1756 in Denmark

Events from the year 1756 in Denmark.

Incumbents

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

Events

• 14 October – An Agreement of Friendship and Trade between Denmark-Norway and the Ottoman Empire is signed by King Frederick V and Sultan Osman III.

Births

• 9 February – Friderich Christian Hager, governor of the Danish Gold Coast (died 1795)
• 29 February – Christian Frederik Hansen, architect (died 1845)
• 1 March – Johan Frederik Schultz, printer and publisher (died 1817)
• 7 July Johan Cornelius Krieger, naval officer (died 1824)
• 21 August Michael Gottlieb Birckner, priest and philosopher (died 1798)
• 17 October – Isaac Abraham Euchel, author and founder of the "Haskalah movement" (died 1804)
• 26 November – Christian Jacob Theophilus de Meza, physician (died 1844)

• Hans Wassard, businessman and landowner (died 1839)
• Paul Erdmann Isert, surgeon, planter and letter writer (died 1790)

Deaths

• 2 May Michael Bille, admiral (born 1680)
• 6 May Caspar Martin Schøller, county governor (born 1681)
• 25 June , German military officer in Danish service (born 1684 in Germany)
• 12 August – Christiane Henriette Louise Juel, noblewoman and courtier (born 1706)
• , 16 October Ulrik Christian Nissen, government official (born 1691)

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