1701 in Denmark

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Events from the year 1701 in Denmark .

Incumbents

• Monarch – Frederick IV ^[1]
• Grand Chancellor – Conrad von Reventlow

Events

• 26 April – Commodore C. T. Sehested adjourns as the first chief of the new Royal Danish Naval Academy. The institution is created with inspiration from similar institutions in the Netherlands and France.

Undated

• A Danish Auxiliary Corps of 8,000 soldiers is garrisoned in Saxony, protecting the hereditary lands of August the Strong,
• Ole Rømer proposes the Rømer scale.
• 25 May – Christian Gyldenløve marries Dorothea Krag in Copenhagen.

Births

• 23 February – Johannes Valeur, judge and vice mayor of Copenhagen (died 1771) ^[2]
• 4 (or 22) June – Nicolai Eigtved, architect (died 1754)
• 23 September – Bredo von Munthe af Morgenstierne, civil servant, Supreme Court justice and landowner (died 1757)
• 28 September – Stephen Hansen, industrialist, businessman and General War Commissioner (died 1770)

Deaths

Full date missing

• December – Henrik Ehm, industrialist, coppersmith and alchemist
• Adriaen Foly, painter (born 1664) ^[3]
• Oliger Jacobaeus, professor, physician and naturalist

References

1. "Frederick IV | king of Denmark and Norway". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved 18 November 2019.
2. "Johannes Valeur". Dansk Biografisk Leksikon (in Danish). Retrieved 15 May 2025.
3. (in Dutch) Adriaan Foly mentioned in De groote schouburgh der Nederlantsche konstschilders en schilderessen (1718) by Arnold Houbraken, courtesy of the Digital library for Dutch literature