Events from the year 1778 in Denmark.
Incumbents Monarch – Christian VII Prime minister – Ove Høegh-Guldberg
Events 4 September Conrad Alexander Fabritius (1731–1805) and Michael Fabritius (1739–1815), as well as all legitimate children of their then-deceased father Michael Fabritius (1697-1746), are ennobled by letters patent under the name Fabritius de Tengnagel.
Undated
Culture
Theatre Johannes Ewald's opera The Death of Valder (written 1663) is performed for the first time.
Births
1 March – Peter Christian Uldahl, piano maker (died 1820) 20 April Bendix Frantz Ludwig Schow, mayor (died 1839) 12 October Hartvig Philip Rée. businessman (died 1859) 21 December – Anders Sandøe Ørsted, jurist and politician, Prime Minister of Denmark (died 1860)
Deaths
5 March – Hans Diderik Brinck-Seidelin, Supreme Court justice and landowner (born 1720) 8 March – Jean Henri Desmercières, businessman (born 1687) 1 April Volrad August von der Lühe, government official (born 1705) 25 July Bernhard Møllmann, historian, writer, librarian and professor (born 1702) 8 October – Margrethe Marie Thomasine Numsen, court official (born 1705)
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