1795 in Denmark
Events from the year 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