1703 in Denmark

Incumbents

• Monarch — Frederick IV
• Grand Chancellor — Conrad von Reventlow

Events

• 14 April HDMS Elephanten is launched at the Royal Danish Dockyard in Copenhagen.
• 6 September Frederick VI is secretly married to Elisabeth Helene von Vieregg

Undated

• Frederick IV opens a new opera house in Copenhagen.

Births

• 1 September - Just Fabritius, businessman
• 29 September — Baltzer Fleischer, civil servant
• 13 October — Otto Thott, Count, minister of state and bibliophile
• 28 October Andreas Bjørn, businessman, shipbuilder and ship-owner
• 12 December — Simon Carl Stanley, sculptor
• 24 December – Christen Lindencrone, merchant and landowner

Deaths

• 16 July — Christian Gyldenløve, Christian V's son
• 14 October — Thomas Kingo, bishop, poet and hymn-writer