1810 in Germany

Events from the year 1810 in Germany.

Incumbents

Kingdoms

• Kingdom of Prussia
• Monarch – Frederick William III (16 November 1797 – 7 June 1840)
• 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 Württemberg
• Frederick I (22 December 1797 – 30 October 1816)

Grand Duchies

• Grand Duke of Baden
• Charles Frederick (25 July 1806 – 10 June 1811)
• Grand Duke of Hesse
• Louis I (14 August 1806 – 6 April 1830)
• Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin
• Frederick Francis I– (24 April 1785 – 1 February 1837)
• Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Strelitz
• Charles II (2 June 1794 – 6 November 1816)
• 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.
• Peter I (2 July 1823 - 21 May 1829)
• Grand Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach
• Karl August (1809–1815)

Principalities

• Schaumburg-Lippe
• George William (13 February 1787 - 1860)
• Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt
• Friedrich Günther (28 April 1807 - 28 June 1867)
• Schwarzburg-Sondershausen
• Günther Friedrich Karl I (14 October 1794 - 19 August 1835)
• Principality of Lippe
• Leopold II (5 November 1802 - 1 January 1851)
• Principality of Reuss-Greiz
• Heinrich XIII (28 June 1800 – 29 January 1817)
• Waldeck and Pyrmont
• Friedrich Karl August (29 August 1763 – 24 September 1812)

Duchies

• Duke of Anhalt-Dessau
• Leopold III (16 December 1751 – 9 August 1817)
• Duke of Brunswick
• Frederick William (16 October 1806 – 16 June 1815)
• Duke of Saxe-Altenburg
• Duke of Saxe-Hildburghausen (1780–1826) - Frederick
• Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha
• Ernest I (9 December 1806 – 12 November 1826)
• Duke of Saxe-Meiningen
• Bernhard II (24 December 1803 – 20 September 1866)
• Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Beck
• Frederick Charles Louis (24 February 1775 – 25 March 1816)

Events

• 27 April – Beethoven composes his famous piano piece, Für Elise.
• 16 May – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe publishes his book Zu Farbenlehre (Theory of Colours).
• 12 October – First Oktoberfest: Bavarian royalty invites the citizens of Munich to join the celebration of the marriage of Crown Prince Ludwig of Bavaria, to Princess Therese of Saxe-Hildburghausen.

Date unknown

• Friedrich Krupp establishes a steel foundry in Essen.
• Germaine de Staël's study of Germany De l'Allemagne is published in Paris but suppressed by order of Napoleon.
• Brandenburger Symphoniker established.
• Prussian Staff College established.

Births

• 29 January – Ernst Kummer, German mathematician (d. 1893)
• 24 May – Abraham Geiger, German rabbi, founder of European Reform Judaism (d. 1874)
• 8 June – Robert Schumann, German composer, pianist (d. 1856)
• 9 June – Otto Nicolai, German composer, conductor (d. 1849)
• 17 July – Georg Heinrich Busse, German landscape painter and engraver (died 1868)
• 20 July – Leonhard Graf von Blumenthal, Prussian field marshal (d. 1908)
• 11 October – Anton Zwengauer, German painter (d. 1884)
• 7 December – Theodor Schwann, German physiologist (d. 1882)

Deaths

• 23 January – Johann Wilhelm Ritter, German chemist, physicist (b. 1776)
• 14 March – Ludwig Timotheus Spittler, German historian (born 1752)
• 1 May – Christoph Meiners, German philosopher (born 1747)
• 19 July – Louise of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, Queen of Prussia (b. 1776)
• 11 November – Johan Zoffany, German-born painter (b. 1733)
• 2 December – Philipp Otto Runge, German painter (b. 1777)

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