Events from the year 1797 in Germany.

Incumbents

Holy Roman Empire

* Francis II (5 July 17926 August 1806)

Important Electors

* Bavaria- Charles I (30 December 1777 – 16 February 1799) * Saxony- Frederick Augustus I (17 December 176320 December 1806)

Kingdoms

* Kingdom of Prussia ** Monarch – Frederick William II of Prussia (17 August 1786 – 16 November 1797)

Frederick William III of Prussia Frederick William III (german: Friedrich Wilhelm III.; 3 August 1770 – 7 June 1840) was King of Prussia from 16 November 1797 until his death in 1840. He was concurrently Elector of Brandenburg in the Holy Roman Empire until 6 August 1806, wh ...

(16 November 17977 June 1840)

Grand Duchies

* Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin **

Frederick Francis I Frederick Francis I (10 December 1756 – 1 February 1837) ruled over the German state of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, first as duke (1785–1815), and then as grand duke (1815–1837). Biography He was born in Schwerin, Duchy of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, t ...

– (24 April 17851 February 1837) * Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Strelitz ** Charles II (2 June 17946 November 1816) * Grand Duke of Oldenburg ** Wilhelm (6 July 17852 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 182321 May 1829) * Grand Duke of Saxe-Weimar ** Karl August (1758–1809) Raised to grand duchy in 1809

Principalities

* Schaumburg-Lippe ** George William (13 February 17871860) * Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt ** Louis Frederick II (13 April 179328 April 1807) * Schwarzburg-Sondershausen ** Günther Friedrich Karl I (14 October 179419 August 1835) * Principality of Reuss-Greiz **

Heinrich XI, Prince Reuss of Greiz Heinrich XI, Prince Reuss of Greiz (german: Heinrich XI Fürst Reuß zu Greiz; 18 March 172228 June 1800) was the first Prince Reuss of Greiz from 1778 to 1800. Early life Heinrich XI was born at Greiz, Reuss, youngest child of Count Heinrich ...

(12 May 1778-28 June 1800) * Waldeck and Pyrmont ** Friedrich Karl August (29 August 176324 September 1812)

Duchies

* Duke of Anhalt-Dessau ** Leopold III (16 December 17519 August 1817) * Duke of Saxe-Altenburg ** Duke of Saxe-Hildburghausen (1780–1826) - Frederick * Duke of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld ** Ernest Frederick, Duke of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld (16 September 1764 – 8 September 1800) * Duke of Saxe-Meiningen ** Georg I (1782–1803) *

Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Beck The House of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Beck (Schleswig-Holstein-Beck or Beck for short) was a line of the Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg branch of the House of Oldenburg. It consisted of August Philipp, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg- ...

** Frederick Charles Louis (24 February 177525 March 1816) * Duke of Württemberg ** Frederick II Eugene, Duke of Württemberg (20 May 1795 – 23 December 1797) ** Frederick I (22 December 179730 October 1816)

Other

* Landgrave of Hesse-Darmstadt ** Louis I (6 April 179014 August 1806)

Events

* 26 January – The Treaty of the Third Partition of Poland is signed in St. Petersburg by the Russian Empire, Austria and the Kingdom of Prussia. *

12 February Events Pre-1600 *1404 – The Italian professor Galeazzo di Santa Sophie performed the first post-mortem autopsy for the purposes of teaching and demonstration at the Heiligen–Geist Spital in Vienna. *1429 – English forces under S ...

– " Gott erhalte Franz den Kaiser" is first performed, with the music composed in January by

Joseph Haydn Franz Joseph Haydn ( , ; 31 March 173231 May 1809) was an Austrian composer of the Classical period (music), Classical period. He was instrumental in the development of chamber music such as the string quartet and piano trio. His contributions ...

, which also becomes the tune to the

Deutschlandlied The "" (; "Song of Germany"), officially titled "" (; "The Song of the Germans"), has been the national anthem of Germany either wholly or in part since 1922, except for a seven-year gap following World War II in West Germany. In East German ...

, the German national anthem (''Deutschland, Deutschland über alles'', later ''Einigkeit und Recht und Freiheit''). * 16 November – The Prussian heir apparent, Frederick William, becomes King of Prussia as Fredrick William III.

