Events from the year

1815 Events January * January 2 – Lord Byron marries Anna Isabella Milbanke in Seaham, county of Durham, England. * January 3 – Austria, Britain, and Bourbon-restored France form a secret defensive alliance treaty against Pr ...

Denmark Denmark is a Nordic countries, Nordic country in Northern Europe. It is the metropole and most populous constituent of the Kingdom of Denmark,, . also known as the Danish Realm, a constitutionally unitary state that includes the Autonomous a ...

Incumbents

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

Events

* 13 December The County of Hardenberg Reventlow is established by Christian Henrik August Hardenberg-Reventlow from the manors of af Hardenberg ( Krenkerup), Christiansdal, Nielstrup, Rosenlund, Nørregård and Sæbyholm.

Undated

Births

JanuaryMarch

* 15 February Hans Nielsen Jeppesen, businessman (died

1883 Events January * January 4 – ''Life'' magazine is founded in Los Angeles, California, United States. * January 10 – A fire at the Newhall Hotel in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States, kills 73 people. * January 16 – ...

) * 16 February –

Wilhelm Sponneck Wilhelm Carl Eppingen Sponneck (16 February 1815 – 29 February 1888) was a Denmark, Danish nobleman (''rigsgreve'') and Minister of Finance of Denmark, Minister of Finance. He was influential in Danish customs affairs for several years. Ear ...

, nobleman and politician, Danish finance minister (died

1888 Events January * January 3 – The great telescope (with an objective lens of diameter) at Lick Observatory in California is first used. * January 12 – The Schoolhouse Blizzard hits Dakota Territory and the states of Montana, M ...

)

AprilJune

* 21 April –

Louise Rasmussen Louise Christine Rasmussen, also known as ''Countess Danner'' (21 April 1815 – 6 March 1874), was a Danish ballet dancer and stage actor. She was the mistress and later the morganatic spouse of King Frederick VII of Denmark. She was not a queen ...

, ballet dancer and stage actor (died

1874 Events January * January 1 – New York City annexes The Bronx. * January 2 – Ignacio María González becomes head of state of the Dominican Republic for the first time. * January 3 – Third Carlist War: Battle of Caspe &n ...

) * 23 June Isaac Wilhelm Tegner, lithographer (died

1893 Events January * January 2 – Webb C. Ball introduces railroad chronometers, which become the general railroad timepiece standards in North America. * January 6 – The Washington National Cathedral is chartered by Congress; th ...

)

JulySeptember

* 29 July – Anker Heegaard, businessman (died

) * 23 September – Erhardine Adolphine Hansen, actress (died

)

OctoberDecember

* 29 December –

Hans Jørgen Hammer Hans Jørgen Hammer (29 December 1815 – 28 January 1882) was a genre, landscape, and portrait painter and printmaker of the Golden Age of Danish painting. In addition, he served for eleven years as a military officer. Biography Hans Jørgen ...

, painter (died

1882 Events January * January 2 ** The Standard Oil Trust is secretly created in the United States to control multiple corporations set up by John D. Rockefeller and his associates. ** Irish-born author Oscar Wilde arrives in New York at the ...

)

Deaths

* 15 January Thomas Bugge, astronomer and surveyor (born

1740 Events January–March * January 8 – All 237 crewmen on the Dutch East India Company ship ''Rooswijk'' are drowned when the vessel strikes the shoals of Goodwin Sands, off of the coast of England, as it is beginning its second ...

) * 30 January

Johan Rudolph Thiele Johan Rudolph Thiele (30 January 1736 - 30 January 1815) was a Danish book printer. He founded a successful printing business in Copenhagen in 1771 which was later continued as H. H. Thiele by his son Hans Henrik Thiele. The company survived until ...

, book printer, company founder (born

1736 Events January–March * January 12 – George Hamilton, 1st Earl of Orkney, becomes the Second Field Marshal of Great Britain. * January 23 – The Civil Code of 1734 is passed in Sweden. * January 26 – Stanislaus I of P ...

)

References

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Years of the 19th century in Denmark