Events from the year 1827 in

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Incumbents

* Monarch – Frederick VI * Prime minister – Otto Joachim

Events

* 1 January –

Johan Ludvig Heiberg (poet) Johan Ludvig Heiberg (14 December 1791 – 25 August 1860), Danish poet, playwright, literary critic, literary historian son of the political writer Peter Andreas Heiberg (1758–1841), and of the novelist, afterwards the Baroness Gyllem ...

publishes the literary journal for the first time. * May – Giuseppe Siboni opens the first music conservatory in Copenhagen. * 12 June – The line dancer Christian Rost is killed during a show at Rosenborg drill grounds when his rope breaks.

Undated

* The crown acquires the

Holstein Mansion The Holstein Mansion is a Baroque style town mansion on Stormgade in central Copenhagen, Denmark. The history of the property dates back to the late 17th century but the name and current design of the building is from the 1750s when it was owne ...

Copenhagen Copenhagen ( or .; da, København ) is the capital and most populous city of Denmark, with a proper population of around 815.000 in the last quarter of 2022; and some 1.370,000 in the urban area; and the wider Copenhagen metropolitan ar ...

as a permanent home for the

Natural History Museum A natural history museum or museum of natural history is a scientific institution with natural history collections that include current and historical records of animals, plants, fungi, ecosystems, geology, paleontology, climatology, and more. ...

Births

* 8 February –

Hans Schjellerup Hans Carl Frederik Christian Schjellerup (8 February 1827 – 13 November 1887) was a Danish astronomer. He was born at Odense, the son of a jeweller. Initially he was apprenticed as a watch maker, but in 1848 he passed the entrance exam for th ...

, astronomer (died

1887 Events January–March * January 11 – Louis Pasteur's anti-rabies treatment is defended in the Académie Nationale de Médecine, by Dr. Joseph Grancher. * January 20 ** The United States Senate allows the Navy to lease Pearl ...

) * 1 March – Eiler Rasmussen Eilersen, painter (died 1912) * 16 March – Ferdinand Meldahl, architect (died

1908 Events January * January 1 – The British ''Nimrod'' Expedition led by Ernest Shackleton sets sail from New Zealand on the ''Nimrod'' for Antarctica. * January 3 – A total solar eclipse is visible in the Pacific Ocean, and is the 4 ...

) * 20 March – Johannes Forchhammer, philologist (died

1909 Events January–February * January 4 – Explorer Aeneas Mackintosh of the Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition escaped death by fleeing across ice floes. * January 7 – Colombia recognizes the independence of Panama. * Jan ...

) * 12 May – Israel B. Melchior, photographer (died

1893 Events January–March * January 2 – Webb C. Ball introduces railroad chronometers, which become the general railroad timepiece standards in North America. * Mark Twain started writing Puddn'head Wilson. * January 6 – Th ...

) * 2 June – Petrine Fredstrup, ballet dancer (died

1881 Events January–March * January 1– 24 – Siege of Geok Tepe: Russian troops under General Mikhail Skobelev defeat the Turkomans. * January 13 – War of the Pacific – Battle of San Juan and Chorrillos: The ...

) * 7 October – Christian Frederik Lütken, zoologist ad naturalist (died

1901 Events January * January 1 – The British colonies of New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria and Western Australia federate as the Commonwealth of Australia; Edmund Barton becomes the first Prime Minist ...

) * 22 December – Anders Petersen (historian), historian (died

1914 This year saw the beginning of what became known as World War I, after Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria, heir to the Austrian throne was Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, assassinated by Serbian nationalist Gavrilo Princip. It als ...

) * -

Natalie Zahle Ida Charlotte Natalie Zahle (11 June 1827 – 11 August 1913) was a Danish reform pedagogue and pioneer of women's education. She founded N. Zahle's School in 1851. Life Her parents were the Roskilde vicar Ernst Sophus Wilhelm Zahle (1797-1837) ...

, reform pedagogue and pioneer on women's education (died

1913 Events January * January 5 – First Balkan War: Battle of Lemnos – Greek admiral Pavlos Kountouriotis forces the Turkish fleet to retreat to its base within the Dardanelles, from which it will not venture for the rest of the ...

)

Deaths

* 7 February

Peter Norden Sølling Peter Norden Sølling (13 September 1758 - 7 February 1827) was a Denmark-Norway, Norwegian-Danish naval officer. He designed and personally led the construction of a type of pilot boats, "Sølling's pilot boats", which gained widespread popularity ...

, naval officer (born 1758) * September 3 – Adam Ditlev Wedell-Wedellsborg, government official (born

1782 Events January–March * January 7 – The first American commercial bank (Bank of North America) opens. * January 15 – Superintendent of Finance Robert Morris goes before the United States Congress to recommend establish ...

) * September 19 –

Morten Thrane Brünnich Morten Thrane Brünnich (30 September 1737 – 19 September 1827) was a Danish zoologist and mineralogist. Biography Brünnich was born in Copenhagen, the son of a portrait painter. He studied oriental languages and theology, but soon became ...

, zoologist and mineralogist (born

1737 Events January–March * January 5 – Spain and the Holy Roman Empire sign instruments of cession at Pontremoli in the Grand Duchy of Tuscany in Italy, with the Empire receiving control of Tuscany and the Grand Duchy of Parma a ...

) * October 11 – Christian Ditlev Frederik Reventlow, statesman and reformer (born

1748 Events January–March * January 12 – Ahmad Shah Durrani captures Lahore. * January 27 – A fire at the prison and barracks at Kinsale, in Ireland, kills 54 of the prisoners of war housed there. An estimated 500 pri ...

) *

Marie Barch Marie Barch (née ''Knudsen''; 1744 – 31 March 1827), was a Danish ballerina. She was a pioneer within her profession in her country. Barch debuted at the Royal Danish Theatre The Royal Danish Theatre (RDT, Danish: ') is both the national D ...

, first native Danish ballerina (born 1744)

References

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Years of the 19th century in Denmark