1816 in Denmark

• Monarch – Frederick VI • Prime minister – Joachim Godske Moltke ==Events==

;Undated • Kommercekollegiet is merged with Generaltoldkammeret (General Chamber of Customs and Excise). ==Births==

. . JanuaryMarch • 21 January – Louise Phister, actress (died 1914) • 7 March – Catharine Simonsen, soprano (died 1849) • 22 March , businessman (died 1884) • 29 March – Christen Mikkelsen Kold, teacher who founded a school in Ryslinge that later became a model for the Danish folk high-school system (died 1870) AprilJune • 13 April Gottlieb Abrahamson Gedalia, banker (died 1892) • 17 April – Jens Adolf Jerichau, sculptor (died 1883) • 13 June – Dankvart Dreyer, painter (died 1852) • 21 June – Anders Sandøe Ørsted, botanist, mycologist, zoologist and marine biologist (died 1872) • 22 June Moritz G. Melchior, businessman (died 1884) JulySeptember • 11 July Christian Albrecht von Benzonm painter (died 1849) • 7 August – Carit Etlar, author (died 1900) OctoberDecember • 4 October Rudolph Striegler, photographer (died 1876) • 3 December Johannes Theodor Reinhardt, zoologist (died 1882) • 8 December – Edvard Helsted, composer (died 1900) ==Deaths==

. . JanuaryMarch • 4 March Hans Christian Knudsen, actor (died 1763) AprilJune • 11 April Jørgen Thomsen Bech, businessman (born 1731) JulySeptember • 24 July Christian Gottlieb Kratzenstein Stub, painter (born 1783) • 22 August – Hartvig Marcus Frisch, civil servant (born 1754) • 23 August – Frederik Adeler (1764–1816)Frederik Adeler, lord president of Copenhagen (born 1764)| • 30 August Niels Bang, landowner (born 1776) OctoberDecember • 16 December Vincenzo Galeotti, ballet master (born 1833 in Italy) • 2 December – Charlotte Schimmelmann, Norwegian-born salonist and patron (born 1757) • 28 December – Julie Reventlow, countess, writer and salonist (born 1763) ==References==