1816 in Denmark

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See also:	Other events of 1816 List of years in Denmark

Events from the year 1816 in Denmark.

Incumbents

• Monarch – Frederick VI
• Prime minister – Joachim Godske Moltke

Births

• 29 March – Christen Mikkelsen Kold, teacher who founded a school in Ryslinge that later became a model for the Danish folk high-school system (died 1870)
• 17 April – Jens Adolf Jerichau, sculptor (died 1883)
• 13 June – Dankvart Dreyer, painter (died 1852)
• 21 June – Anders Sandøe Ørsted, botanist, mycologist, zoologist and marine biologist (died 1872)
• 7 August – Carit Etlar, author (died 1900)
• 8 December – Edvard Helsted, composer (died 1900)

Date unknown

• Rudolph Striegler, photographer (died 1876)

Deaths

• 22 August – Hartvig Marcus Frisch, civil servant (born 1754)
• 2 December – Charlotte Schimmelmann, Norwegian-born salonist and patron (born 1757)

References

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