1619 in Denmark
Events from the year 1619 in Denmark.
Incumbents
- Monarch – Christian IV
Events
- 19 February Ove Gjedde captures two French privateers off Cape Verde.
- 6 April – A royal decree states that everybody who builds a "good house" in Christianshavn will get a deed on the lots and several years of tax discounts.
- 9 May – King Christian IV sends out an expedition led by Jens Munk to find the North-West Passage. On board is also Rasmus Jensen, the first Lutheran cleric in Canada.
- 5 September – Church of Holmen is inaugurated in the former naval anchor forge in Copenhagen.
Undated
- An outbreak of plague hits Copenhagen, killing 7,000 people in the period 1619-20.
- Reinhold Timm is engaged as drawing teacher at Aorø Academy.
Births
- 21 January – Anders Bording, poet and journalist
- 17 April – Birgitte Thott, translator, writer and feminist
- 20 September – Sophie Elisabeth Pentz, countess
- Anne Palles, alleged witch
Deaths
- 19 August – Jørgen Lunge, Rigsmarsk
- November – Jonas Charisius, physician, politician, and ambassador
- Lorenz van Steenwinckel, architect