Events from the year 1783 in Denmark.
Incumbents Monarch – Christian VII Prime minister – Ove Høegh-Guldberg
Events 5 July HDMS Friderichsværn is launched at Bodenhoffs Plads in Copenhagen.
Undated
Births
2 January – Christoffer Wilhelm Eckersberg, painter (d. 1853) 6 March Emilie Rosing, singer (died 1811) 11 May – Peter Willemoes, naval officer (d. 1808) 15 August Christian Gottlieb Kratzenstein Stub, painter (died 1816) 8 September – N. F. S. Grundtvig, pastor, author, poet, philosopher, historian, teacher and politician (d. 1872) 8 October – Christian Molbech, historian and editor (d. 1857)
Deaths 14 April – Abraham Pelt, industrialist and philanthropist (born 1695) 15 June – Ludvig Harboe, theologian and bishop (born 1709) 18 August Joachim Melchior Magens, colonial administrator and planter (born 1715) 19 January Bartholomæus Bertelsen de Cederfeld, county governor (born 1715) 17 December – Gysbert Behagen, merchant (born 1725)
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