Events from the year 1810 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 Württemberg Frederick I (22 December 1797 – 30 October 1816)
Grand Duchies Grand Duke of Baden Charles Frederick (25 July 1806 – 10 June 1811) 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 Charles II (2 June 1794 – 6 November 1816) 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 Karl August (1809–1815)
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) Waldeck and Pyrmont Friedrich Karl August (29 August 1763 – 24 September 1812)
Duchies Duke of Anhalt-Dessau Leopold III (16 December 1751 – 9 August 1817)J. Morley, "The Bauhaus Effect," in Social Utopias of the Twenties (Germany: Müller Bushmann press, 1995), 11. Duke of Brunswick Frederick William (16 October 1806 – 16 June 1815)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 Charles Louis (24 February 1775 – 25 March 1816)
Events 27 April – Beethoven composes his famous piano piece, Für Elise. 16 May – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe publishes his book Zu Farbenlehre (Theory of Colours).Götz Hoeppe, Why the Sky is Blue: Discovering the Color of Life (Princeton University Press, 2007) p126 12 October – First Oktoberfest: Bavarian royalty invites the citizens of Munich to join the celebration of the marriage of Crown Prince Ludwig of Bavaria, to Princess Therese of Saxe-Hildburghausen.
Date unknown
Friedrich Krupp establishes a steel foundry in Essen. Germaine de Staël's study of Germany De l'Allemagne is published in Paris but suppressed by order of Napoleon. Brandenburger Symphoniker established. Prussian Staff College established.
Births
29 January – Ernst Kummer, German mathematician (d. 1893) 24 May – Abraham Geiger, German rabbi, founder of European Reform Judaism (d. 1874) 8 June – Robert Schumann, German composer, pianist (d. 1856) 9 June – Otto Nicolai, German composer, conductor (d. 1849) 17 July – Georg Heinrich Busse, German landscape painter and engraver (died 1868) 20 July – Leonhard Graf von Blumenthal, Prussian field marshal (d. 1908) 11 October – Anton Zwengauer, German painter (d. 1884) 7 December – Theodor Schwann, German physiologist (d. 1882)
Deaths
23 January – Johann Wilhelm Ritter, German chemist, physicist (b. 1776) 14 March – Ludwig Timotheus Spittler, German historian (born 1752) 1 May – Christoph Meiners, German philosopher (born 1747) 19 July – Louise of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, Queen of Prussia (b. 1776) 11 November – Johan Zoffany, German-born painter (b. 1733) 2 December – Philipp Otto Runge, German painter (b. 1777)
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