1616 in Denmark

Events from the year 1616 in Denmark.

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Decades:	1590s 1600s 1610s 1620s 1630s
See also:	Other events of 1616 List of years in Denmark

Incumbents

• Monarch – Christian IV^[1]

Events

Pulpit of Otterup Church

• 17 March – Danish East India Company receives a monopoly on trade on Danish India.
• 29 November – The first fleet of the Danish East India Company departs from Copenhagen under the command of Ove Gjedde.
• 2 December – The Order of the Armed Arm is bestowed for the first and only time, at the great celebrations that took place in Kolding, on the occasion of the enfeoffment of Slesvig to the King's nephew,

Undated

• Johan Friis and Karen Krabbe presents a new pulpit to Otterup Church.

Births

• 27 or 28 January – Christen Aagaard, poet (died 1664)
• 20 October – Thomas Bartholin, physician, mathematician, and theologian (died 1680)

Deaths

• 13 February – Anders Sørensen Vedel, priest and historiographer (born 1542)

Undated

• Jørgen Friis, Governor-general of Norway