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Incumbents
- Monarch – Christian IV[1]
Events
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19 February: Ove Gjedde captures two French privateers at Cape Verde.
- 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.[2]
- 9 May – King Christian IV sends out an expedition led by Jens Munk to find the North-West Passage.[2] On board is also Rasmus Jensen, the first Lutheran cleric in Canada. [3]
- 5 September – Church of Holmen is inaugurated in the former naval anchor forge in Copenhagen.[2]
Undated
- An outbreak of plague hits Copenhagen, killing 7,000 people in the period 1619-20.[2]
- Reinhold Timm is engaged as drawing teacher at Aorø Academy.[4]
Births
- 21 January – Anders Bording, poet and journalist (died 1677)
- 17 April – Birgitte Thott, translator, writer and feminist (died 1662)
- 20 September – Sophie Elisabeth Pentz, countess (died 1657)
Full date unknown
- Anne Palles, alleged witch (died 1693)
Deaths
- 19 August – Jørgen Lunge, Rigsmarsk (born 1677)
- November – Jonas Charisius, physician, politician, and ambassador (born 1571)
Full date unknown
- Lorenz van Steenwinckel, architect (born 1585)
References
- ↑ "Christian IV: Scandinavian king". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved 19 November 2019.
- 1 2 3 4 "1619" (in Danish). Selskabet for Københavns Historie. Archived from the original on 2016-03-04. Retrieved 2012-11-02.
- ↑ What happened to the first Lutheran pastor in the New World? (Evangelical Lutheran Church in America)"ELCA Family History Answer to 1619 question". Archived from the original on 2011-07-09. Retrieved 2012-11-03.
- ↑ "Reinhold Timm". Gyldendal. Retrieved 2010-03-16.
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