1789 in Denmark

Incumbents

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

Events

• 9 July – The Theater War, which began the previous year, formally ends.

Undated

• Andreas Hjorth founds what will later become known as Emil Hjorth & Sønner.

Births

• 7 February – Joakim Frederik Schouw, lawyer, botanist and politician
• 25 Peter Johan Alexei Conradt-Eberlin, Supreme Court justice
• 28 May – Bernhard Severin Ingemann, writer
• 15 October – William Christopher Zeise, chemist
• 30 October – Princess Louise Charlotte, princess of Denmark

Deaths

• 27 September Oluf Lundt Bang, lawyer and judge