Events from the year 1785 in Denmark.
Incumbents Monarch – Christian VII Prime minister – Andreas Peter Bernstorff
Events 22 June – The Academy of Surgery is founded in Copenhagen, replacing the Theatrum Anatomico-chirurgicum from 1736.
Undated
Births 4 January Friedrich Wilhelm, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg (died 1831) 16 January – Frederikke Løvenskiold, composer (died 1876) 25 August Adam Wilhelm Moltke, landowner and politician (died 1864) 10 October Gerhard Christoph von Krogh, military fficer (died 1860)
Deaths 28 May – Johan Peter Suhr, businessman (born 1712) 10 September – Otto Thott, count, minister of state and bibliophile (born 1703) 29 December – Johan Herman Wessel, poet (born 1742)
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