1825 in Denmark
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Incumbents
- Monarch â Frederick VI[1]
- Prime minister â Otto Joachim
Events

- 11 July â 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.[citation needed]
- The Copenhagen Art Society is founded by a circle of the most influential figures of the Danish art world during the Danish Golden Age.[2]
Culture
Art
- Martinus Rørbye paints the View from the Artist's Window in his parents' home at Amaliegade 45.
- Martinus Rørbye: View from the Artist's Window
Births
JanuaryâMarch
- 28 January â Moses Melchior, businessman (died 1912)
AprilâJune
- 16 April â Jacob Brønnum Scavenius Estrup, politician, prime minister of Denmark (died 1913)
- 10 May â Heinrich Tønnies, photographer (died 1903)
- 20 May â Carl Christian Amussen, Utah's first jeweler (died 1902)
OctoberâDecember
- 16 October â Anders Peter Westenholz, businessman and consul-general (died 1886)[3]
- 19 November â Jacob Kornerup, archeologist (died 1913)
- 30 November â Julius Exner, painter (died 1910)
- 24 November â Herman Løvenskiold, county governor (born 1783)
Deaths
JanuaryâMarch
- 4 January â Johan Peter Wleugel, naval officer and cartographer (born 1736 in Norway)
- 16 February â Georg Gerson, composer and banker (born 1790)
AprilâJune
- 8 April â Carl Ferdinand Degen, mathematician (born 1766 in Germany)
- 19 May â Peter Hersleb Classen, statesman (born 1738 in Norway)
JulyâSeptember
- 20 August â Adolph Tobias Herbst, naval officer (born 1746)
OctoberâDecember
- 21 November â Daniel Gotthilf Moldenhawer, philologist, theologian, librarian, bibliophile, palaeographer, diplomat, and Bible translato (born (born in 1835 in Prussia)
- 30 December â Peter Grønland, composer (born 1761)
