1740 in Denmark
Events from the year 1740 in Denmark.
Incumbents
Events
- The watchmaking company Jules Jurgensen is established.
Births
- 12 October Thomas Bugge, astronomer and surveyor
- 21 November - Charlotte Baden, writer
Undated
- Carl Adolph Castenschiold, landowner and chamberlain, born in the Danish West Indies
- Hedevig Johanne Bagger, businesswoman
- Jürgen Jurgensen's clockmaking company is founded.
Deaths
- 19 January - Hans Seidelin, civil servant and landowner
- 27 February – Poul Vendelbo Løvenørn, Secretary of War and Minister of the Navy
- 19 July – Christian Christophersen Sehested, nobleman