Events from the year 1802 in Denmark.
Incumbents
Monarch – Christian VII
Prime minister – Christian Günther von Bernstorff
Events
April The British occupation of the Danish West Indies ends. 4 May – The Golden Horns of Gallehus are stolen.
Undated
A Panoramic painting of the Battle of Copenhagen created by Heinrich August Grosch (1763-1843) is on public display in a purpose-built wooden rotunda ay present-day Sølvgade 20–22 in Copenhagen. In 1800,
Births
21 April Wilhelm Wanscher, businessman and art collector (died 1882) 27 July Hans Jonatan, opera singer and composer (died 1858) 19 September – Frederik Theodor Kloss, painter (died 1876) 8 October Rudolph Rothe, landscape architect (died 1877)
Deaths
13 February – Jakob Edvard Colbjørnsen, chief justice (born 1744) 8 February – Søren Gyldendal, bookstore owner, publisher (born 1742) 24 August – Niels Ditlev Riegels, historian, journalist and pamphleteer (born 1755) 4 October – Niels Brock, merchant (born 1731) 16 September Christian Joseph Zuber, architect (born 1736) 17 December – Johannes Wiedewelt, sculptor (born 1731) 27 December – Jens Juel, painter (born 1745)