1785 in Denmark
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Incumbents
- Monarch – Christian VII[1]
- Prime minister – Andreas Peter Bernstorff
Events
- 22 June – The Academy of Surgery is founded in Copenhagen, replacing the Theatrum Anatomico-chirurgicum from 1736.[2]
Undated
Births
- 4 January – Friedrich Wilhelm, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg (died 1831)
- 16 January – Frederikke Løvenskiold, composer (died 1876)
- 25 August – Adam Wilhelm Moltke, landowner and politician (died 1864)
- 10 October – Gerhard Christoph von Krogh, military fficer (died 1860)
Deaths
- 28 May – Johan Peter Suhr, businessman (born 1712)
- 10 September – Otto Thott, count, minister of state and bibliophile (born 1703)
- 29 December – Johan Herman Wessel, poet (born 1742)
