Events from the year 1685 in Denmark.
Incumbents
- Monarch – Christian V
- Grand Chancellor – Frederik Ahlefeldt
Events
- 16 April – Fort Frederiksborg is sold to the English.
- 19 May – Leonora Christina Ulfeldt is released after twenty-two years in confinement in Blåtårn.
- September – a woman named Mette is put on trial for witchcraft in Ebeltoft, beginning the Rugård witch trials.
- 3 October – The County of Reventlow is established by Conrad von Reventlow from the manors of Sandbjerg and Ballegård as well as the farm Bøgskov.
Undated
- The Brandenburg Colony is established on St. Thomas in the Danish West Indies.
- Encouraged by his queen, Christian V licensed the formation of a reformed congregation among German, Dutch and French immigrants.
Births
- 28 October – Hans Gram, historian (died 1748)
Full date missing
- Povl Badstuber, coppersmith and industrialist (died 1762)
Deaths
- 29 January – Ove Ramel, landowner (born 1637)
- 20 February – Queen Sophie Amalie, Queen of Denmark (born 1628)
- 10 June – Peder Lauridsen Scavenius, jurist, civil servant, rector and landowner (born 1623)
- 23 August – Ludvig Rosenkrantz, nobleman (born 1628)
Publications
- Peder Syv': Den Danske Sprog-Kunst ("The Danish Language-Art")
- Peder Hansen Resen: Petri Johannis Resenii Bibliotheca Regiæ Academiæ Hafniensi Donata Cui Præfixa Est Ejusdem Resenii Vita
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