1701 in Denmark
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{{Year in Denmark|1701}}
Events from the year 1701 in Denmark.
Incumbents
Events
- 26 April {{ndash}} Commodore C. T. Sehested adjourns as the first chief of the new Royal Danish Naval Academy. The institution is created with inspiration from similar institutions in the Netherlands and France.
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- A Danish Auxiliary Corps of 8,000 soldiers is garrisoned in Saxony, protecting the hereditary lands of August the Strong,
- Ole Rømer proposes the Rømer scale.
- 25 May {{ndash}} Christian Gyldenløve marries Dorothea Krag in Copenhagen.
Births
- 23 February {{ndash}} Johannes Valeur, judge and vice mayor of Copenhagen (died 1771){{cite web|url=https://biografiskleksikon.lex.dk/Johannes_Valeur|title=Johannes Valeur|language=Danish|website=Dansk Biografisk Leksikon|access-date=15 May 2025}}
- 4 (or 22) June – Nicolai Eigtved, architect (died 1754)
- 23 September – Bredo von Munthe af Morgenstierne, civil servant, Supreme Court justice and landowner (died 1757)
- 28 September – Stephen Hansen, industrialist, businessman and General War Commissioner (died 1770)
Deaths
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- December – Henrik Ehm, industrialist, coppersmith and alchemist
- Adriaen Foly, painter (born 1664){{in lang|nl}} [http://www.dbnl.org/tekst/houb005groo01_01/houb005groo01_01_0315.htm Adriaan Foly mentioned] in De groote schouburgh der Nederlantsche konstschilders en schilderessen (1718) by Arnold Houbraken, courtesy of the Digital library for Dutch literature
- Oliger Jacobaeus, professor, physician and naturalist
References
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