1619 in Denmark
Incumbents
Events
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- 19 February {{ndash}} Ove Gjedde captures two French privateers off Cape Verde.
- 6 April – A royal decree states that everybody who builds a "good house" in Christianshavn will get a deed on the lots and several years of tax discounts.{{cite web|url=http://www.kobenhavnshistorie.dk/bog/khsd/1600/1619.html|title=1619|language=da|publisher=Selskabet for Københavns Historie|access-date=2012-11-02|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304031415/http://www.kobenhavnshistorie.dk/bog/khsd/1600/1619.html|archive-date=2016-03-04|url-status=dead}}
- 9 May – King Christian IV sends out an expedition led by Jens Munk to find the North-West Passage. On board is also Rasmus Jensen, the first Lutheran cleric in Canada. What happened to the first Lutheran pastor in the New World? (Evangelical Lutheran Church in America){{cite web|url=http://archive.elca.org/communication/timeline/1619.html|title=ELCA Family History Answer to 1619 question|access-date=2012-11-03|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110709132107/https://archive.elca.org/communication/timeline/1619.html|archive-date=2011-07-09 }}
- 5 September – Church of Holmen is inaugurated in the former naval anchor forge in Copenhagen.
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- An outbreak of plague hits Copenhagen, killing 7,000 people in the period 1619-20.
- Reinhold Timm is engaged as drawing teacher at Aorø Academy.{{cite web|url=http://www.denstoredanske.dk/Kunst_og_kultur/Billedkunst/Billedkunst%2c_%c3%b8vrig_ren%c3%a6ssance/Kunstnere%2c_andre_nationaliteter/Reinhold_Timm|title=Reinhold Timm|publisher=Gyldendal|access-date=2010-03-16}}
Births
- 21 January – Anders Bording, poet and journalist (died 1677)
- 17 April – Birgitte Thott, translator, writer and feminist (died 1662)
- 20 September – Sophie Elisabeth Pentz, countess (died 1657)
Full date unknown
- Anne Palles, alleged witch (died 1693)
Deaths
- 19 August – Jørgen Lunge, Rigsmarsk (born 1577)
- November – Jonas Charisius, physician, politician, and ambassador (born 1571)
Full date unknown
- Lorenz van Steenwinckel, architect (born 1585)
References
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