1703 in Denmark

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See also:	Other events of 1703 List of years in Denmark

Events from the year 1703 in Denmark.

Incumbents

• Monarch — Frederick IV
• Grand Chancellor — Conrad von Reventlow

Events

• 14 April – HDMS Elephanten is launched at the Royal Danish Dockyard in Copenhagen.
• 6 September Frederick VI is secretly married to Elisabeth Helene von Vieregg

Undated

• Frederick IV opens a new opera house in Copenhagen.

Births

• 1 September – Just Fabritius, businessman (died 1766)
• 29 September — Baltzer Fleischer, civil servant (died 1767)
• 13 October — Otto Thott, Count, minister of state and bibliophile (died 1785)
• 28 October – Andreas Bjørn, businessman, shipbuilder and ship-owner (died 1750)
• 12 December — Simon Carl Stanley, sculptor (died 1761)
• 24 December – Christen Lindencrone, merchant and landowner (died 1772)

Deaths

• 16 July — Christian Gyldenløve, Christian V's son (born 1674)
• 14 October — Thomas Kingo, bishop, poet and hymn-writer (born 1634)