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1855 in Germany
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The following events occurred in Germany in the year 1855.
Incumbents
King of Bavaria – Maximilian II
King of Hanover – George V
King of Prussia – Frederick William IV
King of Saxony – John of Saxony
Events
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Births
February 17 – Otto Liman von Sanders, German general (d. 1929)
February 24 – Johannes von Eben, German general (d. 1924 )
May 9 – Julius Röntgen, German-Dutch classical composer (d. 1932)
June 28 – Theodor Reuss, German occultist (d. 1923)
July 26 – Ferdinand Tönnies, German sociologist (d. 1936)
August 25 – Hugo von Pohl, German admiral (d. 1916)
August 27 – Hugo von Kathen, German general (d. 1932)
September 9 – Houston Stewart Chamberlain, British-born German writer (d. 1927)Forssling Gregers Einer https://www.google.com/books/edition/Nordicism_and_Modernity/o8cLEAAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=0 Nordicism and Modernity 2020-11-28 Springer Nature 978-3-030-61210-8 97 en
October 10 – Eduard von Capelle, German admiral (d. 1931)World War I: student encyclopedia 2006 ABC-CLIO 978-1-85109-879-8 Tucker Spencer Santa Barbara, Calif 426 Roberts Priscilla Mary
Deaths
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February 23 – Carl Friedrich Gauss, German mathematician, astronomer, and physicist (b. 1777)
References
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