Events from the year 1764 in Denmark.
Incumbents Monarch – Frederick V Prime minister – Count Johann Hartwig Ernst von Bernstorff
Events 12 April – HDMS Prindsesse Wilhelmine Carolina is launched at Nyholm in Copenhagen.
Undated
Births
January–March 15 February – Jens Immanuel Baggesen, poet 1826) 17 February – Frantz Hohlenberg, naval officer (died 1804) 20 February – {Gebhard Moltke, civil servant (died 1854)
April–June 14 April – Poul Christian Stemann, government official and landowner (died 1855) 20 April – Rasmus Langeland Bagger, chief of police, burgermaster (died 1819)
July–September 27 July – Christiane Koren, poet and diarist (died 1815 in Norway) 10 July Carl Wilhelm Jessen, naval officer (died 1823) Johan Daniel Herholdt, physician (died 1836) 26 July – Frederik Adeler, lord president of Copenhagen (died 1816) 22 August – Mathias Sommerhielm, politician (died 1827)
Deaths
January–March 15 January – Wilhelm August von der Osten, civil servant (born 1697) 2 February – Erik Torm, burgermaster and chief of police in Copenhagen (born 1684)
April–June 15 April – Peder Horrebow, astronomer (born 1679) 3 June - Hans Adolph Brorson, bishop and hymn writer (born 1694) 5 June – Jens Schielderup Sneedorff, author, professor of political science and royal teacher (born 1724)
July–September 23 August – Johanna Marie Fosie, first professional female Danish painter (born 1726)
October–December 20 December – Erik Pontoppidan, author, bishop, historian and antiquary (born 1698)
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