title: 1728 in Denmark
text: # 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.
  
  ### Undated
  
  * 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)
  