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Prince Christian of Denmark

Copenhagen, 25 Mar 1675 – Ulm, 27 Jun 1695

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Facts and their sources

A life in time

  1. 25 Mar 1675

    Born in Copenhagen

  2. 27 Jun 1695

    Dies in Ulm, aged 20

Family

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Parents

During his lifetime

He lived through 3 decades. Pick one to hear and see what it was like around Copenhagen.

General history, not a record about the family: each item says where it comes from.

The 1670s · Prince is born in Copenhagen

In the news1676

Battle of Lund fought in 1676

During the Skåne War, a bloody battle at Lund on 4 December 1676 resulted in the deaths of approximately 6,000 men.

At the table

Common breakfast of beer porridge

A common breakfast for many, including school children, consisted of warm beer and bread porridge, sometimes served with butter.

What people wore

Everyday clothing colors and materials

Peasant men wore non-dyed, greyish homespun clothes for everyday work, while women typically wore black or dark blue daily garments. Both genders commonly wore clogs for both everyday and festive activities.

Getting around

Travel by farm wagons

Ordinary people mostly traveled between towns using small horse-drawn farm wagons, as there were no railways or steamships for public transport in this period. Passengers could hire a farmer and his wagon if they did not own a vehicle themselves.

What it cost

Cost of clothing fabric

Coarse woolen fabric for everyday work clothes, known as vadmel, cost between 16 and 24 skilling per alen at the end of the century.

Music

Minuet arrives in Denmark

The minuet began to establish itself as a fashionable dance in Denmark around 1667, appearing in wedding poetry.

Daily life

Dark and Smoky Homes

Ordinary homes often lacked chimneys, relying on open fires on the floor with smoke escaping through holes in the roof, making interiors dark, smoky, and stifling.