1785 in Denmark

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{{Year in Denmark|1785}}

Events from the year 1785 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 – Andreas Peter Bernstorff

Events

22 June – The Academy of Surgery is founded in Copenhagen, replacing the Theatrum Anatomico-chirurgicum from 1736.{{cite web|url=http://www.kobenhavnshistorie.dk/bog/khsd/1700/1785.html|title=1785|language=da|publisher=Selskabet for Københavns Historie|access-date=2012-04-19|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140911002132/http://www.kobenhavnshistorie.dk/bog/khsd/1700/1785.html|archive-date=2014-09-11|url-status=dead}}

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Births

16 January – Frederikke Løvenskiold, composer (died 1876)
25 August {{ndash}} Adam Wilhelm Moltke, landowner and politician (died 1864)

Deaths

28 May – Johan Peter Suhr, businessman (born 1712)
10 September – Otto Thott, count, minister of state and bibliophile (born 1703)
29 December – Johan Herman Wessel, poet (born 1742)

References

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