1831 in Denmark

Events from the year 1831 in Denmark.

Incumbents

• Monarch – Frederick VI
• Prime minister – Otto Joachim

Events

• 2 April HDMS Galathea is launched at Nyholm in Copenhagen.
• 25 August The ship of the line is launched at Nyholm.
• 13 September HDMS Hvalfisken arrives back in Copenhagen, marking the end of the 19291831 Danish East Greenland Expedition.

Undated

Births

JanuaryMarch

• 28 January – Frederik Georg Emil Rostrup, botanist (died 1907)
• 30 January Christine Daugaard, writer (died 1917)
• 15 February – Anton Dorph, painter (died 1914)
• 10 March Johan Vilhelm Gertner, player (died 1871)

AprilJune

• 3 May Hans Peter Ingerslev, politician (died 1896)
• 25 May Christian Richardt, writer (died 1892)
• 6 June Henry Jacques Garrigues, physician (died 1913 in the United States)

JulySeptember

• 8 July Sigfred Goldschmidt, businessman (died 1906)
• 27 July Frits Holm, journalist, author and adventurer (died 1930 in the United States)
• 6 August – Henning Frederik Feilberg, pastor, author and folklorist (died 1921)
• 13 August Juliette Price, ballet dancer (died 1896)
• 26 November Christian Toxward, architect (died 1891 in New Zealand)
• 28 November C. C. A. Christensen, painter (died 1912 in the United States)
• 7 December Jakob Severin Deichmann Branth, theologian (died 1917)

Deaths

JanuaryMarch

• 12 January Princess Louise of Denmark, princess (born 1750)
• 9 February – Ernst Heinrich von Schimmelmann, politician, businessman and patron of the arts (born 1747)
• 17 February Friedrich Wilhelm, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg (born 1895)
• 21 March Thøger From, businessman (born 1744)

AprilJune

• 21 April Johann Georg Preisler, engraver (born 1757)
• 9 June Johan Martin Schønheyder, Supreme Court attorney (born 1752)
• 17 June – Jens Friedenreich Hage, merchant and landowner (born 1752)

JulySeptember

• 11 September Hans Bøchmann Melchior, naturalist (born 1773)
• 15 September Christian David Gebauer, painter (born 1777)

OctoberDecember

• 5 November – Johan Frederik Clemens, engraver (born 1752)
• 30 November – Catharine Frydendahl, opera singer (born 1760)

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