Incumbents

• Monarch – HM Christian VI
  Christian VI of Denmark
  Christian VI was King of Denmark and Norway from 1730 to 1746.He was the son of King Frederick IV of Denmark and Norway and Louise of Mecklenburg-Güstrow. He married Sophia Magdalen of Brandenburg-Kulmbach and fathered Frederick V.-The reign and personality of Christian VI:To posterity Christian...
  
  
• Prime minister – Johan Ludvig Holstein-Ledreborg

Births

• September 11 – Nikolaj Abraham Abildgaard
  Nikolaj Abraham Abildgaard
  Nikolaj Abraham Abildgaard , Danish artist, was born in Copenhagen, the son of Søren Abildgaard, an antiquarian draughtsman of repute, and Anne Margrethe Bastholm.- Training as an artist :...
  
  , painter (d. 1809
  1809 in Denmark
  -Incumbents:* Monarch – HM Frederick VI* Prime minister – Christian Günther von Bernstorff-Undated:* Christoph Ernst Friedrich Weyse, since 1805 organist at Church of Our Lady, has his debut at the Royal Danish Theatre with the singspiel Sovedrikken, and from that time on his romances...
  
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• October 2 or 14 – Erik Pauelsen
  Erik Pauelsen
  Erik Pauelsen was a Danish painter. He is most notable for his landscapes and was also a popular portraitist. However, he did not experience the same level of succes as Jens Juel and Nicolai Abildgaard, his contemporaries, and in 1790 he committed suicide.-Biography:Erik Pauelsen was born in...
  
  , painter (d. 1790
  1790 in Denmark
  -Incumbents:* Monarch – HM Christian VII* Prime minister – Andreas Peter Bernstorff-See also:...
  
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• November 29 – Joachim Melchior Holten Castenschiold
  Joachim Melchior Holten Castenschiold
  General Joachim Melchior Holten von Castenschiold was a Danish officer before and during the Napoleonic Wars. Acquiring Borreby Castle in 1783, he was the first Castenschiold to own the manor which has been held by the family ever since.-Biography:He was son of Johan Lorentz von Castenschiold of...
  
  , military officer (d. 1817
  1817 in Denmark
  -Incumbents:* Monarch – HM Frederick VI* Prime minister – Joachim Godske Moltke-Births:* February 22 – Niels Gade, composer * April 4 – P. C. Skovgaard, painter -Deaths:...
  
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Deaths

• January 7 – Anne Sophie Reventlow
  Anne Sophie Reventlow
  Anne Sophie Reventlow was a Danish noble, royal mistress, spouse by bigamy and, later, queen consort of Denmark and Norway 1721–30, the second spouse of king Frederick IV of Denmark and Norway....
  
  , royal mistress, spouse by bigamy, later queen consort (b. 1693)

See also