{{short description|none}} <!-- "none" is preferred when the title is sufficiently descriptive --> {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2018}} {{Year in Denmark|1817}} Events from the year '''1817 in Denmark'''.

==Incumbents== * Monarch – Frederick VI<ref>{{cite web |title=Frederick VI {{!}} king of Denmark and Norway |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Frederick-VI |website=Encyclopedia Britannica |access-date=27 June 2019 |language=en}}</ref> * Prime minister – Joachim Godske Moltke

==Events==

===Undated===

==Culture== ===Art=== * Christoffer Wilhelm Eckersberg completes ''The Death of Balder'' as his admission painted for admission into the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts. * The 300th anniversary of the Reformation is commemorated with a medal designed by Salomon Ahron Jacobson.

<gallery mode="packed" heights="200px"> File:Baldr dead by Eckersberg.jpg|Eckersberg's ''The Death of Balder'' File:Medalje over reformationsjubilæet 1817, bagside.jpg|Medal commemorating the 300th anniversary of the Reformation

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==Births== [[File:Johan Frederik Schlegel.jpg|thumb|120px|Johan Frederik Schlegel.]] [[File:Elisabeth Jerichau Baumann Harald Konradsen 65 x 61 cm.jpg|thumb|120px|Harald Conradsen.]] ===January{{ndash}}March=== * 22 January – Johan Frederik Schlegel, lawyer and civil servant (died 1896) * 30 January {{ndash}} Magnus Feilberg, bookseller and publisher (died 1900 in Norwau) * 22 February – Niels Gade, composer (died 1890)

===April{{ndash}}June=== * 4 April – P. C. Skovgaard, national romantic landscape painter (died 1875) * 5 April{{ndash}} Hansine Andræ, feminist (died 1898) * 11 May {{ndash}} Frederik Hegel, bookseller and publisher (died 1887) *13 June &ndash; Knud Graah, industrial pioneer (died 1909).<ref>{{cite encyclopedia|title=Knud Graah |encyclopedia=Norsk biografisk leksikon|first=Gunnar |last=Nerheim |editor=Helle, Knut|publisher=Kunnskapsforlaget|location=Oslo|url=https://nbl.snl.no/Knud_Graah |language=no|access-date=18 June 2016}}</ref>

===July{{ndash}}September=== * 7 July {{ndash}} Christen Andreas Fonnesbech, lawyer, landowner and politician (died 1880) * 20 July – Johan Henrik Nebelong, architect (died 1871)

===October{{ndash}}December=== * 4 October {{ndash}} Andreas Frederik Krieger, politician (died 1893) * 8 October {{ndash}} Ilia Fibiger, writer (born 1867) * 26 October {{ndash}} Georg Grüner, landowner, politician and co-founder of Landmandsbanken (died 1890)<ref>{{cite web|url=https://biografiskleksikon.lex.dk/Georg_Gr%C3%BCner|title= Georg Grüner|language=Danish|website=Dansk Biografisk Leksikon|access-date=20 August 2023}}</ref> * 13 November – Franziska Carlsen, writer and local historian (died 1876) * 17 November – Harald Conradsen, sculptor and medalist (died 1905) * 8 December {{ndash}} Christian Emil Krag-Juel-Vind-Frijs, politician and landowner (died 1896) * 10 December {{ndash}} Carl Otto Reventlow, philologist, developed a mnemonic system (died 1873)

==Deaths== [[File:Caspar Peter Bügel.jpg|thumb|120px|Caspar Peter Bügel.]] * 10 May {{ndash}} Georg Haasm engraver /born 1861 in Germany) * 6 April – Joachim Castenschiold, military officer (born 1743) * 31 August {{ndash}} Hans Egede Saabye, priest and missionary (born 1746) * 1 September {{ndash}} Caspar Peter Bügel, businessman (born 1759 in Hamburg) * 18 November {{ndash}} Hans Rudolph Saabye, businessman (born 1751) * 28 November &ndash; Johan Frederik Schultz printer and publisher (born 1756)

=== Full date missing === * Johanne Marie Malleville, royal favorite (born 1750) * Moses Melchior, businessman (born 1736)

==References== {{reflist}}

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