1760 in Denmark

Incumbents

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

Events

Undated

• Rinderpest epidemic and the beginning of the rinderpest eradication.

Births

• 19 January – Marie Kofoed, businessperson and philanthropist
• 11 February – Juliane Marie Jessen, author and translator
• 5 May Søren Læssøe Lange, painter and illustrator
• 29 September Jens Jensen Berg, sea captain and businessman
• 30 November – Catharine Frydendahl, opera singer
• 18 December – Knud Lyne Rahbek, literary historian, critic, writer, poet, magazine editor and art administrator