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1701 in Denmark
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February 2019
1701
Events from the year 1701 in Denmark.
Incumbents
Monarch – Frederick IVFrederick IV king of Denmark and Norway https://www.britannica.com/biography/Frederick-IV-king-of-Denmark-and-Norway Encyclopedia Britannica 18 November 2019 en
Grand Chancellor – Conrad von Reventlow
Events
26 April Commodore C. T. Sehested adjourns as the first chief of the new Royal Danish Naval Academy. The institution is created with inspiration from similar institutions in the Netherlands and France.
Undated
A Danish Auxiliary Corps of 8,000 soldiers is garrisoned in Saxony, protecting the hereditary lands of August the Strong,
Ole Rømer proposes the Rømer scale.
25 May Christian Gyldenløve marries Dorothea Krag in Copenhagen.
Births
23 February Johannes Valeur, judge and vice mayor of Copenhagen (died 1771)https://biografiskleksikon.lex.dk/Johannes_Valeur Johannes Valeur Danish Dansk Biografisk Leksikon 15 May 2025
4 (or 22) June – Nicolai Eigtved, architect (died 1754)
23 September – Bredo von Munthe af Morgenstierne, civil servant, Supreme Court justice and landowner (died 1757)
28 September – Stephen Hansen, industrialist, businessman and General War Commissioner (died 1770)
Deaths
Full date missing
December – Henrik Ehm, industrialist, coppersmith and alchemist
Adriaen Foly, painter (born 1664)nl Adriaan Foly mentioned in De groote schouburgh der Nederlantsche konstschilders en schilderessen (1718) by Arnold Houbraken, courtesy of the Digital library for Dutch literature
Oliger Jacobaeus, professor, physician and naturalist
References
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Category:Years of the 18th century in Denmark