1788 in Denmark

Incumbents

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

Events

• 24 September - The Theater War begins, when Denmark-Norway launches an attack on Sweden at Bohuslän as a diversion to support Russia, an ally of Denmark-Norway, who had in turn been attacked by Sweden in Gustav III's Russian War.
• 28 October Lorentz Petersen's wine company is founded in Copenhagen.

Undated

• Eriksholm Manor is completed to designs by Caspar Frederik Harsdorff.

Births

• 18 February - Princess Juliane Sophie of Denmark, princess of Denmark
• 26 July Ole Bang, medical doctor
• 27 August Frederik von Lowzow, civil servant and judge
• 28 September - Gustav Friedrich Hetsch, architect
• 29 December - Christian Jürgensen Thomsen, archaeologist and arts administrator
• undated - Anna Salmberg, educator

Deaths

• 22 February Hans Christopher Hersleb, burgermaster of Copenhagen )
• 22 April Jens Bruun de Neergaard, judge and landowner
• 17 May – Dorothea Biehl, playwright, translator
• 21 June Mathias Lunding, mayor of Copenhagen and director of the Danish Asiatic Company