1728 in Denmark

Incumbents

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

Events

• 14 July - Vitus Bering begins his first exploration aboard the ship Gabriel and sailed northward from the Kamchatka Peninsula and through the strait that now bears his name.
• 20 October - The Copenhagen Fire of 1728 breaks out.
• 23 October - The fire in Copenhagen finally dies out after destroying approximately 28% of the city and leaving 20% of its population homeless.

Undated

• The Lille Grønnegade Theatre in Copenhagen, the first public theater in Denmark, is closed.
• A new town hall is built in Viborg next to Viborg Cathedral. The building now houses the Skovgaard Museum

Births

• 26 June - Frederik Christian von Haven, philologist, theologian and patron of the arts
• 21 June Mathias Lunding, mayor of Copenhagen and director of the Danish Asiatic Company
• 29 July Hermann Abbestée, governor of Danish India
• 18 October - Peter Frederik Suhm, historian
• 7 November Christian Hansen, bisonessman

Deaths

• 24 September - Frederik Krag, noble, civil servant