1722 in Denmark

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Events from the year 1722 in Denmark .

Incumbents

• Monarch – Frederick IV ^[1]
• Grand Chancellor – Ulrik Adolf Holstein

Events

• 27 November – A consortium is granted royal permission to establish Store Kongensgade Faience Manufactury in Copenhagen. ^[2]

Undated

• Store Kongensgade Faience Manufactury opens in Copenhagen with a monopoly on production of faience with blue decorations. ^[3]
• The Lille Grønnegade Theatre in Copenhagen, the first public theater in Denmark, is opened. ^[4]
• Johan Pistorius is executed in Copenhagen and is the last person to be legally executed for witchcraft in Denmark. ^[5]

Births

• 2 September – Vigilius Eriksen, painter (died 1782)
• 20 October – Eggert Christopher Knuth, landowner, Supreme Court justice and county governor (died 1776)

Deaths

• 22 December – Johan Bertram Ernst, chief of police in Copenhagen (born 173)

Undated

• Benoît Le Coffre, painter to the Danish Court (born 1671)
• Dorte Jensdatter, murdered on accusations of witchcraft (born 1672)
• Johan Pistorius, grenadier and alleged witch

References

1. "Frederick IV: king of Denmark and Norway". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved 18 November 2019.
2. "Rasmus Æreboe". bunkenborg.com (in Danish). Retrieved 27 March 2018.
3. "Store Kongensgade Fajancefabrik". denstoredanske.dk (in Danish). Retrieved 27 March 2018.
4. Dansk kvindebiografisk leksikon
5. Tyge Krogh, Louise Nyholm Kallestrup, Claus Bundgård Christensen, Cultural Histories of Crime in Denmark, 1500 to 2000