1802 in Denmark

Incumbents

• Monarch – Christian VII
• Prime minister – Christian Günther von Bernstorff

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

• 8 October Rudolph Rothe, landscape architect

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