1740 in Denmark

Events from the year 1740 in Denmark.

Incumbents

• Monarch – Christian VI
• Prime minister – Johan Ludvig Holstein-Ledreborg

Events

• The watchmaking company Jules Jurgensen is established.

Births

• 12 October Thomas Bugge, astronomer and surveyor (died 1815)
• 21 November – Charlotte Baden, writer (died 1824)

Undated

• Carl Adolph Castenschiold, landowner and chamberlain, born in the Danish West Indies (died 1820)
• Hedevig Johanne Bagger, businesswoman (died 1822)
• Jürgen Jurgensen's clockmaking company is founded.

Deaths

• 19 January – Hans Seidelin, civil servant and landowner (born 1665)
• 27 February – Poul Vendelbo Løvenørn, Secretary of War and Minister of the Navy (born 1686)
• 19 July – Christian Christophersen Sehested, nobleman (born 1666)

Undated

• Poul Christian Schindler, composer (born c. 1648)

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