1816 in Denmark
Events from the year 1816 in Denmark.
Incumbents
- Monarch – Frederick VI
- Prime minister – Joachim Godske Moltke
Events
;Undated- 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