1800 in Denmark

Events from the year 1800 in Denmark.

Incumbents

• Monarch – HM Christian VII
• Prime minister – Christian Günther von Bernstorff

Events

• 4 July – St. Nicolas Church, one of the four Medieval churches in Copenhagen, is closed.^[1]
• 16 December Denmark enters a pact of neutrality with Sweden and Russia and on 18 December also Prussia.^[1]

Undated

• A semaphore line, also known as an optical telegraph, is established between Copenhagen and Schleswig with 23 reply stations across Zealand, Funen and Als.^[1]
• Kronprinsessegade is established in Copenhagen.^[1]
• Conrad Malte-Brun is send into exile for his pamphlets which contained outright criticism of the government, something which the new censorship laws forbade.^[1]

Births

• March 8 – Johan Laurentz Jensen, painter (died 1856)
• September 5 – Michael Gottlieb Bindesbøll, architect (died 1856)
• October 31 – Peter Lassen, rancher in the US, namesake of Lassen County, California (d. 1859)
• December 4 – Emil Aarestrup, poet (died 1856)

Deaths

References

See also