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Events from the year 1794 in Denmark.
Incumbents
- Monarch – Christian VII[1]
- Prime minister – Andreas Peter Bernstorff
Events
July: The Carpenters' Strike in Copenhagen.
- 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.
Undated
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 – Christian Frederik Zeuthen, landowner (died 1850)[2]
- 27 December – Christian Albrecht Bluhme, politician, prime minister of Denmark (died 1866)
Deaths
- 22 April – Georg Hjersing Høst, government official and writer (born 1734)[3]
- 26 April – Johan Foltmar, composer (born 1714)
- 8 August – Andreas Bodenhoff, businessman (born 1723)
- 11 August – 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 – Hermann Abbestée, governor of Danish India (born 1728)
References
- ↑ "Christian VII | Scandinavian king". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved 19 September 2019.
- ↑ "C. Zeuthen". Dansk Biografisk Leksikon (in Danish). Retrieved 16 June 2022.
- ↑ "Georg Hjersing Høst". Dansk Biografisk Leksikon (in Danish). Retrieved 16 June 2022.
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