Births

* 4 January – Wilhelm Beer, German banker, astronomer (d. 1850) * 5 January – Eduard Vogel von Falckenstein, Prussian general (d. 1885) *

10 January Events Pre-1600 *49 BC – Julius Caesar crosses the Rubicon, signalling the start of Caesar's Civil War, civil war. *AD 9, 9 – The Western Han dynasty ends when Wang Mang claims that the divine Mandate of Heaven called for the end o ...

– Annette von Droste-Hülshoff, German writer (d. 1848) *

11 January Events Pre-1600 * 532 – Nika riots in Constantinople: A quarrel between supporters of different chariot teams—the Blues and the Greens—in the Hippodrome escalates into violence. * 630 – Conquest of Mecca: The prophet Muhammad ...

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Carl Rottmann Carl Anton Joseph Rottmann (11 January 1797, in Handschuhsheim – 7 July 1850, in Munich) was a German landscape painter and the most famous member of the Rottmann family of painters. Rottmann belonged to the circle of artists around King Lud ...

, German landscape painter, the most famous member of the Rottmann family of painters (d. 1850) * 26 January –

Therese Albertine Luise Robinson Therese Albertine Luise von Jakob Robinson (26 January 1797 – 13 April 1870) was a German-American author, linguist and translator, and second wife of biblical scholar Edward Robinson. She published under the pseudonym Talvj, an acronym derive ...

, German-American author (d. 1870) *

29 January Events Pre-1600 * 904 – Sergius III is elected pope, after coming out of retirement to take over the papacy from the deposed antipope Christopher. * 946 – Caliph Al-Mustakfi is blinded and deposed by Emir Mu'izz al-Dawla, ru ...

– Prince Adolf zu Hohenlohe-Ingelfingen, Prussian nobleman (d. 1873) *

2 February Events Pre-1600 * 506 – Alaric II, eighth king of the Visigoths, promulgates the Breviary of Alaric (''Breviarium Alaricianum'' or ''Lex Romana Visigothorum''), a collection of "Roman law". * 880 – Battle of Lüneburg Heath: King ...

– Bertha Zück, German-born treasurer of Queen Josephine of Sweden (d. 1868) *

6 February Events Pre-1600 *1579 – The Archdiocese of Manila is made a diocese by a papal bull with Domingo de Salazar being its first bishop. 1601–1900 *1685 – James II of England and VII of Scotland is proclaimed King upon the death ...

– Joseph von Radowitz, conservative Prussian statesman, general (d. 1853) * 15 February –

Henry Engelhard Steinway Heinrich Engelhard Steinweg, anglicized name Henry Engelhard Steinway, (February 22, 1797 – February 7, 1871)B ...

, German-American piano manufacturer (d. 1871) * 23 February – Heinrich Halfeld, German engineer (d. 1873) *

3 March Events Pre-1600 * 473 – Gundobad (nephew of Ricimer) nominates Glycerius as emperor of the Western Roman Empire. * 724 – Empress Genshō abdicates the throne in favor of her nephew Emperor Shōmu, Shōmu who becomes emperor of Japa ...

– Gotthilf Hagen, German civil engineer who made important contributions to fluid dynamics (d. 1884) * 5 March –

Friedrich von Gerolt Friedrich Karl Joseph Freiherr von Gerolt (5 March 1797 Bonn - 27 July 1879 Linz am Rhein) was Prussian Privy Councillor, Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary in the United States. Family Gerolt was born the son of the German jurist a ...

, Prussian Privy Councillor, Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary in the United States (d. 1879) *

21 March Events Pre-1600 * 537 – Siege of Rome: King Vitiges attempts to assault the northern and eastern city walls, but is repulsed at the Praenestine Gate, known as the ''Vivarium'', by the defenders under the Byzantine generals Bessas and ...

– Johann Andreas Wagner, German palaeontologist (d. 1861) *

22 March Events Pre-1600 *106 – Start of the Bostran era, the calendar of the province of Arabia Petraea. * 235 – Roman emperor Severus Alexander is murdered, marking the start of the Crisis of the Third Century. * 871 – Æthelr ...

** Eduard Gans, German jurist (d. 1839) ** Emperor Wilhelm I of Germany (d. 1888) *

27 March Events Pre-1600 *1309 – Pope Clement V imposes excommunication and interdiction on Venice, and a general prohibition of all commercial intercourse with Venice, which had seized on Ferrara, a papal fiefdom. * 1329 – Pope John XXII ...

