1685 in Denmark

Events from the year 1685 in Denmark.

Incumbents

Monarch – Christian V{{cite web|title=Christian V: Scandinavian king|url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Christian-V|website=Encyclopedia Britannica|access-date=18 November 2019|language=en}}
Grand Chancellor – Frederik Ahlefeldt

16 April – Fort Frederiksborg is sold to the English.
19 May – Leonora Christina Ulfeldt is released after twenty-two years in confinement in Blåtårn.{{cite web|url=http://denstoredanske.dk/Danmarks_geografi_og_historie/Danmarks_historie/Danmark_1536-1849/Jammers_Minde|title= Jammers Minde|publisher= Den Store Danske, Gyldendal|author= Leon Jespersen, Merete Harding|access-date=December 1, 2018}}
September – a woman named Mette is put on trial for witchcraft in Ebeltoft, beginning the Rugård witch trials.
3 October – The County of Reventlow is established by Conrad von Reventlow from the manors of Sandbjerg and Ballegård as well as the farm Bøgskov.

The Brandenburg Colony is established on St. Thomas in the Danish West Indies.
Encouraged by his queen, Christian V licensed the formation of a reformed congregation among German, Dutch and French immigrants.

Full date missing

Povl Badstuber, coppersmith and industrialist (died 1762){{cite web|url=http://denstoredanske.dk/Dansk_Biografisk_Leksikon/H%C3%A5ndv%C3%A6rk/Kobbersmed/Poul_Badstuberhtml|title=Poul Badstuber|language=Danish|publisher=Dansk Biografisk Leksikon|accessdate=20 August 2016|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20160822123855/http://denstoredanske.dk/Dansk_Biografisk_Leksikon/H%C3%A5ndv%C3%A6rk/Kobbersmed/Poul_Badstuberhtml|archivedate=22 August 2016|df=dmy-all}}

11 January {{ndash}} Jørgen Erik Skeel Jørgen Erik Skeel, prime minister of Denmark (born 1737)

29 January – Ove Ramel, landowner (born 1637)
20 February – Queen Sophie Amalie, Queen of Denmark (born 1628)
10 June – Peder Lauridsen Scavenius, jurist, civil servant, rector and landowner (born 1623)
23 August – Ludvig Rosenkrantz, nobleman (born 1628)

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