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1742 in Denmark

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Events from the year 1742 in Denmark.

Incumbents

  • Monarch – Christian VI
  • Prime minister – Johan Ludvig Holstein-Ledreborg

Events

  • 13 November– The Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters is founded as a historical Collegium Antiquitatum. It was founded by secretary of state, Count Johan Ludvig Holstein and the history professor Hans Gram.

Undated

Births

January{{ndash}}March

  • 5 February Frederik Christian Willerup, sculptor (died 1819)
  • 16 February – Niels Lunde Reiersen, government official businessman (died 1795)

April{{ndash}}June

  • 12 April – Søren Gyldendal, bookstore owner, publisher (died 1802)
  • 14 June Jens Bruun de Neergaard, judge and landowner (died 1788)

July{{ndash}}September

  • 5 July Henrik Gerner, naval officer and shipbuilder (died 1787)
  • 9 August – Johan Christian Schønheyder, bishop (died 1803)
  • 19 August Andreas Collstrop, timber merchant and one of Copenhagen's 32 Men (died 1820)

October{{ndash}}December

  • 7 October – Johan Zoëga, entomologist and botanist (died 1788)

Deaths

  • 22 September – Frederic Louis Norden, naval captain and explorer (born 1708)
  • 31 December Christian Hans von Warnstedt, county governor (born 1675)

References

References

  1. "Christian VI {{!}} Scandinavian king".
  2. "Dantes Plads: Det Kongelige Danske Videnskabernes Selskab". University of Copenhagen.
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