1795 in Denmark
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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 6,000 residents.
Undated
- The Leda and the Swan statue in Copenhagen Harbour is dismantled.
Births
- January 16 – Carl Christian Rafn, historian, translator and antiquarian (died 1864)
- December 8 – Peter Andreas Hansen, astronomer (died 1874)
- December 13 – Just Mathias Thiele, writer, art historian (died 1874)
- December 31 – Carl Peter Holbøll, naval officer and Greenland explorer (died 1856)
Deaths
- January 3 – Hans Næss, architect (born 1723)
- August 17 – Friderich Christian Hager, governor of the Danish Gold Coast (born 1756)
References
See also
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