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.

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.

Culture

Art

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

File:Martinus Rørbye - View from the Artist's Window - Google Art Project.jpg|Martinus Rørbye: View from the Artist's Window

Births

January{{ndash}}March

• 28 January – Moses Melchior, businessman (died 1912)

April{{ndash}}June

• 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)

October{{ndash}}December

• 16 October Anders Peter Westenholz, businessman and consul-general (died 1886)
• 19 November – Jacob Kornerup, archeologist (died 1913)
• 30 November – Julius Exner, painter (died 1910)
• 24 November Herman Løvenskiold, county governor (born 1783)

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

References

1. "Frederick VI: king of Denmark and Norway".
2. "Kunstforeningen". Gyldendal.
3. "A. Westenholz".