1775 in Denmark
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Incumbents
- Monarch â Christian VII[1]
- Prime minister â Ove Høegh-Guldberg
Events
- 1 May â The Royal Danish Porcelain Factory is founded by the chemist Frantz Heinrich Müller, who is given a 50-year monopoly to create porcelain in Denmark, and begins operations in a converted post office.
Undated
- Bygholm Manor is completed near Horsens.[2]
- Vincenzo Galeotti succeeds Vincenzo Piatolli as artistic director of the Royal Danish Ballet.
- Nicolai Abildgaard completes The Wounded Philoctetes.
Births
JanuaryâJune
- 16 March â Martin Lehmann, engraver (died 1856)
- 27 March â Nicolai Abraham Holten, banker and civil servant (died 1850)
- 22 June â Ulrich Anton Schønheyder, naval officer (died 1858)
JulyâDecember
- 2 July â Joachim Melchior Magens, colonial administrator and lawyer (died 1845)
- 12 August â Conrad Malte-Brunm, geographer and journalist (died 1826)
- 17 August â Johannes Rehling, colonial administrator /died 1841)
- 17 September â Margrethe Schall, dancer (died 1852)
- 9 October â Peter Thonning, physician and botanist (died 1848)
- 19 October â Kamma Rahbek, salonist and lady of letters (died 1829)
- 1 November â Christian Adolph Diriks, lawyer (died 1837)
- 8 November â Jacob Peter Mynster, theologian and bishop (died 1854)
- 19 December â Hermann Christian Müffelmann, businessman (died 1848)
Deaths
- 30 March â Christian Ditlev Reventlow, Privy Councillor and nobleman (born 1710)
- 10 April â Jonas Haas, engraver (born 1720)
- 15 June â Joost van Hemert, merchant and ship-owner (born 1696)
- 16 August â Jakob Langebek, historian (born 1710)
- 16 October â Peter van Hurk, businessman (born 1697)
- 25 November â Jacob Benzon, nobleman, civil servant and Governor-general of Norway (born 1688)