1800 in Germany
# 1800 in Germany

Events from the year 1800 in Germany.

## Incumbents

### Holy Roman Empire

* Francis II (5 July 1792 – 6 August 1806)

**Important Electors**

* Bavaria – Maximilian I (16 February 1799 – 6 August 1806)
* Saxony – Frederick Augustus I (17 December 1763 – 20 December 1806)

### Kingdoms

* Kingdom of Prussia
   * Monarch – Frederick William III of Prussia (16 November 1797 – 7 June 1840)

### Grand Duchies

* 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) Wilhelm, who suffered from mental illness, 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
   * Karl August (1758–1809) Raised to grand duchy in 1809

### Principalities

* Schaumburg-Lippe
   * George William (13 February 1787 – 1860)
* Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt
   * Louis Frederick II (13 April 1793 – 28 April 1807)
* Schwarzburg-Sondershausen
   * Günther Friedrich Karl I (14 October 1794 – 19 August 1835)
* 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)
* Duke of Saxe-Altenburg
   * Duke of Saxe-Hildburghausen (1780–1826) – Frederick
* Duke of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld
   * Francis (8 September 1800 – 9 December 1806)
* Duke of Saxe-Meiningen
   * Georg I (1782–1803)
* Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Beck
   * Frederick Charles Louis (24 February 1775 – 25 March 1816)
* Duke of Württemberg
   * Frederick I (22 December 1797 – 30 October 1816)

### Other

* Landgrave of Hesse-Darmstadt
   * Louis I (6 April 1790 – 14 August 1806)

## Events

* 2 April – Ludwig van Beethoven's Symphony No. 1 premieres at the Burgtheater, in Vienna.
* May 3
   * Battle of Stockach: French victory
   * Battle of Engen: French victory
* 4–5 May– Battle of Messkirch: French victory
* 9 May – Battle of Biberach: French victory
* 15 May – Battle of Erbach: French victory
* 19 June – War of the Second Coalition: Battle of Höchstädt – General Jean Victor Marie Moreau leads French forces to victory, opening the Danube passageway to Vienna.
* 27 June – Battle of Neuburg: French victory
* 22 November – War of the Second Coalition: Hostilities resume.
* 1 December – Battle of Ampfing
* 3 December – War of the Second Coalition: Battle of Hohenlinden – The French army defeats Habsburg and Bavarian troops.

## Births

* 26 January – Johann Gerhard Oncken, German Baptist preacher (died 1884)
* 3 March – Heinrich Georg Bronn, German geologist, paleontologist (died 1862)
* 10 March – Victor Aimé Huber, German social reformer (died 1869)
* 17 March – Rudolf Ewald Stier, German Protestant churchman, mystic (died 1862)
* 20 March – Gottfried Bernhardy, German philologist, literary historian (died 1875)
* 25 March – Ernst Heinrich Karl von Dechen, German geologist, mineralogist (died 1889)
* 28 March – Johann Georg Wagler, German herpetologist (died 1832)
* 16 April – Jakob Heine, German orthopaedist (died 1879)
* 30 May – Karl Wilhelm Feuerbach, German geometer (died 1834)
* 31 July – Friedrich Wöhler, German chemist (died 1882)
* 20 August – Bernhard Heine, German physician, bone specialist and inventor (died 1846)
* 26 October – Helmuth von Moltke the Elder, German Field Marshal (died 1891)

### Approximate date

* Abraham Rice, German-born rabbi, first ordained rabbi to serve in the United States (died 1862)

## Deaths

* 3 January – Count Karl-Wilhelm Finck von Finckenstein, Prime Minister of Prussia (born 1714)
* 6 January – Friedrich Adolf Riedesel, German soldier (born 1738)
* 11 January – Kyra Frosini, Greek heroine (born 1773)
* 16 January – Johann Christian Wiegleb, German chemist (born 1732)
* 4 February – Charlotte Sophie of Aldenburg, Countess of Varel and Kniphausen (born 1715)
* 20 June – Abraham Gotthelf Kästner, German mathematician (born 1719)
* 28 June – Heinrich XI, Prince Reuss of Greiz, German noble (born 1722)
* 10 September – Johann David Schoepff, German naturalist, doctor (born 1752)
* 4 October – Johann Hermann, German physician, naturalist (born 1738)
