Events from the year 1823 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 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 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 10 February – The first worldwide carnival parade takes place in Cologne, Prussia. 13 April – Franz Liszt, 11, gives a concert in Vienna, after which he is personally congratulated by Ludwig van Beethoven.According to Gustav Schilling.
Births 4 April – Carl Wilhelm Siemens, German engineer (d. 1883) 6 December – Friedrich Max Müller, German Orientalist (d. 1900) 13 December – Ferdinand Büchner, German composer (d. 1906)
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