1619 in Denmark explained

Events from the year 1619 in Denmark.

Incumbents

• Monarch – Christian IV^[1]

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.^[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 1577)
• November – Jonas Charisius, physician, politician, and ambassador (born 1571)

Full date unknown

• Lorenz van Steenwinckel, architect (born 1585)

Notes and References

1. Web site: Christian IV: Scandinavian king. Encyclopedia Britannica. 19 November 2019. en.
2. Web site: 1619. da. Selskabet for Københavns Historie. 2012-11-02. https://web.archive.org/web/20160304031415/http://www.kobenhavnshistorie.dk/bog/khsd/1600/1619.html. 2016-03-04. dead.
3. What happened to the first Lutheran pastor in the New World? (Evangelical Lutheran Church in America)Web site: ELCA Family History Answer to 1619 question. 2012-11-03. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20110709132107/https://archive.elca.org/communication/timeline/1619.html. 2011-07-09 .
4. Web site: Reinhold Timm. Gyldendal. 2010-03-16.