title: 1687 in Denmark
text: # 1687 in Denmark
  
  Events from the year 1687 in Denmark.
  
  ## Incumbents
  
  * Monarch – Christian V
  * Grand Chancellor – Frederik Ahlefeldt
  
  ## Events
  
  * March – Adolph Esmit succeeds Christopher Heins as Governors of St. Thomas and St. John.
  * 9 July – The Copenhagen Royal Fire Brigade os founded.
  
  ### Undated
  
  * The Krudttårnet gunpowder magazine is constructed in Frederikshavn.
  * Hofmarschall Henrik Ulrik Lützow's town mansion is constructed on Stormgade in Copenhagen.
  * Abraham Salomon becomes the first rabbi in Copenhagen. From 1766 until 1795, around 1,500 Jews worshipped in a small synagogue until it burned down.
  
  ## Births
  
  * 21 February – Prince William of Denmark, prince (died 1705)
  * 21 July – Lars Benzon, judge and landowner (died 1741)
  * 23 September – Adam Christopher Knuth, 1st Count of Knuthenborg (died 1736)
  
  ## Deaths
  
  * 3 February – Bernhard Keil, painter (born 1624)
  * 17 March Dorothea Elisabeth Christiansdatter, princess (born 1629)
  