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1806 in Germany
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1806
Events from the year 1806 in Germany.
Incumbents
Holy Roman Empire
Francis II (5 July 17926 August 1806)
Kingdoms
Kingdom of Prussia
Monarch – Frederick William III (16 November 17977 June 1840)Tikkanen Amy 30 July 2018 Federick William III https://www.britannica.com/biography/Frederick-William-III 2022-09-21 Encyclopaedia Britannica
Kingdom of Bavaria
Maximilian I (1 January 180613 October 1825)17 921 Maximilian I., king of Bavaria
Kingdom of Saxony
Frederick Augustus I (20 December 18065 May 1827) General German Biography - Wikisource 24 January 2021 https://de.wikisource.org/wiki/Allgemeine_Deutsche_Biographie
Kingdom of Württemberg
Frederick I (22 December 179730 October 1816)Atlantic Monthly Press New York 978-0-87113-739-5 David Saul Prince of pleasure : the Prince of Wales and the making of the Regency 24 January 2021 1998 http://archive.org/details/princeofpleasure00davi
Grand Duchies
Grand Duke of Baden
Charles Frederick (25 July 180610 June 1811)
Grand Duke of Hesse
Louis I (14 August 18066 April 1830)Genealogie ascendante jusqu'au quatrieme degre inclusivement de tous les Rois et Princes de maisons souveraines de l'Europe actuellement vivans Genealogy up to the fourth degree inclusive of all the Kings and Princes of sovereign houses of Europe currently living https://books.google.com/books?id=AINPAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA38 1768 Frederic Guillaume Birnstiel Bourdeaux fr 38
Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin
Frederick Francis I (24 April 17851 February 1837)
Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Strelitz
Charles II (2 June 17946 November 1816) Huish Robert Public and Private Life His Late Excellent and most Gracious Majesty George The Third T. Kelly 1821 170
Grand Duke of Oldenburg
Wilhelm (6 July 17852 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.Oldenburg Royal Family http://www.btinternet.com/~allan_raymond/Oldenburg_Royal_Family.htm Monarchies of Europe https://web.archive.org/web/20060317161934/http://www.btinternet.com/~allan_raymond/Oldenburg_Royal_Family.htm 1 January 2021 17 March 2006
Peter I (2 July 182321 May 1829)
Grand Duke of Saxe-Weimar
Karl August (1758–1809) Raised to grand duchy in 1809
Principalities
Schaumburg-Lippe
George William (13 February 17871860)
Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt
Louis Frederick II (13 April 179328 April 1807) Thüringer Chronik-Verlag Müllerott 978-3-910132-29-0 Apfelstedt F. Apfelstedt Heinrich Friedrich Theodor Das Haus Kevernburg-Schwarzburg von seinem Ursprunge bis auf unsere Zeit 1996
Schwarzburg-Sondershausen
Günther Friedrich Karl I (14 October 179419 August 1835)
Principality of Lippe
Leopold II (5 November 18021 January 1851)1850 Justus Perthes 87th Almanach de Gotha 38
Principality of Reuss-Greiz
Heinrich XIII (28 June 180029 January 1817)
Waldeck and Pyrmont
Friedrich Karl August (29 August 176324 September 1812)
Duchies
Duke of Anhalt-Dessau
Leopold III (16 December 17519 August 1817)J. Morley, "The Bauhaus Effect," in Social Utopias of the Twenties (Germany: Müller Bushmann press, 1995), 11.
Duke of Brunswick
Frederick William (16 October 180616 June 1815)Gerhard Schildt: Von der Restauration zur Reichsgründungszeit, in Horst-Rüdiger Jarck / Gerhard Schildt (eds.), Die Braunschweigische Landesgeschichte. Jahrtausendrückblick einer Region, Braunschweig 2000, pp. 753–766.
Duke of Saxe-Altenburg
Duke of Saxe-Hildburghausen (1780–1826) - Frederick
Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha
Ernest I (9 December 180612 November 1826)Ernest I. 9 751
Duke of Saxe-Meiningen
Bernhard II (24 December 180320 September 1866)http://www.meiningermuseen.de/pages/schloss/personen/herzogliche-familie/georg-i.php Biografie Georg I (German) Meininger Museen 8 September 2014 https://web.archive.org/web/20110915152148/http://www.meiningermuseen.de/pages/schloss/personen/herzogliche-familie/georg-i.php 15 September 2011 dead
Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Beck
Frederick Charles Louis (24 February 177525 March 1816)Albinus Robert Lexikon der Stadt Königsberg Pr. und Umgebung Verlag Gerhard Rautenberg 1985 3-7921-0320-6 Leer 371 de
Events
1 January – The Kingdom of Bavaria is established by Napoleon.
12 July – Sixteen German Imperial States leave the Holy Roman Empire and form the Confederation of the Rhine; Liechtenstein is given full sovereignty, leading to the collapse of the Empire after 844 years.
6 August – Francis II, the last Holy Roman Emperor, abdicates, thus ending the Holy Roman Empire after about a millennium.
25 September – Prussia issues an ultimatum to Paris, threatening war if France does not halt marching its troops through Prussian territory to reach Austria; the message does not reach Napoleon Bonaparte until 7 October, and he responds by attacking Prussia.F. Loraine Petre, Napoleon's Conquest of Prussia1806 (John Lane Company, 1907) pxv
8 October – Napoleon responds to the 25 September ultimatum from Prussia, and begins the War of the Fourth Coalition; Prussia is joined by Saxony and other minor German states.
9 October – Battle of Schleiz: French and Prussian forces fight for the first time since the war began. The Prussian army is easily defeated, by a more numerous French force.
10 October – Battle of Saalfeld
14 October – Battle of Jena–Auerstedt: Napoleon defeats the Prussian army of Prince Hohenlohe at Jena, while Marshal Davout defeats the main Prussian army under Charles William Ferdinand, Duke of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel, who is killed.
16 October – Capitulation of Erfurt
17 October – Battle of Halle
24 October – French forces enter Berlin.
25 October8 November – Siege of Magdeburg
28 October – Battle of Prenzlau
29 October – Capitulation of Pasewalk
30 October – Capitulation of Stettin: Believing themselves massively outnumbered, the 5,300-man garrison at Stettin in Prussia surrenders to a much smaller French force without a fight.
1 November – Battle of Waren-Nossentin
6 November – Battle of Lübeck
7–22 November – Siege of Hamelin
21 November – Berlin Decree
Births
1 January – Lionel Kieseritzky, Baltic-German chess player (died 1853)
13 January – Eugen Napoleon Neureuther, German painter and illustrator (died 1882)
18 February – Eduard Heis, German mathematician and astronomer (died 1877)
6 April – Friedrich Wilhelm Ritschl, German scholar (died 1876)
12 June – John Augustus Roebling, German-American engineer (died 1869)
22 July – Johann Kaspar Zeuss, German historian and philologist (died 1856)
thumb|right|110px|Max Stirner
25 October – Max Stirner, German philosopher (died 1856)
23 November – Philipp Hoffmann, German architect and builder (died 1869)
11 December – Otto Wilhelm Hermann von Abich, German geologist (died 1886)
Deaths
6 January – Jean Henri Riesener, German furniture designer (born 1734)
3 March – Heinrich Christian Boie, German poet and editor (born 1744)
23 August – Johann Eleazar Zeissig, German genre, portrait and porcelain painter, and engraver (born 1737)
10 October – Therese Maron, German painter active in Rome (born 1725)
10 October – Louis Ferdinand of Prussia, German prince (killed in battle) (born 1772)
Date unknown
Johann Gottfried Arnold, German cellist (born 1773)
References
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