1792 in Denmark
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Incumbents
- Monarch â Christian VII[1]
- Prime minister â Andreas Peter Bernstorff
Events
- May
- 16 May
- Denmark declares transatlantic slave trade illegal after 1803 (though slavery continues until 1848)[2]
- The Medal of Merit is established.
- December
- 1 December â HDMS Nidelven is launched at Nyholm in Copenhagen.
- 7 December â HDMS Skjold is launched in Copenhagen.
Date unknown
- N. Schiøtt & Hochbrandt is founded.
Births
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- 14 January â Christian de Meza, Commander (died 1865)
- 19 February â Lucie Ingemannm painter (died 1868)
- 2 April â Johannes Theodorus Suhr, merchant and industrialist (died 1858)
- 12 June â William Frederik Duntzfelt, businessman (died 1863)
- 26 June â Christian Albrecht Jensen, portrait painter during the Danish Golden Age (died 1870)
- 7 July â Hans Hedemann, military officer /died 1959 in Norway)
- 6 August â Frederikke Dannemand, royal mistress (died 1862)
- 12 August â Hans Harder, painter and drawing master (died 1873)
- 20 September â Ida Brunm socialite (died 1857)
- 29 September â Andreas Gottlob Rudelbach, theologian (died 1862)
- 22 November â Ferdinand, Hereditary Prince of Denmark (died 1863)
Deaths
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- 22 April â Alexander Walker Ross, military officer (born 1710)
- 24 March â Johan Frederik Classen, Danish-Norwegian industrialist and philanthropist (born 1725)[3]
- 18 July â Christine Sophie von Gähler, courtier (born 1745)
- 25 September â Adam Gottlob Moltke, Lord Chamberlain to Frederick V (born 1710)[4]
- 29 October â Cathrine Marie Gielstrup, stage actress (born 1755)
Full date missing
- Peter Thorstensen, physician and chemist (born 1862)