1786 in Denmark
Events from the year 1786 in Denmark. Incumbents
 Monarch – Christian VII
 Prime minister – Andreas Peter Bernstorff

Events

 4 March – The sc hool Efterslægtselskabets skole is founded in Copenhagen. 27 April  HDMS Indfødsretten is launched at Nyholm in Copenhagen. 25 August – The Great Agricultural Commission (Den Store Landbokommision) is set up with the task of rethinking the relationship between landowners and tenant farmers. It is formally abolished in 1816 but is inactive from 1802. 26 September  Christian VII visits London. Undated
 The Danish–Icelandic Trade Monopoly ends. Foundation of Madam Lindes Institut. Births

JanuaryMarch
 3 January – Ole Jørgen Rawert, government official and topographic painter (died 1851)
 8 January  Christen Niemann Rosenkilde, actor (died 1861)
 28 January – Nathaniel Wallich, botanist (died 1854)
 12 March – Bendix Grodtschilling the Youngest, painter (died 1737)

JulySeptember
 15 September – Frederik Treschow, supreme court attorney, politician, landowner and philanthropist (died 1869)
 18 September – Christian VIII, King of Denmark (died 1848)

OctoberDecember
 23 October  Lewin Jürgen Rohde, naval officer and  harbour master (died 1857) 
 13 December  Daniel Gottvald Reimer Bentley, civil servant (died 1869)

Deaths
 January 8 — Johan Mandelberg, painter (born 1733)
 16 March – Cecilie Christine Schøller, socialite  (born 1720). December 29 – Johan Herman Wessel, poet, playwright (born 1742)

Full date missing
 Johan Bernhardt Schottmann, master builder (born 1734 in Saxony)

References

 
Denmark
Years of the 18th century in Denmark