1776 in Denmark

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 1776)
 * 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

 * Otto Friedrich Müller: Zoologiae Danicae prodromus