1799 in Germany

Events from the year 1799 in Germany.

Holy Roman Empire

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

Important Electors

 * Bavaria- Charles I (30 December 1777 – 16 February 1799)
 * 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 Reuss-Greiz
 * Heinrich XI, Prince Reuss of Greiz (12 May 1778-28 June 1800)
 * 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
 * Ernest Frederick, Duke of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld (16 September 1764 – 8 September 1800)
 * 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

 * December 3 – War of the Second Coalition: Battle of Wiesloch: Austrian Lieutenant Field Marshal Anton Sztáray defeats the French at Wiesloch.


 * Frankenthal Porcelain Factory closed by the French forces.

Births



 * January 7 – Eduard Magnus, German painter (died 1872)
 * May 26 – August Kopisch, German poet and painter (died 1853)
 * March 22 – Friedrich Wilhelm Argelander, German astronomer (d. 1875)
 * March 28 – Karl Adolph von Basedow, German physician, noted for reporting the symptoms of Graves–Basedow disease (d. 1854)
 * October 18 – Christian Friedrich Schönbein, German chemist (d. 1868)
 * Eduard Clemens Fechner, German portrait painter and etcher (died 1861)

Deaths

 * February 1 – Ferdinand Kobell, German painter and engraver (born 1740)
 * February 16 – Charles Theodore, Elector of Bavaria (b. 1724)
 * February 18 – Johann Hedwig, German bryologist (born 1730)
 * February 24 – Georg Christoph Lichtenberg, German scientist, satirist, and Anglophile (b. 1742)
 * March 18 – Adam Friedrich Oeser, German etcher, painter and sculptor (born 1717)
 * March 29 – Helena Dorothea von Schönberg, German industrialist (d. 1729)