1722 in Denmark

List of events

  • 1721
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1722
in
Denmark

  • 1723
  • 1724
  • 1725
Decades:
  • 1700s
  • 1710s
  • 1720s
  • 1730s
  • 1740s
See also:Other events of 1722
List of years in Denmark

Events from the year 1722 in Denmark.

Incumbents

  • Monarch – Frederick IV[1]
  • Grand Chancellor – Ulrik Adolf Holstein

Events

Undated

  • Store Kongensgade Faience Manufactury opens in Copenhagen with a monopoly on production of faience with blue decorations.[3]
  • The Lille Grønnegade Theatre in Copenhagen, the first public theater in Denmark, is opened.[4]
  • Johan Pistorius is executed in Copenhagen and is the last person to be legally executed for witchcraft in Denmark.[5]

Births

  • 2 September – Vigilius Eriksen, painter (died 1782)
  • 20 October – Eggert Christopher Knuth, landowner, Supreme Court justice and county governor (died 1776)

Deaths

Undated

References

  1. ^ "Frederick IV: king of Denmark and Norway". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved 18 November 2019.
  2. ^ "Rasmus Æreboe". bunkenborg.com (in Danish). Retrieved 27 March 2018.
  3. ^ "Store Kongensgade Fajancefabrik". denstoredanske.dk (in Danish). Retrieved 27 March 2018.
  4. ^ Dansk kvindebiografisk leksikon
  5. ^ Tyge Krogh, Louise Nyholm Kallestrup, Claus Bundgård Christensen, Cultural Histories of Crime in Denmark, 1500 to 2000
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