Events from the year 1827 in Denmark.
Incumbents Monarch – Frederick VI Prime minister – Otto Joachim
Events
1 January – Johan Ludvig Heiberg (poet) publishes the literary journal for the first time. May – Giuseppe Siboni opens the first music conservatory in Copenhagen. 12 June – The Tightrope walker Christian Roat is killed during a show at Rosenborg drill grounds when his rope breaks.
Undated The crown acquires the Holstein Mansion in Copenhagen as a permanent home for the Natural History Museum.
Births
JanuaryMarch 8 February – Hans Schjellerup, astronomer (died 1887) 1 March – Eiler Rasmussen Eilersen, painter (died 1912) 16 March – Ferdinand Meldahl, architect (died 1908) 20 March – Johannes Forchhammer, philologist (died 1909)
AprilJune 12 May – Israel B. Melchior, photographer (died 1893) 2 June – Petrine Fredstrup, ballet dancer (died 1881) 11 June - Natalie Zahle, reform pedagogue and pioneer on women's education (died 1913)
OctoberDecember 7 October – Christian Frederik Lütken, zoologist ad naturalist (died 1901) 19 October Mads Christian Holm, businessman, company founder (died 1892) 22 December – Anders Petersen (historian), historian (died 1914)
Deaths
JanuaryMarch 11 January Frederik Julius Kaas. prime minister (born 1758) 7 February Peter Norden Sølling, naval officer (born 1758) 9 February Mette Magrete Tvistman, watchmaker /born 1741)
AprilJune 29 June Joseph Christian Lillie, architect and interior designer (born 187+)
JulySeptember 4 July Christian Kyhl, gunsmith (born 1762) 3 September – Adam Ditlev Wedell-Wedellsborg, government official (born 1782) 12 September Peter Nicolaj Arbo, businessman and landowner (born 1768) 19 September – Morten Thrane Brünnich, zoologist and mineralogist (born 1737)
OctoberDecember 11 October – Christian Ditlev Frederik Reventlow, statesman and reformer (born 1748) Marie Barch, first native Danish ballerina (born 1744)
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