1722 in Denmark

Incumbents

• Monarch – Frederick IV
• Grand Chancellor – Ulrik Adolf Holstein

Events

• 27 November – A consortium is granted royal permission to establish Store Kongensgade Faience Manufactury in Copenhagen.

• Store Kongensgade Faience Manufactury opens in Copenhagen with a monopoly on production of faience with blue decorations.
• The Lille Grønnegade Theatre in Copenhagen, the first public theater in Denmark, is opened.
• Johan Pistorius is executed in Copenhagen and is the last person to be legally executed for witchcraft in Denmark.

Births

• 11 June Hans Christopher Hersleb, burgermaster of Copenhagen )
• 2 September – Vigilius Eriksen, painter
• 20 October Eggert Christopher Knuth, landowner, Supreme Court justice and county governor

Deaths

• 22 December Johan Bertram Ernst, chief of police in Copenhagen

• Benoît Le Coffre, painter to the Danish Court
• Dorte Jensdatter, murdered on accusations of witchcraft
• Johan Pistorius, grenadier and alleged witch