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• Incumbents
• Events
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• Births
• Deaths
• References

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Decades:	1660s 1670s 1680s 1690s 1700s
See also:	Other events of 1686 List of years in Denmark

Events from the year 1686 in Denmark .

Incumbents

• Monarch – Christian V ^[1]
• Grand Chancellor – Frederik Ahlefeldt, until his death on 7 July.

Events

Births

• 5 April – Poul Vendelbo Løvenørn, Secretary of War and Minister of the Navy (died 1740)
• 12 August – Bendix Grodtschilling the Youngest, painter and conchologist (died 1737)

Deaths

• 29 May – Ove Juul, nobleman and vice Governor-general of Norway (born 1615)
• 7 July – Frederik Ahlefeldt, statesman and Grand Chancellor (born 1623)
• 25 November – Nicolas Steno, 17th-century scientist and bishop (born 1638)

References