• Monarch – Frederick V^[1]
• Prime minister – Johan Ludvig Holstein-Ledreborg

• 18 December – Niels Eigtved's new theatre of Kongens Nytorv in Copenhagen opens with a repertoire of Danish plays and Italian operas.^[2]
• 27 December – Ernst Henrich Berling receives a license to publish newspapers.

Undated edit

• Lauritz de Thurah publishes Hafnia Hodierna.
• Frederik Christian Eilschov publishes Philosophiske Breve.

• 11 March – Christian Ditlev Frederik Reventlow, statesman and reformer (died 1827)
• Amalie Sophie Holstein, noble and courtier (died 1823)

• 19 February – Hans Gram, academic and historian (born 1685)
• 6 May – Friederich Ehbisch, sculptor (born 1672)