Events from the year 1764 in

Denmark Denmark is a Nordic countries, Nordic country in Northern Europe. It is the metropole and most populous constituent of the Kingdom of Denmark,, . also known as the Danish Realm, a constitutionally unitary state that includes the Autonomous a ...

Incumbents

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

Events

Undated

Births

* February 15 – Jens Immanuel Baggesen, poet

1826 Events January–March * January 15 – The French newspaper ''Le Figaro'' begins publication in Paris, initially as a satirical weekly. * January 17 – The Ballantyne printing business in Edinburgh (Scotland) crashes, ruining noveli ...

) * 10 July ** Carl Wilhelm Jessen, naval officer (died

1823 Events January–March * January 22 – By secret treaty signed at the Congress of Verona, the Quintuple Alliance gives France a mandate to invade Spain for the purpose of restoring Ferdinand VII (who has been captured by armed revoluti ...

) **

Johan Daniel Herholdt Johan Daniel Herholdt (13 August 1818 – 11 April 1902) was a Danish architect, professor and royal building inspector. He worked in the Historicist style and had a significant influence on Danish architecture during the second half of the 19th ...

, physician (died

1836 Events January–March * January 1 — Hill Street Academy is named Colombo Academy and acquired by the Government, establishing the first public school in Sri Lanka. * January 1 – Queen Maria II of Portugal marries Prince Ferdinand ...

) * 22 August –

Mathias Sommerhielm Mathias Otto Leth Sommerhielm (22 August 1764 15 November 1827) was a Danish-Norwegian politician who served as the Norwegian prime minister in Stockholm. Biography Mathias Otto Leth Sommerhielm was born in the seaport of Kolding in southern Den ...

, politician (died 1827) * 26 July

Frederik Adeler Frederik Adeler (1700–1766) was a Danish government official and landowner. He served as a County Governor and County Governor of several counties in Denmark and Norway ( Denmark-Norway) from 1727 until his death in 1766. Early life and edu ...

, lord president of Copenhagen (died

1816 This year was known as the ''Year Without a Summer'', because of low temperatures in the Northern Hemisphere, possibly the result of the 1815 eruption of Mount Tambora in Indonesia, causing severe global cooling, catastrophic in some locati ...

)

Deaths

* 15 January – Wilhelm August von der Osten, civil servant (born

1697 Events January–March * January 8 – Thomas Aikenhead is hanged outside Edinburgh, becoming the last person in Great Britain to be executed for blasphemy. * January 11 – French writer Charles Perrault releases the book '' Histoires ...

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

1726 Events January–March * January 23 – (January 12 Old Style) The Conventicle Act (''Konventikelplakatet'') is adopted in Sweden, outlawing all non-Lutheran religious meetings outside of church services. * January 26 – T ...

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

1698 Events January–March * January 1 – The Abenaki tribe and Massachusetts colonists sign a treaty, ending the conflict in New England. * January 4 – The Palace of Whitehall in London, England is destroyed by fire. * January 23 – ...

)

References

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Years of the 18th century in Denmark