1636 in Denmark

Incumbents

• Monarch – Christian IV

Events

• 24 November The first stones for the foundation are brought to the Rundetårn construction site on Købmagergade in Copenhagen, first from the city's ramparts and later from the area around Roskilde.

Undated

• The earliest documented Danish immigrants to the new world, Jan Jansen and his wife Engeltje, along with their children, arrive in the Dutch colony of New Amsterdam.
• Ole Worm succeeds Jesper Rasmussen Brochmand as Rector of the University of Copenhagen.

Births

Full date missing

• Otto Grote zu Schauen, statesman

Publications

• Ole Worm: Runir seu Danica literatura antiquissima
• Christen Sørensen Longomontanus: ''Disputatio de Matheseos Indole''