1794 in Denmark

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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.

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

Princess Sophia Frederica.

• 7 January – Frederik Barfred, wine merchant (born 1711)
• 22 March – Laurids Smith, clergyman, philosopher and early animal rights writer (born 1754)
• 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

1. "Christian VII | Scandinavian king". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved 19 September 2019.
2. "C. Zeuthen". Dansk Biografisk Leksikon (in Danish). Retrieved 16 June 2022.
3. "Georg Hjersing Høst". Dansk Biografisk Leksikon (in Danish). Retrieved 16 June 2022.