1742 in Denmark

Incumbents

• Monarch - Christian VI
• Prime minister - Johan Ludvig Holstein-Ledreborg

  Events

• 13 November– The Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters is founded as a historical Collegium Antiquitatum. It was founded by secretary of state, Count Johan Ludvig Holstein and the history professor Hans Gram.

  Undated

Births

• 16 February – Niels Lunde Reiersen, government official businessman
• 12 April – Søren Gyldendal, bookstore owner, publisher
• 9 August – Johan Christian Schønheyder, bishop
• 7 October – Johan Zoëga, entomologist and botanist
• 18 November – Johannes Ewald, dramatist, poet

  Deaths

• 22 September – Frederic Louis Norden, naval captain and explorer