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1772 in Denmark
Summary
Events from the year
1772 in
Denmark
.
←
1771
1770
1769
1772
in
Denmark
→
1773
1774
1775
Decades:
1750s
1760s
1770s
1780s
1790s
See also:
Other events of 1772
List of years in Denmark
Incumbents
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Monarch –
Christian VII
[1]
Prime minister –
Johann Friedrich Struensee
(until 17 January),
Ove Høegh-Guldberg
Events
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Struense and Brandt on the wheels
15 May: A page from the treaty between Denmark and Algiers.
18 January – Queen
Caroline Matilda
,
Johann Friedrich Struensee
and
Enevold Brandt
were arrested and their rule ended in a
palace coup
.
28 April – Struensee and Brandt are executed by beheading at the Eastern Commons outside Copenhagen. Afterwards their bodies are
drawn and quartered
.
30 April – The
Norwegian Society
is founded in Copenhagen as a national venue for Norwegian students.
16 May – A treaty between Christian VII and the Bey of Algiers brings an end to the
Danish-Algerian War
.
14 October – Royal Danish Medical Society is founded.
Undated
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Frederick, Hereditary Prince of Denmark
is designated as regent of Denmark.
Masquerades, horse races and foreign line dancers are prohibited.
The military language for use in writing and commands is changed from German to Danish.
Births
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17 June –
Hans Peter Holm
, naval officer (died
1812
)
19 August –
Johan Frederik Bardenfleth
, naval officer, court official and governor-general of the
Danish West Indies
(died
1833
)
Deaths
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April 28
Enevold Brandt
, courtier (born
1738
)
Johann Friedrich Struensee
, physician, statesman, de facto regent of Denmark (born 1737)
8 June –
Ulrik Fredrik de Cicignon
, military officer (born
1698
)
17 August –
Christen Lindencrone
, merchant and landowner (born
1703
)
Johanne Seizberg
, illustrator and teacher (born
1732
)
See also
edit
A Royal Affair
, 2012 film inspired by the events leading up to Struensee's death.
References
edit
^
"Christian VII | Scandinavian king".
Encyclopedia Britannica
. Retrieved
19 September
2019
.
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