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1722 in Denmark

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Events from the year 1722 in Denmark.

Incumbents

  • Monarch – Frederick IV
  • Grand Chancellor – Ulrik Adolf Holstein

Events

  • 27 November – A consortium is granted royal permission to establish Store Kongensgade Faience Manufactury in Copenhagen. Undated
  • Store Kongensgade Faience Manufactury opens in Copenhagen with a monopoly on production of faience with blue decorations.
  • The Lille Grønnegade Theatre in Copenhagen, the first public theater in Denmark, is opened.
  • Johan Pistorius is executed in Copenhagen and is the last person to be legally executed for witchcraft in Denmark.

Births

  • 11 June Hans Christopher Hersleb, burgermaster of Copenhagen (died 1788))
  • 2 September – Vigilius Eriksen, painter (died 1782)
  • 20 October Eggert Christopher Knuth, landowner, Supreme Court justice and county governor (died 1776)

Deaths

  • 22 December Johan Bertram Ernst, chief of police in Copenhagen (born 173)

Undated

  • Benoît Le Coffre, painter to the Danish Court (born 1671)
  • Dorte Jensdatter, murdered on accusations of witchcraft (born 1672)
  • Johan Pistorius, grenadier and alleged witch

References

References

  1. "Frederick IV: king of Denmark and Norway".
  2. "Rasmus Æreboe".
  3. "Store Kongensgade Fajancefabrik".
  4. [http://www.kvinfo.dk/side/597/bio/1451/origin/170/ Dansk kvindebiografisk leksikon]
  5. Tyge Krogh, [[Louise Nyholm Kallestrup]], Claus Bundgård Christensen, ''[https://books.google.com/books?id=QSE6DwAAQBAJ&dq=johan+pistorius+1718&pg=PT72 Cultural Histories of Crime in Denmark, 1500 to 2000]''
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