1761 in Denmark
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Incumbents
- Monarch â Frederick V[1]
- Prime minister â Johan Ludvig Holstein-Ledreborg
Events
- 4 January â The Danish Arabia Expedition departs from Copenhagen.[2]
- 13 January â The Fire Insurance for All Danish Market Towns is instituted by law.[3]
Undated
- Georg Christian Oeder begins the publication of Flora Danica
- Johan Jacob Bruun begins the publication of his Novus Atlas Daniæ
Births
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- 22 January â Georg Nikolaus von Nissen, diplomat and music historian (died 1826)
- 27 June â Jens Bloch, theologian and bishop (died 1830)
- 15 October â Peter Grønland, composer (died 1825)
- 2 November â Edmund Burke, diplomat (died 1821 in France)
- 20 November â Carl Conrad Gustav Knuth, landowner (died 1815)
Full date missing
- Edmund Bourke, diplomat (died 1821)
- Lars Lassen, landowner (died 1823)
- Marie Cathrine Preisler, stage actress (died 1797)
Deaths
- February 17 â Simon Carl Stanley, sculptor (born 1703)
- July 16 - Jacob Fortling, sculptor, architect and industrialist (born 1711)
- Princess Dorothea of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Beck
- 7 December â Olfert Fas Fischer, naval offborn (died 1700)
