1809 in Germany
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Incumbents
Kingdoms
- Kingdom of Prussia
- Monarch â Frederick William III (16 November 1797 â 7 June 1840)[1]
- Kingdom of Bavaria
- Maximilian I (1 January 1806 â 13 October 1825)
- Kingdom of Saxony
- Frederick Augustus I (20 December 1806 â 5 May 1827)
- Kingdom of Württemberg
- Frederick I (22 December 1797 â 30 October 1816)
Grand Duchies
- Grand Duke of Baden
- Charles Frederick (25 July 1806 â 10 June 1811)
- Grand Duke of Hesse
- Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin
- Frederick Francis Iâ (24 April 1785 â 1 February 1837)[2]
- Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Strelitz
- Charles II (2 June 1794 â 6 November 1816)[3]
- Grand Duke of Oldenburg
- Grand Duke of Saxe-Weimar
- Karl August (1758â1809) Raised to grand duchy in 1809
Principalities
- 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 XIII (28 June 1800-29 January 1817)
- Waldeck and Pyrmont
- Friedrich Karl August (29 August 1763 â 24 September 1812)
Duchies
- Duke of Anhalt-Dessau
- Leopold III (16 December 1751 â 9 August 1817)[7]
- Duke of Brunswick
- Frederick William (16 October 1806 â 16 June 1815)[8]
- Duke of Saxe-Altenburg
- Duke of Saxe-Hildburghausen (1780â1826) - Frederick[2]
- Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha
- Duke of Saxe-Meiningen
- Bernhard II (24 December 1803â20 September 1866)[10]
- Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Beck
- Frederick Charles Louis (24 February 1775 â 25 March 1816)[11]
Events
- 9 April â Tiroleans rise, under the command of Andreas Hofer, against French and Bavarian occupation.
- 14 April â Battle of Abensberg, Bavaria: Napoleon defeats Austria.
- 19 April â War of the Fifth Coalition â
- Battle of Raszyn: The armies of the Austrian Empire are defeated by the Duchy of Warsaw.
- Battle of Teugen-Hausen: The armies of the Austrian Empire are defeated by the French and their Bavarian allies.
- 21 April â Battle of Landshut
- 21/22 April â Battle of Eckmühl
- 23 April â Battle of Ratisbon
- 24 April â Battle of Neumarkt-Sankt Veit
- 8 July â Battle of Gefrees
- 29/30 July â Battle of Halberstadt
- 1 August â Battle of Ãlper
- Black Brunswickers established
- Corps Hannovera Göttingen established
- Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach formed from a merger and raised to a grand duchy
Births
- 3 February â Felix Mendelssohn, German composer (d. 1847)
- 24 February â Edwin Freiherr von Manteuffel, Prussian field marshal (d. 1885)
- 21 February â Carl Ernst Bock, German physician and anatomist (d. 1874).
- 15 April â Hermann Grassmann, Prussian mathematician (d. 1877)
- 5 May â Frederick Langenheim, German American pioneer of panoramic photography (died 1879
- 23 May â Hugo von Kirchbach, Prussian general (d. 1887)
- 13 June â Heinrich Hoffmann, German author and children's poet (d. 1894)
- 20 June â Isaak August Dorner, German theologian (d. 1884)
- 16 July â Konstantin Bernhard von Voigts-Rhetz, Prussian general (d. 1877)
- 8 August â Heinrich Abeken, German theologian (d. 1872)
- 12 September â Julius von Bose, Prussian general (d. 1894)
- 10 November â David Einhorn (rabbi), German-American abolitionist (d. 12879)
- 20 November â Gustav Koerner, German-born revolutionary, journalist, lawyer, politician, a statesman of Illinois and Germany, Colonel of the U.S. Army (d. 1896)
- 30 December â Wilhelm von Tümpling, Prussian general (d. 1884)
Deaths
- 6 January â Johann Augustus Eberhard, German theologian, philosopher (b. 1739)
- 18 March â Karoline Kaulla, German banker (b. 1739)
- 26 April â Bernhard Schott, German music publisher (b. 1748)
- 1 September â Johann Friedrich August Göttling, German chemist (b. 1753)
- 7 September â Caroline Schelling, German scholar (b. 1763)
- 28 November â Jakob Heinrich Laspeyres, German lepidopterist (b. 1769)