1722 in Denmark explained

Events from the year 1722 in Denmark.

Incumbents

• Monarch – Frederick IV^[1]
• Grand Chancellor – Ulrik Adolf Holstein

Events

• 27 November – A consortium is granted royal permission to establish Store Kongensgade Faience Manufactury in Copenhagen.^[2]

Undated

• Store Kongensgade Faience Manufactury opens in Copenhagen with a monopoly on production of faience with blue decorations.^[3]
• The Lille Grønnegade Theatre in Copenhagen, the first public theater in Denmark, is opened.^[4]
• Johan Pistorius is executed in Copenhagen and is the last person to be legally executed for witchcraft in Denmark.^[5]

Births

• 2 September – Vigilius Eriksen, painter (died 1782)
• 20 October Eggert Christopher Knuth, landowner, Supreme Court justice and county governor (died 1776)

Deaths

Undated

• Benoît Le Coffre, painter to the Danish Court (born 1671)
• Dorte Jensdatter, murdered on accusations of witchcraft (born 1672)
• Johan Pistorius, grenadier and alleged witch

Notes and References

1. Web site: Frederick IV: king of Denmark and Norway. Encyclopedia Britannica. 18 November 2019. en.
2. Web site: Rasmus Æreboe. Danish. bunkenborg.com. 27 March 2018.
3. Web site: Store Kongensgade Fajancefabrik. da. denstoredanske.dk. 27 March 2018.
4. http://www.kvinfo.dk/side/597/bio/1451/origin/170/ Dansk kvindebiografisk leksikon
5. Tyge Krogh, Louise Nyholm Kallestrup, Claus Bundgård Christensen, Cultural Histories of Crime in Denmark, 1500 to 2000