1786 in Denmark

Events from the year 1786 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

4 March – The sc{{Clarify|date=September 2017}} hool Efterslægtselskabets skole is founded in Copenhagen.{{cite web|url=http://www.kobenhavnshistorie.dk/bog/khsd/1700/1786.html|title=1786|language=da|publisher=Selskabet for Københavns Historie|access-date=16 August 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160402061221/http://kobenhavnshistorie.dk/bog/khsd/1700/1786.html|archive-date=2 April 2016|url-status = dead}}
27 April – {{HDMS|Indfødsretten|1786|6}} is launched at Nyholm in Copenhagen.{{cite web|url=https://trap.lex.dk/Indf%C3%B8dsretten_(1786)|title=Indfødsretten (1786)|language=Danish|website=Trao Danmark|access-date=16 June 2022}}
25 August – The Great Agricultural Commission (Den Store Landbokommision) is set up with the task of rethinking the relationship between landowners and tenant farmers. It is formally abolished in 1816 but is inactive from 1802.{{cite web|url=http://danmarkshistorien.dk/leksikon-og-kilder/vis/materiale/den-store-landbokommission-1786-1816/?no_cache=1|title=Den Store Landbokommision 1786-1816|language=da|publisher=danmarkshistorien.dk|access-date=16 August 2016}}
26 September – Christian VII visits London.

3 January – Ole Jørgen Rawert, government official and topographic painter (died 1851)
8 January – Christen Niemann Rosenkilde, actor (died 1861)
28 January – Nathaniel Wallich, botanist (died 1854)
15 September – Frederik Treschow, supreme court attorney, politician, landowner and philanthropist (died 1869)
18 September – Christian VIII, King of Denmark (died 1848){{cite web |title=Christian VIII {{!}} king of Denmark |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Christian-VIII |website=Encyclopedia Britannica |access-date=21 June 2019 |language=en}}
6 October {{ndash}} Christian Steen, bookseller and publisher (died 1861)
23 October – Lewin Jürgen Rohde, naval officer and harbour master (died 1857)
14 November – Simon Aron Eiberchutz, businessman and philanthropist (died 1856){{cite web|url=https://biografiskleksikon.lex.dk/S._A._Eibesch%C3%BCtz|title=A. Westenholz|language=Danish|website=Dansk Biografisk Leksikon|access-date=16 June 2022}}
13 December – Daniel Bentley, civil servant (died 1869)