Events from the year 1703 in Denmark.
Incumbents Monarch — Frederick IV Grand Chancellor — Conrad von Reventlow
Events April 14 April HDMS Elephanten is launched at the Royal Danish Dockyard in Copenhagen.
September 6 September Frederick VI is secretly married to Elisabeth Helene von Vieregg and thereby becomes guilty of bigamy.
Undated Frederick IV opens a new opera house in Copenhagen.
Births
1 September – Just Fabritius, businessman (died 1766) 29 September — Baltzer Fleischer, civil servant (died 1767) 1 October Frederik Danneskiold-Samsøe, admiral, government minister and landowner (died 1770) 13 October — Otto Thott, Count, minister of state and bibliophile (died 1785) 28 October Andreas Bjørn, businessman, shipbuilder and ship-owner (died 1750) 12 December — Simon Carl Stanley, sculptor (died 1761) 24 December – Christen Lindencrone, merchant and landowner (died 1772)
Deaths
16 July — Christian Gyldenløve, Christian V's son (born 1674) 14 October — Thomas Kingo, bishop, poet and hymn-writer (born 1634)
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