1671 in Denmark

Events from the year 1671 in Denmark.

Incumbents

• Monarch – Christian V

Events

The anointing of Christian V at Frederiksborg Castle

Crown of Christian V

• March – Charles Bertie (senior) is named British envoy-extraordinary to Denmark.
• September 20 – Princess Wilhelmine Ernestine is married to Charles, the hair of the Electorate of the Palatinate at Sophie Amalienborg in Copenhagen.

Undated

• Paul Kurtz completes the Crown of Christian V.
• Anointing of Christian V at Frederiksborg Castle.
• he Order of the Dannebrog is instituted, comprising only a single class of 50 noble knights, plus the Master of the Order, i.e. the Danish monarch, and his sons.
• Lambert van Haven is appointed General Building Master, as the first to hold this post, with overall responsibility for executing the king's architectural wishes.^[1]
• Abraham Wuchters is appointed Painter to the Danish Court.
• The titles Landgrave and Land Baron are introduced as the highest noble ranks in Denmark with the creation of counties and baronies.
• The "King's New Square", Kongens Nytorv, is established in Copenhagen with inspiration from the Paris.
• The military Garnisons Cemetery is inaugurated outside Copenhagen's Eastern City Gate.
• Danish West India Company is founded and will settle on St. Thomas the following year, founding the Danish West Indies.

Births

• February 5 – Bartholomæus Deichman bishop (d. 1731)
• June 21 – Christian Detlev Reventlow, diplomat and military leader (1738)
• July 21 – Hendrick Krock, painter to the Danish Court (d. 1738)
• October 8 – Frederick IV, Duke of Holstein-Gottorp, Duke of Schleswig (d. 1702)
• October ii – Frederick IV, king of Denmark (d. 1739)

Full date unknown

• Benoît Le Coffre, painter to the Danish Court (d. 1722)
• Morgan Bryan, grandfather of Rebecca Boone /d. 1763

Deaths

• March 15 – Axel Urup, military engineer and commander (b. 1601)

References

See also

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