1804 in Denmark

Events from the year 1804 in Denmark.

Incumbents

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

Events

• 6 October HDMS Prinds Christian Frederik is launched from Orlogsværftet on Nyholm in Copenhagen.

Births

JanuaryMarch

• 18 February Christian Holm, painter (died 1846)
• 28 February Carl van Dockum, naval officer (died 1893)
• 20 March Wilhelm Bendz, painter (died 1832)

JulySeptember

• 7 August – Johan Nicolai Madvig, philologist and politician (died 1886)
• 14 September Niels Peter Holbech, painter (died 1889)

OctoberDecember

• 3 November – Constantin Hansen, painter (died 1880)
• 1 December – Carl Edvard Sonne, printmaker (died 1878)

Deaths

JanuaryMarch

• 9 January Frantz Hohlenberg, naval officer (born 1764)
• 28 March – Frederik Christian Kaas, Admiral, landowner (born 1727)

AprilJune

• 13 May – David Brown, merchant and Governor of Tranquebar (born 1734)
• 2 June – Cornelius Høyer, miniatures painter (born 1741)
• 26 June Jørgen Landt, priest, botanist and author (born 1751)

JulySeptember

• Marie Martine Bonfils, brewer
• 5 July Jacob Baden, philologist, pedagogue, and critic (born 1735)
• 29 August m businessman (born 1725)
• 7 September Christian Henrik Biering, clergy and writer (born 1729)

OctoberDecember

• 21 October Poul Abraham Lehn, nobleman and landowner (born 1732)
• 24 December Martin Vahl, naturalist (born 1749)

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