1711 in Denmark

Events from the year 1711 in Denmark.

Incumbents

 * Monarch – Frederick IV
 * Grand Chancellor – Christian Christophersen Sehested

Events

 * January – An outbreak of plaque his Helsingør.
 * May 25 – Helsingør is put under military blockade to prevent an outbreak of plague from spreading to Copenhagen. A total of 1,809, about one third of Helsingør's population, are killed by the disease in 1711. The efforts to keep the disease from spreading fail and a total of 40,000 people in Copenhagen and northern Zealand are killed by the disease during the outbreak. The blockade of Helsingør is not lifted until 25 July 1712.

Undated

 * The short-lived County of Friderichsholm is established by Frederick IV for his mistress Charlotte Helene von Schindel from the manors of Næsbyholm and  Bavelse but dissolved again in 1716.

Births

 * 7 April – Daniel Ernst Bille, naval officer (died 1790)
 * November – Marcus Fredrik Bang, bishop (died 1789)

Date unknown

 * Frederik Barfred, wine merchant (died 1794)
 * Utilia Lenkiewitz, actress (died 1770)

Deaths

 * 17 May – Johann Gottfried Becker, pharmacist (born 1639)

Date unknown

 * Cille Gad, poet and culture personality (born 1675)