1800 in Denmark

Events from the year 1800 in Denmark.

Incumbents

• Monarch – 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 with Prussia.^[1]

Date unknown

• 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 sent into exile for his pamphlets which contained outright criticism of the government, something which the new censorship laws forbade.^[1]

Births

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

Date unknown

• Rasmus Carl Staeger, judge, financial advisor to the government, entomologist (died 1875)

References

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