1820 in Germany

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Events from the year 1820 in Germany.

## Incumbents

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### Kingdoms

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* Kingdom of Prussia
* Monarch – Frederick William III of Prussia (16 November 1797 – 7 June 1840)[1]
* 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)
* George IV (29 January 1820 – 26 June 1830)
* Kingdom of Württemberg
* William (30 October 1816 – 25 June 1864)

### Grand Duchies

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* Grand Duke of Baden
* Louis I (8 December 1818 – 30 March 1830)[2]
* Grand Duke of Hesse
* Louis I (14 August 1806 – 6 April 1830)[2]
* Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin
* Frederick Francis I– (24 April 1785 – 1 February 1837)[2]
* Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Strelitz
* George (6 November 1816 – 6 September 1860)[3]
* Grand Duke of Oldenburg
* Wilhelm (6 July 1785 –2 July 1823 ) Due to mental illness, Wilhelm was a duke in name only, with his cousin Peter, Prince-Bishop of Lübeck, acting as regent throughout his entire reign.[4]
* Peter I (2 July 1823 - 21 May 1829)[4]
* Grand Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach
* Charles Frederick (14 June 1828 - 8 July 1853)

### Principalities

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* Schaumburg-Lippe
* George William (13 February 1787 - 1860)
* Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt
* Friedrich Günther (28 April 1807 - 28 June 1867)[5]
* Schwarzburg-Sondershausen
* Günther Friedrich Karl I (14 October 1794 - 19 August 1835)
* Principality of Lippe
* Leopold II (5 November 1802 - 1 January 1851)[6]
* Principality of Reuss-Greiz
* Heinrich XIX (29 January 1817 - 31 October 1836)[7]
* Waldeck and Pyrmont
* George II (9 September 1813 - 15 May 1845)

### Duchies

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* Duke of Anhalt-Dessau
* Leopold IV (9 August 1817 - 22 May 1871)[8]
* Duke of Brunswick
* Charles II (16 June 1815 – 9 September 1830)[9]
* Duke of Saxe-Altenburg
* Duke of Saxe-Hildburghausen (1780–1826) - Frederick[2]
* Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha
* Ernest I (9 December 1806 – 12 November 1826)[10]
* Duke of Saxe-Meiningen
* Bernhard II (24 December 1803 – 20 September 1866)[11]
* Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Beck
* Frederick William (25 March 1816 – 6 July 1825)[12]

## Events

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* 28 January – German-Russian explorer Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen discovers the continent of Antarctica during the First Russian Antarctic Expedition
* 15 April – King William I of Württemberg marries his cousin, Pauline Therese, in Stuttgart.
* 8 June – Constitution of the German Confederation
* 27 August – German Josef Naus makes the first ascent of Germany's highest mountain, the Zugspitze.
* 19 November – Congress of Troppau

## Births

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* 13 January – Leopold Hoesch, German entrepreneur (died 1899)
* 16 January – Johannes Rebmann, German missionary (died 1878)
* 20 January – Wilhelm Paul Corssen, German philologist (died 1875)
* 22 January – Hermann Lingg, German poet (died 1905)
* 25 January – Adelbert Heinrich von Baudissin, German writer (died 1871)
* 23 February – David Kalisch, German playwright and humorist (died 1872)
* 4 March – Ludwig von Henk, German naval officer (died 1894)
* 7 April – Amand Goegg, German journalist and politician (died 1897)
* 10 April – Karl Gustav Ackermann, German politician (died 1901)
* 11 April – Hermann Knoblauch, German physicist (died 1895)
* 22 April – Karl Twesten, German politician and writer (died 1870)
* 2 May – Robert Gerwig, German civil engineer and politician (died 1882)
* 24 May – Carl Ferdinand Appun, German naturalist (died 1872)
* 13 June – Julius Faucher, German politician (died 1878)
* 21 June – Heinrich Burgers, German journalist and politician (died 1878)
* 27 June – Hermann Abeken, German political writer (died 1854)
* 11 July – Friedrich von Spiegel, German orientalist (died 1905)
* 14 July – Sigismund Koelle, German missionary (died 1902)
* 8 August – Julius Stern, German composer and pedagogue (died 1883)
* 15 August – Adolph von Pfretzschner, German politician (died 1901)
* 5 September – Georg Vierling, German composer [died 1901)
* 15 September – Hermann Heinrich Becker, German politician (died 1885)
* 27 September – Wilhelm Siegmund Teuffel, German classical scholar (died 1878)
* 1 October – Ludwig Meyn, Germann agricultural scientist, soil scientist, geologist, journalist, and mineralogist (died 1878)
* 4 October – Joseph Maximilian von Maillinger, Bavarian General der Infanterie and War Minister (died 1901)
* 13 October – Hans von Raumer, German politician (died 1851)
* 23 November – Ludwig von Hagn, German painter (died 1898)
* 28 November – Friedrich Engels, German social philosopher (died 1895)
* 29 November – Ferdinand Ludwig Herff, German-American physician (died 1912)
* 8 December – Rochus von Liliencron, German Germanist and historian (died 1912)
* 18 December – Karl Becker, German painter (died 1900)
* 31 December – Helene Demuth, German housekeeper (died 1890)

