1820 in Denmark

Events from the year 1820 in Denmark.

← 1819 1818 1817 1820 in Denmark → 1821 1822 1823
Decades:	1800s 1810s 1820s 1830s 1840s
See also:	Other events of 1820 List of years in Denmark

Incumbents

• Monarch – Frederick VI^[1]

Events

Mendel Levin Nathansons ældste døtre, Bella og Hanna, oil on canvas, 1820 by Christoffer Wilhelm Eckersberg.

• 1 May – Sparekassen for Kjøbenhavn og Omegn is established in Copenhagen.

Undated

• Bella and Hanna. The Eldest Daughters of M. L. Nathanson is painted by Christoffer Wilhelm Eckersberg

Births

• 28 January – Vilhelm Pedersen, artist, illustrator (died 1859)
• 7 August – Emma Thomsen, painter (died 1897)

• 2 October – Georg Petersen, businessman (died 1900)^[2]
• 25 October – Lorenz Frølich, painter (died 1908)
• 26 November
  • Prince Frederick William of Hesse-Kassel (died 1884 in Germany)
  • Johan Adam Schwartz, turner (died 1874)

Deaths

January–March

• 1 March – Peter Christian Uldahl, piano maker (born 1779)
• 24 March – Heinrich Levetzau, county governor (born 1734)

April–June

• 13 April – Johan Ludvig Mansa, landscape architect (born 1740 in Zweibrücken)
• 0 May – Andreas Collstrop (born 1842)
• 20 April – Bertel Bjørnsen, mayor (born 1749)
• 27 May – Jean-Françoìs de Dompierre de Jonquières, merchant, landowner and amateur artist (born 1775)

July–September

• 30 July – Carl Adolph Castenschiold, landowner and chamberlain (born 1740)

October–December

• 26 December – Frederik Ludvig Bang, physician (born 1747)