1696 in Denmark

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See also:	Other events of 1696 List of years in Denmark

Events from the year 1696 in Denmark

Incumbents

• Monarch – Christian V^[1]

Events

• 19 April – Church of Our Saviour on Christianshavn in Copenhagen is inaugurated.^[2]

Full date missing

• The Thisted witch trial, referred to as the last witch trials in Denmark, begins in Thisted.

Births

• 22 June – Joost van Hemert, merchant and ship-owner (died 1775)

Deaths

• 28 June – Eiler Holck, baron and military officer (born 1627)

Undated

• Peder Lauridsen Kylling, botanist (born 1640)

References