1795 in Denmark

Events from the year 1795 in Denmark.

Incumbents

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

Events

• June 5 – Copenhagen Fire of 1795 breaks out around 3 p.m. at the Navy’s old base at Gammelholm.
• 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 in Copenhagen Harbour is dismantled.

Births

• January 16 – Carl Christian Rafn, historian, translator and antiquarian (d. 1864)
• December 8 – Peter Andreas Hansen, astronomer (d. 1874)
• December 13 – Just Mathias Thiele, writer, art historian (d. 1874)
• December 31 – Carl Peter Holbøll, naval officer and Greenland explorer (d. 1856)

Deaths

• January 3 – Hans Næss, architect (b. 1723)
• August 17 – Friderich Christian Hager, guvernor of the Danish Gold Coast (b. 1756)

References

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