1802 in Denmark

Events from the year 1802 in Denmark.

Incumbents

 * Monarch – Christian VII
 * Prime minister – Christian Günther von Bernstorff

Events

 * April – The British occupation of the Danish West Indies ends.
 * 4 May – The Golden Horns of Gallehus are stolen.

Undated

 * A Panoramic painting of the Battle of Copenhagen created by Heinrich August Grosch (1763-1843) is on public display in a purpose-built wooden rotunda ay present-day Sølvgade 20–22 in Copenhagen. In 1800,

April–June

 * 21 April – Wilhelm Wanscher, businessman and art collector (died 1882)
 * 26 April – Johann Gottfried Burman Becker, pharmacist, writer and illustrator (died 1860)
 * 26 May – Gustav Adolph Lammers, priest, architect and artist (died 1878)

July–September

 * 27 July – Hans Jonatan, opera singer and composer (died 1858)
 * 19 September – Frederik Theodor Kloss, painter (died 1876)

Pctpber–December

 * 8 October – Rudolph Rothe, landscape architect (died 1877)

Deaths

 * 13 February – Jakob Edvard Colbjørnsen, chief justice (born 1744)
 * 8 February – Søren Gyldendal, bookstore owner, publisher (born 1742)
 * 24 August – Niels Ditlev Riegels, historian, journalist and pamphleteer (born 1755)
 * 4 October – Niels Brock, merchant (born 1731)
 * 16 September – Christian Joseph Zuber, architect (born 1736)
 * 17 December – Johannes Wiedewelt, sculptor (born 1731)
 * 27 December – Jens Juel, painter (born 1745)