1666 in Denmark
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Incumbents
- Monarch â Frederick III[1]
Events
- 11 February; Denmark-Norway agrees an offensive alliance with the Dutch Republic against England, and enters the Second Anglo-Dutch War;
- 1 August â Anders Bording's Den Danske Mercurius, Denmark's first newspaper, is published for the first time.
Undated
- Holmen Cemetery, the oldest cemetery in Denmark still in use, relocates to its current location in Ãsterbro
Births
- 22 February â Christian Christophersen Sehested, nobleman (died 1740)
- 16 June â Johan Conrad Ernst, architect (died 1750)
Deaths
- 23 September â Hannibal Sehested, diplomat (born 1609)
- 30 October â Iver Krabbe, nobleman and military officer (born 1602)