Incumbents

• Monarch – HM Christian VII
  Christian VII of Denmark
  Christian VII was King of Denmark and Norway and Duke of Schleswig and Holstein from 1766 until his death. He was the son of Danish King Frederick V and his first consort Louisa, daughter of King George II of Great Britain....
  
  
• Prime minister – Andreas Peter Bernstorff
  Andreas Peter Bernstorff
  Andreas Peter Bernstorff was a Danish statesman and politician. He was a Danish minister, father of Christian Günther von Bernstorff, and a guardian of civil and political liberty.-Background and early career:A. P...
  
  

Events

• June 5 – Copenhagen Fire of 1795
  Copenhagen Fire of 1795
  The Copenhagen Fire of 1795 started Friday the June 5, around 3 p.m. at the Navy’s old base at Gammelholm in the fleets warehouse for coal and barrels...
  
   breaks out around 3 p.m. at the Navy’s old base at Gammelholm
  Gammelholm
  Gammelholm is a predominantly residential neighbourhood in the city centre of Copenhagen, Denmark. It is bounded by the Nyhavn canal, Kongens Nytorv, Holmens Kanal, Niels Juels Gade and the waterfront along Havnegade...
  
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• June 7 – The fire dies out around 4 p.m. It has destroyed 941 houses and made homeless around 6000 residents.

Undated

• The Leda and the Swan statue
  Leda and the Swan (Copenhagen)
  A Leda and the Swan statue, depicting the classical myth of Leda and the Swan, was from 1611 to 1795 a major landmark in Copenhagen, Denmark. The statue topped a tall column located just off the entrance to the naval Arsenal Harbour harbour.-History:...
  
   in Copenhagen Harbour is dismantled.

Births

• January 16 – Carl Christian Rafn
  Carl Christian Rafn
  Carl Christian Rafn was a Danish historian, translator and antiquarian. His scholarship to a large extent focused on translation of Old Norse literature and related Northern European ancient history...
  
  , historian, translator and antiquarian (d. 1864
  1864 in Denmark
  -Incumbents:* Monarch – HM Christian IX* Prime minister – Ditlev Gothard Monrad , Christian Albrecht Bluhme-Events:* February 1 – The Second Schleswig War breaks out after the First Schleswig War had left the Schleswig-Holstein Question unsettled when Treussia-Austria crosses the...
  
  )
• December 8 – Peter Andreas Hansen
  Peter Andreas Hansen
  Peter Andreas Hansen was a Danish astronomer, was born at Tønder, Schleswig.-Biography:The son of a goldsmith, Hansen learned the trade of a watchmaker at Flensburg, and exercised it at Berlin and Tønder, 1818–1820...
  
  , astronomer (d. 1874
  1874 in Denmark
  -Incumbents:* Monarch – HM Christian IX* Prime minister – Ludvig Holstein-Holsteinborg , Christen Andreas Fonnesbech-Deaths:* March 28 – Peter Andreas Hansen, astronomer...
  
  )
• December 13 – Just Mathias Thiele
  Just Mathias Thiele
  Just Mathias Thiele was a Danish writer and art historian. A central personage during the Danish Golden Age in the first half of the 18th century, he contributed to Danish cultural life in a number of capacities...
  
  , writer, art historian (d. 1874
  1874 in Denmark
  -Incumbents:* Monarch – HM Christian IX* Prime minister – Ludvig Holstein-Holsteinborg , Christen Andreas Fonnesbech-Deaths:* March 28 – Peter Andreas Hansen, astronomer...
  
  )
• December 31 – Carl Peter Holbøll, naval officer and Greenland explorer (d. 1856)

Deaths

• January 3 – Hans Næss
  Hans Næss (architect)
  Hans Pedersen Næss was a Danish architect from the island of Funen. Part of the generation of Neoclassical architect who was educated under Nicolas-Henri Jardin and C.F...
  
  , architect (b. 1723
  1723 in Denmark
  -Incumbents:* Monarch – HM Frederick IV* Grand Chancellor – Ulrik Adolf Holstein-Births:* March 31 – Frederick V, Danish king -See also:...
  
  )
• August 17 – Friderich Christian Hager
  Friderich Christian Hager
  Friderich Christian Hager was a Danish colonial commander and governor.Born in Ribe, Hager was the son of the then organist at Ribe Domkirke, Johann Wilhelm Friedrich Hager , and his wife Anna Margrethe Ingwersen . Hager's father later became precentor in Copenhagen and then newspaper publisher in...
  
  , guvernor of the Danish Gold Coast
  Danish Gold Coast
  The Danish Gold Coast was a part of the Gold Coast , which is on the West African Gulf of Guinea...
  
   (b. 1756
  1756 in Denmark
  -Incumbents:* Monarch – HM Frederick V* Prime minister – Johan Ludvig Holstein-Ledreborg-Births:Ø February 9 – Friderich Christian Hager, governor of the Danish Gold Coast...
  
  )