Events from the year 1826 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 Frederick Augustus I (20 December 1806 – 5 May 1827) 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-Coburg and Gotha Ernest I (9 December 1806 – 12 November 1826) Duke of Saxe-Meiningen Bernhard II (24 December 1803–20 September 1866)
Events July – Ludwig van Beethoven puts the finishing touches on the String Quartet in C sharp Minor, Opus 131, the jewel in the crown of his late string quartets. Ludwig van Beethoven composes the Große Fuge.
Births February 16- Joseph Victor von Scheffel, German poet (d. 1888) March 29 – Wilhelm Liebknecht, German journalist, politician (d. 1900)
August 21 – Carl Gegenbaur, German anatomist, professor (d. 1903) September 17 – Bernhard Riemann, German mathematician (d. 1866)
Deaths
March 29 – Johann Heinrich Voss, German poet (b. 1751) April 25 – Karl Ludwig von Phull, German military leader (b. 1757) May 16 – Empress Elizabeth Alexeievna, consort of Alexander I of Russia (b. 1779) June 5 – Carl Maria von Weber, German composer (b. 1786) June 7 – Joseph von Fraunhofer, German optician (b. 1787)
November 23 – Johann Elert Bode, German astronomer (b. 1747)
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