1760 in Denmark

Events from the year 1760 in Denmark.

Incumbents

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

Events

• 7 March HDMS Amack and HDMS Falster are launched at Nyholm in Copenhagen.

Undated

• Rinderpest epidemic and the beginning of the rinderpest eradication.

Births

• 19 January – Marie Kofoed, businessperson and philanthropist (d. 1838)
• 11 February – Juliane Marie Jessen, author and translator (d. 1832)
• 20 March – Joseph Christian Lillie, architect and interior designer (died 1827)
• 25 April – Mette Marie Astrup, actress (died 1834)
• 5 May – Søren Læssøe Lange, painter and illustrator (died 1828)
• 29 September – Jens Jensen Berg, sea captain and businessman (died 1813)
• 6 November Peter Ulrich Frederik Benzon, county governor and landowner (died 1840)
• 30 November – Catharine Frydendahl, opera singer (d. 1831)
• 18 December – Knud Lyne Rahbek, literary historian, critic, writer, poet, magazine editor and art administrator (died 1830)

Deaths

• 28 September Anna Sophie Schack, noblewoman and landlord (born 1689)

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