1816 in Denmark

Incumbents

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

Events

• Kommercekollegiet is merged with Generaltoldkammeret.

Births

JanuaryMarch

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

AprilJune

• 13 April Gottlieb Abrahamson Gedalia, banker
• 17 April – Jens Adolf Jerichau, sculptor
• 13 June – Dankvart Dreyer, painter
• 21 June – Anders Sandøe Ørsted, botanist, mycologist, zoologist and marine biologist

JulySeptember

• 11 July Christian Albrecht von Benzonm painter
• 7 August – Carit Etlar, author

OctoberDecember

• 4 October Rudolph Striegler, photographer
• 8 December – Edvard Helsted, composer

Deaths

AprilJune

• 11 April Jørgen Thomsen Bech, businessman

JulySeptember

• 24 July Christian Gottlieb Kratzenstein Stub, painter
• 22 August – Hartvig Marcus Frisch, civil servant
• 23 August – Frederik Adeler (1764–1816)Frederik Adeler, lord president of Copenhagen |
• 30 August Niels Bang, landowner

OctoberDecember

• 2 December – Charlotte Schimmelmann, Norwegian-born salonist and patron
• 28 December – Julie Reventlow, countess, writer and salonist