1636 in Denmark
# 1636 in Denmark

Events from the year 1636 in Denmark.

## Incumbents

* Monarch – Christian IV

## Events

* 24 November – The first stones for the foundation are brought to the Rundetårn construction site on Købmagergade in Copenhagen, first from the city's ramparts and later from the area around Roskilde.

### Undated

* The earliest documented Danish immigrants to the new world, Jan Jansen and his wife Engeltje, along with their children, arrive in the Dutch colony of New Amsterdam in 1636.
* Ole Worm succeeds Jesper Rasmussen Brochmand as Rector of the University of Copenhagen.

## Births

### Full date missing

* Otto Grote zu Schauen, statesman (died 1693)

## Publications

* Ole Worm: Runir seu Danica literatura antiquissima ("Runes: the oldest Danish literature")
* Christen Sørensen Longomontanus: Disputatio de Matheseos Indole
