1787 in Denmark

Events from the year 1787 in Denmark.

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Decades:	1760s 1770s 1780s 1790s 1800s
See also:	Other events of 1787 List of years in Denmark

Incumbents

• Monarch – Christian VII^[1]
• Prime minister – Andreas Peter Bernstorff

Events

15–17 July: Student Riots in Filosofgangen.

• 15–17 July – Students and soldiers fight in Filosofgangen in Copenhagen ("Studenterkrigen i Filosofgangen").
• 26 October – The Royal Danish Academy of Surgery on Bredgade in Copenhagen is inaugurated.^[2]

Undated

Illustration of the controversy between Høst and the Baden brothers from the magazine Tiderne.

• J. Cl. Todes Døtreskole, the first serious school for girls, is founded.
• English: A controversy between the historian Jens Kragh Høst (1772-1844) and Jacob Baden (1735-1840) and art historian Torkel Baden (1765-1849) attracts attention..

Births

• 23 January – Christopher Fabritius, silversmith born 1710)
• 29 June – Broder Knud Brodersen Wigelsen, naval officer (died 1867)
• 4 September – Jørgen Hansen Koch, architect (died 1860)
• 6 September – Christian Waagepetersen, wine merchant and philanthropist (died 1840)
• 22 November – Rasmus Rask, scholar and philologist (died 1832)

Date unknown

• Johannes Flintoe, painter of landscapes and scenes from Scandinavian history (died 1870)

Deaths

• 19 January – Antoine-Nicolas le Sage de Fontenay, naval officer (born 1725)
• 27 December – Henrik Gerner, naval officer and shipbuilder (born 1742)

Date unknown

• Anna Sofie Bülow, courtier (born 1745)