1685 in Denmark

Events from the year 1685 in Denmark.

Incumbents

• Monarch – Christian V
• Grand Chancellor – Frederik Ahlefeldt

Events

• 16 April – Fort Frederiksborg is sold to the English.
• 19 May – Leonora Christina Ulfeldt is released after twenty-two years in confinement in BlÃ¥tÃ¥rn.
• September – a woman named Mette is put on trial for witchcraft in Ebeltoft, beginning the RugÃ¥rd witch trials.
• 3 October – The County of Reventlow is established by Conrad von Reventlow from the manors of Sandbjerg and BallegÃ¥rd as well as the farm Bøgskov.

Undated

• The Brandenburg Colony is established on St. Thomas in the Danish West Indies.
• Encouraged by his queen, Christian V licensed the formation of a reformed congregation among German, Dutch and French immigrants.

Births

• 17 March Niels Sehested (died 1745)

• 1 April – , noblewoman (died 1729)
• 28 October – Hans Gram, historian (died 1748)

Full date missing

• Povl Badstuber, coppersmith and industrialist (died 1762)

Deaths

11 January Jørgen Erik Skeel Jørgen Erik Skeel, prime minister of Denmark (born 1737)

• 29 January – Ove Ramel, landowner (born 1637)
• 20 February – Queen Sophie Amalie, Queen of Denmark (born 1628)
• 10 June – Peder Lauridsen Scavenius, jurist, civil servant, rector and landowner (born 1623)
• 23 August – Ludvig Rosenkrantz, nobleman (born 1628)

Publications

• Peder Syv': Den Danske Sprog-Kunst ("The Danish Language-Art")
• Peder Hansen Resen: Petri Johannis Resenii Bibliotheca Regiæ Academiæ Hafniensi Donata Cui Præfixa Est Ejusdem Resenii Vita

References