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1775 in Denmark
Events from the year
1775 in
Denmark
.
Incumbents
Monarch –
Christian VII
Prime minister –
Ove Høegh-Guldberg
Events
1 May – The
Royal Danish Porcelain Factory
is founded by the chemist
Frantz Heinrich Müller
, who is given a 50-year monopoly to create porcelain in Denmark, and begins operations in a converted post office.
Undated
Bygholm Manor
is completed near
Horsens
.
Vincenzo Galeotti
succeeds Vincenzo Piatolli as artistic director of the
Royal Danish Ballet
.
Nicolai Abildgaard
completes
The Wounded Philoctetes
.
Births
JanuaryJune
16 March
Martin Lehmann
, engraver (died 1856)
27 March –
Nicolai Abraham Holten
, banker and civil servant (died
1850
)
22 June
Ulrich Anton Schønheyder
, naval officer (died
1858
)
JulyDecember
2 July
Joachim Melchior Magens
, colonial administrator and lawyer (died
1845
)
12 August
Conrad Malte-Brun
m, geographer and journalist (died
1826
)
17 August
Johannes Rehling
, colonial administrator /died
1841
)
17 September –
Margrethe Schall
, dancer (died
1852
)
9 October –
Peter Thonning
, physician and botanist (died
1848
)
19 October –
Kamma Rahbek
, salonist and lady of letters (died
1829
)
1 November
Christian Adolph Diriks
, lawyer (died
1837
)
8 November âÂÂ
Jacob Peter Mynster
, theologian and bishop (died
1854
)
19 December
Hermann Christian Müffelmann
, businessman (died
1848
)
Deaths
30 March –
Christian Ditlev Reventlow
, Privy Councillor and nobleman (born
1710
)
10 April –
Jonas Haas
, engraver (born
1720
)
15 June –
Joost van Hemert
, merchant and ship-owner (born
1696
)
16 August –
Jakob Langebek
, historian (born
1710
)
16 October –
Peter van Hurk
, businessman (born
1697
)
25 November –
Jacob Benzon
, nobleman, civil servant and Governor-general of Norway (born
1688
)
References