Events from the year 1775 in Denmark.
Incumbents Monarch – Christian VII Prime minister – Ove Høegh-Guldberg
Events 1 May – The Royal Danish Porcelain Factory is founded by the chemist Frantz Heinrich Müller, who is given a 50-year monopoly to create porcelain in Denmark, and begins operations in a converted post office.
Undated Bygholm Manor is completed near Horsens. Vincenzo Galeotti succeeds Vincenzo Piatolli as artistic director of the Royal Danish Ballet. Nicolai Abildgaard completes The Wounded Philoctetes.
Births
JanuaryJune 16 March Martin Lehmann, engraver (died 1856) 27 March – Nicolai Abraham Holten, banker and civil servant (died 1850) 22 June Ulrich Anton Schønheyder, naval officer (died 1858)
JulyDecember 2 July Joachim Melchior Magens, colonial administrator and lawyer (died 1845) 12 August Conrad Malte-Brunm, geographer and journalist (died 1826) 17 August Johannes Rehling, colonial administrator /died 1841) 17 September – Margrethe Schall, dancer (died 1852) 9 October – Peter Thonning, physician and botanist (died 1848) 19 October – Kamma Rahbek, salonist and lady of letters (died 1829) 1 November Christian Adolph Diriks, lawyer (died 1837) 8 November – Jacob Peter Mynster, theologian and bishop (died 1854) 19 December Hermann Christian Müffelmann, businessman (died 1848)
Deaths
30 March – Christian Ditlev Reventlow, Privy Councillor and nobleman (born 1710) 10 April – Jonas Haas, engraver (born 1720) 15 June – Joost van Hemert, merchant and ship-owner (born 1696) 16 August – Jakob Langebek, historian (born 1710) 16 October – Peter van Hurk, businessman (born 1697) 25 November – Jacob Benzon, nobleman, civil servant and Governor-general of Norway (born 1688)
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