1625 in Denmark

Events from the year 1625 in Denmark.

Incumbents

• Monarch – Christian IV

Events

• 25 January – The Danish West India Company is granted an eight-year monopoly on trade with the West Indies, Virginia, Brazil and Guinea.
• 9 December – The Treaty of The Hague leads to Denmark-Norway's intervention in the Thirty Years' War.

Births

• 16 March Kai Lykke, courtier (died 1699)
• 15 April Hans Rostgaard, bailiff, resistance fighter and landowner (died 1684)
• 15 June Frederik Giese, civil servant, county governor and landowner (died 1693)
• 17 June Peder Hansen Resen, historian and legal scholar (died 1688)
• 13 August – Rasmus Bartholin, physician and grammarian (died 1698)
• 31 October
• Markor Rodsteen, naval officer (died 1681)
• Christen Jensen Lodberg, bishop (died 1693)

Full date missing

• Heinrich Jansen, painter (died 1667)

Deaths

• 8 July – Elizabeth of Denmark, Duchess of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel, princess (born 1573)
• 14 September Pieter Isaacsz, painter (born c. 1569)

Full date missing

• Truid Aagesenm composer (born 1593)

References