1777 in Denmark

Events from the year 1777 in Denmark.

Incumbents

 * Monarch – Christian VII
 * Prime minister – Ove Høegh-Guldberg

Events

 * 23 July – The brothers Jørgen Wichmand and Thomas Frederik Wichmand were ennobled by letters patent under the name Wichfeld.
 * 2 September – HD;S Justitia is launched at Orlogsværftet on Nyholm in Copenhagen.

Undated

 * The pioneer acting academy Det Dramatiske Selskab is founded.
 * Danish India is turned over to the government by the Danish Asiatic Company and becomes a Danish-Norwegian crown colony.
 * Peter Johansen establishes the shipyard Petersværft on his new Petersgaard estate.

Births

 * 21 February – Christian Wulff, naval officer (died 1843)
 * 9 May – Johannes Søbøtker, merchant, plantation owner and governor (died 1854)
 * 14 August - Hans Christian Ørsted, physicist and chemist, discoverer of electromagnetism (died 1851)
 * 15 October – Christian David Gebauer, painter (died 1831)
 * 16 October - Johan Ludwig Lund, painter (died 1867)
 * 27 October – Lauritz Nicolai Hvidt, businessman (died 1856)
 * 18 November – Thomas Blom, master mason and architect (died 1841)
 * 23 December – Johan Christian Drewsen, businessman and agronomist (died 1851)