1802 in Denmark

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Other events of 1802
List of years 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

Heinrich Grosch's panoramic painting of the 1801 Battle of Copenhagen.

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

Johann Gottfried Burman Becker.

January–March

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

April–June

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)

July–September

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

Pctpber–December

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

Deaths

Johannes Wiedewelt.

Jens Juel.

January–March

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

April–June

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

July–September

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

October–December

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

↑ "Christian VII - Scandinavian king". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved 22 May 2018.
↑ Medieval Literature and Civilization: Studies in Memory of G.N. Garmonsway. A&C Black. 2014. p. 24. ISBN 9781472512512.
↑ "Kobberstikker Grosch's panorama i Sølvgade – en kort historie". idahaugsted.dk (in Danish). Retrieved 3 October 2022.

See also

Years in Denmark

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