1823 in Germany

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Events from the year 1823 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 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 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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* 10 February – The first worldwide carnival parade takes place in Cologne, Prussia.
* 13 April – Franz Liszt, 11, gives a concert in Vienna, after which he is personally congratulated by Ludwig van Beethoven.[13]

## Births

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* 4 April – Carl Wilhelm Siemens, German engineer (d. 1883)
* 6 December – Friedrich Max Müller, German Orientalist (d. 1900)
* 13 December – Ferdinand Büchner, German composer (d. 1906)

## References

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1. ^ Tikkanen, Amy (30 July 2018). "Federick William III". Encyclopaedia Britannica. Retrieved 21 September 2022.
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. p. 5, 8, 51. Retrieved 16 September 2019 – via da:DIS Danmark.
13. ^ According to Gustav Schilling.