1849 in Germany

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Events from the year 1849 in Germany.

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March – The Frankfurt Parliament completes its drafting of a liberal constitution, and elects Frederick William IV emperor of the new German national state.
April 2 – The German revolutions of 1848–49 fail, as King Frederick William IV of Prussia refuses to accept the offer of the Frankfurt National Assembly to be crowned as German emperor.
May 3 -The May Uprising in Dresden, last of the German revolutions of 1848–49, begins. Richard Wagner is among the participants.
May 9 – The May Uprising in Dresden is suppressed by the Kingdom of Saxony.
June 1 8-German revolutions of 1848–49: The chamber of the Frankfurt Parliament, since reduced to a rump parliament and moved to Stuttgart, was occupied by the Württemberg army. Repression began, which would force the liberal Forty-Eighters into exile.
December 3 – German missionaries Johann Ludwig Krapf and Johannes Rebmann become the first Europeans to see Mount Kenya .^[1] The Abgeordnetenhaus, the lower house of the parliament of the Kingdom of Bavaria, passes a bill granting German Jews the same legal rights as German Christians.^[2] The measure draws a strong reaction from Christians across Bavaria, who sign petitions urging the upper house to prevent the equal rights measure from becoming law.^[3]

March 19 – Alfred von Tirpitz, German admiral (d. 1930)
April 21 – Oscar Hertwig, German zoologist (d. 1922)
April 25 – Felix Klein, German mathematician (d. 1925)
May 3
- Bertha Benz, German automotive pioneer (d. 1944)
- Bernhard von Bülow, 8th Chancellor of Germany (d. 1929)
July 22 – Emma Lazarus , American author and activist (d. 1887 )
July 29 -Edward Theodore Compton , English-German painter, mountain climber (d. 1921 )
September 23 – Hugo von Seeliger , German astronomer (d. 1924 )
October 26 – Ferdinand Georg Frobenius , German mathematician (d. 1917 )
December 5 – Eduard Seler , Prussian scholar, Mesoamericanist (d. 1922 )
December 6 – August von Mackensen , German field marshal (d. 1945 )

February 28 – Regina von Siebold, German physician, obstetrician (b. 1771)
March 24 – Johann Wolfgang Döbereiner, German chemist (b. 1780)
May 11 -Otto Nicolai , German composer, conductor (b. 1810 )
September 4 – Friedrich Laun , German novelist (b. 1770 )
September 6 – Andreas Joseph Hofmann , German philosopher and revolutionary (b. 1752 )

^ J. W. Gregory, The Great Rift Valley: Being the Narrative of a Journey to Mount Kenya and Lake Baringo with Some Account of the Geology, Natural History, Anthropology and Future Prospects of British East Africa (Frank Cass and Company, 1896) (reprinted 1968) p182
^ James F. Harris, The People Speak!: Anti-Semitism and Emancipation in Nineteenth-century Bavaria (University of Michigan Press, 1994) p159
^ Helmut Walser Smith, The Continuities of German History: Nation, Religion, and Race across the Long Nineteenth Century (Cambridge University Press, 2008) p133