1817 in Denmark

Incumbents

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

Culture

Art

• Christoffer Wilhelm Eckersberg completes The Death of Balder as his admission painted for admission into the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts.
• The 300th anniversary of the Reformation is commemorated with a medal designed by Salomon Ahron Jacobson.

Births

JanuaryMarch

• 22 January – Johan Frederik Schlegel, lawyer and civil servant
• 22 February – Niels Gade, composer

AprilJune

• 4 April – P. C. Skovgaard, national romantic landscape painter
• 13 June - Knud Graah, industrial pioneer.

JulySeptember

• 7 July Christen Andreas Fonnesbech, lawyer, landowner and politician
• 20 July – Johan Henrik Nebelong, architect

OctoberDecember

• 4 October Andreas Frederik Krieger, politician
• 26 October Georg Grüner, landowner, politician and co-founder of Landmandsbanken
• 13 November – Franziska Carlsen, writer and local historian
• 17 November – Harald Conradsen, sculptor and medalist
• 10 December Carl Otto Reventlow, philologist, developed a mnemonic system

Deaths

• 6 April – Joachim Castenschiold, military officer
• 18 November Hans Rudolph Saabye, businessman
• 28 November - Johan Frederik Schultz printer and publisher

Date unknown

• Johanne Marie Malleville, royal favorite
• Moses Melchior, businessman