1761 in Denmark

Incumbents

• Monarch - Frederick V
• Prime minister - Johan Ludvig Holstein-Ledreborg

  Events

• 4 January - The Danish Arabia Expedition departs from Copenhagen.
• 13 January - The Fire Insurance for All Danish Market Towns is instituted by law.

  Undated

• Georg Christian Oeder begins the publication of Flora Danica
• Johan Jacob Bruun begins the publication of his Novus Atlas Daniæ

  Births

• Marie Cathrine Preisler, stage actress

  Full date missing

• Edmund Bourke, diplomat

  Deaths

• February 17 — Simon Carl Stanley, sculptor
• July 16 - Jacob Fortling, sculptor, architect and industrialist