1775 in Denmark

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

• 1 May – The Royal Danish Porcelain Factory is founded by the chemist Frantz Heinrich Müller, who is given a 50-year monopoly to create porcelain in Denmark, and begins operations in a converted post office. Undated • Bygholm Manor is completed near Horsens. • Vincenzo Galeotti succeeds Vincenzo Piatolli as artistic director of the Royal Danish Ballet. • Nicolai Abildgaard completes The Wounded Philoctetes. ==Births==

. . JanuaryJune • 16 March Martin Lehmann, engraver (died 1856) • 27 March – Nicolai Abraham Holten, banker and civil servant (died 1850) • 22 June Ulrich Anton Schønheyder, naval officer (died 1858) JulyDecember • 2 July Joachim Melchior Magens, colonial administrator and lawyer (died 1845) • 12 August Conrad Malte-Brunm, geographer and journalist (died 1826) • 17 August Johannes Rehling, colonial administrator /died 1841) • 17 September – Margrethe Schall, dancer (died 1852) • 9 October – Peter Thonning, physician and botanist (died 1848) • 19 October – Kamma Rahbek, salonist and lady of letters (died 1829) • 1 November Christian Adolph Diriks, lawyer (died 1837) • 8 November – Jacob Peter Mynster, theologian and bishop (died 1854) • 19 December Hermann Christian Müffelmann, businessman (died 1848) ==Deaths==

. • 30 March – Christian Ditlev Reventlow, Privy Councillor and nobleman (born 1710) • 10 April – Jonas Haas, engraver (born 1720) • 15 June – Joost van Hemert, merchant and ship-owner (born 1696) • 16 August – Jakob Langebek, historian (born 1710) • 16 October – Peter van Hurk, businessman (born 1697) • 25 November – Jacob Benzon, nobleman, civil servant and Governor-general of Norway (born 1688) ==References==