1849 in Germany
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Events from the year 1849 in Germany.
Incumbents
Events
- March â The Frankfurt Parliament completes its drafting of a liberal constitution, and elects Frederick William IV emperor of the new German national state.
- April 2 â The German revolutions of 1848â49 fail, as King Frederick William IV of Prussia refuses to accept the offer of the Frankfurt National Assembly to be crowned as German emperor.
- May 3 -The May Uprising in Dresden, last of the German revolutions of 1848â49, begins. Richard Wagner is among the participants.
- May 9 â The May Uprising in Dresden is suppressed by the Kingdom of Saxony.
- June 1 8-German revolutions of 1848â49: The chamber of the Frankfurt Parliament, since reduced to a rump parliament and moved to Stuttgart, was occupied by the Württemberg army. Repression began, which would force the liberal Forty-Eighters into exile.
- December 3 â German missionaries Johann Ludwig Krapf and Johannes Rebmann become the first Europeans to see Mount Kenya .[1] The Abgeordnetenhaus, the lower house of the parliament of the Kingdom of Bavaria, passes a bill granting German Jews the same legal rights as German Christians.[2] The measure draws a strong reaction from Christians across Bavaria, who sign petitions urging the upper house to prevent the equal rights measure from becoming law.[3]
Births
- March 19 â Alfred von Tirpitz, German admiral (d. 1930)
- April 21 â Oscar Hertwig, German zoologist (d. 1922)
- April 25 â Felix Klein, German mathematician (d. 1925)
- May 3
- Bertha Benz, German automotive pioneer (d. 1944)
- Bernhard von Bülow, 8th Chancellor of Germany (d. 1929)
- July 22 â Emma Lazarus, American author and activist (d. 1887 )
- July 24 â August Scherl, German newspaper magnate (d. 1921)
- July 29 -Edward Theodore Compton, English-German painter, mountain climber (d. 1921 )
- September 23 â Hugo von Seeliger, German astronomer (d. 1924 )
- October 26 â Ferdinand Georg Frobenius, German mathematician (d. 1917 )
- December 5 â Eduard Seler, Prussian scholar, Mesoamericanist (d. 1922 )
- December 6 â August von Mackensen, German field marshal (d. 1945 )
Deaths
- February 28 â Regina von Siebold, German physician, obstetrician (b. 1771)
- March 24 â Johann Wolfgang Döbereiner, German chemist (b. 1780)
- May 11 -Otto Nicolai, German composer, conductor (b. 1810 )
- September 4 â Friedrich Laun, German novelist (b. 1770 )
- September 6 â Andreas Joseph Hofmann, German philosopher and revolutionary (b. 1752 )