1711 in Denmark

Events from the year 1711 in Denmark.

Incumbents

• Monarch – Frederick IV
• Grand Chancellor – Christian Christophersen Sehested

Events

• January An outbreak of plaque his Helsingør.
• May 25 – Helsingør is put under military blockade to prevent an outbreak of plague from spreading to Copenhagen. A total of 1,809, about one third of Helsingør's population, are killed by the disease in 1711. The efforts to keep the disease from spreading fail and a total of 40,000 people in Copenhagen and northern Zealand are killed by the disease during the outbreak. The blockade of Helsingør is not lifted until 25 July 1712.

Undated

• The short-lived County of Friderichsholm is established by Frederick IV for his mistress Charlotte Helene von Schindel from the manors of Næsbyholm and Bavelse but dissolved again in 1716.

Births

• 7 April – Daniel Ernst Bille, naval officer (died 1790)
• 14 August Marcus Fredrik Bang, bishop (died 1759 in Norway)
• November – Marcus Fredrik Bang, bishop (died 1789)

Date unknown

• Frederik Barfred, wine merchant (died 1794)
• Utilia Lenkiewitz, actress (died 1770)

Deaths

• 17 May – Johann Gottfried Becker, pharmacist (born 1639)

Date unknown

• Cille Gad, poet and culture personality (born 1675)

References