1778 in Denmark

Events from the year 1778 in Denmark.

Incumbents

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

Events

 * 4 September – Conrad Alexander Fabritius (1731–1805) and Michael Fabritius (1739–1815), as well as all legitimate children of their then-deceased father Michael Fabritius (1697-1746), are ennobled by letters patent under the name Fabritius de Tengnagel.

Theatre

 * Johannes Ewald's opera The Death of Valder (written 1663) is performed for the first time.

Births

 * 1 March – Peter Christian Uldahl, piano maker (died 1820)
 * 20 April – Bendix Frantz Ludwig Schow, mayor (died 1839)
 * 21 December – Anders Sandøe Ørsted, jurist and politician, Prime Minister of Denmark (died 1860)

Deaths

 * 5 March – Hans Diderik Brinck-Seidelin, Supreme Court justice and landowner (born 1720)
 * 8 March – Jean Henri Desmercières, businessman (born 1687)
 * 8 October – Margrethe Marie Thomasine Numsen, court official (born 1705)