1689 in Denmark

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Events from the year 1689 in Denmark.

Incumbents

• Monarch – Christian V

Events

Fire of Sophie Amalienborg on 19 April, painted by Johan Jacob Bruun

April

• 19 April – Sophie Amalienborg burns down when a stage decoration catches fire during an opera performance in connection with the king's birthday a few days earlier. 170 people are killed, including many prominent citizens.

October

• October – A Danish Auxiliary Corpsof 996 horse and 6,109 foot, under the command of Ferdinand Willem, Duke of Württemberg-Neuenstadt, is sent to England to take part in the Williamite War in Ireland

November

• 10 November – Reformed Church in Copenhagen is consecrated.

Births

• January – Peder Benzon Mylius, judge and writer (died 1745)
• 4 September – Anna Sophie Schack, noblewoman and landlord (born 1760)

Deaths

Ernest Gunther I, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Augustenburg.

• 18 January – Ernest Gunther I, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Augustenburg (1609)
• 26 March – Gabriel Milan, governor (born c. 1631)
• October – Christopher Heins, Governor-General of The Danish West Indies