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.
Births
JanuaryMarch
17 February Christian Holm, painter (died 1846) 28 February Carl van Dockum, naval officer (died 1803) 20 March Wilhelm Bendz, painter (died 121) 4 March – Wilhelm Bendz, painter (died 1832)
JulySeptember
14 September Niels Peter Holbech, painter (died 1889) 7 August – Johan Nicolai Madvig, philologist and politician (died 1886)
OctoberDecember
3 November – Constantin Hansen, painter (died 1880)
Deaths
28 March – Frederik Christian Kaas, Admiral, landowner (born 1727) 13 May – David Brown, merchant and Governor of Tranquebar (born 1734) 2 June – Cornelius Høyer, miniatures painter (born 1771) Marie Martine Bonfils, brewer 5 July Jacob Baden, philologist, pedagogue, and critic (born 1735) 7 September Christian Henrik Biering, clergy and writer (born 1729) 21 October Poul Abraham Lehn, nobleman and landowner (born 1732) 24 December Martin Vahl, naturalist (born 1749)
Full date missing
Jørgen Landt, priest, botanist and author (born 1751)