1636 in Denmark

Events from the year 1636 in Denmark.

← 1635 1634 1633 1636 in Denmark → 1637 1638 1639
Decades:	1610s 1620s 1630s 1640s 1650s
See also:	Other events of 1636 List of years in Denmark

Incumbents

• Monarch – Christian IV^[1]

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.^[2]

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.^[3]

• Ole Worm succeeds Jesper Rasmussen Brochmand as Rector of the University of Copenhagen.

Births

Full date missing

• Otto Grote zu Schauen, statesman (died 1693)

Deaths

Publications

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