1864 in Germany
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Events from the year 1864 in Germany.
Incumbents
Events
- 1 February â Beginning of Second Schleswig War[1]
- 2 February â Battle of Mysunde
- 6 February â Battle of Sankelmark
- 17 March â Battle of Jasmund
- 7â18 April â Battle of Dybbøl
- 25 April â 25 June â London Conference of 1864
- 9 May â Battle of Heligoland
- 29 June â 1 July â Battle of Als
- 3 July â Battle of Lundby
- 30 October â Treaty of Vienna, End of Second Schleswig War
Undated
- Evacuation of Danevirke
- Alfred Enneper publishes his parametrization of the Enneper surface in connection with minimal surface theory
- Hugo Erfurt invents Ingrain wallpaper
Births
- 8 January â Julie Wolfthorn, German painter (died 1944)
- 13 January â Wilhelm Wien, German physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1928)
- 5 February â Carl Teike, German composer (died 1922)
- 16 February â Hermann Stehr, German novelist and writer (died 1940)
- 24 February â Alfred Jeremias, German pastor, assyriologist and an expert on the religions of the Ancient Near East (died 1935)
- 4 March â Johanna Ey, German art dealer (died 1944)
- 30 March â Franz Oppenheimer, German sociologist (died 1943)
- 11 April â Johanna Elberskirchen, German writer and women rights activist (died 1943)
- 21 April â Max Weber, German sociologist (died 1920)
- 5 May â Hans Gerhard Gräf, German Goethe specialist (died 1942)
- 12 May â Cäsar Flaischlen, German poet (died 1920)
- 15 May â Robert Schmidt, German politician (died 1943)
- 21 May â Otfried Nippold, German jurist (died 1938)
- 22 May â Willy Stöwer, German artist and painter (died 1931)
- 2 June â Wilhelm Souchon, German admiral (died 1946)
- 3 June â Albert Fraenkel, German physician (died 1938)
- 11 June â Richard Strauss, German composer (died 1949)
- 14 June â Alois Alzheimer, German psychiatrist, neuropathologist (died 1915)
- 16 June â Willy Wolterstorff, German paleontologist and herpetologist (died 1943)
- 22 June â Hermann Minkowski, German mathematician (died 1909), born in Russia
- 25 June â Walther Nernst, German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1941)
- 18 July â Ricarda Huch, German historian and writer (died 1947)
- 24 July â Frank Wedekind, German playwright (died 1918)
- 12 August â Kuno von Westarp, German politician (died 1945)
- 17 August â Paul Wendland, German philologist (died 1915)
- 20 August â Karl Fritz, German Roman Catholic archbishop (died 1931)
- 27 August â Hermann Weingärtner, German gymnast (died 1919)
- 19 September â Carl Correns, German biologist (died 1933)
- 26 September â Arthur Kampf, German painter (died 1950)
- 5 October â Arthur Zimmermann, German diplomat (died 1945)
- 30 October â Theodor Wiegand, German archaeologist (died 1936)
- 27 November â Alfred Meyer-Waldeck, German admiral (died 1928), born in Russia
- 31 December â Hans am Ende, German painter (died 1918)
Deaths
- 27 January â Leo von Klenze, German neoclassicist architect, painter and writer (born 1784)
- 10 March â Maximilian II of Bavaria, German king of Bavaria (born 1811)
- 2 May â Giacomo Meyerbeer, German composer (born 1791), died in France
- 3 August â Jakob Walter, German stonemason, common draftee (born 1788)