1690 in Denmark

Events from the year 1690 in Denmark

Incumbents

• Monarch – Christian V

Events

• 9 April – Christian V approves the creation of Nyholm as a new home for Royal Dockyard.
• 24 June – Riots between sailors and soldiers break out in Copenhagen on Saint John's Eve.

Full date missing

• Kallebobro, the predecessor of Langebro, is completed in Copenhagen.

Births

• 1 January – Christian Falster, poet and philologist (died 1752)
• 17 January – Peter Schnitler, jurist and military officer (died 1751)
• 4 August , naval officer (died 1747)

Full date missing

• Charlotte Helene von Schindel, lady in waiting and royal mistress (died 1752)

Deaths

• March Bendix Grodtschilling, artist (born c. 1620)
• 1 May , judge (born 1627)

Full date missing

• March – Bendix Grodtschillingm painter (born c. 1620)
• Ole Borch, scientist (born 1626)

References