1805 in Germany
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Events from the year 1805 in Germany.
Incumbents[edit]
Holy Roman Empire[edit]
- Francis II (5 July 1792 – 6 August 1806)
Important Electors[edit]
- Baden- Charles Frederick (27 April 1803 – 6 August 1806)
- Bavaria- Maximilian I (16 February 1799 – 6 August 1806)[1]
- Saxony- Frederick Augustus I (17 December 1763 – 20 December 1806)[2]
- Würzburg- Ferdinand III (25 December 1805 – 6 August 1806)
- Württemberg - Frederick I (1803 – 30 October 1816)[3]
Kingdoms[edit]
- Kingdom of Prussia
- Monarch – Frederick William III of Prussia (16 November 1797 – 7 June 1840)[4]
Grand Duchies[edit]
- Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin
- Frederick Francis I (24 April 1785 – 1 February 1837)[5]
- Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Strelitz
- Charles II (2 June 1794 – 6 November 1816)[6]
- Grand Duke of Oldenburg
- Grand Duke of Saxe-Weimar
- Karl August (1758–1809) Raised to grand duchy in 1809
Principalities[edit]
- Schaumburg-Lippe
- George William (13 February 1787 – 1860)
- Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt
- Louis Frederick II (13 April 1793 – 28 April 1807)[8]
- Schwarzburg-Sondershausen
- Günther Friedrich Karl I (14 October 1794 – 19 August 1835)
- Principality of Lippe
- Leopold II (5 November 1802 – 1 January 1851)[9]
- 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[edit]
- Duke of Anhalt-Dessau
- Leopold III (16 December 1751 – 9 August 1817)[10]
- Duke of Saxe-Altenburg
- Duke of Saxe-Hildburghausen (1780–1826) - Frederick[5]
- Duke of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld
- Francis (8 September 1800 – 9 December 1806)
- Duke of Saxe-Meiningen
- Bernhard II (24 December 1803 – 20 September 1866)[11]
- Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Beck
- Frederick Charles Louis (24 February 1775 – 25 March 1816)[12]
Other[edit]
Events[edit]
- 7 April – Beethoven's Symphony No. 3, Eroica, has its public premiere at the Theater an der Wien in Vienna under his baton.
- 9 April - The first Weltsekttag to celebrate the resistance to Napoleon.
- 8 October – Battle of Wertingen
- 9 October – Battle of Günzburg
- 11 October – Battle of Haslach-Jungingen
- 14 October – Napoleonic Wars: War of the Third Coalition – Ulm Campaign: Battle of Elchingen – An Austrian corps under Johann von Riesch is defeated by Marshal Ney, near Elchingen, Bavaria.
- 16–19 October – War of the Third Coalition: Ulm Campaign – Battle of Ulm: Austrian General Mack von Leiberich is forced to surrender his entire army to Napoleon, after being surrounded.
- 3 November – Treaty of Potsdam
- 20 November – Beethoven's only opera Fidelio, in its original form (known retrospectively as Leonore), is premiered at the Theater an der Wien in Vienna, which at this time is under French military occupation.
- German Army surgeon Philipp Bozzini invents the lichtleiter, ancestor of the endoscope, for examination of bodily orifices.[13][14][15]
- Grand Duchy of Würzburg is established.
Births[edit]
- 27 January – Samuel Palmer, English artist (died 1881)
- 13 February – Peter Gustav Lejeune Dirichlet, German mathematician (died 1859)
- 8 April – Hugo von Mohl, German botanist (died 1872)
- 30 July – Rudolf Wagner, German anatomist, pathologist (died 1864)
- 27 September – George Müller, Prussian evangelist, founder of the New Orphan Houses, Ashley Down, Bristol in England (died 1898)
- 14 November – Fanny Mendelssohn, German composer, pianist (died 1847)[16]
Deaths[edit]
- 17 January – Paschen von Cossel, German lawyer (born 1714)
- 20 February – Justus Claproth, German jurist, inventor of the de-inking process of recycled paper (born 1728)
- 9 May – Friedrich Schiller, German playwright (born 1759)
- 5 October - Eleonore Prochaska, German heroine soldier (born 1785)
References[edit]
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- ^ "General German Biography - Wikisource". Retrieved 24 January 2021.
- ^ David, Saul (1998). Prince of pleasure : the Prince of Wales and the making of the Regency. New York : Atlantic Monthly Press. ISBN 978-0-87113-739-5. Retrieved 24 January 2021.
- ^ Tikkanen, Amy (30 July 2018). "Federick William III". Encyclopaedia Britannica. Retrieved 21 September 2022.
- ^ a b c Genealogie ascendante jusqu'au quatrieme degre inclusivement de tous les Rois et Princes de maisons souveraines de l'Europe actuellement vivans [Genealogy up to the fourth degree inclusive of all the Kings and Princes of sovereign houses of Europe currently living] (in French). Bourdeaux: Frederic Guillaume Birnstiel. 1768. p. 38.
- ^ Huish, Robert (1821). Public and Private Life His Late Excellent and most Gracious Majesty George The Third. T. Kelly. p. 170.
- ^ a b "Oldenburg Royal Family". Monarchies of Europe. Archived from the original on 17 March 2006. Retrieved 1 January 2021.
- ^ Apfelstedt, F.; Apfelstedt, Heinrich Friedrich Theodor (1996). Das Haus Kevernburg-Schwarzburg von seinem Ursprunge bis auf unsere Zeit. Thüringer Chronik-Verlag Müllerott. ISBN 978-3-910132-29-0.
- ^ Almanach de Gotha (87th ed.). Justus Perthes. 1850. p. 38.
- ^ J. Morley, "The Bauhaus Effect," in Social Utopias of the Twenties (Germany: Müller Bushmann press, 1995), 11.
- ^ "Biografie Georg I (German)". Meininger Museen. Archived from the original on 15 September 2011. Retrieved 8 September 2014.
- ^ Albinus, Robert (1985). Lexikon der Stadt Königsberg Pr. und Umgebung (in German). Leer: Verlag Gerhard Rautenberg. p. 371. ISBN 3-7921-0320-6.
- ^ Bozzini, P. (1806). "Lichtleiter: eine Erfindung zur Anschauung innerer Theile und Krankheiten nebst der Abbildung". J Practischen Arzneykunde. 24. Berlin: 107–24.
- ^ Bozzini, P. (1810). "Lichtleiter, eine Erfindung zur Anschauung innerer Theile und Krankheiten nebst der Abbildung". Heidelbergische Jahrbücher der Litteratur. Vol. 3. Heidelberg: Wöhr & Zimmer. p. 207. Retrieved 6 September 2010.
- ^ Bush, Ronnie Beth; Leonhardt, Hanna; Bush, Irving M.; Landes, Ralph R. (1974). "Dr. Bozzini's Lichtleiter: A translation of his original article (1806)". Urology. 3 (1): 119–23. doi:10.1016/S0090-4295(74)80080-4. PMID 4591409.
- ^ Randel, Don Michael (1999). The Harvard Biographical Dictionary of Music. Cambridge: Belknap Press. p. 376. ISBN 978-0-67400-084-1.