1792 in Denmark

Events from the year 1792 in Denmark.

Incumbents

• Monarch – Christian VII
• Prime minister – Andreas Peter Bernstorff

Events

May

• 16 May
• Denmark declares transatlantic slave trade illegal after 1803 (though slavery continues until 1848)
• The Medal of Merit is established.

December

• 1 December HDMS Nidelven is launched at Nyholm in Copenhagen.

• 7 December HDMS Skjold is launched in Copenhagen.

Date unknown

• N. Schiøtt & Hochbrandt is founded.

Births

• 14 January – Christian de Meza, Commander (died 1865)
• 19 February Lucie Ingemannm painter (died 1868)
• 2 April – Johannes Theodorus Suhr, merchant and industrialist (died 1858)
• 12 June William Frederik Duntzfelt, businessman (died 1863)
• 26 June – Christian Albrecht Jensen, portrait painter during the Danish Golden Age (died 1870)
• 7 July Hans Hedemann, military officer /died 1959 in Norway)
• 6 August Frederikke Dannemand, royal mistress (died 1862)
• 12 August – Hans Harder, painter and drawing master (died 1873)
• 20 September Ida Brunm socialite (died 1857)
• 29 September – Andreas Gottlob Rudelbach, theologian (died 1862)
• 22 November – Ferdinand, Hereditary Prince of Denmark (died 1863)

Deaths

• 22 April Alexander Walker Ross, military officer (born 1710)
• 24 March – Johan Frederik Classen, Danish-Norwegian industrialist and philanthropist (born 1725)
• 18 July – Christine Sophie von Gähler, courtier (born 1745)
• 25 September – Adam Gottlob Moltke, Lord Chamberlain to Frederick V (born 1710)
• 29 October Cathrine Marie Gielstrup, stage actress (born 1755)

Full date missing

• Peter Thorstensen, physician and chemist (born 1862)

References