1777 in Denmark

Events from the year 1777 in Denmark.

Incumbents

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

Events

• 23 July – The brothers Jørgen Wichmand and Thomas Frederik Wichmand were ennobled by letters patent under the name Wichfeld.
• 2 September HD;S Justitia is launched at Orlogsværftet on Nyholm in Copenhagen.

Undated

• The pioneer acting academy Det Dramatiske Selskab is founded.
• Danish India is turned over to the government by the Danish Asiatic Company and becomes a Danish-Norwegian crown colony.
• Peter Johansen establishes the shipyard Petersværft on his new Petersgaard estate.

Births

• 21 February Christian Wulff, naval officer (died 1843)
• 9 May – Johannes Søbøtker, merchant, plantation owner and governor (died 1854)
• 10 July Hans Vilhelm Cederfeld de Simonsen, landowner and government official (born 1836)
• 14 August - Hans Christian Ørsted, physicist and chemist, discoverer of electromagnetism (died 1851)
• 15 October Christian David Gebauer, painter (died 1831)
• 16 October - Johan Ludwig Lund, painter (died 1867)
• 27 October – Lauritz Nicolai Hvidt, businessman (died 1856)
• 18 November Thomas Blom, master mason and architect (died 1841)
• 23 December – Johan Christian Drewsen, businessman and agronomist (died 1851)

Deaths

• 14 November Bernt Jensen Mørch, ship captain (born 1729)

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