1747 in Denmark

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See also:	Other events of 1747 List of years in Denmark

Events from the year 1747 in Denmark.

• Monarch – Frederick V^[1]
• Prime minister – Johan Ludvig Holstein-Ledreborg

• 4 September – The coronation of Frederick V of Denmark at Frederiksborg Chapel.

• Count Adam Gottlob Moltke was made a privy councillor by Frederick V, who gave him the estate of Bregentved.^[2]
• 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.

• 5 January – Frederik Ludvig Bang, physician (died 1820)
• 10 July – Princess Wilhelmina Caroline of Denmark, electress of Hesse-Kassel (died 1820 in Germany)
• 4 August – Olfert Fischer, vice admiral (died 1829)
• 4 December – Ernst Heinrich von Schimmelmann, politician, businessman and patron (died 1831)

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