# 1810 in Germany

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Events from the year 1810 in Germany.

## Incumbents
### Kingdoms

* Kingdom of Prussia
** Monarch – Frederick William III of Prussia (16 November 1797 – 7 June 1840)
* Kingdom of Bavaria
** Maximilian I (1 January 1806 – 13 October 1825)
* Kingdom of Saxony
** Frederick Augustus I (20 December 1806 – 5 May 1827)
* Kingdom of Württemberg
** Frederick I (22 December 1797 – 30 October 1816)

### Grand Duchies

* Grand Duke of Baden
** Charles Frederick (25 July 1806 – 10 June 1811)
* Grand Duke of Hesse
** Louis I (14 August 1806 – 6 April 1830)
* 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 ) 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 1823 - 21 May 1829)
* Grand Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach
** Karl August (1809–1815)

### Principalities

* Schaumburg-Lippe
** George William (13 February 1787 - 1860)
* Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt
** Friedrich Günther (28 April 1807 - 28 June 1867)
* Schwarzburg-Sondershausen
** Günther Friedrich Karl I (14 October 1794 - 19 August 1835)
* Principality of Lippe
** Leopold II (5 November 1802 - 1 January 1851)
* 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 Brunswick
** Frederick William (16 October 1806 – 16 June 1815)
* Duke of Saxe-Altenburg
** Duke of Saxe-Hildburghausen (1780–1826) - Frederick
* Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha
** Ernest I (9 December 1806 – 12 November 1826)
* Duke of Saxe-Meiningen
** Bernhard II (24 December 1803 – 20 September 1866)
* Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Beck
** Frederick Charles Louis (24 February 1775 – 25 March 1816)

## Events

* 27 April – Beethoven composes his famous piano piece, Für Elise.
* 16 May – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe publishes his book Zu Farbenlehre (Theory of Colours).
* 12 October – First Oktoberfest: Bavarian royalty invites the citizens of Munich to join the celebration of the marriage of Crown Prince Ludwig of Bavaria, to Princess Therese of Saxe-Hildburghausen.

### Date unknown

* Friedrich Krupp establishes a steel foundry in Essen.
* Germaine de Staël's study of Germany De l'Allemagne is published in Paris but suppressed by order of Napoleon.
* Brandenburger Symphoniker established.
* Prussian Staff College established.

## Births

* 29 January – Ernst Kummer, German mathematician (d. 1893)
* 24 May – Abraham Geiger, German rabbi, founder of European Reform Judaism (d. 1874)
* 8 June – Robert Schumann, German composer, pianist (d. 1856)
* 9 June – Otto Nicolai, German composer, conductor (d. 1849)
* 17 July – Georg Heinrich Busse, German landscape painter and engraver (died 1868)
* 20 July – Leonhard Graf von Blumenthal, Prussian field marshal (d. 1908)
* 11 October – Anton Zwengauer, German painter (d. 1884)
* 7 December – Theodor Schwann, German physiologist (d. 1882)

## Deaths

* 23 January – Johann Wilhelm Ritter, German chemist, physicist (b. 1776)
* 14 March – Ludwig Timotheus Spittler, German historian (born 1752)
* 1 May – Christoph Meiners, German philosopher (born 1747)
* 19 July – Louise of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, Queen of Prussia (b. 1776)
* 11 November – Johan Zoffany, German-born painter (b. 1733)
* 2 December – Philipp Otto Runge, German painter (b. 1777)