1794 in Denmark
Incumbents
Events
- January 3 – Aarhus Stiftstidende, a local newspaper based in Aarhus, is published for the first time.
- February 26 – The first Christiansborg Palace is destroyed in a fire.
- March 27 – Denmark-Norway and Sweden form a neutrality compact.
- June 11 – Friderich Christian Hager receives a commission as governor of the Danish Gold Coast.
- July– August – A large strike among carpenters and later some 2,000 other craftsmen hits Copenhagen, resulting in the arrest of more than 200 carpenters. It is met with a general strike involving more than 2,000 craftsmen.
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Births
- 4 March – Olaf Nikolas Olsen, cartographer (died 1848)
- 21 March – Poul Martin Møller, academic, writer, and poet (died 1838)
- 26 July – Johan Georg Forchhammer, mineralogist and geologist (died 1865)
- 14 December {{ndash}} Christian Frederik Zeuthen, landowner (died 1850){{cite web|url=https://biografiskleksikon.lex.dk/C._Zeuthen|title=C. Zeuthen|language=Danish|website=Dansk Biografisk Leksikon|access-date=16 June 2022}}
- 27 December – Christian Albrecht Bluhme, politician, prime minister of Denmark (died 1866)
Deaths
- 7 January {{ndash}} Frederik Barfred, wine merchant (born 1711)
- 22 April – Georg Hjersing Høst, government official and writer (born 1734){{cite web|url=https://biografiskleksikon.lex.dk/Georg_Hjersing_H%C3%B8st|title=Georg Hjersing Høst|language=Danish|website=Dansk Biografisk Leksikon|access-date=16 June 2022}}
- 26 April – Johan Foltmar, composer (born 1714)
- 8 August – Andreas Bodenhoff, businessman (born 1723)
- 11 August {{ndash}} Christian Ulrik Foltmarm painter (born 1716)
- 29 September – Edvard Stormm educator and writer (born 1749)
- 13 November – Frederick Christian I, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Augustenburg (born 1721)
- 29 November – Princess Sophia Frederica, princess of Denmark (born 1758)
- 29 December {{ndash}} Hermann Abbestée, governor of Danish India (born 1728)
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