– Heinrich LXXII, Prince Reuss of Lobenstein and Ebersdorf (d. 1853) *

5 April Events Pre-1600 * 823 – Lothair I is crowned King of Italy by Pope Paschal I. * 919 – The second Fatimid invasion of Egypt begins, when the Fatimid heir-apparent, al-Qa'im bi-Amr Allah, sets out from Raqqada at the head of his ...

– Karl August Devrient, German stage actor best known for performances of Schiller and Shakespeare (d. 1872) *

12 April Events Pre-1600 * 240 – Shapur I becomes co-emperor of the Sasanian Empire with his father Ardashir I. * 467 – Anthemius is elevated to Emperor of the Western Roman Empire. * 627 – King Edwin of Northumbria is converted to ...

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Ernst August Hagen Ernst August Hagen (12 April 1797 - 15 February 1880) was a Prussian writer on art and novelist. He taught at Königsberg University and was the first Prussian scholar to hold a teaching chair in Art history and Aesthetics. Family provenan ...

, Prussian art writer, novelist (d. 1880) *

23 April Events Pre-1600 *215 BC – A temple is built on the Capitoline Hill dedicated to Venus Erycina to commemorate the Roman defeat at Lake Trasimene. *599 – Maya king Uneh Chan of Calakmul attacks rival city-state Palenque in southern ...

– Ernst Ferdinand Oehme, German Romantic painter, illustrator (d. 1855) * 26 April –

Albert Seerig Albert Wilhelm Hermann Seerig (26 April 1797 in Rudolstadt – 7 March 1862 in Königsberg) was a German surgeon and anatomist. He studied medicine at the universities of Jena, Berlin and Breslau, where he also served as an anatomical prose ...

, German surgeon, anatomist (d. 1862) *

3 May Events Pre-1600 * 752 – Mayan king Bird Jaguar IV of Yaxchilan in modern-day Chiapas, Mexico, assumes the throne. *1481 – The largest of three earthquakes strikes the island of Rhodes and causes an estimated 30,000 casualties. ...

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Heinrich Berghaus Heinrich Karl Wilhelm Berghaus (3 May 1797 – 17 February 1884) was a German geographer and cartographer who conducted trigonometric surveys in Prussia and taught geodesy at the Bauakademie in Berlin. He taught cartography and produced a pioneer ...

, German geographer (d. 1884) *

11 May Events 1601–1900 *1812 – Prime Minister Spencer Perceval is assassinated by John Bellingham in the lobby of the British House of Commons. *1813 – William Lawson, Gregory Blaxland and William Wentworth discover a route across th ...

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Ernst Meyer Ernst Meyer may refer to: * Ernst Heinrich Friedrich Meyer (1791–1858), German botanist * Ernst Meyer (painter) (1797-1861), Danish painter * Ernst Meyer (Swedish politician) (1847–1925), Swedish politician * Ernst Meyer (German politician) (1 ...

, German-born Danish genre painter of Jewish ancestry (d. 1861) *

12 May Events Pre-1600 * 254 – Pope Stephen I succeeds Pope Lucius I, becoming the 23rd pope of the Catholic Church, and immediately takes a stand against Novatianism. * 907 – Zhu Wen forces Emperor Ai into abdicating, ending the ...

– Johann Hermann Kufferath, German composer (d. 1864) *

18 May Events Pre-1600 * 332 – Emperor Constantine the Great announces free distributions of food to the citizens in Constantinople. * 872 – Louis II of Italy is crowned for the second time as Holy Roman Emperor at Rome, at the age of ...

– Frederick Augustus II of Saxony (d. 1854) *

30 May Events Pre-1600 * 70 – Siege of Jerusalem: Titus and his Roman legions breach the Second Wall of Jerusalem. Jewish defenders retreat to the First Wall. The Romans build a circumvallation, cutting down all trees within fifteen kilometres ...

** Johann Christian Lobe, German composer, music theorist (d. 1881) **

Georg Amadeus Carl Friedrich Naumann Georg Amadeus Carl Friedrich Naumann (30 May 1797 – 26 November 1873), also known as Karl Friedrich Naumann, was a German mineralogist and geologist. The crater Naumann on the Moon is named after him. Life Naumann was born at Dresden, the s ...

