1788 in Denmark

Events from the year 1788 in Denmark.

Incumbents

• Monarch – Christian VII
• Prime minister – Andreas Peter Bernstorff

Events

September

• 24 September – The Theater War begins, when Denmark-Norway launches an attack on Sweden at Bohuslän as a diversion to support Russia, an ally of Denmark-Norway, who had in turn been attacked by Sweden in Gustav III's Russian War.

October

• 28 October Lorentz Petersen's wine company is founded in Copenhagen.

Undated

• Eriksholm Manor is completed to designs by Caspar Frederik Harsdorff.

Births

• 18 February - Princess Juliane Sophie of Denmark, princess of Denmark (died 1850)
• 26 July Ole Bang, medical doctor (died 1877)
• 27 August Frederik von Lowzow, civil servant and judge (died 1859)
• 3 September
• Hans Puggaard, businessman (born 1866)
• Henrik Gamst, businessman, politician and landowner (died 1751)
• 28 September - Gustav Friedrich Hetsch, architect (died 1864)
• 29 December – Christian Jürgensen Thomsen, archaeologist and arts administrator (died 1865)
• undated - Anna Salmberg, educator (died 1868)

Deaths

• 22 February Hans Christopher Hersleb, burgermaster of Copenhagen (born 1722))
• 22 April Jens Bruun de Neergaard, judge and landowner (born 1742)
• 17 May – Dorothea Biehl, playwright, translator (born 1731)
• 21 June Mathias Lunding, mayor of Copenhagen and director of the Danish Asiatic Company (born 1728)

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