Events from the year 1825 in Denmark.

Incumbents

Monarch – Frederick VI

Prime minister – Otto Joachim

Events

11 July – The Danish schooner Vigilant captures the Spanish privateering schooner Adolpho north of Colibra in the West Indies.

1825 in Denmark

Undated

- A storm penetrates the narrow land mass, Agger Tange, separating Northern Jutland from the mainland Jutland for the first time since the 12th century. The Copenhagen Art Society is founded by a circle of the most influential figures of the Danish art world during the Danish Golden Age.

1825 in Denmark

Culture

Art

Martinus Rørbye paints the View from the Artist's Window in his parents' home at Amaliegade 45.

1825 in Denmark

Births

JanuaryMarch

28 January – Moses Melchior, businessman (died 1912)

AprilJune

16 April – Jacob Brønnum Scavenius Estrup, politician, prime minister of Denmark (died 1913) 10 May – Heinrich Tønnies, photographer (died 1903) 20 May Carl Christian Amussen, Utah's first jeweler /died 1902)

OctoberDecember

19 November – Jacob Kornerup, archeologist (died 1913) 30 November – Julius Exner, painter (died 1910)

Deaths

4 January Johan Peter Wleugel, naval officer and cartographer (born 1736 in Norway) 16 February – Georg Gerson, composer and banker (born 1790) 8 April – Carl Ferdinand Degen, mathematician (born 1766 in Germany) 19 May – Peter Hersleb Classen, statesman (born 1738 in Norway) 30 December – Peter Grønland, composer (born 1761)

References

1820s in Denmark

Denmark

Years of the 19th century in Denmark