Events from the year 1819 in

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

Events

September

* 5 September -

Hans Christian Andersen Hans Christian Andersen ( , ; 2 April 1805 – 4 August 1875) was a Danish author. Although a prolific writer of plays, travelogue (literature), travelogues, novels, and poems, he is best remembered for his literary fairy tales. Andersen's fai ...

arrives in

Copenhagen Copenhagen ( ) is the capital and most populous city of Denmark, with a population of 1.4 million in the Urban area of Copenhagen, urban area. The city is situated on the islands of Zealand and Amager, separated from Malmö, Sweden, by the ...

for the first time. * September – Antisemitic riots in Copenhagen.

Undated

* Denmark's first steamship, ''SS Caledonia'', a paddle steamer bought used in England, begins operations as a

mail steamer Packet boats were medium-sized boats designed mainly for domestic mail and freight transport in European countries and in North American rivers and canals. Eventually including basic passenger accommodation, they were used extensively during t ...

between Copenhagen and

Kiel Kiel ( ; ) is the capital and most populous city in the northern Germany, German state of Schleswig-Holstein. With a population of around 250,000, it is Germany's largest city on the Baltic Sea. It is located on the Kieler Förde inlet of the Ba ...

. * Several Antisemitic riots occur in Copenhagen.One is mentioned by Andersen as having occurred the night preceding his arrival in Frederiksberg; an English translation refers to it obliquely as a "Jews' Quarrel". See also History of the Jews in Denmark.

Births

JanuaryMarch

* 30 March – Vilhelm Kyhn, painter and educator (died

1903 Events January * January 1 – Edward VII is proclaimed Emperor of India. * January 10 – The Aceh Sultanate was fully annexed by the Dutch forces, deposing the last sultan, marking the end of the Aceh War that have lasted for al ...

)

AprilJune

* 20 May – Pietro Boyesen, photographer (died 1882) * 18 June Niels Frederik Ravn, politician (born

1826 Events January–March * January 15 – The French newspaper ''Le Figaro'' begins publication in Paris, initially as a satirical weekly. * January 17 – The Ballantyne printing business in Edinburgh (Scotland) crashes, ruining noveli ...

)

JulySeptember

* 26 August

Hinrich Johannes Rink Dr. Hinrich Johannes Rink (first name sometimes as Henrik) (26 August 1819 – 15 December 1893) was a Danish geologist, one of the pioneers of glaciology, and the first accurate describer of the inland ice of Greenland. Rink, who first came to ...

, geologist (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 ...

) * 5 September – Peter Schram, opera singer and actor (died

1895 Events January * January 5 – Dreyfus affair: French officer Alfred Dreyfus is stripped of his army rank and sentenced to life imprisonment on Devil's Island (off French Guiana) on what is much later admitted to be a false charge of tr ...

)

OctoberDecember

* 4 November – Kristian Mantzius, actor (died

1879 Events January * January 1 ** The Specie Resumption Act takes effect. The United States Note is valued the same as gold, for the first time since the American Civil War. ** Brahms' Violin Concerto is premiered in Leipzig with Joseph Joachim ...

)

Deaths

JanuaryMarch

* 11 January

Johann Andreas Mühlensteth Johannes (Johan) Andreas Mühlensteth (7 April 1746 - 11 January 1819) was a Danish pharmacist. Early life and education Mühlensteth was born in Vejle as the son of the local pharmacist Hans Christian Mühlensteth (1708-61) and his wife Marie Ha ...

, pharmacist (died

1746 Events January–March * January 8 – The Young Pretender Charles Edward Stuart occupies Stirling, Scotland. * January 17 – Battle of Falkirk Muir: British Government forces are defeated by Jacobite forces. * February ...

) * 20 March – Mette Marie Rose, stage actor (born

1745 Events January–March * January 7 – War of the Austrian Succession: The Austrian Army, under the command of Field Marshal Károly József Batthyány, makes a surprise attack at Amberg and the winter quarters of the Bav ...

)

AprilJune

* 7 May Frederik Christian Willerup, sculptor (born

1742 Events January–March * January 9 – Robert Walpole is made Earl of Orford, and resigns as First Lord of the Treasury and Chancellor of the Exchequer, effectively ending his period as Prime Minister of Great Britain. On his f ...

) * 15 May – Arnoldus von Falkenskiold, colonel (born

1743 Events January–March * January 1 – The Verendrye brothers, probably Louis-Joseph and François de La Vérendrye, become the first white people to see the Rocky Mountains from the eastern side (the Spanish conquistadors ...

)

OctoberDecember

* 4 December Johan Joachim Pingel, cabinetmaker (born 1752)

References

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Years of the 19th century in Denmark