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Presumably 14.9. - 17.9.1819 Meets for the first time Conrad Hinrich Donner in Altona.
17.9.1824 Ercole Consalvis buste, cf. A271, is placed in the Pantheon.
Beginning of September 1827 The merchant ship Therese leaves Copenhagen bound for Tunis with a cargo of tributary gifts for Al-Husayn II ibn Mahmud.
10.9.1838 Appointed “konferensråd” (honorary title, now obsolete) on board of the frigate Rota. Thorvaldsen receives the message 16.9.1838.
16.9.1838 The Rota anchors north west of Elsinore waiting for favourable currents and winds. Thorvaldsen attends a Danish-Swedish celebration in his honour on board the steamship Dronning Marie. Two songs for the sculptor are sung.
17.9.1838 The frigate Rota is towed round Kronborg in the morning, and is greeted by cheers of hurray and music in boats from Helsingborg. Passes Trekroner at Copenhagen in the afternoon.
17.9.1838 Amid great jubilation, Thorvaldsen disembarks at the Copenhagen Custom House after 42 years of exile.
17.9.1838 On the balcony of Charlottenborg Thorvaldsen is cheered by a crowd in Kongens Nytorv.
17.9.1838 Young artists pay tribute to Thorvaldsen with a torchlight procession in the Botanical Gardens behind Charlottenborg. A song by Christian Winther is sung.
17.9.1838 - 24.3.1844 Residence and workshop at Charlottenborg, 1 Kongens Nytorv, Copenhagen. However, he lives alternately at Charlottenborg, at Nysø, and in Rome until his death.
End of September 1838 Party given by J.L.A. Kolderup-Rosenvinge.
26.8.1840 Meeting with F.C. Olsen regarding a list of the works executed by Thorvaldsen since his return to Denmark 17.9.1838.
17.9.1848 Thorvaldsen’s Museum is inaugurated, and the sculptor’s bequest is officially transferred to the city of Copenhagen by Eksekutorerne for Thorvaldsens bo (The Executors of Thorvaldsen’s Estate).