1810 in Germany

Events from the year 1810 in Germany.

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Incumbents

Kingdoms

• Kingdom of Prussia
  • Monarch – Frederick William III of Prussia (16 November 1797 – 7 June 1840)^[1]
• 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)^[2]
• Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin
  • Frederick Francis I– (24 April 1785 – 1 February 1837)^[2]
• Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Strelitz
  • Charles II (2 June 1794 – 6 November 1816)^[3]
• 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.^[4]
  • Peter I (2 July 1823 - 21 May 1829)^[4]
• 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)^[5]
• Schwarzburg-Sondershausen
  • Günther Friedrich Karl I (14 October 1794 - 19 August 1835)
• Principality of Lippe
  • Leopold II (5 November 1802 - 1 January 1851)^[6]
• 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)^[7]
• Duke of Brunswick
  • Frederick William (16 October 1806 – 16 June 1815)^[8]
• Duke of Saxe-Altenburg
  • Duke of Saxe-Hildburghausen (1780–1826) - Frederick^[2]
• Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha
  • Ernest I (9 December 1806 – 12 November 1826)^[9]
• Duke of Saxe-Meiningen
  • Bernhard II (24 December 1803 – 20 September 1866)^[10]
• Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Beck
  • Frederick Charles Louis (24 February 1775 – 25 March 1816)^[11]

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).^[12]
• 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

Goethe publishes Theory of Colours

• 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

Robert Schumann

Theodor Schwann

• 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)^[13]
• 9 June – Otto Nicolai, German composer, conductor (d. 1849)^[14]
• 17 July – Georg Heinrich Busse, German landscape painter and engraver (died 1868)
• 20 July – Leonhard Graf von Blumenthal, Prussian field marshal (d. 1908)^[15]
• 11 October – Anton Zwengauer, German painter (d. 1884)
• 7 December – Theodor Schwann, German physiologist (d. 1882)

Deaths

Louise of Mecklenburg-Strelitz

• 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)^[16]
• 2 December – Philipp Otto Runge, German painter (b. 1777)