1715 in Denmark

Events from the year 1715 in Denmark.

Incumbents

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

Events

April

• 24 April – Battle of Fehmarn, naval battle of the Great Northern War.

May

• 2 May The Treaty of Berlin.

August

• 8 August – Battle of Rügen, naval battle of the Great Northern War.

December

• 24 December Denmark's Siege of Stralsund ends.

Births

• 6 January Frederik de Løvenørn, county governor and landowner(died 1779)
• 19 January Bartholomæus Bertelsen de Cederfeld, county governor (died 1783)
• 4 March Joachim Melchior Magens, colonial administrator and planter (died 1783)
• 30 November – Johan Jacob Bruun, painter (died 1789)

Deaths

• 8 August , naval officer (born 1664)
• 11 November – Jens Rostgaard, civil servant, judge and antiquarian (born 1650)
• 16 November Jacques d'Agar, painter (born 1640)

References