1794 in Denmark

Events from the year 1794 in Denmark.

Incumbents

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

Events

 * 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)


 * 27 December – Christian Albrecht Bluhme, politician, prime minister of Denmark (died 1866)

Deaths

 * 7 January – Frederik Barfred, wine merchant (born 1711)
 * 22 April – Georg Hjersing Høst, government official and writer (born 1734)
 * 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)