1689 in Denmark
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Incumbents
- Monarch â Christian V[1]
Events
April
- 19 April â Sophie Amalienborg burns down when a stage decoration catches fire during an opera performance in connection with the king's birthday a few days earlier. 170 people are killed, including many prominent citizens.
October
- October â A Danish Auxiliary Corpsof 996 horse and 6,109 foot, under the command of Ferdinand Willem, Duke of Württemberg-Neuenstadt, is sent to England to take part in the Williamite War in Ireland
November
- 10 November â Reformed Church in Copenhagen is consecrated.
Births
- January â Peder Benzon Mylius, judge and writer (died 1745)
- 4 September â Anna Sophie Schack, noblewoman and landlord (born 1760)
Deaths
- 18 January â Ernest Gunther I, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Augustenburg (1609)
- 26 March â Gabriel Milan, governor (born c. 1631)
- October â Christopher Heins, Governor-General of The Danish West Indies