1703 in Denmark
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Incumbents
- Monarch — Frederick IV[1]
- Grand Chancellor — Conrad von Reventlow
Events
- April
- 14 April – HDMS Elephanten is launched at the Royal Danish Dockyard in Copenhagen.
- September
- 6 September Frederick VI is secretly married to Elisabeth Helene von Vieregg and thereby becomes guilty of bigamy.
Undated
- Frederick IV opens a new opera house in Copenhagen.
Births
- 1 September – Just Fabritius, businessman (died 1766)
- 29 September — Baltzer Fleischer, civil servant (died 1767)
- 1 October – Frederik Danneskiold-Samsøe, admiral, government minister and landowner (died 1770)
- 13 October — Otto Thott, Count, minister of state and bibliophile (died 1785)
- 28 October – Andreas Bjørn, businessman, shipbuilder and ship-owner (died 1750)
- 12 December — Simon Carl Stanley, sculptor (died 1761)
- 24 December – Christen Lindencrone, merchant and landowner (died 1772)
Deaths
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- 16 July — Christian Gyldenløve, Christian V's son (born 1674)
- 14 October — Thomas Kingo, bishop, poet and hymn-writer (born 1634)