• Monarch – Frederick VI^[1]
• Prime minister – Frederik Moltke

• 5 January - The heavy financial and economic burden of the Gunboat War with England takes its monetary toll: Denmark-Norway defaults on its foreign debt (Danish state bankruptcy of 1813).
• 7 December – Battle of Bornhöved, part of the War of the Sixth Coalition, is fought Danish troops and Swedish cavalry at the small village of Bornhöft in the Duchy of Schleswig and results in Swedish victory.
• 10 December – The Battle of Sehested is fought between Danish and Swedish (with Prussian-Russian battalions) troops at Sehested in Holstein and results in Danish victory.

January–March edit

• 3 February – Andreas Flinch, goldsmith, wood-engraver and lithographer (d. 1872)
• 8 March – Johannes Steenstrup, natural scientist (d. 1897)

April–June edit

• 4 April – Marie Toft, landowner (d. 1854)
• 5 May – Søren Kierkegaard, theologian, philosopher, poet, social critic, and religious author (d. 1855)

July–September edit

• 13 July – Theophil Hansen, architect who later became an Austrian citizen (d. 1891 in Austria)

October–December edit

• 29 October – Carl Ploug, writer (died 1894)

• 9 March – Carl Frederik Stanley, sculptor (b. c. 1738)
• 30 August – David Amsel Meyer, businessman and financial advisor (born 1755)