1785 in Denmark

Events from the year 1785 in Denmark.

Incumbents

 * Monarch – Christian VII
 * Prime minister – Andreas Peter Bernstorff

Events

 * 22 June – The Academy of Surgery is founded in Copenhagen, replacing the Theatrum Anatomico-chirurgicum from 1736.

Births

 * 16 January – Frederikke Løvenskiold, composer (died 1876)
 * 25 August – Adam Wilhelm Moltke, landowner and politician (died 1864)

Deaths

 * 28 May – Johan Peter Suhr, businessman (born 1712)
 * 10 September – Otto Thott, count, minister of state and bibliophile (born 1703)
 * 29 December – Johan Herman Wessel, poet (born 1742)