1785 in Denmark

Events from the year 1785 in Denmark.

Incumbents

Monarch – Christian VII
Prime minister – Andreas Peter Bernstorff

Events

22 June – The Academy of Surgery is founded in Copenhagen, replacing the Theatrum Anatomico-chirurgicum from 1736.

Births

16 January – Frederikke Løvenskiold, composer
25 August Adam Wilhelm Moltke, landowner and politician

Deaths

28 May - Johan Peter Suhr, businessman
10 September – Otto Thott, count, minister of state and bibliophile
29 December – Johan Herman Wessel, poet