1636 in Denmark
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Incumbents
- Monarch – Christian IV[1]
Events
- 24 November – The first stones for the foundation are brought to the Rundetårn construction site on Købmagergade in Copenhagen, first from the city's ramparts and later from the area around Roskilde.[2]
Full date missing
- The earliest documented Danish immigrants to the new world, Jan Jansen and his wife Engeltje, along with their children, arrive in the Dutch colony of New Amsterdam.[3]
- Ole Worm succeeds Jesper Rasmussen Brochmand as Rector of the University of Copenhagen.
- Christian Jørgensen Kruse, government official (died 1699)
Births
Full date missing
- Otto Grote zu Schauen, statesman (died 1693)
Publications
- Ole Worm: Runir seu Danica literatura antiquissima ("Runes: the oldest Danish literature")
- Christen Sørensen Longomontanus: Disputatio de Matheseos Indole