1852 in Germany
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Events from the year 1852 in Germany.
Events
[edit]| 1852 | 8 May | First Schleswig War: Austria, France, Prussia, Russia, Sweden, Denmark and the United Kingdom signed the London Protocol, guaranteeing the nominal independence of Schleswig and Holstein in personal union with Denmark and ending the war. |
Incumbents
[edit]- King of Bavaria – Maximilian II
- King of Hanover – George V
- King of Prussia – Frederick William IV
- King of Saxony – Frederick Augustus II
Births
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- January 11 – Constantin Fehrenbach, Chancellor of Germany (d. 1926)
- May 2 – Max von Gallwitz, German general (d. 1937 )
- May 31 -Julius Richard Petri, German bacteriologist (d. 1921 )
- June 25 - Friedrich Loeffler, German bacteriologist (d. 1915 )
- October 9 – Emil Fischer, German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1919 ) December 10
- Felix Graf von Bothmer, German general (d. 1937 )
- December 19 – Albert A. Michelson, German-born physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1931 )
Deaths
[edit]- June 21 – Friedrich Fröbel, German pedagogue (b. 1782)
- October 15 – Friedrich Ludwig Jahn, German gymnastics educator (b. 1778 )
- November 17 – Adam Karl August von Eschenmayer, German philosopher (b. 1768 )