1761 in Denmark

Events from the year 1761 in Denmark.

Incumbents

 * Monarch – Frederick V
 * Prime minister – Johan Ludvig Holstein-Ledreborg

Events

 * 4 January – The Danish Arabia Expedition departs from Copenhagen.
 * 13 January – The Fire Insurance for All Danish Market Towns is instituted by law.

Undated

 * Georg Christian Oeder begins the publication of Flora Danica
 * Johan Jacob Bruun begins the publication of his Novus Atlas Daniæ

Births

 * 22 January – Georg Nikolaus von Nissen, diplomat and music historian (died 1826)
 * 15 October – Peter Grønland, composer (died 1825)

Undated

 * Edmund Bourke, diplomat (died 1821)
 * Marie Cathrine Preisler, stage actress (died 1797)

Deaths

 * February 17 &mdash; Simon Carl Stanley, sculptor (born 1703)
 * July 16 - Jacob Fortling, sculptor, architect and industrialist (born 1711)
 * Princess Dorothea of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Beck