1816_in_Denmark
1816 in Denmark
Denmark-related events during the year of 1816
Events from the year 1816 in Denmark.
- Monarch – Frederick VI[1]
- Prime minister – Joachim Godske Moltke
- Undated
- Kommercekollegiet is merged with Generaltoldkammeret (General Chamber of Customs and Excise).
January–March
- 21 January – Louise Phister, actress (died 1914)
- 7 March – Catharine Simonsen, soprano (died 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 (died 1870)
April–June
- 13 April – Gottlieb Abrahamson Gedalia, banker (died 1892)
- 17 April – Jens Adolf Jerichau, sculptor (died 1883)
- 13 June – Dankvart Dreyer, painter (died 1852)
- 21 June – Anders Sandøe Ørsted, botanist, mycologist, zoologist and marine biologist (died 1872)
July–September
- 11 July – Christian Albrecht von Benzonm painter (died 1849)
- 7 August – Carit Etlar, author (died 1900)
October–December
- 4 October – Rudolph Striegler, photographer (died 1876)
- 8 December – Edvard Helsted, composer (died 1900)
April–June
- 11 April – Jørgen Thomsen Bech, businessman (born 1731)
July–September
- 24 July – Christian Gottlieb Kratzenstein Stub, painter (born 1783)
- 22 August – Hartvig Marcus Frisch, civil servant (born 1754)
- 30 August – Niels Bang, landowner (born 1776)
October–December
- 2 December – Charlotte Schimmelmann, Norwegian-born salonist and patron (born 1757)
- 28 December – Julie Reventlow, countess, writer and salonist (born 1763)
- "Frederick VI | king of Denmark and Norway". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved 27 June 2019.