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
JanuaryMarch 1 January – Fritz Petzholdt, painter (died 1838) 7 January Louis Aumont, painter (died 1879) 7 February – Frederik Paludan-Müller, poet (died 1876)
MarchMay 2 April – Hans Christian Andersen, writer of plays, travelogues, novels, poems and fairy tales (died 1875) 13 April Edouard Suenson, naval officer (died 1887) 14 May – Johan Peter Emilius Hartmann, composer (died 1900)
JulySeptember 2 July Hans Ditmar Frederik Feddersen, civil servant and politician (died 1863) 6 July Peter Kierkegaard, clergyman and politician (died 1858) 21 July Frederik Storch, painter (died 1883) 21 August – August Bournonville, ballet master and choreographer (died 1879)
OctoberDecember 11 November Waldemar Tully Oxholm, diplomat and court official (died 1876) 15 November Severine Casse, women's rights activist (died 1909)
Deaths
4 March Hinrich Ladiges, businessman (born 1731) 10 November Johan Thomas Flindt, chief of police in Copenhagen (born 1741) 7 December – Frederick, Hereditary Prince of Denmark (born 1753) 39 December Hans Severin Holten, zoological writer and Geheimrat, (born 1770)
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