1776 in Denmark

Decades:	1750s; 1760s; 1770s; 1780s; 1790s;
See also:	Other events of 1776; List of years in Denmark

Events from the year 1776 in Denmark.

Incumbents

Front page of Indfødsretsforordningen

First page of the act

15 January – The Danish Citizenship Act of 1776 reserves state offices for Danish, Norwegian and Holstein citizens.
22 November – Frederik Bargum's revived Danish West India Company is liquidated.

HDMS Indfødsretten is launched at the Royal Danish Dockyard in Copenhagen.
Roskildevej is constructed across Frederiksberg Hill as a direct continuation of Vesterbrogade, with the effect that it passes Valby by to the detriment of the inn and other businesses.
The King's Club is founded in Copenhagen.

6 January – Jonas Collin, philanthropist (died 1861)
20 February – Niels Bang, landowner (died 1815)
29 May – Peter Erasmus Müller, bishop (died 1834)
5 August – Urban Jürgensen, clockmaker (died 1830)
12 August – Henriette Danneskiold-Samsøe, landowner and businesswoman (died 1843)
14 August – Prince Christian of Hesse, prince (died 1814)
27 August – Barthold Georg Niebuhr, Danish-German politician and banker (died 1831)
8 September – Heinrich Meldahl, architect and industrialist (died 1840)
22 October – Johan Caspar Mylius, military officer and landowner (died 1852)

26 February – Eggert Christopher Knuth, landowner, Supreme Court justice and county governor (died 1722)
9 April – Severin Leopoldus Løvenskiold, landowner (born 1719 in Norway)
17 April – Ludvig Ferdinand Rømer, businessman (born 1714)
22 April – Johann Adolf Scheibe, composer (born 1708)
30 April – Jens Krag-Juel-Vind, Supreme Court justice and landowner (died 1724)
4 June – Johann Gottfried Rosenberg architect (born 1709)
8 July – Peder Als, painter (born 1725)
15 September – Christian Horrebow, astronomer (born 1718)
8 October – Margrethe Marie Thomasine Numsenm courtier (born 1705)