Events from the year 1776 in Denmark.
Incumbents Monarch – Christian VII Prime minister – Ove Høegh-Guldberg
Events
15 January – The Danish Citizenship Act of 1776 reserves state offices for Danish, Norwegian and Holstein citizens. 22 November – Frederik Bargum's revived Danish West India Company is liquidated.
Undated HDMS Indfødsretten is launched at the Royal Danish Dockyard in Copenhagen. Roskildevej is constructed across Frederiksberg Hill as a direct continuation of Vesterbrogade, with the effect that it passes Valby by to the detriment of the inn and other businesses. The King's Club is founded in Copenhagen.
Births
January–March 6 January – Jonas Collin, philanthropist (died 1861) 20 February – Niels Bang, landowner (died 1815) 29 May – Peter Erasmus Müller, bishop (died 1834)
July–September 5 August – Urban Jürgensen, clockmaker (died 1830) 12 August – Henriette Danneskiold-Samsøe, landowner and businesswoman (died 1843) 14 August – Prince Christian of Hesse, prince (died 1814) 27 August – Barthold Georg Niebuhr, Danish-German politician and banker (died 1831) 8 September – Heinrich Meldahl, architect and industrialist (died 1840)
October–December 22 October – Johan Caspar Mylius, military officer and landowner (died 1852)
Deaths
January–March 26 February – Eggert Christopher Knuth, landowner, Supreme Court justice and county governor (died 1722)
April–June 9 April – Severin Leopoldus Løvenskiold, landowner (born 1719 in Norway) 17 April – Ludvig Ferdinand Rømer, businessman (born 1714) 22 April – Johann Adolf Scheibe, composer (born 1708) 30 April – Jens Krag-Juel-Vind, Supreme Court justice and landowner (died 1724)
July–September 4 June – Johann Gottfried Rosenberg architect (born 1709) 8 July – Peder Als, painter (born 1725) 15 September – Christian Horrebow, astronomer (born 1718)
October–December 8 October – Margrethe Marie Thomasine Numsen, courtier (born 1705) 9 October – Christian Jacobsen Drakenberg, sailor and hustler (born in Norway) 23 Bivember – Gustav Frederik Holck-Winterfeldt, landowner and government official (born 1733)
Publications Otto Friedrich Müller: Zoologiae Danicae prodromus
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