Events from the year 1755 in Denmark.
Incumbents Monarch – Frederick V Prime minister – Johan Ludvig Holstein-Ledreborg
Events 24 November – The company now known as Iver C. Weilbach & Co. A/S is founded when flag, sail and compass maker Iver Jensen Borger sets up his own maritime supplier business in Copenhagen
Undated
Culture Births
5 February – Caroline Müller, operatic mezzo-soprano, actress and dancer (died 1826) 3 March – Cathrine Marie Gielstrup, stage actress (died 1792) 1 April – Ernst Frederik Walterstorff, colonial administrator (died 1820 in France) 27 June – Niels Ditlev Riegels, historian, journalist and pamphleteer (died 1802) 19 September – David Amsel Meyer, businessman and financial advisor (died 1813) 17 October - Envold de Falsen, lawyer, poet, actor and statesman (died 1808). 13 November – Andreas Hallander, builder and architect (died 1828) 16 November – Joachim-Daniel Preisler, actor (died 1809)
Full date missing August – Salomon Ahron Jacobson, medallist, sculptor, engraver (died 1830)
Deaths
2 January – Michael Christian Ludvig Ferdinand Tønder, naval officer (born 1692 in Norway) 5 February – Gideon von der Lühe, county governor (born 1704) 12 February – Frederik Fabritius, goldsmith (born 1683) 28 February – Johannes Erasmus Iversen, composer (born 1713) 2 April Christian Siegfried Scheel von Plessen, army officer, county governor and landowner (born 1716) 21 September – Johan Cornelius Krieger, architect (born 1683)
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