Events from the year 1820 in Germany.
Incumbents
Kingdoms Kingdom of Prussia Monarch – Frederick William III (16 November 1797 – 7 June 1840) Kingdom of Bavaria Maximilian I (1 January 1806 – 13 October 1825) Kingdom of Saxony Frederick Augustus I (20 December 1806 – 5 May 1827) Kingdom of Hanover George III (25 October 1760 –29 January 1820) 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 Wilhelm (6 July 1785 –2 July 1823 ) Due to mental illness, Wilhelm was a duke in name only, with his cousin Peter, Prince-Bishop of Lübeck, acting as regent throughout his entire reign. 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) - Frederick Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha Ernest I (9 December 1806 – 12 November 1826) Duke of Saxe-Meiningen Bernhard II (24 December 1803 – 20 September 1866) Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Beck Frederick William (25 March 1816 – 6 July 1825)
Events 28 January – German-Russian explorer Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen discovers the continent of Antarctica during the First Russian Antarctic Expedition 15 April – King William I of Württemberg marries his cousin, Pauline Therese, in Stuttgart. 8 June – Constitution of the German Confederation 27 August – German Josef Naus makes the first ascent of Germany's highest mountain, the Zugspitze. 19 November – Congress of Troppau
Births 13 January – Leopold Hoesch, German entrepreneur (died 1899) 16 January – Johannes Rebmann, German missionary (died 1878) 20 January – Wilhelm Paul Corssen, German philologist (died 1875) 22 January – Hermann Lingg, German poet (died 1905) 25 January – Adelbert Heinrich von Baudissin, German writer (died 1871) 23 February – David Kalisch, German playwright and humorist (died 1872) 4 March – Ludwig von Henk, German naval officer (died 1894) 7 April – Amand Goegg, German journalist and politician (died 1897) 10 April – Karl Gustav Ackermann, German politician (died 1901) 11 April – Hermann Knoblauch, German physicist (died 1895) 22 April – Karl Twesten, German politician and writer (died 1870) 2 May – Robert Gerwig, German civil engineer and politician (died 1882) 24 May – Carl Ferdinand Appun, German naturalist (died 1872) 13 June – Julius Faucher, German politician (died 1878) 21 June – Heinrich Burgers, German journalist and politician (died 1878) 27 June – Hermann Abeken, German political writer (died 1854) 11 July – Friedrich von Spiegel, German orientalist (died 1905) 14 July – Sigismund Koelle, German missionary (died 1902) 8 August – Julius Stern, German composer and pedagogue (died 1883) 15 August – Adolph von Pfretzschner, German politician (died 1901) 5 September – Georg Vierling, German composer [died 1901) 15 September – Hermann Heinrich Becker, German politician (died 1885) 27 September – Wilhelm Siegmund Teuffel, German classical scholar (died 1878) 1 October – Ludwig Meyn, Germann agricultural scientist, soil scientist, geologist, journalist, and mineralogist (died 1878) 4 October – Joseph Maximilian von Maillinger, Bavarian General der Infanterie and War Minister (died 1901) 13 October – Hans von Raumer, German politician (died 1851) 23 November – Ludwig von Hagn, German painter (died 1898) 28 November – Friedrich Engels, German social philosopher (died 1895) 29 November – Ferdinand Ludwig Herff, German-American physician (died 1912) 8 December – Rochus von Liliencron, German Germanist and historian (died 1912) 18 December – Karl Becker, German painter (died 1900) 31 December – Helene Demuth, German housekeeper (died 1890)
Deaths 10 February – Margravine Elisabeth Louise of Brandenburg-Schwedt, German noblewomen (born 1738) 11 February – Karl von Fischer, German architect (born 1782) 29 February – Johann Joachim Eschenburg, German historian (born 1743) 7 March – Louis Engelbert, 6th Duke of Arenberg, German nobleman (born 1750) 27 March – Gerhard von Kügelgen, German painter (born 1772) 26 April – Christian Zais, German architect (born 1770) 14 May – Paul Struck, German composer (born 1776) 20 May – Karl Ludwig Sand, German university student and member of a liberal Burschenschaft (born 1795) 1 June – August Ferdinand Bernhardi, German linguist and writer (born 1769) 9 June – Wilhelmine, Gräfin von Lichtenau, German noblewomen (born 1753) 11 July – Frederick Traugott Pursh, German-Canadian botanist (born 1774) 13 September – Princess Adelheid of Anhalt-Bernburg-Schaumburg-Hoym, German noblewomen (born 1800) 19 September – Johann Georg Meusel, German historian (born 1743)ADB:Meusel, Johann Georg In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie 6 December – Karl Christian Tittmann, German Protestant theologian (born 1744) 29 December – Princess Pauline of Anhalt-Bernburg, German regent and social reformer (born 1769)
External links Was war wann.de: Das Jahr 1820 (german)
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