• Monarch – Christian VII^[1]
• Prime minister – Christian Günther von Bernstorff

• April – The British occupation of the Danish West Indies ends.
• 4 May – The Golden Horns of Gallehus are stolen.^[2]

Undated edit

• A Panoramic painting of the Battle of Copenhagen created by Heinrich August Grosch (1763-1843) is on public display in a purpose-built wooden rotunda ay present-day Sølvgade 20–22 in Copenhagen.^[3] In 1800,

April–June edit

• 21 April – Wilhelm Wanscher, businessman and art collector (died 1882)
• 26 April – Johann Gottfried Burman Becker, pharmacist, writer and illustrator (died 1860)
• 26 May – Gustav Adolph Lammers, priest, architect and artist (died 1878)

July–September edit

• 27 July – Hans Jonatan, opera singer and composer (died 1858)
• 19 September – Frederik Theodor Kloss, painter (died 1876)

Pctpber–December edit

• 8 October – Rudolph Rothe, landscape architect (died 1877)

• 13 February – Jakob Edvard Colbjørnsen, chief justice (born 1744)
• 8 February – Søren Gyldendal, bookstore owner, publisher (born 1742)
• 24 August – Niels Ditlev Riegels, historian, journalist and pamphleteer (born 1755)
• 4 October – Niels Brock, merchant (born 1731)
• 16 September – Christian Joseph Zuber, architect (born 1736)
• 17 December – Johannes Wiedewelt, sculptor (born 1731)
• 27 December – Jens Juel, painter (born 1745)