1805 in Germany

Events from the year 1805 in Germany.

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)
 * Würzburg- Ferdinand III (25 December 1805 – 6 August 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

 * 7 April – Beethoven's Symphony No. 3, Eroica, has its public premiere at the Theater an der Wien in Vienna under his baton.
 * 9 April - The first Weltsekttag to celebrate the resistance to Napoleon.
 * 8 October – Battle of Wertingen
 * 9 October – Battle of Günzburg
 * 11 October – Battle of Haslach-Jungingen
 * 14 October – Napoleonic Wars: War of the Third Coalition – Ulm Campaign: Battle of Elchingen – An Austrian corps under Johann von Riesch is defeated by Marshal Ney, near Elchingen, Bavaria.
 * 16–19 October – War of the Third Coalition: Ulm Campaign – Battle of Ulm: Austrian General Mack von Leiberich is forced to surrender his entire army to Napoleon, after being surrounded.
 * 3 November – Treaty of Potsdam
 * 20 November – Beethoven's only opera Fidelio, in its original form (known retrospectively as Leonore), is premiered at the Theater an der Wien in Vienna, which at this time is under French military occupation.
 * German Army surgeon Philipp Bozzini invents the lichtleiter, ancestor of the endoscope, for examination of bodily orifices.
 * Grand Duchy of Würzburg is established.

Births

 * 27 January – Samuel Palmer, English artist (died 1881)
 * 13 February – Peter Gustav Lejeune Dirichlet, German mathematician (died 1859)
 * 8 April – Hugo von Mohl, German botanist (died 1872)
 * 30 July – Rudolf Wagner, German anatomist, pathologist (died 1864)
 * 27 September – George Müller, Prussian evangelist, founder of the New Orphan Houses, Ashley Down, Bristol in England (died 1898)
 * 14 November – Fanny Mendelssohn, German composer, pianist (died 1847)

Deaths

 * 17 January – Paschen von Cossel, German lawyer (born 1714)
 * 20 February – Justus Claproth, German jurist, inventor of the de-inking process of recycled paper (born 1728)
 * 9 May – Friedrich Schiller, German playwright (born 1759)
 * 5 October - Eleonore Prochaska, German heroine soldier (born 1785)