1788 in Denmark

• Monarch – Christian VII • Prime minister – Andreas Peter Bernstorff ==Events==

;September • 24 September – The Theater War begins, when Denmark-Norway launches an attack on Sweden at Bohuslän as a diversion to support Russia, an ally of Denmark-Norway, who had in turn been attacked by Sweden in Gustav III's Russian War. ;October • 28 October Lorentz Petersen's wine company is founded in Copenhagen. Undated • Eriksholm Manor is completed to designs by Caspar Frederik Harsdorff. ==Births==

. • 18 February - Princess Juliane Sophie of Denmark, princess of Denmark (died 1850) • 26 July Ole Bang, medical doctor (died 1877) • 27 August Frederik von Lowzow, civil servant and judge (died 1859) • 3 September • Hans Puggaard, businessman (born 1866) • Henrik Gamst, businessman, politician and landowner (died 1751) • 28 September - Gustav Friedrich Hetsch, architect (died 1864) • 29 December – Christian Jürgensen Thomsen, archaeologist and arts administrator (died 1865) • undated - Anna Salmberg, educator (died 1868) ==Deaths==

. • 22 February Hans Christopher Hersleb, burgermaster of Copenhagen (born 1722)) • 22 April Jens Bruun de Neergaard, judge and landowner (born 1742) • 17 May – Dorothea Biehl, playwright, translator (born 1731) • 21 June Mathias Lunding, mayor of Copenhagen and director of the Danish Asiatic Company (born 1728) ==References==