• Source: 1803 in Germany

      • Events in the year 1803 in Germany


      Incumbents




      = Holy Roman Empire

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


      Important Electors


      Baden- Charles Frederick (27 April 1803 – 6 August 1806)
      Bavaria- Maximilian I (16 February 1799 – 6 August 1806)
      Saxony- Frederick Augustus I (17 December 1763 – 20 December 1806)
      Württemberg - Frederick I (1803 – 30 October 1816)


      = 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 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)


      = Other

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


      Events


      25 February – A major redistribution of territorial sovereignty within the Holy Roman Empire is enacted via an act known as the Reichsdeputationshauptschluss.
      30 May – Following Britain's declaration of war on France, Édouard Mortier leads 12,000 troops in an Invasion of Hanover
      5 July – The convention of Artlenburg confirms the French occupation of Hanover (which had been ruled by the British king).


      Births




      = January–June

      =
      15 February
      John Sutter, pioneer (died 1880)
      Karl Friedrich Schimper, botanist, naturalist and poet (died 1867)
      26 February – Arnold Adolph Berthold, physiologist and zoologist (died 1861)
      17 March Carl Jacob Löwig, chemist (died 1890)
      12 May – Justus von Liebig, chemist (died 1873)


      = July–December

      =
      8 July – Julius Mosen, poet (died 1867)
      17 July – Johann Samuel Eduard d'Alton, anatomist (died 1854)
      19 July – Wolfgang Franz von Kobell, mineralogist and writer (died 1882)
      5 October – Friedrich Bernhard Westphal, painter (died 1844)
      29 November – Gottfried Semper, architect (died 1879)
      26 September – Adrian Ludwig Richter, German painter (died 1884)
      6 October – Heinrich Wilhelm Dove, German physicist and meteorologist (died 1879)
      31 December – Johann Carl Fuhlrott, German paleoanthropologist (died 1877)


      Deaths




      = January–June

      =
      18 February – Johann Wilhelm Ludwig Gleim, poet (born 1719)
      14 March – Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock, poet (born 1724)


      = July–December

      =
      18 December – Johann Gottfried Herder, philosopher and writer (born 1744)


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