1722 in Denmark

Events from the year 1722 in Denmark.

Incumbents

Monarch – Frederick IV{{cite web|title=Frederick IV: king of Denmark and Norway|url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Frederick-IV-king-of-Denmark-and-Norway|website=Encyclopedia Britannica|access-date=18 November 2019|language=en}}
Grand Chancellor – Ulrik Adolf Holstein

27 November – A consortium is granted royal permission to establish Store Kongensgade Faience Manufactury in Copenhagen.{{cite web|url=http://www.bunkenborg.com/showmedia.php?mediaID=58&medialinkID=95|title=Rasmus Æreboe|language=Danish|website=bunkenborg.com|accessdate=27 March 2018}}

Undated

Store Kongensgade Faience Manufactury opens in Copenhagen with a monopoly on production of faience with blue decorations.{{cite web|url=http://denstoredanske.dk/Kunst_og_kultur/Kunsthåndværk_og_design/Keramik_(porcelæn,_fajance,_stentøj,_lertøj)/Store_Kongensgade_Fajancefabrik|title=Store Kongensgade Fajancefabrik|language=da|website=denstoredanske.dk|access-date=27 March 2018}}
The Lille Grønnegade Theatre in Copenhagen, the first public theater in Denmark, is opened.[http://www.kvinfo.dk/side/597/bio/1451/origin/170/ Dansk kvindebiografisk leksikon]
Johan Pistorius is executed in Copenhagen and is the last person to be legally executed for witchcraft in Denmark.Tyge Krogh, Louise Nyholm Kallestrup, Claus Bundgård Christensen, [https://books.google.com/books?id=QSE6DwAAQBAJ&dq=johan+pistorius+1718&pg=PT72 Cultural Histories of Crime in Denmark, 1500 to 2000]

2 September – Vigilius Eriksen, painter (died 1782)
20 October {{ndash}} Eggert Christopher Knuth, landowner, Supreme Court justice and county governor (died 1776)

Undated