• Monarch – Christian VI^[1]
• Prime minister – Johan Ludvig Holstein-Ledreborg

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• Crown prince Frederick's renovation of the Prince's Mansion is completed.
• The new Hirschholm Palace is completed.
• Den danske Spectator is first published.

• 21 February - Cathrine Marie Møller, artist (died 1811)
• 6 March - Otto Fabricius, missionary, naturalist, ethnographer and explorer (died 1822)
• 29 April – Christian Ludvig von Holten, colonial administrator (died 1829)
• 19 March – William Halling, landowner (died 1796)
• 19 November - Jakob Edvard Colbjørnsen, chief justice of Supreme Court (died 1802)
• Marie Barch, first native Danish ballerina (died 1827)
• Elisabeth Christine Berling, businessperson (died 1801)

• 14 January – Henrich Suhm, naval officer and colonial administrator (born 16i3)