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1776 in Denmark

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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

  • 6 January – Jonas Collin, philanthropist (died 1861)
  • 20 February Niels Bang, landowner (died 1815)
  • 29 May – Peter Erasmus Müller, bishop (died 1834)
  • 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)
  • 22 October – Johan Caspar Mylius, military officer and landowner (died 1852)

Deaths

  • 26 February Eggert Christopher Knuth, landowner, Supreme Court justice and county governor (died 1722)
  • 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)
  • 4 June – Johann Gottfried Rosenberg architect (born 1709)
  • 8 July – Peder Als, painter (born 1725)
  • 15 September – Christian Horrebow, astronomer (born 1718)
  • 8 October Margrethe Marie Thomasine Numsenm courtier (born 1705)

Publications

References

References

  1. "Christian VII {{!}} Scandinavian king".
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