Events from the year 1820 in Denmark.

Incumbents Monarch – Frederick VI

Events

1 May – Sparekassen for Kjøbenhavn og Omegn is established in Copenhagen.

Undated Bella and Hanna. The Eldest Daughters of M. L. Nathanson is painted by Christoffer Wilhelm Eckersberg

Births JanuaryMarch 28 January – Vilhelm Pedersen, artist, illustrator (died 1859)

JulySeptember 7 August – Emma Thomsen, painter (died 1897) 28 September Josephine Schneider, educator and philanthropist (born 1887) 27 September Vilhelm Christian Holm, composer (died 1886)

OctoberDecember 2 October Georg Petersen, businessman (died 1900) 25 October Lorenz Frølich, painter (died 1908) 25 November Ferdinand Victor Alphons Prosch, veterinarian and biologist (died 1885) 26 November Prince Frederick William of Hesse-Kassel (died 1884 in Germany) Johan Adam Schwartz, turner (died 1874) 30 November Carl Christian Vilhelm Liebe, lawyer and politician (died 1900) 19 May Peter Ludvig Panum, physiologist (born 1885)

Deaths JanuaryMarch 2 February Peder Schall, musician and composer (born 1762) 1 March – Peter Christian Uldahl, piano maker (born 1779) 24 March Heinrich Levetzau, county governor (born 1734)

AprilJune 13 April – Johan Ludvig Mansa, landscape architect (born 1740 in Zweibrücken) 0 May Andreas Collstrop (born 1842) 20 April Bertel Bjørnsen, mayor (born 1749) 27 May – Jean-Françoìs de Dompierre de Jonquières, merchant, landowner and amateur artist (born 1775)

JulySeptember 30 July – Carl Adolph Castenschiold, landowner and chamberlain (born 1740) 16 August Adam Gottlob Ferdinand Moltke, naval officer and landowner (born 1748)

OctoberDecember 26 December Frederik Ludvig Bang, physician (born 1747)

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