1636 in Denmark

Events from the year 1636 in Denmark.

Incumbents

• Monarch – Christian IV

Events

• 24 November The first stones for the foundation are brought to the RundetÃ¥rn construction site on Købmagergade in Copenhagen, first from the city's ramparts and later from the area around Roskilde.

Full date missing

• The earliest documented Danish immigrants to the new world, Jan Jansen and his wife Engeltje, along with their children, arrive in the Dutch colony of New Amsterdam.
• Ole Worm succeeds Jesper Rasmussen Brochmand as Rector of the University of Copenhagen.
• Christian Jørgensen Kruse, government official (died 1699)

Births

Full date missing

• Otto Grote zu Schauen, statesman (died 1693)

Publications

• Ole Worm: Runir seu Danica literatura antiquissima ("Runes: the oldest Danish literature")
• Christen Sørensen Longomontanus: Disputatio de Matheseos Indole

References