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1861 in Germany 
Summary
Events from the year 1861 in Germany.
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Incumbents edit
Events edit
- 2 January – Frederick William IV of Prussia dies and is succeeded by Wilhelm I.[1]
- 15 April – Watchmaker Junghans is founded.[2]
- 6 June – German Progress Party (Deutsche Fortschrittspartei) is founded as Germany's first modern political party by liberal members of the Prussian House of Representatives in opposition to Bismarck.[3]
- 1 July- Wallraf–Richartz Museum opened in Cologne
- 11 July – German Shooting and Archery Federation is founded in Gotha.[4]
- 14 July – Osckar Becker attempts assassination of William I of Prussia in Baden-Baden.[5]
- 7 August – Allgemeiner Deutscher Musikverein founded by Franz Liszt and Franz Brendel.[6]
- 15 August – First description of Archaeopteryx, based on a feather found in Bavaria;[7] in September the first complete identified skeleton is found near Langenaltheim.[8]
- 1 October – Newspaper Deutsche Allgemeine Zeitung begins daily publication as Nord-deutsche Allgemeine Zeitung.[9]
- Date unknown – Museum Godeffroy in Hamburg is founded.[10]
Births edit
- 2 January – Wilhelm Bölsche, writer (died 1939)
- 30 January – Charles Martin Loeffler, violist (died 1937 in the United States)
- 4 February – Franz Winter, archaeologist (died 1930)
- 17 February – Princess Helena of Waldeck and Pyrmont, Duchess of Albany, marries into the British royal family (died 1922 in Austria)
- 6 March – Friedrich Eckenfelder, painter (died 1938)
- 21 March – Charles Swickard, silent film director (died 1929 in the United States)
- 14 May – Harro Magnussen, sculptor (died 1908)
- 28 May – Siegfried Czapski, physicist and optician (died 1907)
- 19 June – Ludwig Traube, palaeographer (died 1907)
- 22 June – Maximilian von Spee, admiral (died 1914)
- 16 July – Franz von Blon, composer (died 1945)
- 11 September – Erich von Falkenhayn, general (died 1922)
- 18 September – Walter Schott, sculptor (died 1938)
- 23 September – Robert Bosch, industrialist, engineer and inventor (died 1942)
- 24 September – Walter Simons, lawyer and politician (died 1937)
- 28 September – Wilhelm Diegelmann, actor (died 1934)
- 29 September – Carl Duisberg, chemist and industrialist (died 1935)
- 15 October – Eduard Schmid, politician (died 1933)
- 20 October – Maximilian Harden, journalist (died 1927)
- 10 December
- Karl Groos, philosopher (died 1946)
- Elisabeth von Heyking, novelist and travel diarist (died 1925)
- 26 December
- Friedrich Engel, mathematician (died 1941)
- Ludolf von Krehl, internist (died 1937)
- 29 December – Kurt Hensel, mathematician (died 1941)
Deaths edit
- 2 January – Frederick William IV of Prussia, King of Prussia from 1840 to 1861 (born 1795)
- 21 January – Ernst Friedrich August Rietschel, sculptor (born 1804)
- 19 January – Albert Niemann, chemist (born 1834)
- 9 February – Karl Otto Ludwig von Arnim, travel writer and playwright (born 1779)
- 18 February – Theodor Mügge, writer (born 1802)
- 25 October – Friedrich Carl von Savigny, academic lawyer and historian (born 1779)
- 26 November – Wilhelm Hensel, painter (born 1794)
- 1 December – Heinrich August Hahn, theologian (born 1821)
- 18 December – Ernst Anschütz, teacher, organist, poet and composer (born 1780)
References edit
- ^ William I succeeded. Britannica.com.
- ^ "1861". Journey through time. Junghans. Retrieved 2019-11-20.
- ^ Treue, Wolfgang (1968). Deutsche Parteiprogramme seit 1861 (4 ed.). Göttingen: Muster-Schmidt Verlag.
- ^ "1861 Gründung des DSB". Deutscher Schützenbund. Retrieved 2019-11-20.
- ^ Gilman, D. C.; Peck, H. T.; Colby, F. M., eds. (1905). . New International Encyclopedia (1st ed.). New York: Dodd, Mead.
- ^ Lucke-Kaminiarz, Irina. "Der Allgemeine Deutsche Musikverein und seine Tonkünstlerfeste 1859–1886". In Altenburg (ed.). Neudeutsche Schule. p. 224.
- ^ Meyer, Hermann von (1861-08-15). "Vogel-Federn und Palpipes priscus von Solenhofen" [Bird feathers and Palpipes priscus from Solenhofen]. Neues Jahrbuch für Mineralogie, Geognosie, Geologie und Petrefaktenkunde: 561.
Aus dem lithographischen Schiefer der Brüche von Solenhofen in Bayern ist mir in den beiden Gegenplatten eine auf der Ablösungs- oder Spaltungs-Fläche des Gesteins liegende Versteinerung mitgetheilt worden, die mit grosser Deutlichkeit eine Feder erkennen lässt, welche von den Vogel-Federn nicht zu unterscheiden ist. (From the lithographic slates of the faults of Solenhofen in Bavaria, there has been reported to me a fossil lying on the stone's surface of detachment or cleavage, in both opposing slabs, which can be recognized with great clarity [to be] a feather, which is indistinguishable from a bird's feather.)
- ^ Natural History Museum, London BMNH 37001. Chiappe, Luis M. (2007). Glorified Dinosaurs. Sydney: UNSW Press. pp. 118–146. ISBN 978-0-471-24723-4.
- ^ Fischer, Heinz-Dietrich (1967). "The 'Deutsche allgemeine Zeitung' (1861–1945): a portrait of a famous German newspaper". International Communication Gazette. 13. doi:10.1177/001654926701300103. S2CID 143560492.
- ^ Ward, Henry A. (April 1876). "Museum Godeffroy". Popular Science Monthly. 8.
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