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.What happened to the first Lutheran pastor in the New World? (Evangelical Lutheran Church in America) 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 (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 1577) November – Jonas Charisius, physician, politician, and ambassador (born 1571) Full date unknown Lorenz van Steenwinckel, architect (born 1585)
References