1866 in Germany

none December 2020 1866 These are events from the year 1866 in Germany. Incumbents King of Bavaria – Ludwig II of Bavaria King of Prussia – William I King of Saxony – John Events 8 AprilThe kingdoms of Italy and Prussia form an alliance against the Austrian Empire.14 JuneAustro-Prussian War: Prussia declared war on Austria.3 JulyBattle of Königgrätz: Prussian forces broke an Austrian line and dealt them a decisive defeat at modern Hradec Králové.7 MayStudent Ferdinand Cohen-Blind makes a failed attempt to assassinate Otto von Bismarck in Unter den Linden in Berlin.Henry Mills Alden Harper's New Monthly Magazine https://books.google.com/books?id=fZfg_w7R8LAC&pg=PA658 1870 Harper & Brothers 65827–29 JuneBattle of Langensalza: The Prussians defeat the Hanoverian Army.3 JulyBattle of Königgrätz: the Prussian army under King Wilhelm and Helmuth von Moltke defeats the Austrian army of Ludwig von Benedek, leading to a decisive Prussian victory in the Austro-Prussian War.18 AugustPrussia and fifteen smaller northern German states signed the North German Confederation Treaty, transferring their armed forces to the North German Confederation under the command of the Prussian king William I, German Emperor.Richard Hudson The North German Confederation https://books.google.com/books?id=5PIHAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA425 1892 Ginn 42523 AugustAustro-Prussian War: Prussia and Austria signed the Peace of Prague, in which the latter agreed to some small territorial concessions and the dissolution of the German Confederation, ending the war.October: Alfred Nobel invents dynamite in Geesthacht. thumb|Alfred Nobel invents dynamite in 1866 Births January–March 10 January – Ludwig Aschoff, German physician and pathologist (d. 1942)Leslie Thomas Morton Robert J. Moore A Chronology of Medicine and Related Sciences https://books.google.com/books?id=vlBrAAAAMAAJ 1997 Scolar Press 978-1-85928-215-1 296 28 January – Georg Friederici (d. 1947) February – Karl Albert Buehr, painter (d. 1952) 6 March – Hans Christiansen, artist (d. 1947) 7 March – Hans Fruhstorfer, German lepidopterist (d. 1922) 13 March – Friedrich Boedicker, Vizeadmiral (vice admiral) (d. 1944) 15 March – Matthew Charlton, Australian politician (d. 1948) April–June 11 April – Karl Bürger, German classical scholar (d. 1936) 22 April – Hans von Seeckt, German general (d. 1936) 23 May– Gustav Aschaffenburg, German psychiatrist (d. 1944) 8 June – Hermann Fenner-Behmer (d. 1913) 26 June – Josef Swickard, German actor (d. 1940 ) July–September 8 July – Benedict Friedlaender (d. 1908) 5 August – Carl Harries, German chemist (d. 1923) 16 September – Joe Vila, American sportswriter (d. 1934) 24 September –Max Bernhauer, German entomologist (d. 1946 ) October–December 27 October – Elsa Bernstein, Austrian-German writer and dramatist of Jewish descent. (d. 1949) 3 November – Paul Lincke, German composer (d. 1946)David Mason Greene Constance Green Greene's Biographical Encyclopedia of Composers https://books.google.com/books?id=m3S7PIxe0mwC&pg=PA959 1985 Reproducing Piano Roll Fnd. 978-0-385-14278-6 959 20 November– Friedrich von Berg, German politician and chairman of the Secret Civil Cabinet of Kaiser Wilhelm II (d. 1939) 21 November – Hermann Boettcher, actor (d. 1935) 24 November – Rudolf Biebrach, German actor and film director (d. 1938) 12 December – Alfred Werner, German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1919) Deaths January–June 31 January – Friedrich Rückert, German poet, translator and professor of Oriental languages (b. 1788) 6 March – Theodor Brüggemann, Prussian government official and politician (b. 1796)https://de.wikisource.org/wiki/ADB:Br%C3%BCggemann,_Theodor Brüggemann: Theodor B., ein besonders um das katholische Unterrichtswesen in Preußen verdienter Schulmann und Staatsbeamter ... Ludwig Wiese Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie Historischen Kommission bei der Bayerischen Akademie der Wissenschaften 3 1876 407–409 2 December 2016 July–December right|thumb|120x120px|Bernhard Riemann 20 July – Bernhard Riemann, German mathematician (b. 1826) 30 August or 10 September – Hermann Goldschmidt, German-French astronomer and painter (b. 1802) Hermann Golschmidt Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 27 4 https://books.google.com/books?id=M983AAAAMAAJ&pg=PA115 1867 115–117 10.1093/mnras/27.4.97a free References 1866 Category:Years of the 19th century in Germany Germany Germany