1802 in Denmark
Events from the year 1802 in Denmark.
Incumbents
Events
- April The British occupation of the Danish West Indies ends.
- 4 May – The Golden Horns of Gallehus are stolen.
Undated
- A Panoramic painting of the Battle of Copenhagen created by Heinrich August Grosch is on public display in a purpose-built wooden rotunda ay present-day Sølvgade 20–22 in Copenhagen. In 1800,
Births
AprilJune
- 21 April Wilhelm Wanscher, businessman and art collector
- 26 April Johann Gottfried Burman Becker, pharmacist, writer and illustrator
- 26 May Gustav Adolph Lammers, priest, architect and artist
JulySeptember
- 27 July Hans Jonatan, opera singer and composer
- 19 September – Frederik Theodor Kloss, painter
PctpberDecember
Deaths
- 13 February – Jakob Edvard Colbjørnsen, chief justice
- 8 February – Søren Gyldendal, bookstore owner, publisher
- 24 August – Niels Ditlev Riegels, historian, journalist and pamphleteer
- 4 October – Niels Brock, merchant
- 16 September Christian Joseph Zuber, architect
- 17 December – Johannes Wiedewelt, sculptor
- 27 December – Jens Juel, painter