1805 in Denmark

Events from the year 1805 in Denmark.

Incumbents

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

Events

• 25 August A. C. Gamél us founded when Augustin Cyrille Gamél opens a delicacy shop on Østergade in Copenhagen.

Undated

• Christiansø Lighthouse is first lit.

Births

JanuaryMarch

• 1 January – Fritz Petzholdt, painter (died 1838)
• 7 January Louis Aumont, painter (died 1879)
• 7 February – Frederik Paludan-Müller, poet (died 1876)

MarchMay

• 2 April – Hans Christian Andersen, writer of plays, travelogues, novels, poems and fairy tales (died 1875)
• 13 April Edouard Suenson, naval officer (died 1887)
• 14 May – Johan Peter Emilius Hartmann, composer (died 1900)

JulySeptember

• 2 July Hans Ditmar Frederik Feddersen, civil servant and politician (died 1863)
• 6 July Peter Kierkegaard, clergyman and politician (died 1858)
• 21 July Frederik Storch, painter (died 1883)
• 21 August – August Bournonville, ballet master and choreographer (died 1879)

OctoberDecember

• 11 November Waldemar Tully Oxholm, diplomat and court official (died 1876)
• 15 November Severine Casse, women's rights activist (died 1909)

Deaths

• 4 March Hinrich Ladiges, businessman (born 1731)
• 10 November Johan Thomas Flindt, chief of police in Copenhagen (born 1741)
• 7 December – Frederick, Hereditary Prince of Denmark (born 1753)
• 39 December Hans Severin Holten, zoological writer and Geheimrat, (born 1770)

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