title: 1688 in Denmark
text: # 1688 in Denmark
  
  Events from the year 1688 in Denmark.
  
  ## Incumbents
  
  * Monarch – Christian V
  
  ## Events
  
  * 3 August – the Royal Pawn is created by royal ordinance.
  
  ## Births
  
  * 31 October – Jacob Benzon, nobleman and Governor-general of Norway (died 1775)
  
  ## Deaths
  
  * 1 June
     * Peder Hansen Resen, historian (born 1625)
     * Nicolai Esmit, Governor of the Danish West Indies
  * 4 August – Sophie Amalie Lindenov, noblewoman and landowner (born 1649)
  