1778 in Denmark
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Incumbents
- Monarch â Christian VII[1]
- Prime minister â Ove Høegh-Guldberg
Events
- 4 September â Conrad Alexander Fabritius (1731â1805) and Michael Fabritius (1739â1815), as well as all legitimate children of their then-deceased father Michael Fabritius (1697-1746), are ennobled by letters patent under the name Fabritius de Tengnagel.[2]
Undated
Culture
Theatre
- Johannes Ewald's opera The Death of Valder (written 1663) is performed for the first time.
Births
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- 1 March â Peter Christian Uldahl, piano maker (died 1820)
- 20 April â Bendix Frantz Ludwig Schow, mayor (died 1839)
- 12 October â Hartvig Philip Rée. businessman (died 1859)
- 21 December â Anders Sandøe Ãrsted, jurist and politician, Prime Minister of Denmark (died 1860)
Deaths
- 5 March â Hans Diderik Brinck-Seidelin, Supreme Court justice and landowner (born 1720)
- 8 March â Jean Henri Desmercières, businessman (born 1687)
- 1 April â Volrad August von der Lühe, government official (born 1705)
- 25 July â Bernhard Møllmann, historian, writer, librarian and professor (born 1702)
- 8 October â Margrethe Marie Thomasine Numsen, court official (born 1705)