1793 in Denmark

Events from the year 1793 in Denmark.

Incumbents

• Monarch – Christian VII
• Prime minister – Andreas Peter Bernstorff

Events

• 4 September – A royal decree reduces the number of counties (Danish: amt, pl. amter) to 20.

Undated

Births

• 22 April
• Ludvig Bødtcher, lyric poet (died 1874)
• Henrik Nicolai Clausen, theologian (died 1877)
• 28 October – Princess Caroline of Denmark (died 1881)

Deaths

• 7 April – , chief of police (born 1712)
• 8 August – Henrik Kyhlm clockmaker (died 1866)
• 15 September – Johan Theodor Holmskjold, botanist, civil servant (born 1731)
• 21 October – Johann Hartmann, violinist and composer (born 1726)
• 23 October – Christopher Georg Wallmoden, landowner and county governor (born 1730 in Germany)

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