1777 in Denmark

Events from the year 1777 in Denmark.

Incumbents

• Monarch – Christian VII
• Prime minister – Ove Høegh-Guldberg

Events

Undated

• Danish India i turned over to the government by the Danish East Asia Company and becomes a Danish crown colony.

Births

• August 14 - Hans Christian Ørsted, physicist and chemist, discoverer of electromagnetism (died 1851)
• October 16 - Johan Ludwig Lund, painter (d, 1867)

References

See also

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