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8 unusual facts about Christian V of Denmark


Charlottenborg Palace

The site was donated by King Christian V to his half brother Ulrik Frederik Gyldenløve on 22 Marts 1669 in connection with the establishment of Kongens Nytorv.

Copenhagen Fire Department

The brigade began as the Copenhagen Royal Fire Brigade (Københavns kongelige Brandvæsen) on 9 July 1687 under King Christian V.

Denmark–France relations

After some hesitation, King Christian V started the invasion of the Scania (Skåneland) in 1675, while the Swedish were occupied with a war against Brandenburg.

Jammers Minde

When Christian V came to the throne in 1670, the conditions of her imprisonment were improved and she was given books and writing materials.

Jægersborg

Christian V, an enthusiast for hunting, renamed the house Jægersborg.

Marquard Gude

In 1678 Gude, having quarrelled with the duke, retired into private life; but in 1682 he entered the service of Christian V of Denmark as counsellor of the Schleswig-Holstein chancellery, and remained in it almost to the time of his death.

Nyhavn

Nyhavn was constructed by King Christian V from 1670 to 1673, dug by Swedish war prisoners from the Dano-Swedish War 1658–1660.

Store Bededag

The day was introduced in the Church of Denmark in 1686 by King Christian V as a consolidation of several minor (or local) Roman Catholic holidays which the Church observed that had survived the Reformation.


Arthur Capell, 1st Earl of Essex

In 1669, he was sent as ambassador to King Christian V of Denmark, in which capacity he gained credit by refusing to strike his flag to the governor of Kronborg.

Danish units of measurement

From May 1, 1683, King Christian V of Denmark introduced an office to oversee weights and measures, a justervæsen, first led by Ole Rømer.

Danneskiold-Samsøe

The first grantees were children from the 1677 marriage between Countess Antoinette of Aldenburg-Knyphausen and Ulrik Frederik Gyldenløve, Count of Laurvig, a celebrated (Norwegian) general and the son of Frederick III of Denmark-Norway by his mistress Margrethe Pape, because that marriage was so high for a bastard that King Christian V, the count's half-brother, agreed to guarantee a comital title to all its male-line descendants.

Reformed Church, Copenhagen

Prior to her marriage to King Christian V of Denmark in 1667, Charlotte Amalie of Hesse-Kassel had requested, and had been granted for herself and her court, the right to profess freely her Reformed faith.

Consecrated in 1689, the church was instigated by Queen Charlotte Amalie, consort of King Christian V, who was herself a German Calvinist.


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