1825 in Denmark

Incumbents

• Monarch - Frederick VI
• Prime minister - Otto Joachim

Events

• 11 July – The Danish schooner Vigilant captures the Spanish privateering schooner Adolpho north of Colibra in the West Indies.

Undated

• - A storm penetrates the narrow land mass, Agger Tange, separating Northern Jutland from the mainland Jutland for the first time since the 12th century.
• The Copenhagen Art Society is founded by a circle of the most influential figures of the Danish art world during the Danish Golden Age.

Culture

Art

• Martinus Rørbye paints the View from the Artist's Window in his parents' home at Amaliegade 45.

Births

JanuaryMarch

• 28 January - Moses Melchior, businessman

AprilJune

• 16 April - Jacob Brønnum Scavenius Estrup, politician, prime minister of Denmark
• 10 May – Heinrich Tønnies, photographer
• 20 May Carl Christian Amussen, Utah's first jeweler

OctoberDecember

• 16 October Anders Peter Westenholz, businessman and consul-general
• 19 November - Jacob Kornerup, archeologist
• 30 November – Julius Exner, painter
• 24 November Herman Løvenskiold, county governor

Deaths

• 4 January Johan Peter Wleugel, naval officer and cartographer
• 16 February – Georg Gerson, composer and banker
• 8 April – Carl Ferdinand Degen, mathematician
• 19 May – Peter Hersleb Classen, statesman
• 30 December – Peter Grønland, composer