1826 in Germany

Events from the year 1826 in Germany

Incumbents

Kingdoms

• Kingdom of Prussia
• Monarch – Frederick William III (16 November 1797 – 7 June 1840)
• Kingdom of Bavaria
• Monarch - Ludwig I (1825–1848)
• Kingdom of Saxony
• Frederick Augustus I (20 December 1806 – 5 May 1827)
• Kingdom of Hanover
• George IV (29 January 1820 – 26 June 1830)
• Kingdom of Württemberg
• William (30 October 1816 – 25 June 1864)

Grand Duchies

• Grand Duke of Baden
• 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
• 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) and Duke of Saxe-Altenburg (1826–1834) - 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)

Events

• July – Ludwig van Beethoven puts the finishing touches on the String Quartet in C sharp Minor, Opus 131, the jewel in the crown of his late string quartets.
• Ludwig van Beethoven composes the Große Fuge.

Births

• February 16- Joseph Victor von Scheffel, German poet (d. 1888)
• March 29 – Wilhelm Liebknecht, German journalist, politician (d. 1900)

• August 21 – Carl Gegenbaur, German anatomist, professor (d. 1903)
• September 17 – Bernhard Riemann, German mathematician (d. 1866)

Deaths

• March 29 – Johann Heinrich Voss, German poet (b. 1751)
• April 25 – Karl Ludwig von Phull, German military leader (b. 1757)
• May 16 – Empress Elizabeth Alexeievna, consort of Alexander I of Russia (b. 1779)
• June 5 – Carl Maria von Weber, German composer (b. 1786)
• June 7 – Joseph von Fraunhofer, German optician (b. 1787)

• November 23 – Johann Elert Bode, German astronomer (b. 1747)

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