1802 in Germany
# 1802 in Germany

Events from the year 1802 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) 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
   * 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 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)
* Duke of Brunswick
   * Frederick William (16 October 1806 – 16 June 1815)
* 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
   * Bernhard II (24 December 1803 – 20 September 1866)
* Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Beck
   * Frederick Charles Louis (24 February 1775 – 25 March 1816)
* Duke of Württemberg - Frederick I (1797–1803)

## Other

* Landgrave of Hesse-Darmstadt
   * Louis I (6 April 1790 – 14 August 1806)
* Margrave of Baden- Charles Frederick (21 October 1771 – 27 April 1803)

## Events

* 3 March – Ludwig van Beethoven publishes his Piano Sonata No. 14, commonly known as the "Moonlight Sonata" (Mondschein), in Vienna; the availability of the sheet music is announced by Giovanni Cappi in the newspaper Wiener Zeitung.
* Johann Wilhelm Ritter builds the first electrochemical cell.

## Births

* 2 May – Heinrich Gustav Magnus, German chemist, physicist (died 1870)
* 26 May – Karl Ferdinand Ranke, German educator (died 1876)
* 2 June – Karl Lehrs, German classicist (died 1878)
* 17 June – Hermann Goldschmidt, German painter and astronomer (died 1866)
* 26 August – Ludwig Michael Schwanthaler, German sculptor (died 1848)
* 29 November – Wilhelm Hauff, German poet and novelist (died 1827)
* Ernst Friedrich Zwirner, Silesian-born architect working in Germany (died 1861)

### Date unknown

* Friedrich Hohe, German lithographer, painter (died 1870)

## Deaths

* 5 June – Johann Christian Gottlieb Ernesti, German classicist (born 1756)
* 29 June – Johann Jakob Engel, German teacher and writer (born 1741)
* 25 July – Friedrich Karl Joseph von Erthal, Archbishop of Mainz (born 1719)
* 10 August – Franz Aepinus, German natural philosopher (born 1724)
