title: 1619 in Denmark
text: # 1619 in Denmark
  
  Events from the year 1619 in Denmark.
  
  ## Incumbents
  
  * Monarch – Christian IV
  
  ## Events
  
  * 19 February – Ove Gjedde captures two French privateers off Cape Verde.
  * 6 April – A royal decree states that everybody who builds a "good house" in Christianshavn will get a deed on the lots and several years of tax discounts.
  * 9 May – King Christian IV sends out an expedition led by Jens Munk to find the North-West Passage. On board is also Rasmus Jensen, the first Lutheran cleric in Canada.
  * 5 September – Church of Holmen is inaugurated in the former naval anchor forge in Copenhagen.
  
  ### Undated
  
  * An outbreak of plague hits Copenhagen, killing 7,000 people in the period 1619-20.
  * Reinhold Timm is engaged as drawing teacher at Aorø Academy.
  
  ## Births
  
  * 21 January – Anders Bording, poet and journalist (died 1677)
  * 17 April – Birgitte Thott, translator, writer and feminist (died 1662)
  * 20 September – Sophie Elisabeth Pentz, countess (died 1657)
  
  Full date unknown
  
  * Anne Palles, alleged witch (died 1693)
  
  ## Deaths
  
  * 19 August – Jørgen Lunge, Rigsmarsk (born 1677)
  * November – Jonas Charisius, physician, politician, and ambassador (born 1571)
  
  Full date unknown
  
  * Lorenz van Steenwinckel, architect (born 1585)
  