1663 in Denmark

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See also:	Other events of 1663 List of years in Denmark

Events from the year 1663 in Denmark.

Incumbents

• Monarch – Frederick III

Events

• April 20 – The Danish seizure of Fort Christiansborg and Carlsborg (Cape Castle) completes the annexation of the Swedish Gold Coast settlements, the beginning of the Danish Gold Coast.

Publications

• Thomas Bartholin: De pulmonum substantia et motu. Copenhagen, 1663.

Births

• 15 July – Knud Reedtz, naval officer (died 1734)
• 30 October 1663 – Johan Bertram Ernst, chief of police in Copenhagen (died 1722)

Deaths

• 13 January – Esaias Fleischer, pharmacist (born c. 1586)
• 27 September
  • Philip, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg (born 1584)
  • Christoffer Urne, statesman and landholder (died 1593)

References