1619 in Denmark
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Incumbents
- Monarch – Christian IV[1]
Events
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- 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)