26 March â It is reported that it is possible to walk across the ice from Helsingør to Scania.
May
2 May â 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 â Lauritz Holmblad, businessman (died 1826)