Events from the year 1795 in Denmark.
Incumbents Monarch – Christian VII Prime minister – Andreas Peter Bernstorff
Events
June 5 June – The Copenhagen Fire of 1795 breaks out around 3 p.m. at the Navy’s old base at Gammelholm.
July 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) 17 June Gotthold Müller, army officer (died 1882) 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) 6 July Christian Gottlieb Kratzenstein, physician, physicist and engineer (born 1723)
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