1679 in Denmark

Events from the year 1679 in Denmark.

Incumbents

• Monarch – Christian V
• Grand Chancellor – Frederik Ahlefeldt

Events

• 2 September – The Treaty of Fontainebleau ends hostilities between Denmark-Norway and the Swedish Empire in the Scanian War. Denmark, pressured by France, restores all conquests made during the war to Sweden in turn for a "paltry indemnity".
• 26 September – The Peace of Lund end the Scanian War.

Births

• 14 May Peder Horrebow, astronomer (died 1764)
• 10 November Christian Carl Gabel, vice admiral, Chief Secretary of War and Director of the Dano-Norwegian Navy and Holmen Naval Base (died 1748)

Full date unknown

• Jacob Fosie, painter (died 1763)

Deaths

• 29 June – Christopher Heerfordt, pharmacist and botanist (born 1609)
• 16 September – Søren Nielsen May, priest (born (year of birth unknown)
• 28 December Peder Winstrup, clergy (born 1605)

Full date unknown

• Christoffer Godskesen Lindenov, naval officer and landowner (born 1612)

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