Incumbents

• Monarch – HM Christian VII
  Christian VII of Denmark
  Christian VII was King of Denmark and Norway and Duke of Schleswig and Holstein from 1766 until his death. He was the son of Danish King Frederick V and his first consort Louisa, daughter of King George II of Great Britain....
  
  
• Prime minister – Count Johann Hartwig Ernst von Bernstorff
  Count Johann Hartwig Ernst von Bernstorff
  Count Johann Hartwig Ernst von Bernstorff , Danish statesman, who came of a very ancient Mecklenburg family, was the son of Joachim Engelke von Bernstorff, Chamberlain to the elector of Hanover.-Early political career:...
  
   (until 13 September), Johann Friedrich Struensee
  Johann Friedrich Struensee
  Count Johann Friedrich Struensee was a German doctor. He became royal physician to the mentally ill King Christian VII of Denmark and a minister in the Danish government. He rose in power to a position of “de facto” regent of the country, where he tried to carry out widespread reforms...
  
  

Deaths

• May 27 – Queen Sophia Magdalene, queen of Denmark (b. 1700)

See also