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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 âÂÂ
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
(1758âÂÂ1809) 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
(1780âÂÂ1826) -
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 â A major redistribution of
territorial sovereignty
within the
Holy Roman Empire
is enacted via an act known as the
Reichsdeputationshauptschluss
.
30 May â Following Britain's declaration of war on France,
ÃÂdouard Mortier
leads 12,000 troops in an
Invasion of Hanover
5 July â The
convention of Artlenburg
confirms the French occupation of
Hanover
(which had been ruled by the British king).
Births
JanuaryâÂÂJune
15 February
John Sutter
, pioneer (died
1880
)
Karl Friedrich Schimper
, botanist, naturalist and poet (died
1867
)
26 February âÂÂ
Arnold Adolph Berthold
, physiologist and zoologist (died
1861
)
17 March
Carl Jacob Löwig
, chemist (died
1890
)
12 May âÂÂ
Justus von Liebig
, chemist (died
1873
)
JulyâÂÂDecember
8 July âÂÂ
Julius Mosen
, poet (died
1867
)
17 July âÂÂ
Johann Samuel Eduard d'Alton
, anatomist (died
1854
)
19 July âÂÂ
Wolfgang Franz von Kobell
, mineralogist and writer (died
1882
)
5 October âÂÂ
Friedrich Bernhard Westphal
, painter (died
1844
)
29 November âÂÂ
Gottfried Semper
, architect (died
1879
)
26 September âÂÂ
Adrian Ludwig Richter
, German painter (died
1884
)
6 October âÂÂ
Heinrich Wilhelm Dove
, German physicist and meteorologist (died
1879
)
31 December âÂÂ
Johann Carl Fuhlrott
, German paleoanthropologist (died
1877
)
Deaths
JanuaryâÂÂJune
18 February âÂÂ
Johann Wilhelm Ludwig Gleim
, poet (born 1719)
14 March âÂÂ
Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock
, poet (born 1724)
JulyâÂÂDecember
18 December âÂÂ
Johann Gottfried Herder
, philosopher and writer (born 1744)
References