1788 in Denmark

Events from the year 1788 in Denmark.

Incumbents

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

Events

 * 24 September – The Theater War begins, when Denmark-Norway launches an attack on Sweden at Bohuslän as a diversion to support Russia, an ally of Denmark-Norway, who had in turn been attacked by Sweden in Gustav III's Russian War.
 * 28 October – Lorentz Petersen's wine company is founded in Copenhagen.

Undated

 * Eriksholm Manor is completed to designs by Caspar Frederik Harsdorff.

Births

 * 18 February - Princess Juliane Sophie of Denmark, princess of Denmark (died 1850)
 * 26 July – Ole Bang, medical doctor (died 1877)
 * 27 August – Frederik von Lowzow, civil servant and judge (died 1859)
 * 28 September - Gustav Friedrich Hetsch, architect (died 1864)
 * 29 December – Christian Jürgensen Thomsen, archaeologist and arts administrator (died 1865)
 * undated - Anna Salmberg, educator (died 1868)

Deaths

 * 17 May – Dorothea Biehl, playwright, translator (born 1731)