1701 in Denmark

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See also:	Other events of 1701 List of years in Denmark

Events from the year 1701 in Denmark.

• Monarch – Frederick IV^[1]
• Grand Chancellor – Conrad von Reventlow

• 26 April – Commodore C. T. Sehested adjourns as the first chief of the new Royal Danish Naval Academy. The institution is created with inspiration from similar institutions in the Netherlands and France.

• A Danish Auxiliary Corps of 8,000 soldiers is garrisoned in Saxony, protecting the hereditary lands of August the Strong,
• Ole Rømer proposes the Rømer scale.
• 25 May – Christian Gyldenløve marries Dorothea Krag in Copenhagen.

• 23 February – Johannes Valeur, judge and vice mayor of Copenhagen (died 1771)^[2]
• 4 (or 22) June – Nicolai Eigtved, architect (died 1754)
• 23 September – Bredo von Munthe af Morgenstierne, civil servant, Supreme Court justice and landowner (died 1757)
• 28 September – Stephen Hansen, industrialist, businessman and General War Commissioner (died 1770)

• December – Henrik Ehm, industrialist, coppersmith and alchemist
• Adriaen Foly, painter (born 1664)^[3]
• Oliger Jacobaeus, professor, physician and naturalist