Events from the year 1816 in Denmark.
Incumbents Monarch – Frederick VI Prime minister – Joachim Godske Moltke
Births
JanuaryMarch 21 January – Louise Phister, actress (d. 1914) 7 March – Catharine Simonsen, soprano (d. 1849) 29 March – Christen Mikkelsen Kold, teacher who founded a school in Ryslinge that later became a model for the Danish folk high-school system (d. 1870)
AprilJune 13 April Gottlieb Abrahamson Gedalia, banker (d. 1892) 17 April – Jens Adolf Jerichau, sculptor (d. 1883) 13 June – Dankvart Dreyer, painter (died 1852) 21 June – Anders Sandøe Ørsted, botanist, mycologist, zoologist and marine biologist (d. 1872) 22 June Moritz G. Melchior, businessman (d. 1884)
JulySeptember 11 July Christian Albrecht von Benzon, painter (d. 1849) 7 August – Carit Etlar, author (d. 1900)
OctoberDecember 4 October Rudolph Striegler, photographer (d. 1876) 3 December Johannes Theodor Reinhardt, zoologist (d. 1882) 8 December – Edvard Helsted, composer (d. 1900)
Deaths
JanuaryMarch 4 March Hans Christian Knudsen, actor (b. 1763)
AprilJune 11 April Jørgen Thomsen Bech, businessman (b. 1731)
JulySeptember 24 July Christian Gottlieb Kratzenstein Stub, painter (b. 1783) 22 August – Hartvig Marcus Frisch, civil servant (b. 1754) 30 August Niels Bang, landowner (b. 1776)
OctoberDecember 2 December – Charlotte Schimmelmann, Norwegian-born salonist and patron (b. 1757) 16 December Vincenzo Galeotti, ballet master (b. 1733 in Italy) 28 December – Julie Reventlow, countess, writer and salonist (b. 1763)
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