1800 in Denmark
Events from the year 1800 in Denmark.
Incumbents
Events
- 4 July – St. Nicolas Church, one of the four Medieval churches in Copenhagen, is closed.
- 16 December – Denmark enters a pact of neutrality with Sweden and Russia, and on 18 December also with Prussia.
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- A semaphore line, also known as an optical telegraph, is established between Copenhagen and Schleswig, with 23 reply stations across Zealand, Funen and Als.
- Kronprinsessegade is established in Copenhagen.
- Conrad Malte-Brun is sent into exile for his pamphlets which contained outright criticism of the government, something which the new censorship laws forbade.
Births
- 8 March – Johan Laurentz Jensen, painter
- 5 September – Michael Gottlieb Bindesbøll, architect
- 31 October – Peter Lassen, rancher in the United States, namesake of Lassen County, California
- 3 November – Rasmus Carl Stæger, judge, financial advisor to the government, entomologist
- 4 December – Emil Aarestrup, poet
- 1 December Charles Ferdinand Léonard Mourier, Supreme Court justice
Deaths
- 7 January Stephan Hofgaard Cordsen, Supreme Court justice
- 27 April – Christian Jensen Mørup, architect
- Anna Klemens, witch trial victim