1787 in Denmark

Incumbents

• Monarch – Christian VII
• Prime minister – Andreas Peter Bernstorff

Events

• 1517 July Students and soldiers fight in Filosofgangen in Copenhagen.
• 26 October The Royal Danish Academy of Surgery on Bredgade in Copenhagen is inaugurated.

Undated

• English: A controversy between the historian Jens Kragh Høst and Jacob Baden and art historian Torkel Baden attracts attention..

Births

• 23 January Christopher Fabritius, silversmith born 1710)
• 29 June Broder Knud Brodersen Wigelsen, naval officer
• 4 September – Jørgen Hansen Koch, architect
• 6 September - Christian Waagepetersen, wine merchant and philanthropist
• 22 November – Rasmus Rask, scholar and philologist

• Johannes Flintoe, painter of landscapes and scenes from Scandinavian history

Deaths

• 19 January – Antoine-Nicolas le Sage de Fontenay, naval officer
• 27 December Henrik Gerner, naval officer and shipbuilder

• Anna Sofie Bülow, courtier