Events from the year 1723 in
Denmark
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Incumbents
* Monarch –
Frederick IV
*
Grand Chancellor –
Ulrik Adolf Holstein
Ulrik Adolf Holstein, Greve til Holsteinborg (14 April 1664 – 21 August 1737) was a Danish nobleman and statesman.
Life
He was born in Schleswig-Holstein.
His father, Adam Christopher von Holstein (1631-1690) owned Netzeband and Buchhol ...
Events
*8 March - The
Povel Juel Povel is a given name and a surname. People with that name include:
Given name
* Povel Huitfeldt ( - 1592), Danish-Norwegian governor-general of Norway
* Povel Juel ( – 1723), Norwegian civil servant and writer
* Povel Pedersson Paus (1625-1682), ...
Plot: The Norwegian civil servant and author
Povel Juel Povel is a given name and a surname. People with that name include:
Given name
* Povel Huitfeldt ( - 1592), Danish-Norwegian governor-general of Norway
* Povel Juel ( – 1723), Norwegian civil servant and writer
* Povel Pedersson Paus (1625-1682), ...
was executed in
Copenhagen
Copenhagen ( or .; da, København ) is the capital and most populous city of Denmark, with a proper population of around 815.000 in the last quarter of 2022; and some 1.370,000 in the urban area; and the wider Copenhagen metropolitan ar ...
, for his plans to depose
Frederick IV as
King of Norway
The Norwegian monarch is the head of state of Norway, which is a constitutional and hereditary monarchy with a parliamentary system. The Norwegian monarchy can trace its line back to the reign of Harald Fairhair and the previous petty kingdoms ...
.
Births
* 5 January –
Andreas Bodenhoff
Andreas Bodenhoff (5 January 1723 – 8 August 1794) was a Danish merchant, shipowner and ship builder. He has left his name in posterity for reclaiming the area now known as Bodenhoffs Plads on Christianshavn in Copenhagen. He was the largest p ...
, businessman (died
1794
Events
January–March
* January 1 – The Stibo Group is founded by Niels Lund as a printing company in Aarhus (Denmark).
* January 13 – The U.S. Congress enacts a law providing for, effective May 1, 1795, a United States ...
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* 31 March –
Frederick V Frederick V or Friedrich V may refer to:
*Frederick V, Duke of Swabia (1164–1170)
*Frederick V, Count of Zollern (d.1289)
*Frederick V, Burgrave of Nuremberg (c. 1333–1398), German noble
*Frederick V of Austria (1415–1493), or Frederick III, ...
, king (died
1766
Events
January–March
* January 1 – Charles Edward Stuart ("Bonnie Prince Charlie") becomes the new Stuart claimant to the throne of Great Britain, as King Charles III, and figurehead for Jacobitism.
* January 14 – Chr ...
)
Deaths
* March 8 –
Povel Juel Povel is a given name and a surname. People with that name include:
Given name
* Povel Huitfeldt ( - 1592), Danish-Norwegian governor-general of Norway
* Povel Juel ( – 1723), Norwegian civil servant and writer
* Povel Pedersson Paus (1625-1682), ...
, civil servant and writer (born
1673
Events
January–March
* January 22 – Impostor Mary Carleton is hanged at Newgate Prison in London, for multiple thefts and returning from penal transportation.
* February 10 – Molière's ''comédie-ballet'' ''The Imagi ...
)
References
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1720s in Denmark
Denmark
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Years of the 18th century in Denmark