1802 in Germany

Events from the year 1802 in Germany.

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)