1816 in Denmark

Events from the year 1816 in Denmark.

Incumbents

 * Monarch – Frederick VI
 * Prime minister – Joachim Godske Moltke

Events

 * Undated
 * Kommercekollegiet is merged with Generaltoldkammeret (General Chamber of Customs and Excise).

January–March

 * 21 January – Louise Phister, actress (died 1914)
 * 7 March – Catharine Simonsen, soprano (died 1849)
 * 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)

April–June

 * 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)

July–September

 * 11 July – Christian Albrecht von Benzonm painter (died 1849)
 * 7 August – Carit Etlar, author (died 1900)

October–December

 * 4 October – Rudolph Striegler, photographer (died 1876)
 * 8 December – Edvard Helsted, composer (died 1900)

April–June

 * 11 April – Jørgen Thomsen Bech, businessman (born 1731)

July–September

 * 24 July – Christian Gottlieb Kratzenstein Stub, painter (born 1783)
 * 22 August – Hartvig Marcus Frisch, civil servant (born 1754)
 * 30 August – Niels Bang, landowner (born 1776)

October–December

 * 2 December – Charlotte Schimmelmann, Norwegian-born salonist and patron (born 1757)
 * 28 December – Julie Reventlow, countess, writer and salonist (born 1763)