1799 in Denmark

Events from the year 1799 in Denmark.

Incumbents

• Monarch – Christian VII
• Prime minister – Christian Günther von Bernstorff

Births

• 3 February John Christmas, naval officer, plantation owner and acting Governor-General of the Danish West Indies (died 1873)
• 22 March – Henrik Nikolai Krøyer, zoologist and zoology teacher and textbook author (died 1870)
• 31 March , scientific illustrator (died 1861)
• 30 October – Emil Bærentzen, painter (died 1868)

Deaths

• 14 April Louise von Plessen, lady-in-waiting and memoir writer (born 1725)
• 28 December – Pauline Maria Tutein, philanthropist (born 1725 in the Holy Roman Empire)
• 28 December Pauline Maria Tutein, philanthropist (born 1725)

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