1794 in Denmark

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See also:	Other events of 1794 List of years in Denmark

Events from the year 1794 in Denmark.

Incumbents[]

• Monarch – Christian VII^[1]
• Prime minister – Andreas Peter Bernstorff

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 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 timber strike hits Copenhagen.

Undated[]

Births[]

• 4 March – Olaf Nikolas Olsen, cartographer (died 1848)
• 21 March – Poul Martin Møller, academic, writer, and poet (died 1838)
• 24 July – Johan Georg Forchhammer, mineralogist and geologist (died 1865)
• 13 November – Frederick Christian II, Duke, prince and feudal magnate (died 1814)
• 27 December – Christian Albrecht Bluhme, politician, prime minister of Denmark (died 1866)

Full date missing[]

• Jens Juel-Vind, chamberlain and landowner (died 1826)

Deaths[]

• 26 April – Johan Foltmar, composer (b. c. 1714)
• 8 August – Andreas Bodenhoff, businessman (died 1723)
• 29 September – Edvard Stormm educator and writer (born 1749)
• 29 November – Princess Sophia Frederica, princess of Denmark (born 1758)
• 29 December – Hermann Abbestée, governor of Danish India (born 1728)

References[]

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