1743 in Denmark

Events from the year 1743 in Denmark.

• Monarch – Christian VI^[1]
• Prime minister – Johan Ludvig Holstein-Ledreborg

August

• 2 August
  • The Barony of Christiansdal is established by Ide Margrethe Reventlow from the manors of Adserstrup and Grimsted.
  • The Barony of Conradsborg is established by Ide Margrethe Reventlow for her son Christian Frederik Knuth from the manors of Sørup, Sandbygård and Rosengård.

December

• 11 December – The wedding of Crown Prince Frederick (V) and Louise of Great Britain is celebrated at Christiansborg Palace. The couple had already been married by proxy on 10 November in Hanover.
• 30 December – Christian VI grants Johan Sigismund Schulin the Frederiksdal estate north of Copenhagen as a New Year present.

• Adam Gottlob Moltke assumes the post of Court Marshal, secured for him by crown prince Frederick, later King Frederick V.^[2]

• 11 June – Arnoldus von Falkenskiold, colonel (died 1819)
• 28 June – Peter Uldall, Supreme Court attorbey, Public Prosecutor General and burgermaster (died 1798)
• September 11 – Nikolaj Abraham Abildgaard, painter (died 1809)
• c. 1 October – Hans Peder Kofoed, businessman (died 1812)
• October 2 or 14 – Erik Pauelsen, painter (died 1790)
• 18 November – Johannes Ewald, dramatist, poet (died 1781)
• November 29 – Joachim Castenschiold, military officer (died 1817)

• January 7 – Anne Sophie Reventlow, royal mistress, spouse by bigamy, later queen consort (born 1693)