1817 in Denmark

Events from the year 1817 in Denmark.

Incumbents

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

Art

 * Christoffer Wilhelm Eckersberg completes The Death of Balder as his admission painted for admission into the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts.
 * The 300th anniversary of the Reformation is commemorated with a medal designed by Salomon Ahron Jacobson.

January–March

 * 22 January – Johan Frederik Schlegel, lawyer and civil servant (died 1896)
 * 22 February – Niels Gade, composer (died 1890)

April–June

 * 4 April – P. C. Skovgaard, national romantic landscape painter (died 1875)
 * 13 June – Knud Graah, industrial pioneer (died 1909).

July–September

 * 7 July – Christen Andreas Fonnesbech, lawyer, landowner and politician (died 1880)
 * 20 July – Johan Henrik Nebelong, architect (died 1871)

October–December

 * 4 October – Andreas Frederik Krieger, politician (died 1893)
 * 26 October – Georg Grüner, landowner, politician and co-founder of Landmandsbanken (died 1890)
 * 13 November – Franziska Carlsen, writer and local historian (died 1876)
 * 17 November – Harald Conradsen, sculptor and medalist (died 1905)
 * 10 December – Carl Otto Reventlow, philologist, developed a mnemonic system (died 1873)

Deaths

 * 6 April – Joachim Castenschiold, military officer (born 1743)
 * 18 November – Hans Rudolph Saabye, businessman (born 1751)
 * 28 November – Johan Frederik Schultz printer and publisher (born 1756)

Date unknown

 * Johanne Marie Malleville, royal favorite (born 1750)
 * Moses Melchior, businessman (born 1736)