1755 in Denmark

Events from the year 1755 in Denmark.

Incumbents

• Monarch – Frederick V
• Prime minister – Johan Ludvig Holstein-Ledreborg

Events

• 24 November – The company now known as Iver C. Weilbach & Co. A/S is founded when flag, sail and compass maker Iver Jensen Borger sets up his own maritime supplier business in Copenhagen

Undated

Culture

Births

• 5 February – Caroline Müller, operatic mezzo-soprano, actress and dancer (died 1826)
• 3 March – Cathrine Marie Gielstrup, stage actress (died 1792)
• 1 April – Ernst Frederik Walterstorff, colonial administrator (died 1820 in France)
• 27 June – Niels Ditlev Riegels, historian, journalist and pamphleteer (died 1802)
• 19 September – David Amsel Meyer, businessman and financial advisor (died 1813)
• 17 October - Envold de Falsen, lawyer, poet, actor and statesman (died 1808).
• 13 November – Andreas Hallander, builder and architect (died 1828)
• 16 November – Joachim-Daniel Preisler, actor (died 1809)

Full date missing

• August – Salomon Ahron Jacobson, medallist, sculptor, engraver (died 1830)

Deaths

• 2 January – , naval officer (born 1692 in Norway)
• 5 February – Gideon von der Lühe, county governor (born 1704)
• 12 February – Frederik Fabritius, goldsmith (born 1683)
• 28 February – Johannes Erasmus Iversen, composer (born 1713)
• 21 September – Johan Cornelius Krieger, architect (born 1683)

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