1820 in Germany
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Events from the year 1820 in Germany.
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 â29 January 1820)
- George IV (29 January 1820 â 26 June 1830)
- 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)[2]
- 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)[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
- Duke of Anhalt-Dessau
- Leopold IV (9 August 1817 - 22 May 1871)[8]
- Duke of Brunswick
- Charles II (16 June 1815 â 9 September 1830)[9]
- 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 1803 â 20 September 1866)[11]
- Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Beck
- Frederick William (25 March 1816 â 6 July 1825)[12]
Events
- 28 January â German-Russian explorer Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen discovers the continent of Antarctica during the First Russian Antarctic Expedition
- 15 April â King William I of Württemberg marries his cousin, Pauline Therese, in Stuttgart.
- 8 June â Constitution of the German Confederation
- 27 August â German Josef Naus makes the first ascent of Germany's highest mountain, the Zugspitze.
- 19 November â Congress of Troppau
Births
- 13 January â Leopold Hoesch, German entrepreneur (died 1899)
- 16 January â Johannes Rebmann, German missionary (died 1878)
- 20 January â Wilhelm Paul Corssen, German philologist (died 1875)
- 22 January â Hermann Lingg, German poet (died 1905)
- 25 January â Adelbert Heinrich von Baudissin, German writer (died 1871)
- 23 February â David Kalisch, German playwright and humorist (died 1872)
- 4 March â Ludwig von Henk, German naval officer (died 1894)
- 7 April â Amand Goegg, German journalist and politician (died 1897)
- 10 April â Karl Gustav Ackermann, German politician (died 1901)
- 11 April â Hermann Knoblauch, German physicist (died 1895)
- 22 April â Karl Twesten, German politician and writer (died 1870)
- 2 May â Robert Gerwig, German civil engineer and politician (died 1882)
- 24 May â Carl Ferdinand Appun, German naturalist (died 1872)
- 13 June â Julius Faucher, German politician (died 1878)
- 21 June â Heinrich Burgers, German journalist and politician (died 1878)
- 27 June â Hermann Abeken, German political writer (died 1854)
- 11 July â Friedrich von Spiegel, German orientalist (died 1905)
- 14 July â Sigismund Koelle, German missionary (died 1902)
- 8 August â Julius Stern, German composer and pedagogue (died 1883)
- 15 August â Adolph von Pfretzschner, German politician (died 1901)
- 5 September â Georg Vierling, German composer [died 1901)
- 15 September â Hermann Heinrich Becker, German politician (died 1885)
- 27 September â Wilhelm Siegmund Teuffel, German classical scholar (died 1878)
- 1 October â Ludwig Meyn, Germann agricultural scientist, soil scientist, geologist, journalist, and mineralogist (died 1878)
- 4 October â Joseph Maximilian von Maillinger, Bavarian General der Infanterie and War Minister (died 1901)
- 13 October â Hans von Raumer, German politician (died 1851)
- 23 November â Ludwig von Hagn, German painter (died 1898)
- 28 November â Friedrich Engels, German social philosopher (died 1895)
- 29 November â Ferdinand Ludwig Herff, German-American physician (died 1912)
- 8 December â Rochus von Liliencron, German Germanist and historian (died 1912)
- 18 December â Karl Becker, German painter (died 1900)
- 31 December â Helene Demuth, German housekeeper (died 1890)
Deaths
- 10 February â Margravine Elisabeth Louise of Brandenburg-Schwedt, German noblewomen (born 1738)
- 11 February â Karl von Fischer, German architect (born 1782)
- 29 February â Johann Joachim Eschenburg, German historian (born 1743)
- 7 March â Louis Engelbert, 6th Duke of Arenberg, German nobleman (born 1750)
- 27 March â Gerhard von Kügelgen, German painter (born 1772)[13]
- 26 April â Christian Zais, German architect (born 1770)
- 14 May â Paul Struck, German composer (born 1776)
- 20 May â Karl Ludwig Sand, German university student and member of a liberal Burschenschaft (born 1795)
- 1 June â August Ferdinand Bernhardi, German linguist and writer (born 1769)
- 9 June â Wilhelmine, Gräfin von Lichtenau, German noblewomen (born 1753)
- 11 July â Frederick Traugott Pursh, German-Canadian botanist (born 1774)
- 13 September â Princess Adelheid of Anhalt-Bernburg-Schaumburg-Hoym, German noblewomen (born 1800)
- 19 September â Johann Georg Meusel, German historian (born 1743)[14]
- 6 December â Karl Christian Tittmann, German Protestant theologian (born 1744)
- 29 December â Princess Pauline of Anhalt-Bernburg, German regent and social reformer (born 1769)[15]