1761 in Denmark

Incumbents

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

Events

• 4 January - The Danish Arabia Expedition departs from Copenhagen.
• 13 January - The Fire Insurance for All Danish Market Towns is instituted by law.

Undated

• Georg Christian Oeder begins the publication of Flora Danica
• Johan Jacob Bruun begins the publication of his ''Novus Atlas Daniæ''

Births

• 22 January Georg Nikolaus von Nissen, diplomat and music historian
• 15 October – Peter Grønland, composer

Undated

• Edmund Bourke, diplomat
• Marie Cathrine Preisler, stage actress

Deaths

• February 17 — Simon Carl Stanley, sculptor
• July 16 - Jacob Fortling, sculptor, architect and industrialist
• Princess Dorothea of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Beck