1826 in Germany

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Events from the year 1826 in Germany

Incumbents

Kingdom of Prussia
- Monarch – Frederick William III of Prussia (16 November 1797 – 7 June 1840)^[1]
Kingdom of Bavaria
- Monarch - Ludwig I (1825–1848)
Kingdom of Saxony
- Frederick Augustus I (20 December 1806 – 5 May 1827)
Kingdom of Hanover
- George IV (29 January 1820 – 26 June 1830)
Kingdom of Württemberg
- William (30 October 1816 – 25 June 1864)

Grand Duke of Baden
- Louis I (8 December 1818 – 30 March 1830)^[2]
Grand Duke of Hesse
- Louis I (14 August 1806 – 6 April 1830)^[2]
Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin
- Frederick Francis I– (24 April 1785 – 1 February 1837)^[2]
Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Strelitz
- George (6 November 1816 – 6 September 1860)^[3]
Grand Duke of Oldenburg
- Peter I (2 July 1823 - 21 May 1829)
Grand Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach
- Charles Frederick (14 June 1828 - 8 July 1853)

Schaumburg-Lippe
- George William (13 February 1787 - 1860)
Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt
- Friedrich Günther (28 April 1807 - 28 June 1867)^[4]
Schwarzburg-Sondershausen
- Günther Friedrich Karl I (14 October 1794 - 19 August 1835)
Principality of Lippe
- Leopold II (5 November 1802 - 1 January 1851)^[5]
Principality of Reuss-Greiz
- Heinrich XIX (29 January 1817 - 31 October 1836)^[6]
Waldeck and Pyrmont
- George II (9 September 1813 - 15 May 1845)

Duke of Anhalt-Dessau
- Leopold IV (9 August 1817 - 22 May 1871)^[7]
Duke of Brunswick
- Charles II (16 June 1815 – 9 September 1830)^[8]
Duke of Saxe-Altenburg
- Duke of Saxe-Hildburghausen (1780–1826) and Duke of Saxe-Altenburg (1826–1834) - Frederick^[2]
Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha
- Ernest I (9 December 1806 – 12 November 1826)^[9]
Duke of Saxe-Meiningen
- Bernhard II (24 December 1803–20 September 1866)^[10]

July – Ludwig van Beethoven puts the finishing touches on the String Quartet in C sharp Minor, Opus 131, the jewel in the crown of his late string quartets.
Ludwig van Beethoven composes the Große Fuge.

March 29 – Johann Heinrich Voss, German poet (b. 1751)
April 25 – Karl Ludwig von Phull, German military leader (b. 1757)
May 16 – Empress Elizabeth Alexeievna, consort of Alexander I of Russia (b. 1779)
June 5 – Carl Maria von Weber, German composer (b. 1786)
June 7 – Joseph von Fraunhofer, German optician (b. 1787)

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^ ^a ^b ^c ^d Genealogie ascendante jusqu'au quatrieme degre inclusivement de tous les Rois et Princes de maisons souveraines de l'Europe actuellement vivans [Genealogy up to the fourth degree inclusive of all the Kings and Princes of sovereign houses of Europe currently living] (in French). Bourdeaux: Frederic Guillaume Birnstiel. 1768. p. 38.
^ Bogue, David (1852). The Men of the Time in 1852, Or, Sketches of Living Notables. G. Barclay. pp. 287.
^ "Monarchies of Europe". Archived from the original on 14 June 2007.
^ Almanach de Gotha (87th ed.). Justus Perthes. 1850. p. 38.
^ "House of Reuss". European Heraldry. Archived from the original on 25 February 2021. Retrieved 28 December 2020.
^ Almanach de Gotha. 1867. p. 3.
^ Gerhard Schildt: Von der Restauration zur Reichsgründungszeit, in Horst-Rüdiger Jarck / Gerhard Schildt (eds.), Die Braunschweigische Landesgeschichte. Jahrtausendrückblick einer Region, Braunschweig 2000, pp. 753–766.
^ Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Ernest I." . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 9 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 751.
^ "Biografie Georg I (German)". Meininger Museen. Archived from the original on 15 September 2011. Retrieved 8 September 2014.