title: 1679 in Denmark
text: # 1679 in Denmark
  
  Events from the year 1679 in Denmark.
  
  ## Incumbents
  
  * Monarch – Christian V
  * Grand Chancellor – Frederik Ahlefeldt
  
  ## Events
  
  * 2 September – The Treaty of Fontainebleau ends hostilities between Denmark-Norway and the Swedish Empire in the Scanian War. Denmark, pressured by France, restores all conquests made during the war to Sweden in turn for a "paltry indemnity".
  * 26 September – The Peace of Lund end the Scanian War.
  
  ## Births
  
  ### Full date unknown
  
  * Jacob Fosie, painter (died 1763)
  
  ## Deaths
  
  * 29 June – Christopher Heerfordt, pharmacist and botanist (born 1609)
  * 16 September – Søren Nielsen May, priest (born (year of birth unknown)
  
  ### Full date unknown
  
  * Christoffer Godskesen Lindenov, naval officer and landowner (born 1612)
  