1803 in Germany

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Events in the year 1803 in Germany.

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 (which had been ruled by the British king).

Births

January–June

• 15 February
  • John Sutter, pioneer (died 1880)
  • Karl Friedrich Schimper, botanist, naturalist and poet (died 1867)
• 26 February – Arnold Adolph Berthold, physiologist and zoologist (died 1861)
• 17 March Carl Jacob Löwig, chemist (died 1890)
• 12 May – Justus von Liebig, chemist (died 1873)

July–December

• 8 July – Julius Mosen, poet (died 1867)
• 17 July – Johann Samuel Eduard d'Alton, anatomist (died 1854)
• 19 July – Wolfgang Franz von Kobell, mineralogist and writer (died 1882)
• 5 October – Friedrich Bernhard Westphal, painter (died 1844)
• 29 November – Gottfried Semper, architect (died 1879)
• 26 September – Adrian Ludwig Richter, German painter (died 1884)
• 6 October – Heinrich Wilhelm Dove, German physicist and meteorologist (died 1879)
• 31 December – Johann Carl Fuhlrott, German paleoanthropologist (died 1877)

Deaths

Johann Gottfried Herder

January–June

• 18 February – Johann Wilhelm Ludwig Gleim, poet (born 1719)
• 14 March – Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock, poet (born 1724)

July–December

• 18 December – Johann Gottfried Herder, philosopher and writer (born 1744)