Events from the year 1828 in Germany
Incumbents
Kingdoms Kingdom of Prussia Monarch – Frederick William III (16 November 1797 – 7 June 1840) Kingdom of Bavaria Monarch - Ludwig I (1825–1848) Kingdom of Saxony Anthony (5 May 1827 – 6 June 1836) Kingdom of Hanover George IV (29 January 1820 – 26 June 1830) Kingdom of Württemberg William (30 October 1816 – 25 June 1864)
Grand Duchies Grand Duke of Baden Louis I (8 December 1818 – 30 March 1830) Grand Duke of Hesse Louis I (14 August 1806 – 6 April 1830) Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin Frederick Francis I– (24 April 1785 – 1 February 1837) Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Strelitz George (6 November 1816 – 6 September 1860) Grand Duke of Oldenburg Peter I (2 July 1823 - 21 May 1829) 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) Schwarzburg-Sondershausen Günther Friedrich Karl I (14 October 1794 - 19 August 1835) Principality of Lippe Leopold II (5 November 1802 - 1 January 1851) Principality of Reuss-Greiz Heinrich XIX (29 January 1817 - 31 October 1836) Waldeck and Pyrmont George II (9 September 1813 - 15 May 1845)
Duchies Duke of Anhalt-Dessau Leopold IV (9 August 1817 - 22 May 1871) Duke of Brunswick Charles II (16 June 1815 – 9 September 1830)Gerhard Schildt: Von der Restauration zur Reichsgründungszeit, in Horst-Rüdiger Jarck / Gerhard Schildt (eds.), Die Braunschweigische Landesgeschichte. Jahrtausendrückblick einer Region, Braunschweig 2000, pp. 753–766. Duke of Saxe-Altenburg Duke of Saxe-Hildburghausen (1780–1826) and Duke of Saxe-Altenburg (1826–1834) - Frederick Duke of Saxe-Meiningen Bernhard II (24 December 1803–20 September 1866)
Events 26 May – Supposed feral child Kaspar Hauser is discovered in Nuremberg, Germany.
Births 17 April – Johanna Mestorf, German prehistoric archaeologist (d. 1909) 24 November – Henry Lomb, German-American optician, co-founder of Bausch & Lomb (d. 1908)
Deaths 9 July- Cathinka Buchwieser, German operatic singer and actress (b. 1789) 26 October – Albrecht Thaer, German agronomist (b. 1752) 5 November – Maria Feodorovna (Sophie Dorothea of Württemberg), Empress of Paul I of Russia (b. 1759) 15 November – Amalie of Zweibrücken-Birkenfeld, First Queen of Saxony/Duchess of Warsaw (b. 1752)
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