1817 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 Hanover
- George III (25 October 1760 â 29 January 1820)
- Kingdom of Württemberg
- William (30 October 1816 â 25 June 1864)
Grand Duchies
- Grand Duke of Baden
- Grand Duke of Hesse
- Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin
- Frederick Francis Iâ (24 April 1785 â 1 February 1837)[3]
- Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Strelitz
- Grand Duke of Oldenburg
- Grand Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach
- Charles Frederick (14 June 1828 â 8 July 1853)
Principalities
- Schaumburg-Lippe
- George William (13 February 1787 - 1860)
- Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt
- Friedrich Günther (28 April 1807 â 28 June 1867)[6]
- Schwarzburg-Sondershausen
- Günther Friedrich Karl I (14 October 1794 â 19 August 1835)
- Principality of Lippe
- Leopold II (5 November 1802 â 1 January 1851)[7]
- Principality of Reuss-Greiz
- Heinrich XIII (28 June 1800 â 29 January 1817)
- Heinrich XIX (29 January 1817 â 31 October 1836)[8]
- Waldeck and Pyrmont
- George II (9 September 1813 â 15 May 1845)
Duchies
- Duke of Anhalt-Dessau
- Leopold III (16 December 1751 â 9 August 1817)[9]
- Leopold IV (9 August 1817 â 22 May 1871)[10]
- Duke of Brunswick
- Charles II (16 June 1815 â 9 September 1830)[11]
- Duke of Saxe-Altenburg
- Duke of Saxe-Hildburghausen (1780â1826) - Frederick[3]
- Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha
- Duke of Saxe-Meiningen
- Bernhard II (24 December 1803 â 20 September 1866)[13]
- Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Beck
- Frederick William (25 March 1816 â 6 July 1825)[14]
Events
- 12 June â German inventor Karl Drais drives his dandy horse ("Draisine" or Laufmaschine), the earliest form of bicycle, in Mannheim.
- 18 October â Wartburg Festival
Births
- 22 February â Carl Wilhelm Borchardt, German mathematician (d. 1880)
- 14 September â Theodor Storm, German writer (d. 1888)
- 30 October â Hermann Franz Moritz Kopp, German chemist (d. 1892)
- 30 November â Theodor Mommsen, German writer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1903)
Deaths
- 1 January â Martin Heinrich Klaproth, German chemist who discovered uranium (1789), zirconium (1789), and cerium (1803) (b. 1743)
- 2 April â Johann Heinrich Jung, German writer (b. 1740)
- 30 June â Abraham Gottlob Werner, German geologist (b. 1750)
- 10 August â Leopold III, Duke of Anhalt-Dessau
- 1 December â Justin Heinrich Knecht, German composer, organist and music theorist (b. 1752)