← 1815 1814 1813 1816 in Denmark → 1817 1818 1819
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See also:	Other events of 1816 List of years in Denmark

Events from the year 1816 in Denmark.

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

Undated

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

• 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)

• 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)

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

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

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

• 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)

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