1696 in Denmark

• Monarch – Christian V^[1]

• 19 April – Church of Our Saviour on Christianshavn in Copenhagen is inaugurated.^[2]

Full date missing

• The Thisted witch trial, referred to as the last witch trials in Denmark, begins in Thisted.

• 22 June – Joost van Hemert, merchant and ship-owner (died 1775)

• 17 June – Jørgen Bjelke, military officer (born 1721 in Norway)
• 28 June – Eiler Holck, baron and military officer (born 1627)

Undated

• Peder Lauridsen Kylling, botanist (born 1640)