Events from the year 1747 in Denmark.
Incumbents Monarch – Frederick V Prime minister – Johan Ludvig Holstein-Ledreborg
Events
4 September – The coronation of Frederick V of Denmark at Frederiksborg Chapel.
Date unknown Count Adam Gottlob Moltke was made a privy councillor by Frederick V, who gave him the estate of Bregentved. Skagen's first lighthouse is inaugurated to designs by Philip de Lange. Frederiksdal House is completed as the earliest example of a maison de plaisance in Denmark.
Births
5 January Frederik Ludvig Bang, physician (died 1820) 10 July – Princess Wilhelmina Caroline of Denmark, electress of Hesse-Kassel (died 1820 in Germany) 8 September Rasmus Kirketerp, busiessman (died 1830) 4 August – Olfert Fischer, vice admiral (died 1829) 4 December – Ernst Heinrich von Schimmelmann, politician, businessman and patron (died 1831)
Deaths 30 December Johan Conrad Wodroff, naval officer (born 1690)
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