1861 in Germany
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Events from the year 1861 in Germany.
Incumbents
- King of Bavaria â Ludwig II
- King of Hanover â George V
- King of Prussia â Frederick William IV (until 2 Jan) William I (since 2 Jan)
- King of Saxony â John
- King of Württemberg â William I of Württemberg
- Grand Duke of Baden â Frederick I
Events
- 2 January â Frederick William IV of Prussia dies and is succeeded by Wilhelm I.[1]
- 15 April â Watchmaker Junghans is founded.[2]
- 6 June â German Progress Party (Deutsche Fortschrittspartei) is founded as Germany's first modern political party by liberal members of the Prussian House of Representatives in opposition to Bismarck.[3]
- 1 July- WallrafâRichartz Museum opened in Cologne
- 11 July â German Shooting and Archery Federation is founded in Gotha.[4]
- 14 July â Osckar Becker attempts assassination of William I of Prussia in Baden-Baden.[5]
- 7 August â Allgemeiner Deutscher Musikverein founded by Franz Liszt and Franz Brendel.[6]
- 15 August â First description of Archaeopteryx, based on a feather found in Bavaria;[7] in September the first complete identified skeleton is found near Langenaltheim.[8]
- 1 October â Newspaper Deutsche Allgemeine Zeitung begins daily publication as Nord-deutsche Allgemeine Zeitung.[9]
- Date unknown â Museum Godeffroy in Hamburg is founded.[10]
Births
- 2 January â Wilhelm Bölsche, writer (died 1939)
- 30 January â Charles Martin Loeffler, violist (died 1937 in the United States)
- 4 February â Franz Winter, archaeologist (died 1930)
- 17 February â Princess Helena of Waldeck and Pyrmont, Duchess of Albany, marries into the British royal family (died 1922 in Austria)
- 6 March â Friedrich Eckenfelder, painter (died 1938)
- 21 March â Charles Swickard, silent film director (died 1929 in the United States)
- 14 May â Harro Magnussen, sculptor (died 1908)
- 28 May â Siegfried Czapski, physicist and optician (died 1907)
- 19 June â Ludwig Traube, palaeographer (died 1907)
- 22 June â Maximilian von Spee, admiral (died 1914)
- 16 July â Franz von Blon, composer (died 1945)
- 11 September â Erich von Falkenhayn, general (died 1922)
- 18 September â Walter Schott, sculptor (died 1938)
- 23 September â Robert Bosch, industrialist, engineer and inventor (died 1942)
- 24 September â Walter Simons, lawyer and politician (died 1937)
- 28 September â Wilhelm Diegelmann, actor (died 1934)
- 29 September â Carl Duisberg, chemist and industrialist (died 1935)
- 15 October â Eduard Schmid, politician (died 1933)
- 20 October â Maximilian Harden, journalist (died 1927)
- 10 December
- Karl Groos, philosopher (died 1946)
- Elisabeth von Heyking, novelist and travel diarist (died 1925)
- 26 December
- Friedrich Engel, mathematician (died 1941)
- Ludolf von Krehl, internist (died 1937)
- 29 December â Kurt Hensel, mathematician (died 1941)
Deaths
- 2 January â Frederick William IV of Prussia, King of Prussia from 1840 to 1861 (born 1795)
- 21 January â Ernst Friedrich August Rietschel, sculptor (born 1804)
- 19 January â Albert Niemann, chemist (born 1834)
- 9 February â Karl Otto Ludwig von Arnim, travel writer and playwright (born 1779)
- 18 February â Theodor Mügge, writer (born 1802)
- 25 October â Friedrich Carl von Savigny, academic lawyer and historian (born 1779)
- 26 November â Wilhelm Hensel, painter (born 1794)
- 1 December â Heinrich August Hahn, theologian (born 1821)
- 18 December â Ernst Anschütz, teacher, organist, poet and composer (born 1780)
