1767 in Denmark
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Incumbents
- Monarch – Christian VII[1]
- Prime minister – Count Johann Hartwig Ernst von Bernstorff
Events
- January
- 2 January – The newspaper Aalborg Stiftstidende is published for the first time in Aalborg.
- May
- 1 May – Anointing of Christian VII and Queen Caroline Mathilde at Christiansborg Palace.
Unated
- Nykøbing Castle is sold at auction and demolished. The bricks were used to build numerous estates and rectories in different parts of Falster.[2] All that remains of the castle is a stump of wall from the Medieval prison tower known as Fars Hat (Father's Hat).
- Carsten Niebuhr returns to Copenhagen as the only surviving member of the Danish Arabia expedition.
Births
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January–March
- 9 February – Gottfried Becker, pharmacist and industrialist (died 1845)
- 10 February – Harboe Meulengracht, businessman (died 1853)
October–December
- 28 October – Iver Qvistgaard, civil servant, landowner and mayor (died 1829)
- 27 December – Peter Leonhard Gianelli, medallist (died 1807)
- 28 October – Iver Qvistgaard, landowner and mayor (died 1829)
- 31 October – Amalie Münster, writer (died 1814)
- 8 December – Carl Adolph Rothe, naval officer and colonial administrator (died 1834)
Full date missing
- Peter Collett (writer), judge (died 1823)
Deaths
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- 24 June – Johan Henrik Freithoff, violinist and composer (born 1713).[3]
- 8 August – Oluf Blach, merchant and ship-owner (born 1694)
- 22 January – Christian Peter Flensborg, naval officer (born 1692)
- 1 September – Carl Juel, statesman, councillor, and diocesan governor (born 1706)
