1619 in Denmark

Events from the year 1619 in Denmark.

Incumbents

 * Monarch – Christian IV

Events

 * 19 February – Ove Gjedde captures two French privateers off Cape Verde.
 * 6 April – A royal decree states that everybody who builds a "good house" in Christianshavn will get a deed on the lots and several years of tax discounts.
 * 9 May – King Christian IV sends out an expedition led by Jens Munk to find the North-West Passage. On board is also Rasmus Jensen, the first Lutheran cleric in Canada.
 * 5 September – Church of Holmen is inaugurated in the former naval anchor forge in Copenhagen.

Undated

 * An outbreak of plague hits Copenhagen, killing 7,000 people in the period 1619-20.
 * Reinhold Timm is engaged as drawing teacher at Aorø Academy.

Births
Full date unknown
 * 21 January – Anders Bording, poet and journalist (died 1677)
 * 17 April – Birgitte Thott, translator, writer and feminist (died 1662)
 * 20 September – Sophie Elisabeth Pentz, countess (died 1657)
 * Anne Palles, alleged witch (died 1693)

Deaths
Full date unknown
 * 19 August – Jørgen Lunge, Rigsmarsk (born 1577)
 * November – Jonas Charisius, physician, politician, and ambassador (born 1571)
 * Lorenz van Steenwinckel, architect (born 1585)