1722 in Denmark

Events from the year 1722 in Denmark.

Incumbents

• Monarch – Frederick IV
• Grand Chancellor – Ulrik Adolf Holstein

Events

• 27 November – A consortium is granted royal permission to establish Store Kongensgade Faience Manufactury in Copenhagen.

'Undated

• Store Kongensgade Faience Manufactury opens in Copenhagen with a monopoly on production of faience with blue decorations.
• The Lille Grønnegade Theatre in Copenhagen, the first public theater in Denmark, is opened.
• Johan Pistorius is executed on Nytorv in Copenhagen and is the last person to be legally executed for witchcraft in Denmark.
• HDMS Dronning Anna Sophia is launched at Nyholm in Copenhagen.

Births

• 11 June Hans Christopher Hersleb, burgermaster of Copenhagen (died 1788))
• 2 September – Vigilius Eriksen, painter (died 1782)
• 20 October Eggert Christopher Knuth, landowner, Supreme Court justice and county governor (died 1776)

Fill date missing

• Lars Dalager, businessman /died 1772)

Deaths

• 18 July Gerhard Schøning, historian (born 1722 in Norway)
• 7 September Carl von Ahlefeldt, statesman (born 1670)
• 22 November Benoît Le Coffre, painter (born 1781)
• 22 December Johan Bertram Ernst, chief of police in Copenhagen (born 173)

Undated

• Benoît Le Coffre, painter to the Danish Court (born 1671)
• Dorte Jensdatter, murdered on accusations of witchcraft (born 1672)
• Johan Pistorius, grenadier and alleged witch

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