1767 in Denmark

Events occurred in 1767 in Denmark.

Incumbents

• Monarch – Christian VII
• Prime minister – Count Johann Hartwig Ernst von Bernstorff

Events

January

• 2 January The newspaper Aalborg Stiftstidende is published for the first time in Aalborg.

May

• 1 May Anointing of Christian VII and Queen Caroline Mathilde at Christiansborg Palace.

Unated

• Nykøbing Castle is sold at auction and demolished. The bricks were used to build numerous estates and rectories in different parts of Falster. All that remains of the castle is a stump of wall from the Medieval prison tower known as Fars Hat (Father's Hat).
• Carsten Niebuhr returns to Copenhagen as the only surviving member of the Danish Arabia expedition.

Births

JanuaryMarch

• 9 February – Gottfried Becker, pharmacist and industrialist (died 1845)
• 10 February Harboe Meulengracht, businessman (died 1853)

OctoberDecember

• 28 October Iver Qvistgaard, civil servant, landowner and mayor (died 1829)
• 27 December Peter Leonhard Gianelli, medallist (died 1807)
• 28 October Iver Qvistgaard, landowner and mayor (died 1829)
• 31 October Amalie Münster, writer (died 1814)
• 8 December Carl Adolph Rothe, naval officer and colonial administrator (died 1834)

Full date missing

• Peter Collett (writer), judge (died 1823)

Deaths

• 24 June – Johan Henrik Freithoff, violinist and composer (born 1713).
• 8 August – Oluf Blach, merchant and ship-owner (born 1694)
• 22 January , naval officer (born 1692)
• 1 September – Carl Juel, statesman, councillor, and diocesan governor (born 1706)

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