1742 in Denmark

Events from the year 1742 in Denmark.

Incumbents

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

Events

• 13 November– The Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters is founded as a historical Collegium Antiquitatum. It was founded by secretary of state, Count Johan Ludvig Holstein and the history professor Hans Gram.

Undated

Births

JanuaryMarch

• 5 February Frederik Christian Willerup, sculptor (died 1819)
• 16 February – Niels Lunde Reiersen, government official businessman (died 1795)

AprilJune

• 12 April – Søren Gyldendal, bookstore owner, publisher (died 1802)
• 14 June Jens Bruun de Neergaard, judge and landowner (died 1788)

JulySeptember

• 5 July Henrik Gerner, naval officer and shipbuilder (died 1787)
• 9 August – Johan Christian Schønheyder, bishop (died 1803)
• 19 August Andreas Collstrop, timber merchant and one of Copenhagen's 32 Men (died 1820)

OctoberDecember

• 7 October – Johan Zoëga, entomologist and botanist (died 1788)

Deaths

• 26 February Knud Nielsen Benstrup, (born 1692)
• 22 September – Frederic Louis Norden, naval captain and explorer (born 1708)
• 31 December Christian Hans von Warnstedt, county governor (born 1675)

References