Events from the year 1804 in Denmark.
Incumbents Monarch – Christian VII Prime minister – Christian Günther von Bernstorff
Events
6 October HDMS Prinds Christian Frederik is launched from Orlogsværftet on Nyholm in Copenhagen.
Births JanuaryMarch 18 February Christian Holm, painter (died 1846) 28 February Carl van Dockum, naval officer (died 1893) 20 March Wilhelm Bendz, painter (died 1832)
JulySeptember 7 August – Johan Nicolai Madvig, philologist and politician (died 1886) 14 September Niels Peter Holbech, painter (died 1889)
OctoberDecember 3 November – Constantin Hansen, painter (died 1880) 1 December – Carl Edvard Sonne, printmaker (died 1878)
Deaths
JanuaryMarch 9 January Frantz Hohlenberg, naval officer (born 1764) 28 March – Frederik Christian Kaas, Admiral, landowner (born 1727)
AprilJune 13 May – David Brown, merchant and Governor of Tranquebar (born 1734) 2 June – Cornelius Høyer, miniatures painter (born 1741) 26 June Jørgen Landt, priest, botanist and author (born 1751)
JulySeptember Marie Martine Bonfils, brewer 5 July Jacob Baden, philologist, pedagogue, and critic (born 1735) 29 August Niels Rybergm businessman (born 1725) 7 September Christian Henrik Biering, clergy and writer (born 1729)
OctoberDecember 21 October Poul Abraham Lehn, nobleman and landowner (born 1732) 24 December Martin Vahl, naturalist (born 1749)
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