title: 1800 in Germany
text: # 1800 in Germany
  
  Events from the year 1800 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 of Prussia (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) Wilhelm, who suffered from mental illness, 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 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 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
     * Georg I (1782–1803)
  * Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Beck
     * Frederick Charles Louis (24 February 1775 – 25 March 1816)
  * Duke of Württemberg
     * Frederick I (22 December 1797 – 30 October 1816)
  
  ### Other
  
  * Landgrave of Hesse-Darmstadt
     * Louis I (6 April 1790 – 14 August 1806)
  
  ## Events
  
  * 2 April – Ludwig van Beethoven's Symphony No. 1 premieres at the Burgtheater, in Vienna.
  * May 3
     * Battle of Stockach: French victory
     * Battle of Engen: French victory
  * 4–5 May– Battle of Messkirch: French victory
  * 9 May – Battle of Biberach: French victory
  * 15 May – Battle of Erbach: French victory
  * 19 June – War of the Second Coalition: Battle of Höchstädt – General Jean Victor Marie Moreau leads French forces to victory, opening the Danube passageway to Vienna.
  * 27 June – Battle of Neuburg: French victory
  * 22 November – War of the Second Coalition: Hostilities resume.
  * 1 December – Battle of Ampfing
  * 3 December – War of the Second Coalition: Battle of Hohenlinden – The French army defeats Habsburg and Bavarian troops.
  
  ## Births
  
  * 26 January – Johann Gerhard Oncken, German Baptist preacher (died 1884)
  * 3 March – Heinrich Georg Bronn, German geologist, paleontologist (died 1862)
  * 10 March – Victor Aimé Huber, German social reformer (died 1869)
  * 17 March – Rudolf Ewald Stier, German Protestant churchman, mystic (died 1862)
  * 20 March – Gottfried Bernhardy, German philologist, literary historian (died 1875)
  * 25 March – Ernst Heinrich Karl von Dechen, German geologist, mineralogist (died 1889)
  * 28 March – Johann Georg Wagler, German herpetologist (died 1832)
  * 16 April – Jakob Heine, German orthopaedist (died 1879)
  * 30 May – Karl Wilhelm Feuerbach, German geometer (died 1834)
  * 31 July – Friedrich Wöhler, German chemist (died 1882)
  * 20 August – Bernhard Heine, German physician, bone specialist and inventor (died 1846)
  * 26 October – Helmuth von Moltke the Elder, German Field Marshal (died 1891)
  
  ### Approximate date
  
  * Abraham Rice, German-born rabbi, first ordained rabbi to serve in the United States (died 1862)
  
  ## Deaths
  
  * 3 January – Count Karl-Wilhelm Finck von Finckenstein, Prime Minister of Prussia (born 1714)
  * 6 January – Friedrich Adolf Riedesel, German soldier (born 1738)
  * 11 January – Kyra Frosini, Greek heroine (born 1773)
  * 16 January – Johann Christian Wiegleb, German chemist (born 1732)
  * 4 February – Charlotte Sophie of Aldenburg, Countess of Varel and Kniphausen (born 1715)
  * 20 June – Abraham Gotthelf Kästner, German mathematician (born 1719)
  * 28 June – Heinrich XI, Prince Reuss of Greiz, German noble (born 1722)
  * 10 September – Johann David Schoepff, German naturalist, doctor (born 1752)
  * 4 October – Johann Hermann, German physician, naturalist (born 1738)
  