 18 February – Johann Wilhelm Ludwig Gleim, poet (born 1719)
• 14 March – Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock, poet (born 1724)

July–December

• 18 December – Johann Gottfried Herder, philosopher and writer (born 1744)

References