1804 in Denmark

Incumbents

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

Events

• 6 October HDMS Prinds Christian Frederik is launched from Orlogsværftet on Nyholm in Copenhagen.

Births

JanuaryMarch

• 18 February Christian Holm, painter
• 28 February Carl van Dockum, naval officer
• 20 March Wilhelm Bendz, painter

JulySeptember

• 7 August - Johan Nicolai Madvig, philologist and politician
• 14 September Niels Peter Holbech, painter

OctoberDecember

• 3 November - Constantin Hansen, painter
• 1 December - Carl Edvard Sonne, printmaker

Deaths

JanuaryMarch

• 28 March - Frederik Christian Kaas, Admiral, landowner

AprilJune

• 13 May – David Brown, merchant and Governor of Tranquebar
• 2 June - Cornelius Høyer, miniatures painter
• 26 June Jørgen Landt, priest, botanist and author

JulySeptember

• Marie Martine Bonfils, brewer
• 5 July Jacob Baden, philologist, pedagogue, and critic
• 7 September Christian Henrik Biering, clergy and writer

OctoberDecember

• 21 October Poul Abraham Lehn, nobleman and landowner
• 24 December Martin Vahl, naturalist