1792 in Denmark

Events from the year 1792 in Denmark.

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Decades:	1770s 1780s 1790s 1800s 1810s
See also:	Other events of 1792 List of years in Denmark

Incumbents

• Monarch – Christian VII^[1]
• Prime minister – Andreas Peter Bernstorff

Events

May

• 16 May – Denmark declares transatlantic slave trade illegal after 1803 (though slavery continues until 1848)^[2]

Births

• 14 January – Christian de Meza, Commander (died 1865)
• 2 April – Johannes Theodorus Suhr, merchant and industrialist (died 1858)
• 26 June – Christian Albrecht Jensen, portrait painter during the Danish Golden Age (died 1870)
• 12 August – Hans Harder, painter and drawing master (died 1873)
• 22 November – Ferdinand, Hereditary Prince of Denmark (died 1863)

Deaths

• 22 April – Alexander Walker Ross, military officer (born 1710)
• 24 March – Johan Frederik Classen, Danish-Norwegian industrialist and philanthropist (born 1725).^[3]
• 18 July – Christine Sophie von Gähler, courtier (born 1745)
• 25 September – Adam Gottlob Moltke, Lord Chamberlain to Frederick V (born 1710)^[4]
• 29 October – Cathrine Marie Gielstrup, stage actress (born 1755)