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

• 25 August – The ship of the line HDMS Frederik den Sjette is launched at Nyholm.

Undated edit

January–March edit

• 28 January – Frederik Georg Emil Rostrup, botanist (died 1907)
• 15 February – Anton Dorph, painter (died 1914)
• 10 March – Johan Vilhelm Gertner, player (died 1871)

July–September edit

• 27 July – Frits Holm, journalist, author and adventurer (died 1930 in the United States)
• 6 August – Henning Frederik Feilberg, pastor, author and folklorist (died 1921)

January–March edit

• 9 February – Ernst Heinrich von Schimmelmann, politician, businessman and patron of the arts (born 1747)

April–June edit

• 21 April – Johann Georg Preisler, engraver (born 1757)
• 9 June – Johan Martin Schønheyder, Supreme Court attorney (born 1752)^[2]
• 17 June – Jens Friedenreich Hage, merchant and landowner (born 1752)

July–September edit

• 15 September – Christian David Gebauer, painter (born 1777)

October–December edit

• 5 November – Johan Frederik Clemens, engraver (born 1752)
• 30 November – Catharine Frydendahl, opera singer (born 1760)