1776 in Denmark

Events from the year 1776 in Denmark.

Incumbents

• Monarch – Christian VII
• Prime minister – Ove Høegh-Guldberg

Events

• 15 January – The Danish Citizenship Act of 1776 reserves state offices for Danish, Norwegian and Holstein citizens.
• 22 November – Frederik Bargum's revived Danish West India Company is liquidated.

Undated

• HDMS Indfødsretten is launched at the Royal Danish Dockyard in Copenhagen.
• Roskildevej is constructed across Frederiksberg Hill as a direct continuation of Vesterbrogade, with the effect that it passes Valby by to the detriment of the inn and other businesses.
• The King's Club is founded in Copenhagen.

Births

January–March

• 6 January – Jonas Collin, philanthropist (died 1861)
• 20 February – Niels Bang, landowner (died 1815)
• 29 May – Peter Erasmus Müller, bishop (died 1834)

July–September

• 5 August – Urban Jürgensen, clockmaker (died 1830)
• 12 August – Henriette Danneskiold-Samsøe, landowner and businesswoman (died 1843)
• 14 August – Prince Christian of Hesse, prince (died 1814)
• 27 August – Barthold Georg Niebuhr, Danish-German politician and banker (died 1831)
• 8 September – Heinrich Meldahl, architect and industrialist (died 1840)

October–December

• 22 October – Johan Caspar Mylius, military officer and landowner (died 1852)

Deaths

January–March

• 26 February – Eggert Christopher Knuth, landowner, Supreme Court justice and county governor (died 1722)

April–June

• 9 April – Severin Leopoldus Løvenskiold, landowner (born 1719 in Norway)
• 17 April – Ludvig Ferdinand Rømer, businessman (born 1714)
• 22 April – Johann Adolf Scheibe, composer (born 1708)
• 30 April – Jens Krag-Juel-Vind, Supreme Court justice and landowner (died 1724)

July–September

• 4 June – Johann Gottfried Rosenberg architect (born 1709)
• 8 July – Peder Als, painter (born 1725)
• 15 September – Christian Horrebow, astronomer (born 1718)

October–December

• 8 October – Margrethe Marie Thomasine Numsen, courtier (born 1705)
• 9 October – Christian Jacobsen Drakenberg, sailor and hustler (born in Norway)
• 23 Bivember – Gustav Frederik Holck-Winterfeldt, landowner and government official (born 1733)

Publications

• Otto Friedrich Müller: Zoologiae Danicae prodromus

References