1792 in Denmark

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{{Year in Denmark|1792}}

Events from the year 1792 in Denmark.

Incumbents

  • Monarch – Christian VII{{cite web |title=Christian VII {{!}} Scandinavian king |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Christian-VII |website=Encyclopedia Britannica |access-date=19 September 2019 |language=en}}
  • Prime minister – Andreas Peter Bernstorff

Events

= May =

  • 16 May – Denmark declares transatlantic slave trade illegal after 1803 (though slavery continues until 1848)[https://books.google.com/books?id=ATq5_6h2AT0C&dq=abolish+slavery+iceland&pg=PA8 The Historical encyclopedia of world slavery, Volume 1 By Junius P. Rodriguez]

Births

Deaths

  • 22 April {{ndash}} Alexander Walker Ross, military officer (born 1710)
  • 24 March – Johan Frederik Classen, Danish-Norwegian industrialist and philanthropist (born 1725).{{cite encyclopedia | url=http://www.denstoredanske.dk/Danmarks_geografi_og_historie/Danmarks_historie/Danmark_1536-1849/Johan_Frederik_Classen |title=J. F. Classen |encyclopedia=Den Store Danske|language=da |access-date=24 November 2012}}
  • 18 July – Christine Sophie von Gähler, courtier (born 1745)
  • 25 September – Adam Gottlob Moltke, Lord Chamberlain to Frederick V (born 1710){{cite web |last1=Campbell |first=Heather |date=2022-09-21 |title=Adam Gottlob, Greve (Count) Moltke {{!}} Danish government official |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Adam-Gottlob-Greve-Moltke |access-date=22 March 2017 |website=Encyclopedia Britannica |publisher= |language=en}}
  • 29 October {{ndash}} Cathrine Marie Gielstrup, stage actress (born 1755)

References

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