1810 in Denmark

The following events occurred in Denmark in the year 1810.

Incumbents

• Monarch – Frederick VI
• Prime minister – Christian Günther von Bernstorff, Frederik Moltke (from 27 April)

Events

• 4 April The County of Roepstorff is established by Christian Alexander Roepstorff from the manors of Einsidelsborg and Kørup.

Births

JanuaryMarch

• 29 January Julius Friedlænder, painter (died 1861)

AprilJune

• 2 May – Hans Christian Lumbye, composer of waltzes, polkas, mazurkas and galops, including the Champagne Galop (died 1874)
• 15 May – Orla Lehmann, statesman and key figure in the development of Denmark's parliamentary government (died 1870)
• 26 May – Christen Købke, painter (died 1848)

JulySeptember

• 20 August – Carl Adolph Feilberg, businessman (died 1896)
• 10 September
• Carl Edvard Marius Levy, physician (died 1865)
• Wolfgang von Haffner, military officer (died 1887)
• 11 September Albert Heinrich Riise, pharmacist (died 1882)
• 19 September – Jens Peter Trap, royal secretary, topographical writer and publisher (died 1885)

OctoberDecember

• 3 October Otto Didrik Schack, 7th Count of Schackenborg, count (died 1856)
• 7 October – Peter Faber, songwriter, telegraphy pioneer (died 1877)
• 24 December – Wilhelm Marstrand, painter and illustrator (died 1873)

Full date missing

• Thomas Jacobsen, violin maker (died 1953)

Deaths

• 4 May Christian Hansen, businessman (born 1728)
• 10 October Jacob Gude, government official and memoirist (born 1754)
• 22 October – Andreas Kirkerup, architect (born 1749)
• 26 October Peter Hansen, bishop (born 1746)

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