Events from the year 1770 in Denmark.
Incumbents Monarch – Christian VII Prime minister – Count Johann Hartwig Ernst von Bernstorff (until 13 September), Johann Friedrich Struensee
Events March
26 March – It is reported that it is possible to walk across the ice from Helsingør to Scania.
May 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.
Undated
Births
JanuaryMarch 26 January – Lauritz Holmblad, businessman (died 1826) 2 March – Johan Ernst Hartmann, organist and composer (died 1844) 6 March Jens Wilken Hornemann, botanist (died 1841)
JulySeptember 11 July Hans Severin Holten, zoological writer and Geheimrat, (died 1805) 20 July – Hans Munk, physician (died 1848) 16 August – Westye Egeberg, businessman (died 1830 in Norway) 29 September – Jacob Holm, industrialist, ship owner and ship builder (died 1845)
OctoberDecember 2 September – Christian Cornelius Lerche, landowner and county governor (died 1852) 18 September – Frederik Hoppe, landowner (died 1837) 7 November Margaret Hartman Markoe Bache, editor (died 1838 in the United States) 8 November – Margaret Hartman Markoe Bache, Philadelphia-based printer and editor (died 1836 in the United States) 11 November – Christopher Schøller Bülow, landowner and county governor (died 1830 in Germany) 19 November – Bertel Thorvaldsen, sculptor (died 1844)
Deaths 27 May – Queen Sophia Magdalene, queen of Denmark (born 1700) 18 July Frederik Danneskiold-Samsøe, admiral, government minister and landowner (born 1703) 23 September – Utilia Lenkiewitz, actress (born 1711) 11 October Princess Charlotte Amalie Wilhelmine of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Plön (born 1744 in Germany)
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