Events from the year 1780 in Denmark.

Incumbents Monarch – Christian VII Prime minister – Ove Høegh-Guldberg

Events August - Denmark-Norway joins the First League of Armed Neutrality.

Births

17 July Herman Gerhard Treschow, county governor (died 1836) 3 September Heinrich Christian Schumacher, astronomer (died 1850) 16 November Peter Oluf Brøndsted, archaeologist (died 1842)

Deaths 18 July Gerhard Schøning, archivist (born 1722 in Norway) 4 September Christian Leberecht von Prøck, Governor-General of the Danish West Indies (born 1718)

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