1728 in Denmark
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Incumbents
- Monarch â Frederick IV[1]
- Grand Chancellor â Ulrik Adolf Holstein
Events
- 14 July â Vitus Bering begins his first exploration aboard the ship Gabriel and sailed northward from the Kamchatka Peninsula and through the strait that now bears his name.
- 20 October â The Copenhagen Fire of 1728 breaks out.
- 23 October â The fire in Copenhagen finally dies out after destroying approximately 28% of the city and leaving 20% of its population homeless.
Undated
- The Lille Grønnegade Theatre in Copenhagen, the first public theater in Denmark, is closed.[2]
- A new town hall is built in Viborg next to Viborg Cathedral. The building now houses the Skovgaard Museum
Births
- 26 June â Frederik Christian von Haven, philologist, theologian and patron of the arts (died 1763)
- 21 June â Mathias Lunding, mayor of Copenhagen and director of the Danish Asiatic Company (died 1788)
- 29 July â Hermann Abbestée, governor of Danish India (died 1794)
- 18 October â Peter Frederik Suhm, historian (died 1798)
- 7 November â Christian Hansen, bisonessman (died 1810)
Deaths
- 3 February â Laurence de Boysset, military officer and landowner (born c. 1733 in France)
- 24 September â Frederik Krag, noble, civil servant (born 1655)
