Events from the year 1798 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 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 ** Frederick Charles Louis (24 February 177525 March 1816) * Duke of Württemberg ** Frederick I (22 December 179730 October 1816)

Other

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

Events

* Building of the first major example of Egyptian Revival architecture, Karlsruhe Synagogue in Baden, designed by Friedrich Weinbrenner. * Friedrich von Schiller – '' Wallensteins Lager'' *

12 October Events Pre-1600 *539 BC – The army of Cyrus the Great of Persia takes Babylon, ending the Babylonian empire. ( Julian calendar) * 633 – Battle of Hatfield Chase: King Edwin of Northumbria is defeated and killed by an alliance u ...

– The rebuilt Weimarer Hoftheater are inaugurated with the first performance of the first part of

Friedrich Schiller Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller (, short: ; 10 November 17599 May 1805) was a German playwright, poet, and philosopher. During the last seventeen years of his life (1788–1805), Schiller developed a productive, if complicated, friends ...

's dramatic trilogy '' Wallenstein'': ''Das Lager'' (The Camp), directed by Goethe. *

Caroline von Wolzogen Caroline von Wolzogen (née von Lengefeld) (3 February 1763, Rudolstadt – 11 January 1847, Jena), was a German writer in the Weimar Classicism circle. Her best-known works are a novel, ''Agnes von Lilien'', and a biography of Friedrich Schiller ...

(anonymously) – ''Agnes von Lilien'' (first complete book publication, in 2 vols) * Francis Lathom – '' The Midnight Bell: a German story, founded on incidents in real life'' * Cassella chemical and pharmaceutical company founded * M. M. Warburg & Co. bank founded

Births

25 March Events Pre-1600 * 421 – Italian city Venice is founded with the dedication of the first church, that of San Giacomo di Rialto on the islet of Rialto. * 708 – Pope Constantine becomes the 88th pope. He would be the last pope to vi ...

– Christoph Gudermann, German mathematician (d.

1852 Events January–March * January 14 – President Louis-Napoléon Bonaparte proclaims a new constitution for the French Second Republic. * January 15 – Nine men representing various Jewish charitable organizations come tog ...

) *

30 March Events Pre-1600 * 598 – Balkan Campaign: The Avars lift the siege at the Byzantine stronghold of Tomis. Their leader Bayan I retreats north of the Danube River after the Avaro- Slavic hordes are decimated by the plague. *1282 – ...

–

Luise Hensel Luise Hensel (30 March 1798 to 18 December 1876) was a German teacher and religious poet, who influenced the romantic style of her friend and fellow poet, Clemens Brentano. Life Luise Hensel was the sister of Wilhelm Hensel and the sister-in-l ...

, German religious author and poet (died

1876 Events January–March * January 1 ** The Reichsbank opens in Berlin. ** The Bass Brewery Red Triangle becomes the world's first registered trademark symbol. * February 2 – The National League of Professional Base Ball Clubs i ...

) * 2 April – August Heinrich Hoffmann von Fallersleben, German writer (d.

1874 Events January–March * January 1 – New York City annexes The Bronx. * January 2 – Ignacio María González becomes head of state of the Dominican Republic for the first time. * January 3 – Third Carlist War &ndas ...

) *

11 September Events Pre-1600 * 9 – The Battle of the Teutoburg Forest ends: The Roman Empire suffers the greatest defeat of its history and the Rhine is established as the border between the Empire and the so-called barbarians for the next four hun ...

– Franz Ernst Neumann, German mineralogist, physicist and mathematician (d.

1895 Events January–March * January 5 – Dreyfus affair: French officer Alfred Dreyfus is stripped of his army rank, and sentenced to life imprisonment on Devil's Island. * January 12 – The National Trust for Places of Histor ...

)

Deaths

* 20 January – Christian Cannabich, German musician and composer (born 1731) *

11 April Events Pre-1600 * 491 – Flavius Anastasius becomes Byzantine emperor, with the name of Anastasius I. *1241 – Batu Khan defeats Béla IV of Hungary at the Battle of Mohi. *1512 – War of the League of Cambrai: Franco-Ferra ...

– Karl Wilhelm Ramler, German poet (b. 1725) *

29 April Events Pre-1600 *1091 – Battle of Levounion: The Pechenegs are defeated by Byzantine Emperor Alexios I Komnenos. * 1386 – Battle of the Vikhra River: The Principality of Smolensk is defeated by the Grand Duchy of Lithuania and beco ...

–

Nikolaus Poda von Neuhaus Nikolaus Poda von Neuhaus (4 October 1723 – 29 April 1798) was an Austrian entomologist Entomology () is the scientific study of insects, a branch of zoology. In the past the term "insect" was less specific, and historically the definit ...

, German entomologist (b. 1723) *

25 May Events Pre-1600 *567 BC – Servius Tullius, the king of Rome, celebrates a triumph for his victory over the Etruscans. * 240 BC – First recorded perihelion passage of Halley's Comet. * 1085 – Alfonso VI of Castile takes Toledo ...

–

Asmus Jacob Carstens Asmus Jacob Carstens (or "Jakob", May 10, 1754May 25, 1798) was a Danish-German painter, one of the most committed artists of German Neoclassicism. His career was erratic, partly because of his difficult personality, and the majority of his la ...

, Danish-German (born 1754) *

20 November Events Pre-1600 * 284 – Diocletian is chosen as Roman emperor. * 762 – During the An Shi Rebellion, the Tang dynasty, with the help of Huihe tribe, recaptures Luoyang from the rebels. *1194 – Palermo is conquered by Henry ...

– Friedrich Fleischmann, composer (born 1766)Rönnau, Klaus: "Fleischmann, Friedrich", in ''The

New Grove Dictionary of Opera ''The New Grove Dictionary of Opera'' is an encyclopedia of opera, considered to be one of the best general reference sources on the subject. It is the largest work on opera in English, and in its printed form, amounts to 5,448 pages in four volu ...

'', ed. Stanley Sadie (London, 1992),

References

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