Events from the year 1791 in Denmark.
Incumbents Monarch – Christian VII Prime minister – Andreas Peter Bernstorff
Events 10 September – , a brig of 18 guns, is launched from the shipyard at Nyholm in Copenhagen.
Undated Døtreskolen af 1791 is founded.
Culture Art Jens Juel paints The Artist and his Wife Rosine, née Dørschel
Births 9 March Nicolai Jonathan Meinert, businessman (died 1877) 5 April – Christian Tuxen Falbe, naval officer and explorer (died 1849) 19 June – Henriette Jørgensen, actor (died 1847) 14 December Johan LudvigHeiberg, poet (died 1860) 17 December – Birgitte Andersen, stage actor and ballet dancer (died 1875)
Deaths
2 July – Søren Abildgaard, naturalist, writer and illustrator (born 1718) 13 July Ole Stephansen, naval officer (born 1714) 29 May Jens Michelsen Beck, surveyor, cartographer, landowner and planter (born 1721) 25 November – Magnus Theiste, government official (born 1725)
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