1756 in Denmark

Incumbents

• Monarch - Frederick V
• Prime minister - Johan Ludvig Holstein-Ledreborg

Events

• 14 October – An Agreement of Friendship and Trade between Denmark-Norway and the Ottoman Empire is signed by King Frederick V and Sultan Osman III.

Births

• 9 February - Friderich Christian Hager, governor of the Danish Gold Coast
• 29 February - Christian Frederik Hansen, architect
• 1 March - Johan Frederik Schultz, printer and publisher
• 21 August Michael Gottlieb Birckner, priest and philosopher
• 17 October - Isaac Abraham Euchel, author and founder of the "Haskalah movement"
• 26 November - Christian Jacob Theophilus de Meza, physician

• Hans Wassard, businessman and landowner
• Paul Erdmann Isert, surgeon, planter and letter writer

Deaths

• 6 May Caspar Martin Schøller, county governor
• 12 August – Christiane Henriette Louise Juel, noblewoman and courtier
• , 16 October Ulrik Christian Nissen, government official