1786 in Denmark
Events from the year 1786 in Denmark.
Incumbents
- Monarch – Christian VII
- Prime minister – Andreas Peter Bernstorff
Events
- 4 March – The sc hool Efterslægtselskabets skole is founded in Copenhagen.
- 27 April – is launched at Nyholm in Copenhagen.
- 25 August – The Great Agricultural Commission is set up with the task of rethinking the relationship between landowners and tenant farmers. It is formally abolished in 1816 but is inactive from 1802.
- 26 September – Christian VII visits London.
Unknown date
- The Danish–Icelandic Trade Monopoly ends.
- Foundation of Madam Lindes Institut.
Births
- 3 January – Ole Jørgen Rawert, government official and topographic painter
- 8 January – Christen Niemann Rosenkilde, actor
- 28 January – Nathaniel Wallich, botanist
- 15 September – Frederik Treschow, supreme court attorney, politician, landowner and philanthropist
- 18 September – Christian VIII, King of Denmark
- 6 October Christian Steen, bookseller and publisher
- 23 October – Lewin Jürgen Rohde, naval officer and harbour master
- 14 November – Simon Aron Eiberchutz, businessman and philanthropist
- 13 December – Daniel Bentley, civil servant
Deaths
- 8 January Johan Mandelberg, painter
- 19 April – Cecilie Christine Schøller, socialite.
- 29 December – Johan Herman Wessel, poet, playwright