1619 in Denmark

Events from the year 1619 in Denmark.

Incumbents

• Monarch – Christian IV

Events

• 19 February 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.
• 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.
• 5 September – Church of Holmen is inaugurated in the former naval anchor forge in Copenhagen.

Undated

• 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.

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)

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