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{{Use mdy dates|date=December 2020}}{{Year in Germany|1845}}Events from the year 1845 in Germany.

Incumbents

• King of Bavaria – Ludwig I
• King of Hanover – Ernest Augustus{{sfn|Van der Kiste|2004|p=189}}
• King of Prussia – Frederick William IV
• King of Saxony – Frederick Augustus II

Events

• March 13 – The Violin Concerto by Felix Mendelssohn premieres in Leipzig, with Ferdinand David as soloist.
• October 19 – Richard Wagner's opera Tannhäuser debuts at the Dresden Royal Court Theater.

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• Friedrich Engels' treatise The Condition of the Working Class in England is published in Leipzig as Die Lage der arbeitenden Klasse in England.Mansel, Philip: Paris Between Empires, p. 390 (St. Martin Press, NY) 2001Frederick Engels, "The Condition of the Working Class in England", contained in the Collected Works of Karl Marx and Frederick Engels: Volume 4 (International Publishers: New York, 1975) pp. 295–596. convincing Marx that the working class could be the agent and instrument of the final revolution in history.BOOK, T. B. Bottomore, A Dictionary of Marxist thought,weblink March 5, 2011, 1991, Wiley-Blackwell, 978-0-631-18082-1, 108–, P. N. Fedoseyev, Karl Marx: A Biography (Progress Publishers: Moscow, 1973) p. 82.
• Heinrich Hoffmann publishes a book (Lustige Geschichten und drollige Bilder), introducing his character, Struwwelpeter, in Germany.

Births

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• January 7 – King Ludwig III of Bavaria (d. 1921)
• March 3 – Georg Cantor, German mathematician (d. 1918)
• March 27 – Wilhelm Röntgen, German physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1923)

Deaths

• May 12- August Wilhelm Schlegel, German poet, translator and critic (b. 1767)
• July 12-Friedrich Ludwig Persius, German architect (b. 1803)

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