1802 in Germany
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Incumbents
Holy Roman Empire
- Francis II (5 July 1792 – 6 August 1806)
Important Electors
- Bavaria- Maximilian I (16 February 1799 – 6 August 1806)[1]
- Saxony- Frederick Augustus I (17 December 1763 – 20 December 1806)[2]
Kingdoms
- Kingdom of Prussia
- Monarch – Frederick William III (16 November 1797 – 7 June 1840)[3]
Grand Duchies
- Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin
- Frederick Francis I– (24 April 1785 – 1 February 1837)[4]
- Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Strelitz
- Charles II (2 June 1794 – 6 November 1816)[5]
- Grand Duke of Oldenburg
- Grand Duke of Saxe-Weimar
- Karl August (1758–1809) Raised to grand duchy in 1809
Principalities
- Schaumburg-Lippe
- George William (13 February 1787 – 1860)
- Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt
- Louis Frederick II (13 April 1793 – 28 April 1807)[7]
- Schwarzburg-Sondershausen
- Günther Friedrich Karl I (14 October 1794 – 19 August 1835)
- Principality of Lippe
- Leopold II (5 November 1802 – 1 January 1851)[8]
- 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
- Duke of Anhalt-Dessau
- Leopold III (16 December 1751 – 9 August 1817)[9]
- Duke of Brunswick
- Frederick William (16 October 1806 – 16 June 1815)[10]
- Duke of Saxe-Altenburg
- Duke of Saxe-Hildburghausen (1780–1826) - Frederick[4]
- 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]
- Duke of Württemberg - Frederick I (1797–1803)[13]
Other
- Landgrave of Hesse-Darmstadt
- Margrave of Baden- Charles Frederick (21 October 1771 – 27 April 1803)
Events
- 3 March – Ludwig van Beethoven publishes his Piano Sonata No. 14, commonly known as the "Moonlight Sonata" (Mondschein), in Vienna; the availability of the sheet music is announced by Giovanni Cappi in the newspaper Wiener Zeitung.[14]
- Johann Wilhelm Ritter builds the first electrochemical cell.[15][16]
Births
- 2 May – Heinrich Gustav Magnus, German chemist, physicist (died 1870)
- 26 May – Karl Ferdinand Ranke, German educator (died 1876)
- 2 June – Karl Lehrs, German classicist (died 1878)
- 17 June – Hermann Goldschmidt, German painter and astronomer (died 1866)
- 26 August – Ludwig Michael Schwanthaler, German sculptor (died 1848)
- 29 November – Wilhelm Hauff, German poet and novelist (died 1827)
- Ernst Friedrich Zwirner, Silesian-born architect working in Germany (died 1861)
Date unknown
- Friedrich Hohe, German lithographer, painter (died 1870)
Deaths
- 5 June – Johann Christian Gottlieb Ernesti, German classicist (born 1756)
- 29 June – Johann Jakob Engel, German teacher and writer (born 1741)
- 25 July – Friedrich Karl Joseph von Erthal, Archbishop of Mainz (born 1719)
- 10 August – Franz Aepinus, German natural philosopher (born 1724)