1833 in Germany
Events from the year '''1833 in Germany'''
Incumbents
Kingdom of Prussia- * Monarch – Frederick William III Kingdom of Bavaria
- * Monarch - Ludwig I Kingdom of Saxony
- * Anthony Kingdom of Hanover
- * William IV Kingdom of Württemberg
- * William
Events
- 6 February – His Royal Highness Prince Otto Friedrich Ludwig of Bavaria assumes the title His Majesty Othon the First, by the Grace of God, King of Greece, Prince of Bavaria.
- 6 May – Carl Friedrich Gauss and Wilhelm Weber obtain permission to build an electromagnetic telegraph in Göttingen.
- 14 December – Kaspar Hauser, a mysterious German youth, is stabbed, dying three days later on 17 December.
Date unknown
- The dawn of biochemistry: The first enzyme, diastase, is discovered by Anselme Payen.
Births
- 5 January – Eugene W. Hilgard, German-American "Father of soil science"
- 28 February – Alfred von Schlieffen, German field marshal
- 5 May – Lazarus Fuchs, German mathematician
- 7 May – Johannes Brahms, German composer
- 3 August – Auguste Schmidt, German educator, women's rights activist
- 25 December – Princess Adelheid-Marie of Anhalt-Dessau
Deaths
- 16 January – Nannette Streicher, German piano maker, composer, music educator, and writer
- 16 October – Meno Haas, German-born copperplate engraver
- 17 December – Kaspar Hauser, German youth of uncertain origin