Events from the year 1799 in Germany.
Incumbents
Holy Roman Empire Francis II (5 July 17926 August 1806)
Important Electors Bavaria- Charles I (30 December 1777 – 16 February 1799) Saxony- Frederick Augustus I (17 December 176320 December 1806)
Kingdoms Kingdom of Prussia Monarch – Frederick William III (16 November 17977 June 1840)
Grand Duchies Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin Frederick Francis I– (24 April 17851 February 1837) Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Strelitz Charles II (2 June 17946 November 1816) Grand Duke of Oldenburg Wilhelm (6 July 17852 July 1823) Due to mental illness, Wilhelm was duke in name only, with his cousin Peter, Prince-Bishop of Lübeck, acting as regent throughout his entire reign. Peter I (2 July 182321 May 1829) Grand Duke of Saxe-Weimar Karl August (1758–1809) Raised to grand duchy in 1809
Principalities Schaumburg-Lippe George William (13 February 17871860) Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt Louis Frederick II (13 April 179328 April 1807) Schwarzburg-Sondershausen Günther Friedrich Karl I (14 October 179419 August 1835) Principality of Reuss-Greiz Heinrich XI, Prince Reuss of Greiz (12 May 1778-28 June 1800) Waldeck and Pyrmont Friedrich Karl August (29 August 176324 September 1812)
Duchies Duke of Anhalt-Dessau Leopold III (16 December 17519 August 1817)J. Morley, "The Bauhaus Effect," in Social Utopias of the Twenties (Germany: Müller Bushmann press, 1995), 11. Duke of Saxe-Altenburg Duke of Saxe-Hildburghausen (1780–1826) - Frederick Duke of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld Ernest Frederick, Duke of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld (16 September 1764 – 8 September 1800) Duke of Saxe-Meiningen Georg I (1782–1803) Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Beck Frederick Charles Louis (24 February 177525 March 1816) Duke of Württemberg Frederick I (22 December 179730 October 1816)
Other Landgrave of Hesse-Darmstadt Louis I (6 April 179014 August 1806) Events December 3 – War of the Second Coalition: Battle of Wiesloch: Austrian Lieutenant Field Marshal Anton Sztáray defeats the French at Wiesloch.
Frankenthal Porcelain Factory closed by the French forces.
Births
January 7 – Eduard Magnus, German painter (died 1872) May 26 – August Kopisch, German poet and painter (died 1853) March 22 – Friedrich Wilhelm Argelander, German astronomer (d. 1875) March 28 – Karl Adolph von Basedow, German physician, noted for reporting the symptoms of Graves–Basedow disease (d. 1854) October 18 – Christian Friedrich Schönbein, German chemist (d. 1868) Eduard Clemens Fechner, German portrait painter and etcher (died 1861)
Deaths February 1 – Ferdinand Kobell, German painter and engraver (born 1740) February 16 – Charles Theodore, Elector of Bavaria (b. 1724) February 18 – Johann Hedwig, German bryologist (born 1730) February 24 – Georg Christoph Lichtenberg, German scientist, satirist, and Anglophile (b. 1742) March 18 – Adam Friedrich Oeser, German etcher, painter and sculptor (born 1717) March 29 – Helena Dorothea von Schönberg, German industrialist (d. 1729)
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