1829 in Denmark

Events from the year 1829 in Denmark.

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Decades:	1800s 1810s 1820s 1830s 1840s
See also:	Other events of 1829 List of years in Denmark

Incumbents

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

Events

• 7 June – C. F. Hansen's new Church of Our Lady in Copenhagen inaugurated after the previous building was destroyed in the British Bombardment of Copenhagen in 1807.^{[citation needed]}

Oehlenschläger and Tegner at Lund Cathedral, painted by Constantin Hansen

• 19 June – Adam Oehlenschläger is publicly crowned with laurel by the Swedish poet Esaias Tegner in front of the high altar in Lund Cathedral, as the "Scandinavian King of Song.". The event cements his position as the leading proponent of Romanticism in the region and at the same time heralds the emergence the Scandinavismmovement.^[2]
• 1 October – Sparekassen for Helsingør og Omegn is established.^[3]
• 5 November – The College of Advanced Technology (DTU) is inaugurated with Hans Christian Ørsted, who had also been one of the driving forces behind its establishment, as its first principal.^{[citation needed]}

Undated

Births

January–March

• 18 January – Ludvig Lorenz, mathematician and physicist (died 1891)
• 7 February – Theobald Stein, sculptor (died 1901)
• 19 March – Carl Frederik Tietgen, financier, businessman (died 1901)

July–September

• 28 July – Peter Nielsen, botanist (died 1897)
• 22 August — Carl Baagøe, painter (died 1902)

October–December

• 16 October – Sophus Berendsen, businessman (died 1884)
• 30 November – Thomas Lange, novelist (died 1887)
• 18 December – Christen Berg, politician (died 1891)
• 20 December – Hans Peter Hansen, xylographer (died 1899)

Deaths

January–March

• 21 January – Kamma Rahbek, salonist and lady of letters (born 1775)
• 6 February – Johan David Vogel, businessman and brewer (born 1759)
• 18 February – Olfert Fischer, vice admiral (born 1747)
• 21 February – Christian Ludvig von Holten, colonial administrator (born 1774)
• 4 March – Grímur Jónsson Thorkelin, scholar, archivist (born 1752)

October–December

• 8 October – Iver Qvistgaard, civil servant, landowner and mayor (born 1767)
• 25 October – Andreas Birch, academic, bishop (born 1758)