Events from the year 1737 in

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Incumbents

* Monarch –

Christian VI Christian VI (30 November 1699 – 6 August 1746) was King of Denmark and Norway from 1730 to 1746. The eldest surviving son of Frederick IV and Louise of Mecklenburg-Güstrow, he is considered one of Denmark-Norway's more anonymous kings, bu ...

* Prime minister –

Johan Ludvig Holstein-Ledreborg Johan Ludvig Holstein, Lensgreve til Ledreborg (7 September 1694 – 29 January 1763) was a Danish Minister of state from 1735 to 1751. The Danish colony Holsteinsborg on Greenland (now Sisimiut), was named after him. He was the ancestor of the H ...

Events

Undated

Births

* September 30 – Morten Thrane Brünnich, natural scientist (died

1827 Events January–March * January 5 – The first regatta in Australia is held, taking place on Tasmania (called at the time ''Van Diemen's Land''), on the River Derwent at Hobart. * January 15 – Furman University, founded in 1826, b ...

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Deaths

* 23 March –

Bendix Grodtschilling the Youngest Bendix Grodtschilling the Youngest (12 August 1686 – 23 March 1737) was a Danish painter and conchologist. Grodtschilling was born in Copenhagen, the son of the painter Bendix Grodtschilling the Younger and grandson of the painter ...

, painter (died

1686 Events January–March * January 3 – In Madras (now Chennai) in India, local residents employed by the East India Company threaten to boycott their jobs after corporate administrator William Gyfford imposes a house tax on res ...

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References

{{Year in Europe, 1737 1730s in Denmark Years of the 18th century in Denmark