Events from the year 1805 in Germany.
Incumbents
Holy Roman Empire Francis II (5 July 17926 August 1806)
Important Electors Baden- Charles Frederick (27 April 18036 August 1806) Bavaria- Maximilian I (16 February 17996 August 1806) Saxony- Frederick Augustus I (17 December 176320 December 1806) Würzburg- Ferdinand III (25 December 18056 August 1806) Württemberg - Frederick I (180330 October 1816)
Kingdoms Kingdom of Prussia Monarch – Frederick William III (16 November 17977 June 1840)
Grand Duchies Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin Frederick Francis I (24 April 17851 February 1837) Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Strelitz Charles II (2 June 17946 November 1816) Grand Duke of Oldenburg Wilhelm (6 July 17852 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 182321 May 1829) Grand Duke of Saxe-Weimar Karl August (1758–1809) Raised to grand duchy in 1809
Principalities Schaumburg-Lippe George William (13 February 17871860) Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt Louis Frederick II (13 April 179328 April 1807) Schwarzburg-Sondershausen Günther Friedrich Karl I (14 October 179419 August 1835) Principality of Lippe Leopold II (5 November 18021 January 1851) Principality of Reuss-Greiz Heinrich XIII (28 June 180029 January 1817) Waldeck and Pyrmont Friedrich Karl August (29 August 176324 September 1812)
Duchies Duke of Anhalt-Dessau Leopold III (16 December 17519 August 1817)J. Morley, "The Bauhaus Effect," in Social Utopias of the Twenties (Germany: Müller Bushmann press, 1995), 11. Duke of Saxe-Altenburg Duke of Saxe-Hildburghausen (1780–1826) - Frederick Duke of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld Francis (8 September 18009 December 1806) Duke of Saxe-Meiningen Bernhard II (24 December 180320 September 1866) Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Beck Frederick Charles Louis (24 February 177525 March 1816)
Other
Landgrave of Hesse-Darmstadt Louis I (6 April 179014 August 1806)
Events 7 April – Beethoven's Symphony No. 3, Eroica, has its public premiere at the Theater an der Wien in Vienna under his baton. 9 April - The first Weltsekttag to celebrate the resistance to Napoleon. 8 October – Battle of Wertingen 9 October – Battle of Günzburg 11 October – Battle of Haslach-Jungingen 14 October – Napoleonic Wars: War of the Third Coalition – Ulm Campaign: Battle of Elchingen – An Austrian corps under Johann von Riesch is defeated by Marshal Ney, near Elchingen, Bavaria. 16–19 October – War of the Third Coalition: Ulm Campaign – Battle of Ulm: Austrian General Mack von Leiberich is forced to surrender his entire army to Napoleon, after being surrounded. 3 November – Treaty of Potsdam 20 November – Beethoven's only opera Fidelio, in its original form (known retrospectively as Leonore), is premiered at the Theater an der Wien in Vienna, which at this time is under French military occupation. German Army surgeon Philipp Bozzini invents the , ancestor of the endoscope, for examination of bodily orifices. Grand Duchy of Würzburg is established.
Births
27 January – Samuel Palmer, English artist (died 1881) 13 February – Peter Gustav Lejeune Dirichlet, German mathematician (died 1859) 8 April – Hugo von Mohl, German botanist (died 1872)
30 July – Rudolf Wagner, German anatomist, pathologist (died 1864) 27 September – George Müller, Prussian evangelist, founder of the New Orphan Houses, Ashley Down, Bristol in England (died 1898) 14 November – Fanny Mendelssohn, German composer, pianist (died 1847)
Deaths
17 January – Paschen von Cossel, German lawyer (born 1714) 20 February – Justus Claproth, German jurist, inventor of the de-inking process of recycled paper (born 1728) 9 May – Friedrich Schiller, German playwright (born 1759)
5 October - Eleonore Prochaska, German heroine soldier (born 1785)
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