1803 in Germany
Events in the year '''1803 in Germany'''
Incumbents
Holy Roman Empire
Important Electors
Baden- Charles Frederick Bavaria- Maximilian I Saxony- Frederick Augustus I Württemberg - Frederick IKingdoms
Kingdom of Prussia- * Monarch – Frederick William III
Grand Duchies
- Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin
- * Frederick Francis I Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Strelitz
- * Charles II Grand Duke of Oldenburg
- * Wilhelm 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 Grand Duke of Saxe-Weimar
- * Karl August Raised to grand duchy in 1809
Principalities
Schaumburg-Lippe- * George William Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt
- * Louis Frederick II Schwarzburg-Sondershausen
- * Günther Friedrich Karl I Principality of Lippe
- * Leopold II Principality of Reuss-Greiz
- * Heinrich XIII
- Waldeck and Pyrmont
- * Friedrich Karl August
Duchies
- Duke of Anhalt-Dessau
- * Leopold III Duke of Saxe-Altenburg
- * Duke of Saxe-Hildburghausen - FrederickDuke of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld
- * Francis Duke of Saxe-Meiningen
- * Bernhard II Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Beck
- * Frederick Charles Louis
Other
Landgrave of Hesse-Darmstadt- * Louis I
Events
- 25 February – A major redistribution of territorial sovereignty within the Holy Roman Empire is enacted via an act known as the Reichsdeputationshauptschluss.
- 30 May – Following Britain's declaration of war on France, Édouard Mortier leads 12,000 troops in an Invasion of Hanover
- 5 July – The convention of Artlenburg confirms the French occupation of Hanover.
Births
January–June
- 15 February
- * John Sutter, pioneer
- * Karl Friedrich Schimper, botanist, naturalist and poet
- 26 February – Arnold Adolph Berthold, physiologist and zoologist
- 17 March Carl Jacob Löwig, chemist
- 12 May – Justus von Liebig, chemist
July–December
- 8 July – Julius Mosen, poet
- 17 July – Johann Samuel Eduard d'Alton, anatomist
- 19 July – Wolfgang Franz von Kobell, mineralogist and writer
- 5 October – Friedrich Bernhard Westphal, painter
- 29 November – Gottfried Semper, architect
- 26 September – Adrian Ludwig Richter, German painter
- 6 October – Heinrich Wilhelm Dove, German physicist and meteorologist
- 31 December – Johann Carl Fuhlrott, German paleoanthropologist
Deaths
January–June
- 18 February – Johann Wilhelm Ludwig Gleim, poet
- 14 March – Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock, poet
July–December
- 18 December – Johann Gottfried Herder, philosopher and writer