Events from the year 1800 in Denmark.
Incumbents Monarch – Christian VII Prime minister – Christian Günther von Bernstorff
Events 4 July – St. Nicolas Church, one of the four Medieval churches in Copenhagen, is closed. 16 December – Denmark enters a pact of neutrality with Sweden and Russia, and on 18 December also with Prussia.
Date unknown A semaphore line, also known as an optical telegraph, is established between Copenhagen and Schleswig, with 23 reply stations across Zealand, Funen and Als. Kronprinsessegade is established in Copenhagen. Conrad Malte-Brun is sent into exile for his pamphlets which contained outright criticism of the government, something which the new censorship laws forbade.
Births
JanuaryMarch 14 February Holger Christian Reedtz, government official, diplomat and landowner (died 1857) 2 March Carl Neergaard, landowner and politician (died 1850)
8 March – Johan Laurentz Jensen, painter (died 1856)
AprilJune 2 April Johannes Dam Hage, editor (died 1857) 31 May Frederik Sødring, painter (died 1862)
JulySeptember 2 August Caspar Peder Rothe Ingerslev, politician 1864) 5 September – Gottlieb Bindesbøll, architect (died 1856)
OctoberDecember 31 October – Peter Lassen, rancher in the United States, namesake of Lassen County, California (died 1859) 3 November – Rasmus Carl Stæger, judge, financial advisor to the government, entomologist (died 1875) 11 November Jørgen Balthasar Dalhoff, goldsmith and industrialist (died 1890) 4 December – Emil Aarestrup, poet (died 1856) 1 December Charles Ferdinand Léonard Mourier, Supreme Court justice (died 1880) 31 December Carl Heinrich Delcomyn, gunsmith (died 1864)
Deaths
JanuaryMarch 7 January Stephan Hofgaard Cordsen, Supreme Court justice (born 1727)
AprilJune 27 April – Christian Jensen Mørup, architect (born 1732)
OctoberDecember 7 December Conrad Holck, courtier and politician (born 1745)
Full date missing Anna Klemens, witch trial victim (born 1718)
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