1688 in Denmark
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Incumbents
- Monarch â Christian V[1]
Events
- 3 August â the Royal Pawn is created by royal ordinance.
Births
- 31 October â Jacob Benzon, nobleman and Governor-general of Norway (died 1775)
Gull date missing
- Ismael Mengs, painter (died 1874 in Dresden)
Deaths
- 1 June
- Peder Hansen Resen, historian (born 1625)
- Nicolai Esmit, Governor of the Danish West Indies
- 4 August â Sophie Amalie Lindenov, noblewoman and landowner (born 1649)