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

• 26 May – The County of Lerchenborg is established by Christian Cornelius Lerche from the manors of Lerchenborg and Aunsøgård as well as the farms Mineslund, Asnæsgård, Lerchenfeld, Birkendegård, Vesterbygard, Astrup and Davrup.

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• 3 February – Anton Melbye, marine painter and daguerreotype photographer (died 1875)
• 8 February – Carl Frederik Sørensen, marine painter (died 1879)
• 10 March – Johan Vilhelm Gertner, portrait painter (died 1871)
• 13 August – Johan Daniel Herholdt, architect (died 1902)
• 1 September – Johan Lundbye, painter (died 1848)
• 17 September – Louise Sahlgreenm actress (died 1891)

• Pennefejden: A bitter literary feud between Jens Baggesen and Adam Oehlenschläger.

• 25 March – Caspar Wessel, mathematician (born 1745)
• 25 April – Johan Martin Quist, architect (born 1755)