Events from the year 1831 in Denmark.
Incumbents Monarch – Frederick VI Prime minister – Otto Joachim
Events
2 April HDMS Galathea is launched at Nyholm in Copenhagen. 25 August The ship of the line is launched at Nyholm. 13 September HDMS Hvalfisken arrives back in Copenhagen, marking the end of the 19291831 Danish East Greenland Expedition.
Undated
Births JanuaryMarch 28 January – Frederik Georg Emil Rostrup, botanist (died 1907) 30 January Christine Daugaard, writer (died 1917) 15 February – Anton Dorph, painter (died 1914) 10 March Johan Vilhelm Gertner, player (died 1871)
AprilJune 3 May Hans Peter Ingerslev, politician (died 1896) 25 May Christian Richardt, writer (died 1892) 6 June Henry Jacques Garrigues, physician (died 1913 in the United States)
JulySeptember 8 July Sigfred Goldschmidt, businessman (died 1906) 27 July Frits Holm, journalist, author and adventurer (died 1930 in the United States) 6 August – Henning Frederik Feilberg, pastor, author and folklorist (died 1921) 13 August Juliette Price, ballet dancer (died 1896) 26 November Christian Toxward, architect (died 1891 in New Zealand) 28 November C. C. A. Christensen, painter (died 1912 in the United States) 7 December Jakob Severin Deichmann Branth, theologian (died 1917)
Deaths
JanuaryMarch 12 January Princess Louise of Denmark, princess (born 1750) 9 February – Ernst Heinrich von Schimmelmann, politician, businessman and patron of the arts (born 1747) 17 February Friedrich Wilhelm, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg (born 1895) 21 March Thøger From, businessman (born 1744)
AprilJune 21 April Johann Georg Preisler, engraver (born 1757) 9 June Johan Martin Schønheyder, Supreme Court attorney (born 1752) 17 June – Jens Friedenreich Hage, merchant and landowner (born 1752)
JulySeptember 11 September Hans Bøchmann Melchior, naturalist (born 1773) 15 September Christian David Gebauer, painter (born 1777)
OctoberDecember 5 November – Johan Frederik Clemens, engraver (born 1752) 30 November – Catharine Frydendahl, opera singer (born 1760)
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