1822 in Denmark

Incumbents

• Monarch – Frederick VI

Events

• 28 February – Spare- og Laanekassen i Marstal, a savings bank on the island of Ørø, is founded by a group of local residents.

Culture

Music

• Carl Nielsen's Wind Quintet is performed in public for the first time.

Births

• 6 April – August Ferdinand Michael van Mehren, philologist
• 24 April – Henrik August Flindt, gardener and landscape architect
• 17 June – Erik Bøgh, journalist, playwright and songwriter
• 4 July – Vilhelm Christesen, silver smith
• 2 August – Ida Marie Bille, court member
• 15 August – Carl Frederik Blixen-Finecke, politician and nobleman

Date unknown

• Georg Grothe, composer

Deaths

• 6 January – John Christmas, businessman
• 10 March Carl Wivel, restaurateur
• 4 May – Hedevig Johanne Bagger, businesswoman
• 20 May – Otto Fabricius, missionary, naturalist, ethnographer and explorer
• 25 September Erik Viborg, veterinarian and botanist