1827 in Denmark

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Events from the year 1827 in Denmark.

Incumbents[]

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

Events[]

Coloured wood carving depicting the incident when Christian Rost was killedbuilding

• 1 January – Johan Ludvig Heiberg (poet) publishes the literary journal for the first time.^[2]
• May – Giuseppe Siboni opens the first music conservatory in Copenhagen.^[2]
• 12 June – The line dancer Christian Rost is killed during a show at Rosenborg drill grounds when his rope breaks.^[2]

Undated[]

• The crown acquires the Holstein Mansion in Copenhagen as a permanent home for the Natural History Museum.^[2]

Births[]

• 8 February – Hans Schjellerup, astronomer (died 1887)
• 1 March – Eiler Rasmussen Eilersen, painter (died 1912)
• 16 March – Ferdinand Meldahl, architect (died 1908)
• 20 March – Johannes Forchhammer, philologist (died 1909)
• 12 May – Israel B. Melchior, photographer (died 1893)
• 2 June – Petrine Fredstrup, ballet dancer (died 1881)
• 7 October – Christian Frederik Lütken, zoologist ad naturalist (died 1901)
• 22 December – Anders Petersen (historian), historian (died 1914)
• - Natalie Zahle, reform pedagogue and pioneer on women's education (died 1913)

Deaths[]

• September 3 – Adam Ditlev Wedell-Wedellsborg, government official (born 1782)
• September 19 – Morten Thrane Brünnich, zoologist and mineralogist (born 1737)
• October 11 – Christian Ditlev Frederik Reventlow, statesman and reformer (born 1748)
• Marie Barch, first native Danish ballerina (born 1744)

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