1818 in Germany

Events from the year 1818 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 Hanover
• George III (25 October 1760 –29 January 1820)
• Kingdom of Württemberg
• William (30 October 1816 – 25 June 1864)

Grand Duchies

• Grand Duke of Baden
• Charles 10 June 1811 – 8 December 1818
• Louis I (8 December 1818 – 30 March 1830)
• 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
• George (6 November 1816 – 6 September 1860)
• 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
• Charles Frederick (14 June 1828 - 8 July 1853)

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 XIX (29 January 1817 - 31 October 1836)
• Waldeck and Pyrmont
• George II (9 September 1813 - 15 May 1845)

Duchies

• Duke of Anhalt-Dessau
• Leopold IV (9 August 1817 - 22 May 1871)
• Duke of Brunswick
• Charles II (16 June 1815 – 9 September 1830)
• 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 William (25 March 1816 – 6 July 1825)

Events

• 12 January - The Dandy horse (Laufmaschine bicycle) was invented by Karl Drais in Mannheim.
• The University of Hohenheim located in the south of Stuttgart, Germany is founded.
• The Städel, officially the Städelsches Kunstinstitut und Städtische Galerie, an art museum in Frankfurt, is founded.
• Akademisches Kunstmuseum, an art museum in Bonn, is founded.

Births

• 8 April – August Wilhelm von Hofmann, German chemist (d. 1892)
• 5 May – Karl Marx, German political philosopher, co-author of The Communist Manifesto (d. 1883)

• 27 September – Adolph Wilhelm Hermann Kolbe, German chemist (d. 1884)
• 7 November — Emil du Bois-Reymond, German physiologist (d. 1896)
• 18 December – Max Joseph von Pettenkofer, German chemist and hygienist (d. 1901)
• Francis Dutton, Germany-born Premier of South Australia (d. 1892)

Deaths

• 11 January – Johann David Wyss, Swiss children's author writing in German (born 1743) 15 February – Friedrich Ludwig, Fürst zu Hohenlohe-Ingelfingen, Prussian general (b. 1746)
• 22 October – Joachim Heinrich Campe, German linguist and publisher (born 1746)
• 5 November – Heinrich Füger, German portrait and historical painter (born 1751)

• 17 November – Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, queen of George III of the United Kingdom (b. 1744)

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