1779 in Denmark

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See also:	Other events of 1779 List of years in Denmark

Events from the year 1779 in Denmark.

• Monarch – Christian VII^[1]
• Prime minister – Ove Høegh-Guldberg

• Johann Hartmann's music for Johannes Ewald's opera The Death of Vader (premiered 1778) is used for the first time.

• 7 March — Conrad Christian Bøhndel, painter and lithographer (died 1847)
• 3 August – Peter Atke Castberg, physician (died 1823)
• 4 April – Julius Høegh-Guldberg, officer and politician (died 1861)
• 25 August – Andreas Schifter (died 1852)
• 14 November – Adam Oehlenschläger, poet (died 1850)

• 30 September – Johan Christian Conradi, German-Danish master builder and architect (born 1709)

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