1619 in Denmark
# 1619 in Denmark

Events from the year 1619 in Denmark.

## Incumbents

* Monarch – Christian IV

## Events

* 19 February – Ove Gjedde captures two French privateers off Cape Verde.
* 6 April – A royal decree states that everybody who builds a "good house" in Christianshavn will get a deed on the lots and several years of tax discounts.
* 9 May – King Christian IV sends out an expedition led by Jens Munk to find the North-West Passage. On board is also Rasmus Jensen, the first Lutheran cleric in Canada.
* 5 September – Church of Holmen is inaugurated in the former naval anchor forge in Copenhagen.

### Undated

* An outbreak of plague hits Copenhagen, killing 7,000 people in the period 1619-20.
* Reinhold Timm is engaged as drawing teacher at Aorø Academy.

## Births

* 21 January – Anders Bording, poet and journalist (died 1677)
* 17 April – Birgitte Thott, translator, writer and feminist (died 1662)
* 20 September – Sophie Elisabeth Pentz, countess (died 1657)

Full date unknown

* Anne Palles, alleged witch (died 1693)

## Deaths

* 19 August – Jørgen Lunge, Rigsmarsk (born 1677)
* November – Jonas Charisius, physician, politician, and ambassador (born 1571)

Full date unknown

* Lorenz van Steenwinckel, architect (born 1585)
