1685 in Denmark

• 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==

• 17 March Niels Sehested (died 1745) . • 1 April – Charlotte Amalie Skeel, noblewoman (died 1729) • 28 October – Hans Gram, historian (died 1748) Full date missing • Povl Badstuber, coppersmith and industrialist (died 1762) ==Deaths==

11 January Jørgen Erik Skeel Jørgen Erik Skeel, prime minister of Denmark (born 1737) • 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 ==References==