{{short description|none}} <!-- "none" is preferred when the title is sufficiently descriptive --> {{Use dmy dates|date=February 2022}} {{Year in Denmark|1791}} Events from the year '''1791 in Denmark'''.

==Incumbents== * Monarch – Christian VII<ref>{{cite web |title=Christian VII {{!}} Scandinavian king |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Christian-VII |website=Encyclopedia Britannica |access-date=19 September 2019 |language=en}}</ref> * Prime minister – Andreas Peter Bernstorff

==Events== * 10 September – {{HDMS|Lougen|1791|6}}, 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''

<gallery mode=packed heights=200px> File:Jens Juel 003.jpg|Juel:''The Artist and his Wife Rosine, née Dørschel''

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==Births== * 9 March {{ndash}} 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 {{ndash}} Johan LudvigHeiberg, poet (died 1860) * 17 December – Birgitte Andersen, stage actor and ballet dancer (died 1875)

==Deaths== [[File:Jens Michelsen Beck.jpg|thumb|120px|Jens Michelsen Beck.]] * 2 July – Søren Abildgaard, naturalist, writer and illustrator (born 1718) * 13 July {{ndash}} Ole Stephansen, naval officer (born 1714) * 29 May {{ndash}} Jens Michelsen Beck, surveyor, cartographer, landowner and planter (born 1721) * 25 November – Magnus Theiste, government official (born 1725)

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