Events from the year 1817 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) Kingdom of Württemberg William (30 October 1816 – 25 June 1864)
Grand Duchies Grand Duke of Baden Charles 10 June 1811 – 8 December 1818 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 XIII (28 June 1800 – 29 January 1817) 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 III (16 December 1751 – 9 August 1817) 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 12 June – German inventor Karl Drais drives his dandy horse ("Draisine" or Laufmaschine), the earliest form of bicycle, in Mannheim. 18 October – Wartburg Festival
Births 22 February – Carl Wilhelm Borchardt, German mathematician (d. 1880) 14 September – Theodor Storm, German writer (d. 1888) 30 October – Hermann Franz Moritz Kopp, German chemist (d. 1892) 30 November – Theodor Mommsen, German writer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1903)
Deaths 1 January – Martin Heinrich Klaproth, German chemist who discovered uranium (1789), zirconium (1789), and cerium (1803) (b. 1743) 2 April – Johann Heinrich Jung, German writer (b. 1740) 30 June – Abraham Gottlob Werner, German geologist (b. 1750) 10 August – Leopold III, Duke of Anhalt-Dessau 1 December – Justin Heinrich Knecht, German composer, organist and music theorist (b. 1752)
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