1721 in Denmark

Events from the year 1721 in Denmark.

Incumbents

• Monarch – Frederick IV
• Grand Chancellor – Christian Christophersen Sehested, Ulrik Adolf Holstein

Events

March

• 15 March Wueen Louise dies in Copenhagen and is buried in Roskilde Cathedral.
• 28 March Frederick IV issues a set of instructions to the church inspector, county governor, pastor and schoolmaster regarding the establishment of Frederick IV's Royal Schools (aka cavalry schools).

April

• 3 April The funeral of Queen Louise takes place at Roskilde Cathedral.
• 4 April Frederick IV marries Anne Sophie Reventlow a second time. This time, the wedding is formal and conducted with grand ceremony. It is still considered a scandal by Danish nobility and foreign diplomats alike.

August

• 7 August The wedding of Crown Prince Christian and Sophie Magdalene of Brandenburg-Kulmbach takes place at Pretzsch Castle in Saxony.

Undated

• The French theater company of the royal court, La troupe du Roi de Danemark is dissolved.

Births

• 1 January Jens Michelsen Beck, surveyor, cartographer, landowner and planter (died 1791)
• 11 January Anna Magdalena Godiche, publisher (died 1781)
• 6 April Frederick Christian I, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Augustenburg, duke (died 1804)

Deaths

• 15 March – Louise of Mecklenburg-Güstrow, Queen consort of Denmark (born 1667 in Germany)
• 7 November Jobst von Scholten, military officer and engineer (born 1647 in the Netherlands)

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