When Karen Jespersdatter was born about 1679, in Byrum, Hals, Hjørring, Denmark, her father, Jesper Christensen, was 23 and her mother, Mrs. Jesper Christensen, was 21. She married Niels Nielsen Himmerig before 1713. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 1 daughter. She died on 5 September 1759, in Denmark, at the age of 81, and was buried in Vesterø, Hjørring, Denmark.
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The Royal Danish Naval Academy was established in 1701 to educate then commission all officers into the Royal Danish Navy. It is the oldest, still-existing, officers' academy in the world.
The Royal Danish Military Academy educated and commissioned all officers for the Royal Danish Army. The Military Academy function was initiated in 1713 by request of King Frederick IV on inspiration from the Naval Academy.
Greenland becomes Danish province.
equivalent of Katherine . It was first introduced to the English-speaking world by Scandinavian settlers in America; it has been used in Britain only since the 1940s, but had become very popular by the 1960s.
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