1802 in Germany

Events from the year 1802 in Germany. == Incumbents == === 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 (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) == References ==