1770 in Denmark

Events from the year 1770 in Denmark.

Incumbents

Monarch – Christian VII{{cite web |title=Christian VII {{!}} Scandinavian king |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Christian-VII |website=Encyclopedia Britannica |access-date=19 September 2019 |language=en}}
Prime minister – Count Johann Hartwig Ernst von Bernstorff (until 13 September), Johann Friedrich Struensee

26 March - It is reported that it is possible to walk across the ice from Helsingør to Scania.{{cite web|url=http://www.forskerblog.dk/uden-kategori/udisning/#more-259|title=Udisning|language=da|publisher=Jakob Seerups forskerblog|access-date=2012-11-14}}
2 May - A Royal Danish Navy fleet bound for Algiers departs from Copenhagen to bomb the city in response to the recurrent pirate attacks in the Mediterranean Sea.{{cite web|url=http://www.orlogsmuseet.dk/udstil/pirat/africa.htm|title=The threat from the Barbary Coast – the Danish Navy and the war against the Mediterranean pirates|publisher=Royal Danish Naval Museum|access-date=2012-11-13}}{{Dead link|date=January 2021 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}

2 March - Johan Ernst Hartmann, organist and composer (died 1844)
20 July - Hans Munk, physician (died 1848)
29 September - Jacob Holm, industrialist, ship owner and ship builder (died 1845)
19 November - Bertel Thorvaldsen, sculptor (died 1844)
3 August - Jacob Holm, businessman (died 1845)
11 November {{ndash}} Christopher Schøller Bülow, landowner and county governor (died 1830 in Germany)
2 September {{ndash}} Christian Cornelius Lerche, landowner and county governor (died 1852)