1780 in Denmark

Events from the year 1780 in Denmark.

Incumbents

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

Events

• August - Denmark-Norway joins the First League of Armed Neutrality.

Births

• 17 July Herman Gerhard Treschow, county governor (died 1836)
• 3 September Heinrich Christian Schumacher, astronomer (died 1850)
• 16 November Peter Oluf Brøndsted, archaeologist (died 1842)

Deaths

• 18 July Gerhard Schøning, archivist (born 1722 in Norway)
• 4 September Christian Leberecht von Prøck, Governor-General of the Danish West Indies (born 1718)

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