1825 in Denmark

Events from the year 1825 in Denmark.

← 1824 1823 1822 1825 in Denmark → 1826 1827 1828
Decades:	1800s 1810s 1820s 1830s 1840s
See also:	Other events of 1825 List of years in Denmark

Incumbents

• Monarch – Frederick VI^[1]
• Prime minister – Otto Joachim

Events

11 July: Vigiliant captures Adolpho.

• 11 July – The Danish schooner Vigilant captures the Spanish privateering schooner Adolpho north of Colibra in the West Indies.

Undated

• - A storm penetrates the narrow land mass, Agger Tange, separating Northern Jutland from the mainland Jutland for the first time since the 12th century.^{[citation needed]}
• The Copenhagen Art Society is founded by a circle of the most influential figures of the Danish art world during the Danish Golden Age.^[2]

Culture

Art

• Martinus Rørbye paints the View from the Artist's Window in his parents' home at Amaliegade 45.

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  Martinus Rørbye: View from the Artist's Window

Births

January–March

• 28 January – Moses Melchior, businessman (died 1912)

April–June

• 16 April – Jacob Brønnum Scavenius Estrup, politician, prime minister of Denmark (died 1913)
• 10 May – Heinrich Tønnies, photographer (died 1903)
• 20 May – Carl Christian Amussen, Utah's first jeweler (died 1902)

October–December

• 16 October – Anders Peter Westenholz, businessman and consul-general (died 1886)^[3]
• 19 November – Jacob Kornerup, archeologist (died 1913)
• 30 November – Julius Exner, painter (died 1910)
• 24 November – Herman Løvenskiold, county governor (born 1783)

Deaths

• 4 January – Johan Peter Wleugel, naval officer and cartographer (born 1736 in Norway)
• 16 February – Georg Gerson, composer and banker (born 1790)
• 8 April – Carl Ferdinand Degen, mathematician (born 1766 in Germany)
• 19 May – Peter Hersleb Classen, statesman (born 1738 in Norway)
• 30 December – Peter Grønland, composer (born 1761)