1805 in Denmark

Events from the year 1805 in Denmark.

Incumbents

 * Monarch – Christian VII
 * Prime minister – Christian Günther von Bernstorff

Events

 * 25 August – A. C. Gamél us founded when Augustin Cyrille Gamél opens a delicacy shop on Østergade in Copenhagen.

Undated

 * Christiansø Lighthouse is first lit.

Births

 * 1 January – Fritz Petzholdt, painter (died 1838)
 * 7 January – Louis Aumont, painter (died 1879)
 * 7 February – Frederik Paludan-Müller, poet (died 1876)
 * 2 April – Hans Christian Andersen, writer of plays, travelogues, novels, poems and fairy tales (died 1875)
 * 14 May – Johan Peter Emilius Hartmann, composer (died 1900)
 * 2 July – Hans Ditmar Frederik Feddersen, civil servant and politician (died 1863)
 * 21 August – August Bournonville, ballet master and choreographer (died 1879)

Undated

 * Theodore Cantor, zoologist (died 1860)

Deaths

 * 4 March – Hinrich Ladiges, businessman (born 1731)
 * 7 December – Frederick, Hereditary Prince of Denmark (born 1753)