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1795 in Denmark

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Events from the year 1795 in Denmark.

Incumbents

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

Events

  • 5 June – The Copenhagen Fire of 1795 breaks out around 3 p.m. at the Navy’s old base at Gammelholm.
  • 7 June – 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

  • 16 January – Carl Christian Rafn, historian, translator and antiquarian (died 1864)
  • 4 May - Annestine Beyer, reform pedagogue and pioneer on women's education (died 1884)
  • 30 August Poul Sporon, lawyer (died 1854)
  • 8 December – Peter Andreas Hansen, astronomer, Copley Medal recipient in 1850 (died 1874)
  • 9 December – Mathias Lüttichau, Danish Minister of War (died 1870)
  • 13 December – Just Mathias Thiele, writer and art historian (died 1874)
  • 31 December – Carl Peter Holbøll, naval officer and Greenland explorer (died 1856)

Deaths

  • 3 January – Hans Næss, architect (born 1723)
  • 20 July – Niels Lunde Reiersen, government official businessman (born 1742)
  • 17 August – Friderich Christian Hager, governor of the Danish Gold Coast (born 1756)
  • Caroline von Schimmelmann, favorite (born 1730)

References

References

  1. "Christian VII {{!}} Scandinavian king".
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