1800 in Denmark

Events from the year 1800 in Denmark.

Incumbents

• Monarch – Christian VII
• Prime minister – Christian Günther von Bernstorff

Events

• 4 July – St. Nicolas Church, one of the four Medieval churches in Copenhagen, is closed.
• 16 December – Denmark enters a pact of neutrality with Sweden and Russia, and on 18 December also with Prussia.

Date unknown

• A semaphore line, also known as an optical telegraph, is established between Copenhagen and Schleswig, with 23 reply stations across Zealand, Funen and Als.
• Kronprinsessegade is established in Copenhagen.
• Conrad Malte-Brun is sent into exile for his pamphlets which contained outright criticism of the government, something which the new censorship laws forbade.

Births

JanuaryMarch

• 14 February Holger Christian Reedtz, government official, diplomat and landowner (died 1857)
• 2 March Carl Neergaard, landowner and politician (died 1850)

• 8 March – Johan Laurentz Jensen, painter (died 1856)

AprilJune

• 2 April Johannes Dam Hage, editor (died 1857)
• 31 May Frederik Sødring, painter (died 1862)

JulySeptember

• 2 August Caspar Peder Rothe Ingerslev, politician 1864)
• 5 September – Gottlieb Bindesbøll, architect (died 1856)

OctoberDecember

• 31 October – Peter Lassen, rancher in the United States, namesake of Lassen County, California (died 1859)
• 3 November – Rasmus Carl Stæger, judge, financial advisor to the government, entomologist (died 1875)
• 11 November Jørgen Balthasar Dalhoff, goldsmith and industrialist (died 1890)
• 4 December – Emil Aarestrup, poet (died 1856)
• 1 December Charles Ferdinand Léonard Mourier, Supreme Court justice (died 1880)

Deaths

JanuaryMarch

• 7 January Stephan Hofgaard Cordsen, Supreme Court justice (born 1727)

AprilJune

• 27 April – Christian Jensen Mørup, architect (born 1732)

OctoberDecember

• 7 December Conrad Holck, courtier and politician (born 1745)

Full date missing

• Anna Klemens, witch trial victim (born 1718)

References