1716 in Denmark

Events from the year 1716 in Denmark.

← 1715 1714 1713 1716 in Denmark → 1717 1718 1719
Decades:	1690s 1700s 1710s 1720s 1730s
See also:	Other events of 1716 List of years in Denmark

Incumbents

• Monarch – Frederick IV
• Grand Chancellor – Christian Christophersen Sehested

Events

• 8 March – The Battle of Høland.

8 July: The Battle of Dynekilen.

• 8 July – Battle of Dynekilen, battle of the Great Northern War.
• 3 August – Martin Düssel and Christoffer Düssel are ennobled with letters patent under the name “von Falkenskiold”, founding the noble House of Falkenskiold.

Undated

• Peter the Great visits Copenhagen. He ascends the Round Tower on horseback while visiting Copenhagen. His wife, Catherine I, reportedly ascended behind him in a carriage.
• Johan Ludvig Holstein settles as a courtier and government official in Denmark.

Births

Bolle Willum Luxdorph.

• 10 January – Christian Siegfried Scheel von Plessen, army officer, county governor and landowner (died 1755)
• 24 July – Bolle Willum Luxdorph, government official and landowner (died 1788)

Full date missing

• Peder Olsen Walløe, arctic explorer (died 1793)
• Johann Georg Ziesenis, painter (died 1776)

Deaths

• 8 August – Mikkel Knudsen Crone. colonial administrator (born unknown year)