1706 in Denmark

Events from the year 1706 in Denmark.

Incumbents

• Monarch – Frederick IV
• Grand Chancellor – Conrad von Reventlow

Events

• 16 January – Stege Pharmacy is established in the town of Stege on Møn.
• 24 May – Garrisnon Church is inaugurated in Copenhagen.

Undated

• The Tranquebar Mission is established.
• The country house NlÃ¥gÃ¥rd outside Copenhagen's northern city gate is constructed by Prince Charles of Denmark.

Publications

• Thormodus Torfæus: Gronlandia antiquæ, Copenhagen 1706 (new edi. w/notes 1947)

Births

• 4 March – Lauritz de Thurah, architect (died 1759)
• 18 June Herman Lengerken Kløcker, merchant, landowner, Supreme Court justice and vice mayor of Copenhagen (died 1765)
• 22 June – Carl Juel, statesman, councillor, and diocesan governor (died 1767)
• 6 October – Princess Charlotte Amalie, princess of Denmark (died 1782)

Deaths

• 6 February – Claus Hansen, Governor of the Danish West Indies
• 22/23 April – Princess Wilhelmine Ernestine of Denmark, princess (born 1650)

References