1619 in Denmark
Events from the year 1619 in Denmark.
Incumbents
- Monarch - Christian IV
Events
- April 6 - 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.[1]
- May 9 - King Christian IV sends out an expedition led by Jens Munk to find the North-West Passage.[1] On board is also Rasmus Jensen, the first Lutheran cleric in Canada [2]
- September 5 - Church of Holmen is inaugurated in the former naval anchor forge in Copenhagen.[1]
Undated
- An outbreak of plague hits Copenhagen, killing 7,000 people in the period 1619-20.[1]
- Reinhold Timm is engaged as drawing teacher at Aorø Academy.[3]
Births
- January 21 - Anders Bording, poet and journalist (died 1677)
- April 17 - Birgitte Thott, translator, writer and feminist (died 1662)
Full date unknown
- Anne Palles, alleged witch (died 1693)
- September 20 - Sophie Elisabeth Pentz, countess (died 1657)
Deaths
- August 19 - Jørgen Lunge, Rigsmarsk (born 1677)
Full date missing
- Lorenz van Steenwinckel, architect (born 1585)
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 "1619" (in Danish). Selskabet for Københavns Historie. Retrieved 2012-11-02.
- ↑ What happened to the first Lutheran pastor in the New World? (Evangelical Lutheran Church in America)http://archive.elca.org/communication/timeline/1619.html
- ↑ "Reinhold Timm". Gyldendal. Retrieved 2010-03-16.