1728 in Denmark

Events from the year 1728 in Denmark.

Incumbents

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

Events

• 14 July – Vitus Bering begins his first exploration aboard the ship Gabriel and sailed northward from the Kamchatka Peninsula and through the strait that now bears his name.
• 20 October – The Copenhagen Fire of 1728 breaks out.
• 23 October – The fire in Copenhagen finally dies out after destroying approximately 28% of the city and leaving 20% of its population homeless.

Undated

• The Lille Grønnegade Theatre in Copenhagen, the first public theater in Denmark, is closed.
• A new town hall is built in Viborg next to Viborg Cathedral. The building now houses the Skovgaard Museum

Births

• 26 June – Frederik Christian von Haven, philologist, theologian and patron of the arts (died 1763)
• 21 June Mathias Lunding, mayor of Copenhagen and director of the Danish Asiatic Company (died 1788)
• 29 July Hermann Abbestée, governor of Danish India (died 1794)
• 18 October – Peter Frederik Suhm, historian (died 1798)
• 7 November Christian Hansen, bisonessman (died 1810)

Deaths

• 3 February Laurence de Boysset, military officer and landowner (born c. 1733 in France)
• 24 September – Frederik Krag, noble, civil servant (born 1655)

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