1818 in Germany
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Incumbents
Kingdoms
- Kingdom of Prussia
- Monarch – Frederick William III (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)
- Kingdom of Württemberg
- William (30 October 1816 – 25 June 1864)
Grand Duchies
- Grand Duke of Baden
- Grand Duke of Hesse
- Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin
- Frederick Francis I– (24 April 1785 – 1 February 1837)[3]
- Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Strelitz
- Grand Duke of Oldenburg
- Grand Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach
- Charles Frederick (14 June 1828 - 8 July 1853)
Principalities
- Schaumburg-Lippe
- George William (13 February 1787 - 1860)
- Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt
- Friedrich Günther (28 April 1807 - 28 June 1867)[6]
- Schwarzburg-Sondershausen
- Günther Friedrich Karl I (14 October 1794 - 19 August 1835)
- Principality of Lippe
- Leopold II (5 November 1802 - 1 January 1851)[7]
- Principality of Reuss-Greiz
- Heinrich XIX (29 January 1817 - 31 October 1836)[8]
- Waldeck and Pyrmont
- George II (9 September 1813 - 15 May 1845)
Duchies
- Duke of Anhalt-Dessau
- Leopold IV (9 August 1817 - 22 May 1871)[9]
- Duke of Brunswick
- Charles II (16 June 1815 – 9 September 1830)[10]
- Duke of Saxe-Altenburg
- Duke of Saxe-Hildburghausen (1780–1826) - Frederick[3]
- Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha
- Duke of Saxe-Meiningen
- Bernhard II (24 December 1803–20 September 1866)[12]
- Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Beck
- Frederick William (25 March 1816 – 6 July 1825)[13]
Events
- 12 January - The Dandy horse (Laufmaschine bicycle) was invented by Karl Drais in Mannheim.[14]
- The University of Hohenheim located in the south of Stuttgart, Germany is founded.
- The Städel, officially the Städelsches Kunstinstitut und Städtische Galerie, an art museum in Frankfurt, is founded.
- Akademisches Kunstmuseum, an art museum in Bonn, is founded.
Births
- 8 April – August Wilhelm von Hofmann, German chemist (d. 1892)
- 5 May – Karl Marx, German political philosopher, co-author of The Communist Manifesto (d. 1883)
- 27 September – Adolph Wilhelm Hermann Kolbe, German chemist (d. 1884)
- 7 November — Emil du Bois-Reymond, German physiologist (d. 1896)
- 18 December – Max Joseph von Pettenkofer, German chemist and hygienist (d. 1901)
- Francis Dutton, Germany-born Premier of South Australia (d. 1892)
Deaths
- 11 January – Johann David Wyss, Swiss children's author writing in German (born 1743)[15] 15 February – Friedrich Ludwig, Fürst zu Hohenlohe-Ingelfingen, Prussian general (b. 1746)
- 22 October – Joachim Heinrich Campe, German linguist and publisher (born 1746)
- 5 November – Heinrich Füger, German portrait and historical painter (born 1751)
- 17 November – Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, queen of George III of the United Kingdom (b. 1744)