1788 in Denmark
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Incumbents
- Monarch â Christian VII[1]
- Prime minister â Andreas Peter Bernstorff
Events
- September
- 24 September â The Theater War begins, when Denmark-Norway launches an attack on Sweden at Bohuslän as a diversion to support Russia, an ally of Denmark-Norway, who had in turn been attacked by Sweden in Gustav III's Russian War.
- October
- 28 October â Lorentz Petersen's wine company is founded in Copenhagen.
Undated
- Eriksholm Manor is completed to designs by Caspar Frederik Harsdorff.[2]
Births
- 18 February - Princess Juliane Sophie of Denmark, princess of Denmark (died 1850)
- 26 July â Ole Bang, medical doctor (died 1877)
- 27 August â Frederik von Lowzow, civil servant and judge (died 1859)
- 3 September
- Hans Puggaard, businessman (born 1866)
- â Henrik Gamst, businessman, politician and landowner (died 1751)
- 28 September - Gustav Friedrich Hetsch, architect (died 1864)
- 29 December â Christian Jürgensen Thomsen, archaeologist and arts administrator (died 1865)
- undated - Anna Salmberg, educator (died 1868)
Deaths
- 22 February â Hans Christopher Hersleb, burgermaster of Copenhagen (born 1722))
- 22 April â Jens Bruun de Neergaard, judge and landowner (born 1742)
- 17 May â Dorothea Biehl, playwright, translator (born 1731)
- 21 June â Mathias Lunding, mayor of Copenhagen and director of the Danish Asiatic Company (born 1728)
