1795 in Denmark

Incumbents

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

Events

• 5 June – The Copenhagen Fire of 1795 breaks out around 3 p.m. at the Navy’s old base at Gammelholm.
• 7 June – The fire dies out around 4 p.m. It has destroyed 941 houses and made homeless around 6,000 residents.

Undated

• The Leda and the Swan statue in Copenhagen Harbour is dismantled.

Births

• 16 January – Carl Christian Rafn, historian, translator and antiquarian
• 4 May - Annestine Beyer, reform pedagogue and pioneer on women's education
• 30 August Poul Sporon, lawyer
• 8 December – Peter Andreas Hansen, astronomer, Copley Medal recipient in 1850
• 9 December – Mathias Lüttichau, Danish Minister of War
• 13 December – Just Mathias Thiele, writer and art historian
• 31 December – Carl Peter Holbøll, naval officer and Greenland explorer

Deaths

• 3 January – Hans Næss, architect
• 20 July – Niels Lunde Reiersen, government official businessman
• 17 August – Friderich Christian Hager, governor of the Danish Gold Coast
• Caroline von Schimmelmann, favorite