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
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
JanuaryMarch 1 January Joachim Wedell-Neergaard, diplomat (died 1862)
AprilJune 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)
JulySeptember 27 July Hans Jonatan, opera singer and composer (died 1858) 19 September – Frederik Theodor Kloss, painter (died 1876)
PctpberDecember 8 October Rudolph Rothe, landscape architect (died 1877) 25 October Balthazar Christensen, jurist and politician (died 1882)
Deaths
JanuaryMarch 13 February – Jakob Edvard Colbjørnsen, chief justice (born 1744) 8 February – Søren Gyldendal, bookstore owner, publisher (born 1742)
AprilJune 15 May Frederik Christian Rosenkrantz, statesman and landowner (born 1724)
JulySeptember 12 July Johan Henrik Knuth, county governor and landowner (born 1746) 24 August – Niels Ditlev Riegels, historian, journalist and pamphleteer (born 1755)
OctoberDecember 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)
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