, German mineralogist (d. 1873) *

20 June Events Pre-1600 * 451 – Battle of Chalons: Flavius Aetius' battles Attila the Hun. After the battle, which was inconclusive, Attila retreats, causing the Romans to interpret it as a victory. *1180 – First Battle of Uji, starting ...

– Karolina Gerhardinger, German Roman Catholic professed religious, established the School Sisters of Notre Dame (d. 1879) * 12 July – Adele Schopenhauer, German author (d. 1849) *

20 July Events Pre-1600 * 70 – Siege of Jerusalem: Titus, son of emperor Vespasian, storms the Fortress of Antonia north of the Temple Mount. The Roman army is drawn into street fights with the Zealots. * 792 – Kardam of Bulgaria defeats ...

– Gotthard Fritzsche, Prussian-Australian pastor (d. 1863) *

25 July Events Pre-1600 * 306 – Constantine I is proclaimed Roman emperor by his troops. * 315 – The Arch of Constantine is completed near the Colosseum in Rome to commemorate Constantine I's victory over Maxentius at the Milvian Bridge. ...

– Princess Augusta of Hesse-Kassel (d. 1889) *

5 August Events Pre-1600 *AD 25 – Guangwu claims the throne as Emperor of China, restoring the Han dynasty after the collapse of the short-lived Xin dynasty. * 70 – Fires resulting from the destruction of the Second Temple in Jerusalem are ...

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Friedrich August Kummer Friedrich August Kummer (5 August 1797 – 22 August 1879), born in Meiningen, Germany, was a cellist, pedagogue, and composer. Childhood and education As a child, his family moved to Dresden on an invitation by the court chapel to his father, a ...

, German violoncellist, pedagogue and composer (d. 1879) *

6 August Events Pre-1600 *1284 – The Republic of Pisa is defeated in the Battle of Meloria by the Republic of Genoa, thus losing its naval dominance in the Mediterranean. * 1538 – Bogotá, Colombia, is founded by Gonzalo Jiménez de Quesada ...

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August Wilhelm Stiehler August Wilhelm Stiehler (6 August 1797, Neumarkt – May 1878, Quedlinburg) was a German government official and paleobotanist. He studied law at the University of Leipzig, and for many years worked as a civil servant in the town of Wernigerode. D ...

, German government official, paleobotanist (d. 1878) * 7 August –

Justin von Linde Justin von Linde (7 August 1797, Brilon – 9 June 1870) was a German jurist and statesman from the Grand Duchy of Hesse.9 August Events Pre-1600 *48 BC – Caesar's Civil War: Battle of Pharsalus: Julius Caesar decisively defeats Pompey at Pharsalus and Pompey flees to Egypt. * 378 – Gothic War: Battle of Adrianople: A large Roman army led by Emperor Valens i ...

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Christian Wilhelm Niedner Christian Wilhelm Niedner (9 August 1797 – 13 August 1865) was a German church historian and theologian born in Oberwinkel, which today is part of the town of Waldenburg, Saxony. He studied theology at the University of Leipzig, where in 1826 he ...

, German church historian, theologian (d. 1865) *

10 August Events Pre-1600 * 654 – Pope Eugene I elected to succeed Martinus I. * 955 – Battle of Lechfeld: Otto I, Holy Roman Emperor defeats the Magyars, ending 50 years of Magyar invasion of the West. * 991 – Battle of Maldon: T ...

– Joseph Gerhard Zuccarini, German botanist (d. 1848) * 28 August –

Karl Otfried Müller Karl Otfried Müller ( la, Carolus Mullerus; 28 August 1797 – 1 August 1840) was a German scholar and Philodorian, or admirer of ancient Sparta, who introduced the modern study of Greek mythology. Biography He was born at Brieg (modern Brze ...

, German scholar, Philodorian (d. 1840) * 10 September – Franz Krüger, German (Prussian) painter, lithographer (d. 1857) *

16 September Events Pre-1600 * 681 – Pope Honorius I is posthumously excommunicated by the Sixth Ecumenical Council. *1400 – Owain Glyndŵr is declared Prince of Wales by his followers. 1601–1900 *1620 – A determined band of 35 religi ...

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Johann Friedrich Ludwig Wöhlert Johann Friedrich Ludwig Wöhlert (16 September 1797 – 31 March 1877) was a German businessman. Johann Wöhlert was born on 16 September 1797 in Kiel in north Germany. Trained as a joiner, in 1818 Wöhlert went to Berlin. Here he worked until 183 ...

