Events from the year 1692 in Denmark
Incumbents Monarch – Christian V
Events
23 April – A royal order for the establishment of Sankt Annæ Plads is issued. 4 September – The Royal Knight Academy in Copenhagen is established as a replacement for the closed Sorø Academy. 2 November – Anne Palles is convicted of witchcraft and sentenced to death. The execution of her takes place on 4 April 1693. She becomes the last person executed for witchcraft in Denmark. 10 December – Ole Judichær becomes the first factory director of the new Royal Danish Naval Dockyard at Nyholm in Copenhagen. (died 1729)
Full date missing Knud Nielsen Benstrup, naval officer (died 1842) Robert Molesworth, 1st Viscount Molesworth serves as British ambassador to Denmark, a stay which will eventually result in his publication of An Account of Denmark, as it was in the Year 1692 (1694).
Births
22 January – Christian Peter Flensborg, naval officer (died 1767) 18 July – Anthoni Raff, burgermaster and businessman (died 1758( 16 October – Herman Henrik Kønneman, businessman and politician (died 1771)
Undated Knud Nielsen Benstrup, naval officer and shuobuilder (died 1742) Nathanael Diesel, composer (died 1745) Nathanael Diesel, composer (died 1745) Marie Madeleine de Montaigu, actress (died 1736)
Deaths 25 April – Gysbert Wigand Michelbecker, merchant and shipowner (born 1636 in Germany)
Full date missing Abraham-César Lamoureux, sculptor (born 1640 in Denmark) Juliane Elisabeth von Wallenstein, lady-in-waiting (born 1618)
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