1728 in Denmark
# 1728 in Denmark

Events from the year 1728 in Denmark.

## Incumbents

* Monarch – Frederick IV
* Grand Chancellor – Ulrik Adolf Holstein

## Events

* 14 July – Vitus Bering begins his first exploration aboard the ship Gabriel and sailed northward from the Kamchatka Peninsula and through the strait that now bears his name.
* 20 October – The Copenhagen Fire of 1728 breaks out.
* 23 October – The fire in Copenhagen finally dies out after destroying approximately 28% of the city and leaving 20% of its population homeless.

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* The Lille Grønnegade Theatre in Copenhagen, the first public theater in Denmark, is closed.
* A new town hall is built in Viborg next to Viborg Cathedral. The building now houses the Skovgaard Museum

## Births

* 26 June – Frederik Christian von Haven, philologist, theologian and patron of the arts (died 1763)
* 29 July – Hermann Abbestée, governor of Danish India (died 1794)
* 18 October – Peter Frederik Suhm, historian (died 1798

## Deaths

* 24 September – Frederik Krag, noble, civil servant (born 1655)