, German businessman (d. 1877) *

17 September Events Pre-1600 *1111 – Highest Galician nobility led by Pedro Fróilaz de Traba and the bishop Diego Gelmírez crown Alfonso VII as "King of Galicia". *1176 – The Battle of Myriokephalon is the last attempt by the Byzantine Empire ...

– Heinrich Kuhl, German naturalist, zoologist (d. 1821) *

24 September Events Pre-1600 *787 – Second Council of Nicaea: The council assembles at the church of Hagia Sophia. *1568 – Spanish naval forces defeat an English fleet, under the command of John Hawkins, at the Battle of San Juan de Ulúa near ...

– Carl Peter Wilhelm Gramberg, German theologian, biblical scholar (d. 1830) Heinrich Heine-Oppenheim

3 October Events Pre-1600 *2457 BC – Gaecheonjeol, Hwanung (환웅) purportedly descended from heaven. South Korea's National Foundation Day. *52 BC – Gallic Wars: Vercingetorix, leader of the Gauls, surrenders to the Romans under Julius Cae ...

– Ludwig Förster, German-born Austrian architect (d. 1863) *

10 October Events Pre-1600 * 680 – The Battle of Karbala marks the Martyrdom of Husayn ibn Ali. * 732 – Charles Martel's forces defeat an Umayyad army near Tours, France. * 1471 – Sten Sture the Elder, the Regent of Sweden, with the ...

– - August Heinrich Hermann von Dönhoff, Prussian diplomat (d. 1874) *

15 October Events Pre-1600 *1066 – Following the death of Harold II at the Battle of Hastings, Edgar the Ætheling is proclaimed King of England by the Witan; he is never crowned, and concedes power to William the Conqueror two months later. *1211 ...

** Johann Gottlieb Fleischer, German botanist and ornithologist (d. 1838) **

Karl Wilhelm Ludwig Heyse Karl Wilhelm Ludwig Heyse (15 October 1797 in Oldenburg – 25 November 1855 in Berlin) was a German philologist, son of Johann Christian August Heyse, father of the novelist Paul Johann Ludwig von Heyse, born at Oldenburg. He received his ear ...

, German philologist (d. 1855) *

26 October Events Pre-1600 *1185 – The Uprising of Asen and Peter begins on the feast day of St. Demetrius of Thessaloniki and ends with the creation of the Second Bulgarian Empire. * 1341 – The Byzantine civil war of 1341–1347 formally beg ...

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Johann Adam Philipp Hepp Johann Adam Philipp Hepp (26 October 1797, in Kaiserslautern – 5 February 1867, in Frankfurt am Main) was a German physician and lichenologist. He studied medicine at the University of Würzburg, and from 1826 worked as a doctor in Neustadt ...

, German physician, lichenologist (d. 1867) * 30 October – Princess Henrietta of Nassau-Weilburg (d. 1829) *

14 November Events Pre-1600 1601–1900 *1680 – German astronomer Gottfried Kirch discovers the Great Comet of 1680, the first comet to be discovered by telescope. *1770 – James Bruce discovers what he believes to be the source of the Nile. *1 ...

** Moses M. Haarbleicher, German-Jewish poet, critic (d. 1869) ** Justus Radius, German pathologist, ophthalmologist (d. 1884) *

13 December Events Pre-1600 *1294 – Saint Celestine V resigns the papacy after only five months to return to his previous life as an ascetic hermit. *1545 – The Council of Trent begins as the embodiment of the Counter-Reformation. *1577 & ...

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Heinrich Heine Christian Johann Heinrich Heine (; born Harry Heine; 13 December 1797 – 17 February 1856) was a German poet, writer and literary critic. He is best known outside Germany for his early lyric poetry, which was set to music in the form of '' Lied ...

, German poet (d. 1856) * 14 December –

Emil Huschke Emil Huschke (December 14, 1797 – June 19, 1858) was a German anatomist and embryologist who was a native of Weimar. He studied medicine at the University of Jena, and spent most of his professional career at Jena. In 1827 he was appointe ...

, German anatomist and embryologist (d. 1858) *

15 December Events Pre-1600 * 533 – Vandalic War: Byzantine general Belisarius defeats the Vandals, commanded by King Gelimer, at the Battle of Tricamarum. * 687 – Pope Sergius I is elected as a compromise between antipopes Paschal and Theod ...

