1802 in Denmark

Events from the year 1802 in Denmark.

Incumbents

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

Events

• April The British occupation of the Danish West Indies ends.
• 4 May – The Golden Horns of Gallehus are stolen.

Undated

• A Panoramic painting of the Battle of Copenhagen created by Heinrich August Grosch (1763-1843) is on public display in a purpose-built wooden rotunda ay present-day Sølvgade 20–22 in Copenhagen. In 1800,

Births

JanuaryMarch

• 1 January Joachim Wedell-Neergaard, diplomat (died 1862)

AprilJune

• 21 April Wilhelm Wanscher, businessman and art collector (died 1882)
• 26 April Johann Gottfried Burman Becker, pharmacist, writer and illustrator (died 1860)
• 26 May Gustav Adolph Lammers, priest, architect and artist (died 1878)

JulySeptember

• 27 July Hans Jonatan, opera singer and composer (died 1858)
• 19 September – Frederik Theodor Kloss, painter (died 1876)

PctpberDecember

• 8 October Rudolph Rothe, landscape architect (died 1877)
• 25 October Balthazar Christensen, jurist and politician (died 1882)

Deaths

JanuaryMarch

• 13 February – Jakob Edvard Colbjørnsen, chief justice (born 1744)
• 8 February – Søren Gyldendal, bookstore owner, publisher (born 1742)

AprilJune

• 15 May Frederik Christian Rosenkrantz, statesman and landowner (born 1724)

JulySeptember

• 12 July Johan Henrik Knuth, county governor and landowner (born 1746)
• 24 August – Niels Ditlev Riegels, historian, journalist and pamphleteer (born 1755)

OctoberDecember

• 4 October – Niels Brock, merchant (born 1731)
• 16 September Christian Joseph Zuber, architect (born 1736)
• 17 December – Johannes Wiedewelt, sculptor (born 1731)
• 27 December – Jens Juel, painter (born 1745)

References

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