Events from the year 1848 in Germany. Incumbents King of Bavaria – Ludwig I. (until 20 March 1848); Maximilian II (since 20 March 1848) King of Hanover – Ernest Augustus King of Prussia – Frederick William IV King of Saxony – Frederick Augustus II Events 17 March - Poem In Kümmernis und Dunkelheit was written in London by German poet Ferdinand Freiligrath. February - Publication of The Communist Manifesto April - Hecker uprising in Baden 9 April - Battle of Bov 9 April - Foundation of Münchner Neueste Nachrichten 20 April - Battle on the Scheideck 23 April - Battle of Schleswig 23 April - Battle of Mysunde 24 April - Skirmish of Oversø 1 May - 1848 German federal election 7 May - Start of magazine Kladderadatsch 11 May - Baden mutiny 18 May - 379 deputies assembled in the Kaisersaal in Frankfurt am Main walked solemnly to the Paulskirche to hold the first session of the German national assembly, under its chairman (by seniority) Friedrich Lang. Heinrich von Gagern became first elected president of Frankfurt Parliament. 1 June - Foundation of Neue Rheinische Zeitung 24 June - President of the National Assembly Heinrich von Gagern argued for a regency and provisional central government to carry out parliamentary decisions. 25 June - Forming of Casino faction in Frankfurt Parliament: Factions in the Frankfurt Assembly 21 September - Struve Putsch: Proclamation of the German Republic by Gustav Struve in Lörrach 21 October - Würzburg Bishops' Conference 5 December - Promulgated of Constitution of Prussia (1848) Undated Forty-Eighters German revolutions of 1848–1849 Baden Revolution Foundation of Piusverein Painting Gnome Watching Railway Train by Carl Spitzweg Painting Germania (St. Paul's Church, Frankfurt am Main) Opera Regina by German composer Albert Lortzing Births 10 January - Paul Tschackert, German Protestant theologian (died 1911) 12 January - Franz von Soxhlet, German agricultural chemist (died 1926) 2 February - Ludwig Dill, German painter (died 1940) 4 February - Hermann von Hatzfeldt, German nobleman and politician (died 1933) 5 February - Louis Schmeisser, German weapon technical designer (died 1917) 6 February - Wilhelm von Finck, German banker and entrepreneur (died 1924) 7 February - Adolf Weil, German physician (died 1916) 13 February – Hermann von Eichhorn, German field marshal (died 1918) 25 February – King William II of Württemberg (died 1921) 3 March - Gustav Fischer, German explorer (died 1886) 27 April – King Otto of