1722 in Denmark

Events from the year 1722 in Denmark.

Incumbents

 * Monarch – Frederick IV
 * Grand Chancellor – Ulrik Adolf Holstein

Events
Undated
 * 27 November – A consortium is granted royal permission to establish Store Kongensgade Faience Manufactury in Copenhagen.
 * Store Kongensgade Faience Manufactury opens in Copenhagen with a monopoly on production of faience with blue decorations.
 * The Lille Grønnegade Theatre in Copenhagen, the first public theater in Denmark, is opened.
 * Johan Pistorius is executed in Copenhagen and is the last person to be legally executed for witchcraft in Denmark.

Births

 * 2 September – Vigilius Eriksen, painter (died 1782)
 * 20 October – Eggert Christopher Knuth, landowner, Supreme Court justice and county governor (died 1776)

Deaths
Undated
 * Benoît Le Coffre, painter to the Danish Court (born 1671)
 * Dorte Jensdatter, murdered on accusations of witchcraft (born 1672)
 * Johan Pistorius, grenadier and alleged witch