1820 in Denmark

Incumbents

• Monarch – Frederick VI

Events

• 1 May – Sparekassen for Kjøbenhavn og Omegn is established in Copenhagen.

• Bella and Hanna. The Eldest Daughters of M. L. Nathanson is painted by Christoffer Wilhelm Eckersberg

Births

• 28 January – Vilhelm Pedersen, artist, illustrator
• 7 August – Emma Thomsen, painter
• 2 October Georg Petersen, businessman
• 25 October Lorenz Frølich, painter
• 26 November
• * Prince Frederick William of Hesse-Kassel
• * Johan Adam Schwartz, turner

Deaths

JanuaryMarch

• 1 March – Peter Christian Uldahl, piano maker
• 24 March Heinrich Levetzau, county governor

AprilJune

• 13 April – Johan Ludvig Mansa, landscape architect
• 0 May Andreas Collstrop
• 20 April Bertel Bjørnsen, mayor
• 27 May – Jean-Françoìs de Dompierre de Jonquières, merchant, landowner and amateur artist

JulySeptember

• 30 July – Carl Adolph Castenschiold, landowner and chamberlain

OctoberDecember

• 26 December Frederik Ludvig Bang, physician