1861 in Germany

none February 2020 1861 Events from the year 1861 in Germany. Incumbents King of Bavaria – Ludwig II King of Hanover – George V King of Prussia – Frederick William IV (until 2 Jan) William I (since 2 Jan) King of Saxony – John King of Württemberg – William I of Württemberg Grand Duke of Baden – Frederick I Events 2 January – Frederick William IV of Prussia dies and is succeeded by Wilhelm I.William I succeeded. Britannica.com. 15 April – Watchmaker Junghans is founded.https://www.junghans.de/en/junghans-world/journey-through-time/1861.html 1861 Journey through time Junghans 2019-11-20 6 June – German Progress Party (Deutsche Fortschrittspartei) is founded as Germany's first modern political party by liberal members of the Prussian House of Representatives in opposition to Bismarck.Wolfgang Treue Deutsche Parteiprogramme seit 1861 4 Muster-Schmidt Verlag Göttingen 1968 1 July- Wallraf–Richartz Museum opened in Cologne 11 July – German Shooting and Archery Federation is founded in Gotha.1861 Gründung des DSB https://www.dsb.de/tradition/geschichte/gruendung-dsb/ Deutscher Schützenbund 2019-11-20 14 July – Osckar Becker attempts assassination of William I of Prussia in Baden-Baden.Becker, Oskar 1905 7 August – Allgemeiner Deutscher Musikverein founded by Franz Liszt and Franz Brendel.Lucke-Kaminiarz Irina Der Allgemeine Deutsche Musikverein und seine Tonkünstlerfeste 1859–1886 Altenburg Neudeutsche Schule 224 15 August – First description of Archaeopteryx, based on a feather found in Bavaria;Meyer Hermann von Christian Erich Hermann von Meyer Vogel-Federn und Palpipes priscus von Solenhofen Neues Jahrbuch für Mineralogie, Geognosie, Geologie und Petrefaktenkunde 1861-08-15 561 https://books.google.com/books?id=6RAFAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA561 Bird feathers and Palpipes priscus from Solenhofen Aus dem lithographischen Schiefer der Brüche von Solenhofen in Bayern ist mir in den beiden Gegenplatten eine auf der Ablösungs- oder Spaltungs-Fläche des Gesteins liegende Versteinerung mitgetheilt worden, die mit grosser Deutlichkeit eine Feder erkennen lässt, welche von den Vogel-Federn nicht zu unterscheiden ist. (From the lithographic slates of the faults of Solenhofen in Bavaria, there has been reported to me a fossil lying on the stone's surface of detachment or cleavage, in both opposing slabs, which can be recognized with great clarity [to be] a feather, which is indistinguishable from a bird's feather.) in September the first complete identified skeleton is found near Langenaltheim.Natural History Museum, London BMNH 37001. Chiappe Luis M. Glorified Dinosaurs UNSW Press 2007 Sydney 118–146 978-0-471-24723-4 1 October – Newspaper Deutsche Allgemeine Zeitung begins daily publication as Nord-deutsche Allgemeine Zeitung.The 'Deutsche allgemeine Zeitung' (1861–1945): a portrait of a famous German newspaper Heinz-Dietrich Fischer International Communication Gazette 13 1967 10.1177/001654926701300103 143560492 Date unknown – Museum Godeffroy in Hamburg is founded.Henry Augustus Ward Henry A. Ward Museum Godeffroy Popular Science Monthly 8 April 1876 Births 2 January – Wilhelm Bölsche, writer (died 1939) 30 January – Charles Martin Loeffler, violist (died 1937 in the United States) 4 February – Franz Winter, archaeologist (died 1930) 17 February – Princess Helena of Waldeck and Pyrmont, Duchess of Albany, marries into the British royal family (died 1922 in Austria) 6 March – Friedrich Eckenfelder, painter (died 1938) 21 March – Charles Swickard, silent film director (died 1929 in the United States) 14 May – Harro Magnussen, sculptor (died 1908) 28 May – Siegfried Czapski, physicist and optician (died 1907) 19 June – Ludwig Traube, palaeographer (died 1907) 22 June – Maximilian von Spee, admiral (died 1914) 16 July – Franz von Blon, composer (died 1945) 11 September – Erich von Falkenhayn, general (died 1922) 18 September – Walter Schott, sculptor (died 1938) 23 September – Robert Bosch, industrialist, engineer and inventor (died 1942) 24 September – Walter Simons, lawyer and politician (died 1937) 28 September – Wilhelm Diegelmann, actor (died 1934) 29 September – Carl Duisberg, chemist and industrialist (died 1935) 15 October – Eduard Schmid, politician (died 1933) 20 October – Maximilian Harden, journalist (died 1927) 10 December Karl Groos, philosopher (died 1946) Elisabeth von Heyking, novelist and travel diarist (died 1925) 26 December Friedrich Engel, mathematician (died 1941) Ludolf von Krehl, internist (died 1937) 29 December – Kurt Hensel, mathematician (died 1941) Deaths 2 January – Frederick William IV of Prussia, King of Prussia from 1840 to 1861 (born 1795) 21 January – Ernst Friedrich August Rietschel, sculptor (born 1804) 19 January – Albert Niemann, chemist (born 1834) 9 February – Karl Otto Ludwig von Arnim, travel writer and playwright (born 1779) 18 February – Theodor Mügge, writer (born 1802) 25 October – Friedrich Carl von Savigny, academic lawyer and historian (born 1779) 26 November – Wilhelm Hensel, painter (born 1794) 1 December – Heinrich August Hahn, theologian (born 1821) 18 December – Ernst Anschütz, teacher, organist, poet and composer (born 1780) References External links 1861 Category:Years of the 19th century in Germany Germany Germany