1764 in Denmark

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Events from the year 1764 in Denmark.

Incumbents

• Monarch – Frederick V
• Prime minister – Count Johann Hartwig Ernst von Bernstorff

Events

• 12 April – HDMS Prindsesse Wilhelmine Carolina is launched at Nyholm in Copenhagen.

Births

Frantza Hohlenberg.

Johan Daniel Herholdt,

January–March

• 15 February – Jens Immanuel Baggesen, poet 1826)
• 17 February – Frantz Hohlenberg, naval officer (died 1804)
• 20 February – {Gebhard Moltke, civil servant (died 1854)

April–June

• 14 April – Poul Christian Stemann, government official and landowner (died 1855)
• 20 April – Rasmus Langeland Bagger, chief of police, burgermaster (died 1819)

July–September

• 27 July – Christiane Koren, poet and diarist (died 1815 in Norway)
• 10 July
  • Carl Wilhelm Jessen, naval officer (died 1823)
  • Johan Daniel Herholdt, physician (died 1836)
• 26 July – Frederik Adeler, lord president of Copenhagen (died 1816)
• 22 August – Mathias Sommerhielm, politician (died 1827)

Deaths

Erik Torm.

Hans Adolph Brorson-

January–March

• 15 January – Wilhelm August von der Osten, civil servant (born 1697)
• 2 February – Erik Torm, burgermaster and chief of police in Copenhagen (born 1684)

April–June

• 15 April – Peder Horrebow, astronomer (born 1679)
• 3 June - Hans Adolph Brorson, bishop and hymn writer (born 1694)
• 5 June – Jens Schielderup Sneedorff, author, professor of political science and royal teacher (born 1724)

July–September

• 23 August – Johanna Marie Fosie, first professional female Danish painter (born 1726)

October–December

• 20 December – Erik Pontoppidan, author, bishop, historian and antiquary (born 1698)