– Karl Friedrich Theodor Krause, German anatomist (d. 1868) *

18 December Events Pre-1600 * 1271 – Kublai Khan renames his empire "Yuan" (元 yuán), officially marking the start of the Yuan dynasty of Mongolia and China. * 1499 – A rebellion breaks out in Alpujarras in response to the forced conversion ...

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August Friedrich Wilhelm Forchhammer August Friedrich Wilhelm Forchhammer (18 December 1797 in Husum – 16 February 1870 in Kiel) was a jurist and historian from the Duchy of Schleswig. He was born in Husum. He was a brother of Johan Georg Forchhammer, and through him an uncle of Jo ...

, jurist and historian from the Duchy of Schleswig (d. 1870) *

26 December Events Pre-1600 * 887 – Berengar I is elected as king of Italy by the lords of Lombardy. He is crowned with the Iron Crown of Lombardy at Pavia. *1481 – Battle of Westbroek: An army of 4,000 to 5,000 soldiers raised by David of B ...

– Johann Gustav Heckscher, German politician (d. 1865)

Deaths

13 January Events Pre-1600 *27 BC – Octavian transfers the state to the free disposal of the Roman Senate and the people. He receives Spain, Gaul, and Syria as his province for ten years. * 532 – The Nika riots break out, during the racing s ...

– Elisabeth Christine of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel-Bevern, queen consort of Prussia (b. 1715) * 22 February –

Karl Friedrich Hieronymus Freiherr von Münchhausen Baron Munchausen (; ) is a fictional German nobleman created by the German writer Rudolf Erich Raspe in his 1785 book ''Baron Munchausen's Narrative of his Marvellous Travels and Campaigns in Russia''. The character is loosely based on a real b ...

, German officer and adventurer (b. 1720) *

7 March Events Pre-1600 * 161 – Marcus Aurelius and L. Commodus (who changes his name to Lucius Verus) become joint emperors of Rome on the death of Antoninus Pius. *1138 – Konrad III von Hohenstaufen was elected king of Germany at Coblen ...

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Johann Heinrich Samuel Formey Johann Heinrich Samuel Formey (french: Jean Henri Samuel Formey; 31 May 1711– 7 March 1797) was a German churchman, educator, author, and journalist. The son of an immigrant French family, he preached, taught, and wrote in French. A foundin ...

, German writer (b. 1711) *

– Johann Georg Bach, German organist (b. 1751) * 12 August –

Gotthelf Greiner Johann Gotthelf Greiner (February 22. 1732 – August 12. 1797) was a German glassmaker. He is acknowledge as co-inventor of the porcelain. Biography Greiner was born in an old-established glassmaker’s family in Scheibe-Alsbach, Thuringia. He wa ...

, glassmaker (born 1732) *

4 October Events Pre-1600 *AD 23 – Rebels sack the Chinese capital Chang'an during a peasant rebellion. * 1209 – Otto IV is crowned Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire by Pope Innocent III. *1302 – The Byzantine–Venetian War comes to ...

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Johann Christian Georg Bodenschatz Johann Christian Georg Bodenschatz (May 25, 1717 – October 4, 1797), was a German Protestant theologian. Biography Bodenschatz was born at Hof, Germany. In his early education at the gymnasium of Gera he became interested in Oriental and ...

, German Protestant theologian (born 1717) * 6 October – Johann Matthäus Hassencamp, German Orientalist and theologian (born 1743) * 16 November – King Frederick William II of Prussia (b. 1744) *

27 November Events Pre-1600 *AD 25 – Luoyang is History of the Han dynasty#Reconsolidation under Guangwu, declared capital of the Eastern Han dynasty by Emperor Guangwu of Han. * 176 – Emperor Marcus Aurelius grants his son Commodus the rank o ...

– Johann Baptist Wendling, Alsatian-born flute player, composer of the Mannheim School (b. 1723) *

23 December Events Pre-1600 * 484 – The Arian Vandal Kingdom ceases its persecution of Nicene Christianity. * 558 – Chlothar I is crowned King of the Franks. * 583 – Maya queen Yohl Ik'nal is crowned ruler of Palenque. * 962 – ...

– Frederick II Eugene, Duke of Württemberg (b. 1732)

References

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