When Mikkel Mogensen was born in 1703, in Vesterbølle, Hald, Denmark, his father, Mogens Mikkelsen, was 25 and his mother, Kirsten Jensdatter, was 22. He married Margrethe Elisabeth Clausdatter Borch on 2 February 1735, in Kirkcudbrightshire, Scotland, United Kingdom. He died in April 1735, in Vester Bølle, Viborg, Denmark, at the age of 32, and was buried in Vesterbølle, Hald, Denmark.
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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.
The Danish Asiatic Company was a trading company established to revive the dwindling Danish trade with the East Indies and China. It was taken over by the Danish government in 1772 and continued to run until around 1843.
Some characteristic forenames: Scandinavian Erik, Niels, Palle.
Danish and Norwegian: patronymic from the personal name Mogens, Danish form of Magnus . This surname is rare in Norway. Compare Morgensen .
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