Events from the year 1768 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 –

Christian VII Christian VII (29 January 1749 – 13 March 1808) was King of Denmark and Norway and Duke of Schleswig and Holstein from 1766 until his death in 1808. He was affected by mental illness and was only nominally king for most of his reign. His roya ...

* Prime minister –

Count Johann Hartwig Ernst von Bernstorff Count Johann Hartwig Ernst von Bernstorff (; 13 May 1712 – 18 February 1772) was a German- Danish statesman and a member of the Bernstorff noble family of Mecklenburg. He was the son of Joachim Engelke ''Freiherr'' von Bernstorff, chamberl ...

Events

* 16 August – The equestrian statue of Frederick V is installed on

Amalienborg Amalienborg () is the official residence for the Danish royal family and is located in Copenhagen. Frederick VIII's palace complex has four identical Classical façades, effectively four palaces, with Rococo interiors, laid around an octagona ...

in Copenhagen. * 8 November – Wedding of Christian VII and Caroline Mathilde.

Undated

Births

* 28 January – Frederick VI, King of Denmark (died

1839 Events January–March * January 2 – The first photograph of the Moon is taken, by French photographer Louis Daguerre. * January 6 – Night of the Big Wind: Ireland is struck by the most damaging cyclone in 300 years. * January 9 – ...

) * 10 February –

Anne Cathrine Collett Anne Cathrine Collett (19 February 1768 – 27 January 1846), was a Norwegian-Danish landowner and one of the wealthiest women of Denmark in her time. Collett was born into the wealthy Collett family of timber merchants in Christiania (now O ...

, landowner (died

1846 Events January–March * January 5 – The United States House of Representatives votes to stop sharing the Oregon Country with the United Kingdom. * January 13 – The Milan–Venice railway's bridge, over the Venetian Lagoon betwee ...

) * 9 July – Charles August, Crown Prince of Sweden (died

1810 in Sweden Events from the year 1810 in Sweden Incumbents * List of Swedish monarchs, Monarch – Charles XIII of Sweden, Charles XIII Events * 6 January - Treaty of Paris (1810) * 7 January - The newly elected heir to the throne, Charles August, Crown ...

)

Full date missing

* Mariane Bournonville, ballet dancer (died

1797 Events January–March * January 3 – The Treaty of Tripoli, a peace treaty between the United States and Ottoman Tripolitania, is signed at Algiers (''see also'' 1796). * January 7 – The parliament of the Cisalpine Repu ...

)

Deaths

* 21 March –

Christian Fleischer Christian Fleischer (10 August 1713 – 21 March 1768) was a Danish civil servant in the naval administration. He was a son of Herman Reinhold Fleischer (1656–1712). His father died before he was born, but several of his uncles had notable care ...

, civil servant (born

1713 Events January–March * January 17 – Tuscarora War: Colonel James Moore leads the Carolina militia out of Albemarle County, North Carolina, in a second offensive against the Tuscarora. Heavy snows force the troops to take ...

)

Full date missing

* Christian Tychsen, governor

References

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Years of the 18th century in Denmark 1768 in Europe