1636 in Denmark

Events from the year 1636 in Denmark.

Incumbents

 * Monarch – Christian IV

Events

 * 24 November – The first stones for the foundation are brought to the Rundetårn construction site on Købmagergade in Copenhagen, first from the city's ramparts and later from the area around Roskilde.

Undated

 * The earliest documented Danish immigrants to the new world, Jan Jansen and his wife Engeltje, along with their children, arrive in the Dutch colony of New Amsterdam in 1636.


 * Ole Worm succeeds Jesper Rasmussen Brochmand as Rector of the University of Copenhagen.

Full date missing

 * Otto Grote zu Schauen, statesman (died 1693)

Publications

 * Ole Worm: Runir seu Danica literatura antiquissima ("Runes: the oldest Danish literature")
 * Christen Sørensen Longomontanus: Disputatio de Matheseos Indole