1654 in Denmark

Events from the year 1654 in Denmark.

Incumbents

• Monarch – Frederick III
• Steward of the Realm – Joachim Gersdorff

Events

• 12 August – Total solar eclipse across large parts of Jutland, Funen and Zealand.
• 1 October – Formal diplomatic relations with the United Kingdom begins: The United Kingdom opens an embassy in Copenhagen. Denmark has an embassy in London.

• John Maurice, Prince of Nassau-Siegen presents Frederick III with a collection of works by Albert Eckhout from Brazil, comprising eight full-length portraits of local people of varying ethnicity, 12 still lifes of local produce and vegetation and three portraits.

Births

• 28 March – Sophie Amalie Moth, royal mistress (died 1719)
• 5 June – Hans Munch, theologian and priest, bishop of Christianssand and of Christiania (died 1712).
• 8 April Peder Krog, bishop (died 1731 in Norway)

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