1775 in Denmark

Events from the year 1775 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 – Ove Høegh-Guldberg

1 May – The Royal Danish Porcelain Factory is founded by the chemist Frantz Heinrich Müller, who is given a 50-year monopoly to create porcelain in Denmark, and begins operations in a converted post office.

Bygholm Manor is completed near Horsens.{{cite web|url=http://www.denstoredanske.dk/Danmarks_geografi_og_historie/Danmarks_geografi/Danske_slotte_og_herreg%C3%A5rde/Bygholm | title=Bygholm | language=da | publisher=Gyldendal | access-date=2012-08-11}}
Vincenzo Galeotti succeeds Vincenzo Piatolli as artistic director of the Royal Danish Ballet.
Nicolai Abildgaard completes The Wounded Philoctetes.

16 March {{ndash}} Martin Lehmann, engraver (died 1856)
27 March – Nicolai Abraham Holten, banker and civil servant (died 1850)
22 June {{ndash}} Ulrich Anton Schønheyder, naval officer (died 1858)
2 July {{ndash}} Joachim Melchior Magens, colonial administrator and lawyer (died 1845)
12 August {{ndash}} Conrad Malte-Brunm, geographer and journalist (died 1826)
17 September – Margrethe Schall, dancer (died 1852)
9 October – Peter Thonning, physician and botanist (died 1848)
19 October – Kamma Rahbek, salonist and lady of letters (died 1829)
1 November {{ndash}} Christian Adolph Diriks, lawyer (died 1837)
8 November – Jacob Peter Mynster, theologian and bishop (died 1854)
19 December {{ndash}} Hermann Christian Müffelmann, businessman (died 1848)

30 March – Christian Ditlev Reventlow, Privy Councillor and nobleman (born 1710)
10 April – Jonas Haas, engraver (born 1720)
15 June – Joost van Hemert, merchant and ship-owner (born 1696)
16 August – Jakob Langebek, historian (born 1710)
16 October – Peter van Hurk, businessman (born 1697)
25 November – Jacob Benzon, nobleman, civil servant and Governor-general of Norway (born 1688)