1816 in Denmark

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See also:	Other events of 1816 List of years in Denmark

Lighthouse of Baagø

Events from the year 1816 in Denmark.

Incumbents

• Monarch – Frederick VI
• Prime minister – Joachim Godske Moltke

Births

Jens Adolf Jerichau.

Dankvart Dreyer.

January–March

• 21 January – Louise Phister, actress (d. 1914)
• 7 March – Catharine Simonsen, soprano (d. 1849)
• 29 March – Christen Mikkelsen Kold, teacher who founded a school in Ryslinge that later became a model for the Danish folk high-school system (d. 1870)

April–June

• 13 April – Gottlieb Abrahamson Gedalia, banker (d. 1892)
• 17 April – Jens Adolf Jerichau, sculptor (d. 1883)
• 13 June – Dankvart Dreyer, painter (died 1852)
• 21 June – Anders Sandøe Ørsted, botanist, mycologist, zoologist and marine biologist (d. 1872)
• 22 June – Moritz G. Melchior, businessman (d. 1884)

July–September

• 11 July – Christian Albrecht von Benzon, painter (d. 1849)
• 7 August – Carit Etlar, author (d. 1900)

October–December

• 4 October – Rudolph Striegler, photographer (d. 1876)
• 3 December – Johannes Theodor Reinhardt, zoologist (d. 1882)
• 8 December – Edvard Helsted, composer (d. 1900)

Deaths

Hans Christian Knudsen.

Hartvig Marcus Frisch.

January–March

• 4 March – Hans Christian Knudsen, actor (b. 1763)

April–June

• 11 April – Jørgen Thomsen Bech, businessman (b. 1731)

July–September

• 24 July – Christian Gottlieb Kratzenstein Stub, painter (b. 1783)
• 22 August – Hartvig Marcus Frisch, civil servant (b. 1754)
• 30 August – Niels Bang, landowner (b. 1776)

October–December

• 2 December – Charlotte Schimmelmann, Norwegian-born salonist and patron (b. 1757)
• 16 December – Vincenzo Galeotti, ballet master (b. 1733 in Italy)
• 28 December – Julie Reventlow, countess, writer and salonist (b. 1763)