Events from the year 1796 in Denmark.

Incumbents Monarch – Christian VII Prime minister – Andreas Peter Bernstorff

Events 13 October – Hansen's Konditori

Births 5 January Laurentius Johannes Cramer, businessman (bprn 1748) 14 February – Poul Pagh, merchant and shipowner (died 1870) 8 April – Frederik von Scholten, naval officer and painter (died 1853) 28 June – Caroline Amalie of Augustenburg, Queen of Denmark (died 1881) 29 July – Christian Winther, lyric poet (died 1876) 3 August Johan Ferdinand de Neergaard, county govvernor and landowner (died 1849) 7 August Barthold Georg Niebuhr, statesman, banker and historian (died 183 1in Prussia)

Deaths 12 April – William Halling, landowner (born 1744) 10 October – Queen Juliana Maria, Queen of Denmark (born 1729) 25 October Frederik Michael Krabbe, naval officer and master shipbuilder (born 1725)

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