1742 in Denmark
Events from the year 1742 in Denmark.
Incumbents
Events
- 13 November– The Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters is founded as a historical Collegium Antiquitatum. It was founded by secretary of state, Count Johan Ludvig Holstein and the history professor Hans Gram.
Births
JanuaryMarch
- 5 February Frederik Christian Willerup, sculptor
- 16 February – Niels Lunde Reiersen, government official businessman
AprilJune
- 12 April – Søren Gyldendal, bookstore owner, publisher
- 14 June Jens Bruun de Neergaard, judge and landowner
JulySeptember
- 5 July Henrik Gerner, naval officer and shipbuilder
- 9 August – Johan Christian Schønheyder, bishop
- 19 August Andreas Collstrop, timber merchant and one of Copenhagen's 32 Men
OctoberDecember
- 7 October – Johan Zoëga, entomologist and botanist