1805 in Germany
Events from the year 1805 in Germany.
Incumbents
[Holy Roman Empire]
Important Electors
- Baden- Charles Frederick
- Bavaria- Maximilian I
- Saxony- Frederick Augustus I Würzburg- Ferdinand III
- Württemberg - Frederick I
Kingdoms
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
- 7 April – Beethoven's Symphony No. 3, Eroica, has its public premiere at the Theater an der Wien in Vienna under his baton.
- 9 April - The first Weltsekttag to celebrate the resistance to Napoleon.
- 8 October – Battle of Wertingen
- 9 October – Battle of Günzburg
- 11 October – Battle of Haslach-Jungingen
- 14 October – Napoleonic Wars: War of the Third Coalition – Ulm Campaign: Battle of Elchingen – An Austrian corps under Johann von Riesch is defeated by Marshal Ney, near Elchingen, Bavaria.
- 16–19 October – War of the Third Coalition: Ulm Campaign – Battle of Ulm: Austrian General Mack von Leiberich is forced to surrender his entire army to Napoleon, after being surrounded.
- 3 November – Treaty of Potsdam
- 20 November – Beethoven's only opera Fidelio, in its original form, is premiered at the Theater an der Wien in Vienna, which at this time is under French military occupation.
- German Army surgeon Philipp Bozzini invents the lichtleiter, ancestor of the endoscope, for examination of bodily orifices.
- Grand Duchy of Würzburg is established.
Births
- 27 January – Samuel Palmer, English artist
- 13 February – Peter Gustav Lejeune Dirichlet, German mathematician
- 8 April – Hugo von Mohl, German botanist
- 30 July – Rudolf Wagner, German anatomist, pathologist
- 27 September – George Müller, Prussian evangelist, founder of the New Orphan Houses, Ashley Down, Bristol in England
- 14 November – Fanny Mendelssohn, German composer, pianist
Deaths
- 17 January – Paschen von Cossel, German lawyer
- 20 February – Justus Claproth, German jurist, inventor of the de-inking process of recycled paper
- 9 May – Friedrich Schiller, German playwright
- 5 October - Eleonore Prochaska, German heroine soldier