Events from the year 1816 in Germany.
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- January 9 â Ludwig van Beethoven obtains custody of his nephew Karl, after a legal battle with the boy's mother.
- 10 February â Friedrich Karl Ludwig, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Beck, dies and is succeeded by Friedrich Wilhelm, his son and founder of the House of Glücksburg.
- April 17 â Josef von Spaun writes to Johann Wolfgang von Goethe for permission to have his poems set to music by the youthful Franz Schubert.
- July 13 â Carl Maria von Weber meets Count Vitzthum von Eckstädt at Carlsbad; the encounter leads to Weber being appointed Kapellmeister at Dresden.
- October 2 â Johann Nepomuk Hummel is offered a post at Stuttgart by Duke Frederick I of Württemberg.
- November 19 â Carl Maria von Weber becomes engaged to soprano Caroline Brandt.
- Ludwig van Beethoven : To the distant beloved op. 98 (song cycle); Der Mann von Wort - Lied Op. 99; Piano Sonata No. 28 op.101 (completed in 1816, premiered in 1817)
- Johann Simon Mayr : 6 cantatas ( Egeria , Annibale , Lo spavento , La tempesta , Le Festivals d'Ercole , L'armonia )
- Carl Maria von Weber : Piano Sonata No. 2 in A flat major op. 39; Piano Sonata No. 3 in D minor, Op. 49; Grand Duo concertant for clarinet and piano in E flat major op.48 (chamber music)
- Franz Bopp â ÃÂber das Conjugationssystem der Sanskritsprache in Vergleichung mit jenem der griechischen, lateinischen, persischen und germanischen Sprache (On the Conjugation System of Sanskrit in comparison with that of Greek, Latin, Persian and Germanic)
- Pinkus Müller brewery established.
- Province of Saxony established
- Province of Brandenburg established
- The Neue Wache, a listed building on Unter den Linden boulevard in the historic centre of Berlin. Erected from 1816 to 1818.
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