## Deaths

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* 10 February – Margravine Elisabeth Louise of Brandenburg-Schwedt, German noblewomen (born 1738)
* 11 February – Karl von Fischer, German architect (born 1782)
* 29 February – Johann Joachim Eschenburg, German historian (born 1743)
* 7 March – Louis Engelbert, 6th Duke of Arenberg, German nobleman (born 1750)
* 27 March – Gerhard von Kügelgen, German painter (born 1772)[13]
* 26 April – Christian Zais, German architect (born 1770)
* 14 May – Paul Struck, German composer (born 1776)
* 20 May – Karl Ludwig Sand, German university student and member of a liberal Burschenschaft (born 1795)
* 1 June – August Ferdinand Bernhardi, German linguist and writer (born 1769)
* 9 June – Wilhelmine, Gräfin von Lichtenau, German noblewomen (born 1753)
* 11 July – Frederick Traugott Pursh, German-Canadian botanist (born 1774)
* 13 September – Princess Adelheid of Anhalt-Bernburg-Schaumburg-Hoym, German noblewomen (born 1800)
* 19 September – Johann Georg Meusel, German historian (born 1743)[14]
* 6 December – Karl Christian Tittmann, German protestant theologian (born 1744)
* 29 December – Princess Pauline of Anhalt-Bernburg, German regent and social reformer (born 1769)[15]

## External links

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* Was war wann.de: Das Jahr 1820 (german)

## References

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1. ^ "Frederick William III". Encyclopaedia Britannica. 30 July 2018.
2. ^ a b c d 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.
3. ^ Bogue, David (1852). The Men of the Time in 1852, Or, Sketches of Living Notables. G. Barclay. pp. 287.
4. ^ a b "Oldenburg Royal Family". Monarchies of Europe. Archived from the original on 17 March 2006. Retrieved 1 January 2021.
5. ^ "Monarchies of Europe". Archived from the original on 14 June 2007.
6. ^ Almanach de Gotha (87th ed.). Justus Perthes. 1850. p. 38.
7. ^ "House of Reuss". European Heraldry. Archived from the original on 25 February 2021. Retrieved 28 December 2020.
8. ^ Almanach de Gotha. 1867. p. 3.
9. ^ Gerhard Schildt: Von der Restauration zur Reichsgründungszeit, in Horst-Rüdiger Jarck / Gerhard Schildt (eds.), Die Braunschweigische Landesgeschichte. Jahrtausendrückblick einer Region, Braunschweig 2000, pp. 753–766.
10. ^ Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Ernest I." . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 9 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 751.
11. ^ "Biografie Georg I (German)". Meininger Museen. Archived from the original on 15 September 2011. Retrieved 8 September 2014.
12. ^ Bille-Hansen, A. C.; Holck, Harald, eds. (1829) [1st pub.:1801]. Kongelig Dansk Hof- og Stats-Calender for Aaret 1829 [Court and State Calendar of the Kingdom of Denmark for the Year 1829] (PDF). Kongelig Dansk Hof- og Statskalender (in Danish). Copenhagen: J.H. Schultz A.-S. Universitetsbogtrykkeri. pp. 5, 8, 51. Retrieved 16 September 2019 - via da:DIS Danmark.
13. ^ Carl Clauß (1883). "Kügelgen, Gerhard von". Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (in German). Vol. 17\. Leipzig: Duncker & Humblot. pp. 305–307.
14. ^ ADB:Meusel, Johann Georg In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie
15. ^ August Falkmann (1887). "Pauline". Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (in German). Vol. 25\. Leipzig: Duncker & Humblot. pp. 275–277.

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