1801 in Denmark

Events from the year 1801 in Denmark.

Incumbents

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

Events

• Denmark joins the Second League of Armed Neutrality.
• 3 March – Battle of West Kay: the Danish brig is attacked by two British vessels at West Kay in the Danish West Indies.
• 2 April – The Battle of Copenhagen takes place.
• 9 April – A meeting between Crown Prince Frederik and Vice Admiral Lord Nelson at Amalienborg Palace results in a ceasefire. Denmark-Norway has to leave the neutrality pact.
• 8 May Capture of Serampore)
• 12 May Capture of Tranquebar
• 6 July – The first vaccination against smallpox in Denmark is made, using the method invented by Edward Jenner.

Undated

• Exercise is for the first time introduced in the curriculum of a state school in Denmark.

Births

JanuaryMarch

• 16 January Thomas Clausen, mathematician (died 1885 in Russia)
• 17 March Carl Wilhelm Thalbitzer, landowner and politician (died 1867)

AprilJune

• 4 April – Frederik Oxholm, colonial administrator (died 1871)
• 14 June – Peter Wilhelm Lund, natural scientist (died 1880 in Brazil)
• 24 June – Jørgen Valentin Sonne, painter (died 1890)

JulySeptember

• 28 August – Adolph Stramboe, ballet dancer (died 1850)

OctoberDecember

• 13 October – Søren Hjorth, railway pioneer and inventor (died 1870)

Deaths

• 20 January Alexander Kølpin (born 1731)
• 21 January – Peter Christian Abildgaard, scientist (born 1740)
• 15 February Vilhelm Bornemann, Hudge Advocate General, chief of police and Supreme Court justice (born 1731 in Norway)

Fill date missing

• Elisabeth Christine Berling, businessperson (born 1744)

References