1804 in Denmark

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.

January–March

 * 18 February – Christian Holm, painter (died 1846)
 * 28 February – Carl van Dockum, naval officer (died 1893)
 * 20 March – Wilhelm Bendz, painter (died 1832)

July–September

 * 14 September – Niels Peter Holbech, painter (died 1889)
 * 7 August – Johan Nicolai Madvig, philologist and politician (died 1886)

October–December

 * 3 November – Constantin Hansen, painter (died 1880)

January–March

 * 28 March – Frederik Christian Kaas, Admiral, landowner (born 1727)

April–June

 * 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)

July–September

 * Marie Martine Bonfils, brewer
 * 5 July – Jacob Baden, philologist, pedagogue, and critic (born 1735)
 * 7 September – Christian Henrik Biering, clergy and writer (born 1729)

October–December

 * 21 October – Poul Abraham Lehn, nobleman and landowner (born 1732)
 * 24 December – Martin Vahl, naturalist (born 1749)