1810 in Germany

Incumbents

Kingdoms

• * Monarch – Frederick William III Kingdom of Bavaria
• * Maximilian I Kingdom of Saxony
• * Frederick Augustus I Kingdom of Württemberg
• * Frederick I

Grand Duchies

• * Charles Frederick Grand Duke of Hesse
• * Louis I
• 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-Eisenach
• * Karl August

Principalities

• * George William Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt
• * Friedrich Günther 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 Brunswick
• * Frederick William Duke of Saxe-Altenburg
• * Duke of Saxe-Hildburghausen - FrederickDuke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha
• * Ernest I Duke of Saxe-Meiningen
• * Bernhard II Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Beck
• * Frederick Charles Louis

Events

• 27 April – Beethoven composes his famous piano piece, Für Elise.
• 16 May – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe publishes his book Zu Farbenlehre.
• 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
• 24 May – Abraham Geiger, German rabbi, founder of European Reform Judaism
• 8 June – Robert Schumann, German composer, pianist
• 9 June – Otto Nicolai, German composer, conductor
• 17 July – Georg Heinrich Busse, German landscape painter and engraver
• 20 July – Leonhard Graf von Blumenthal, Prussian field marshal
• 11 October – Anton Zwengauer, German painter
• 7 December – Theodor Schwann, German physiologist

Deaths

• 23 January – Johann Wilhelm Ritter, German chemist, physicist
• 14 March – Ludwig Timotheus Spittler, German historian
• 1 May – Christoph Meiners, German philosopher
• 19 July – Louise of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, Queen of Prussia
• 11 November – Johan Zoffany, German-born painter
• 2 December – Philipp Otto Runge, German painter