Events from the year 1777 in Denmark.
Incumbents Monarch – Christian VII Prime minister – Ove Høegh-Guldberg
Events 23 July – The brothers Jørgen Wichmand and Thomas Frederik Wichmand were ennobled by letters patent under the name Wichfeld. 2 September HD;S Justitia is launched at Orlogsværftet on Nyholm in Copenhagen.
Undated The pioneer acting academy Det Dramatiske Selskab is founded. Danish India is turned over to the government by the Danish Asiatic Company and becomes a Danish-Norwegian crown colony. Peter Johansen establishes the shipyard Petersværft on his new Petersgaard estate.
Births
21 February Christian Wulff, naval officer (died 1843) 9 May – Johannes Søbøtker, merchant, plantation owner and governor (died 1854) 10 July Hans Vilhelm Cederfeld de Simonsen, landowner and government official (born 1836) 14 August - Hans Christian Ørsted, physicist and chemist, discoverer of electromagnetism (died 1851) 15 October Christian David Gebauer, painter (died 1831) 16 October - Johan Ludwig Lund, painter (died 1867) 27 October – Lauritz Nicolai Hvidt, businessman (died 1856) 18 November Thomas Blom, master mason and architect (died 1841) 23 December – Johan Christian Drewsen, businessman and agronomist (died 1851)
Deaths
14 November Bernt Jensen Mørch, ship captain (born 1729)
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