Events from the year 1616 in Denmark.
Incumbents Monarch – Christian IV
Events
17 March – Danish East India Company receives a monopoly on trade on Danish India. 29 November – The first fleet of the Danish East India Company departs from Copenhagen under the command of Ove Gjedde. 2 December The Order of the Armed Arm is bestowed for the first and only time, at the great celebrations that took place in Kolding, on the occasion of the enfeoffment of Slesvig to the King's nephew,
Undated Johan Friis and Karen Krabbe presents a new pulpit to Otterup Church.
Births 27 or 28 January – Christen Aagaard, poet (died 1664) 20 October – Thomas Bartholin, physician, mathematician, and theologian (died 1680)
Deaths
13 February – Anders Sørensen Vedel, priest and historiographer (born 1542) Undated
Jørgen Friis, Governor-general of Norway
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