Events from the year 1761 in Denmark.
Incumbents Monarch – Frederick V Prime minister – Johan Ludvig Holstein-Ledreborg
Events 4 January – The Danish Arabia Expedition departs from Copenhagen. 13 January – The Fire Insurance for All Danish Market Towns is instituted by law.
Undated Georg Christian Oeder begins the publication of Flora Danica Johan Jacob Bruun begins the publication of his Novus Atlas Daniæ
Births
22 January Georg Nikolaus von Nissen, diplomat and music historian (died 1826) 27 June Jens Bloch, theologian and bishop (died 1830) 15 October – Peter Grønland, composer (died 1825) 2 November Edmund Burke, diplomat (died 1821 in France) 20 November Carl Conrad Gustav Knuth, landowner (died 1815)
Full date missing Edmund Bourke, diplomat (died 1821) Lars Lassen, landowner (died 1823) Marie Cathrine Preisler, stage actress (died 1797)
Deaths February 17 — Simon Carl Stanley, sculptor (born 1703) July 16 - Jacob Fortling, sculptor, architect and industrialist (born 1711) Princess Dorothea of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Beck 7 December Olfert Fas Fischer, naval offborn (died 1700)
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