1770 in Denmark

Events from the year 1770 in Denmark.

Incumbents

• Monarch – Christian VII
• Prime minister – Count Johann Hartwig Ernst von Bernstorff (until 13 September), Johann Friedrich Struensee

Events

MMarch

• 26 March – It is reported that it is possible to walk across the ice from Helsingør to Scania.

May

• 2 May – A Royal Danish Navy fleet bound for Algiers departs from Copenhagen to bomb the city in response to the recurrent pirate attacks in the Mediterranean Sea.

Undated

Births

JanuaryMarch

• 26 January – Lauritz Holmblad, businessman (died 1826)
• 2 March – Johan Ernst Hartmann, organist and composer (died 1844)
• 6 March Jens Wilken Hornemann, botanist (died 1841)

JulySeptember

• 11 July Hans Severin Holten, zoological writer and Geheimrat, (died 1805)
• 20 July – Hans Munk, physician (died 1848)
• 16 August – Westye Egeberg, businessman (died 1830 in Norway)
• 29 September – Jacob Holm, industrialist, ship owner and ship builder (died 1845)

OctoberDecember

• 2 September – Christian Cornelius Lerche, landowner and county governor (died 1852)
• 18 September – Frederik Hoppe, landowner (died 1837)
• 7 November Margaret Hartman Markoe Bache, editor (died 1838 in the United States)
• 8 November – Margaret Hartman Markoe Bache, Philadelphia-based printer and editor (died 1836 in the United States)
• 11 November – Christopher Schøller Bülow, landowner and county governor (died 1830 in Germany)
• 19 November – Bertel Thorvaldsen, sculptor (died 1844)

Deaths

• 27 May – Queen Sophia Magdalene, queen of Denmark (born 1700)
• 18 July Frederik Danneskiold-Samsøe, admiral, government minister and landowner (born 1703)
• 23 September – Utilia Lenkiewitz, actress (born 1711)
• 11 October Princess Charlotte Amalie Wilhelmine of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Plön /born 1744 in Germany)

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