1851 in Germany

Events from the year 1851 in Germany.

Incumbents

• King of Bavaria – Maximilian II
• King of Hanover –
• Ernest Augustus till 18 November 1851
• George V after 18 November 1851
• King of Prussia – Frederick William IV
• King of Saxony – Frederick Augustus II

Events

• February 1 – Brandtaucher, the oldest surviving submersible craft, sinks during acceptance trials in the German port of Kiel, but the designer, Wilhelm Bauer, and the two crew escape successfully.

Births

• March 24 – Friedrich von Scholtz, German general (d. 1927)
• April 1 – Bruno von Mudra, German general (d. 1931)
• May 7 – Adolf von Harnack, German Lutheran theologian, church historian (d. 1930)

• May 20 – Emile Berliner, German-born American telephone and recording pioneer (d. 1929)
• September 21 – Arthur Schuster, German-British physicist (d. 1934)
• November 27 – Friedrich Sixt von Armin, German general (d. 1936)

Deaths

• January 10 – Karl Freiherr von Müffling, Prussian field marshal (b. 1775)
• January 21 – Albert Lortzing, German composer (b. 1801)
• February 18 – Carl Gustav Jacob Jacobi, German mathematician (b. 1804)
• July 17 – Roger Sheaffe, British general (b. 1763)
• November 18- Ernest Augustus, King of Hanover (b. 1771)
• December 19 – Karl Drais, German inventor (b. 1785)

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