1728 in Denmark

Events from the year 1728 in Denmark.

Incumbents

• Monarch – Frederick IV
• Grand Chancellor – Ulrik Adolf Holstein

Events

A 1728 map of Copenhagen showing the city as it appeared immediately before the Great Fire of 1728

• July 14 – Vitus Bering begins his first exploration aboard the ship Gabriel and sailed northward from the Kamchatka Peninsula and through the strait that now bears his name.
• October 20 – The Copenhagen Fire of 1728 breaks out.
• October 23 – The fire in Copenhagen finally dies out after destroying approximately 28% of the city and leaving 20% of its population homeless.

Undated

• Lille Grønnegade Theatre, the first public theatre in Copenhagen, is closed.
• A new town hall is built in Viborg next to Viborg Cathedral. The building now houses the Skovgaard Museum

Births

• June 26 – Frederik Christian von Haven, philologist, theologian and patron of the arts (died 1763)
• October 18 – Peter Frederik Suhm, historian (died 1798

Deaths

• September 24 – Frederik Krag, noble, civil servant (born 1655)

References

See also

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