Events from the year 1740 in Denmark.
Incumbents Monarch – Christian VI Prime minister – Johan Ludvig Holstein-Ledreborg
Events The watchmaking company Jules Jurgensen is established.
Births
12 October Thomas Bugge, astronomer and surveyor (died 1815) 21 November – Charlotte Baden, writer (died 1824)
Undated Carl Adolph Castenschiold, landowner and chamberlain, born in the Danish West Indies (died 1820) Hedevig Johanne Bagger, businesswoman (died 1822) Jürgen Jurgensen's clockmaking company is founded.
Deaths
19 January – Hans Seidelin, civil servant and landowner (born 1665) 27 February – Poul Vendelbo Løvenørn, Secretary of War and Minister of the Navy (born 1686) 19 July – Christian Christophersen Sehested, nobleman (born 1666)
Undated
Poul Christian Schindler, composer (born c. 1648)
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