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Events from the year
* 7 January – The weekly ''Illustreret Familie Journal'', now ''
1877
Events
January–March
* January 1 – Queen Victoria is proclaimed ''Empress of India'' by the ''Royal Titles Act 1876'', introduced by Benjamin Disraeli, the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom .
* January 8 – Great ...
in Denmark
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Incumbents
* Monarch –Christian IX
Christian IX (8 April 181829 January 1906) was King of Denmark from 1863 until his death in 1906. From 1863 to 1864, he was concurrently Duke of Schleswig, Holstein and Lauenburg.
A younger son of Frederick William, Duke of Schleswig-Holstei ...
* Prime minister – J. B. S. Estrup
Events
* 7 January – The weekly ''Illustreret Familie Journal'', now ''Familie Journalen
''Familie Journalen'' is a Danish language weekly family and women's magazine published in Copenhagen, Denmark. Launched in 1877 the magazine is one of the oldest publications in the country. It was also published in Norway and Sweden.
History ...
'', is published for the first time.
* 15 February – St. Paul's Church in Copenhagen is completed and opens for the first time.
* 18 February – St. Paul's Church in Copenhagen is inaugurated.
* 12 April – The Estrup government's adoption of a temporary national budget after dissolving Rigsdagen
Rigsdagen () was the name of the national legislature of Denmark from 1849 to 1953.
''Rigsdagen'' was Denmark's first parliament, and it was incorporated in the Constitution of 1849. It was a bicameral legislature, consisting of two houses, th ...
sets off the political struggle between Landstinget
Landstinget was the upper house of the Rigsdag (the parliament of Denmark), from 1849 until 1953, when the bicameral system was abolished in favour of unicameralism. Landstinget had powers equal to the Folketing, which made the two houses of parl ...
and Folketinget
The Folketing ( da, Folketinget, ; ), also known as the Parliament of Denmark or the Danish Parliament in English, is the unicameral national legislature (parliament) of the Kingdom of Denmark—Denmark proper together with the Faroe Islands an ...
known as ''provisorietiden'', "the provisional era". The opposition introduces their so-called ''visnepolitik'', "whithering politics".
* 12 August – Six houses are washed away when Lønstrup is hit by a thunderstorm and torrential rain.
* 1 December – The Aarhus–Ryomgård
Ryomgård is a Danish country town with a population of 2,498 (1 January 2022) located 29 kilometers north east of to the country’s second largest city Aarhus. As such Ryomgård is in part a pendler town to Aarhus.
Ryomgård lies in the middl ...
section of the Grenaa Line
The Grenaa Line ( da, Grenaabanen) is a long standard gauge single track railway line in Denmark which runs between Aarhus and Grenaa through the peninsula of Djursland. The railway opened in 1876–1877. It is owned and maintained by Rail Net ...
railway is opened.
Date unknown
*Aarsdale Windmill
Aarsdale Windmill ( da, Aarsdale Mølle) is a smock windmill located on a hilltop on the southern fringe of Aarsdale, south of Svaneke on the Danish island of Bornholm. Constructed in 1877, it is still in operational condition although it is no ...
is completed.
* Nielsine Nielsen
Nielsine Nielsen (10 June 1850 – 8 October 1916) was the first female academic and physician in Denmark.
She graduated in 1885 and in 1889 she established her own medical practice and worked as a general practitioner. She was active in the gend ...
and Johanne Gleerup are admitted to the University of Copenhagen
The University of Copenhagen ( da, Københavns Universitet, KU) is a prestigious public research university in Copenhagen, Denmark. Founded in 1479, the University of Copenhagen is the second-oldest university in Scandinavia after Uppsala Unive ...
as Denmark's first female university students.
Births
January–June
* 2 January – Johannes Schmidt, biologist credited with the 1920 discovery that eels migrate to the Sargasso Sea to spawn (died 1933) * 12 February – Holger Scheuermann, surgeon after whomScheuermann's disease
Scheuermann's disease is a Self-limiting (biology), self-limiting skeleton, skeletal disorder of childhood. Scheuermann's disease describes a condition where the vertebrae grow unevenly with respect to the sagittal plane; that is, the Posterior ( ...
is named (died 1960
It is also known as the "Year of Africa" because of major events—particularly the independence of seventeen African nations—that focused global attention on the continent and intensified feelings of Pan-Africanism.
Events
January
* Jan ...
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* 20 February – Albert Kongsbak, painter (died 1958
Events
January
* January 1 – The European Economic Community (EEC) comes into being.
* January 3 – The West Indies Federation is formed.
* January 4
** Edmund Hillary's Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition completes the third ...
)
* 28 February – Peder Møller, violinist and music teacher (died 1940
A calendar from 1940 according to the Gregorian calendar, factoring in the dates of Easter and related holidays, cannot be used again until the year 5280.
Events
Below, the events of World War II have the "WWII" prefix.
January
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* 7 March – Thorvald Ellegaard
Thorvald Ellegaard (7 March 1877 - 27 April 1954) was a leading Danish track cycling, track racing cycle sport, cyclist in the 1900s and 1910s. He won the world professional sprint (cycling), sprint title six times, three European titles, and 24 ...
, track racing cyclist (died 1954)
* 15 March – Axel Frische
Axel Frische (15 March 1877 – 2 February 1956) was a Danish screenwriter, actor and film director. He wrote for 23 films between 1914 and 1956. He also appeared in 18 films between 1932 and 1950. He was born and died in Denmark.
Selecte ...
, screenwriter, actor and film director (died 1956
Events
January
* January 1 – The Anglo-Egyptian Condominium ends in Sudan.
* January 8 – Operation Auca: Five U.S. evangelical Christian missionaries, Nate Saint, Roger Youderian, Ed McCully, Jim Elliot and Pete Fleming, ar ...
)
* 22 March – Einar Ambt, architect (died 1928
Events January
* January – British bacteriologist Frederick Griffith reports the results of Griffith's experiment, indirectly proving the existence of DNA.
* January 1 – Eastern Bloc emigration and defection: Boris Bazhan ...
)
* 11 April – Carl Alstrup
Carl Alstrup (11 April 1877 – 2 October 1942) was a Danish actor and film director. He appeared in 22 films between 1908 and 1942. He also directed four films between 1909 and 1910. He was born in Sundbyvester, Tårnby, Denmark and died ...
, actor and film director (died 1943
Events
Below, the events of World War II have the "WWII" prefix.
January
* January 1 – WWII: The Soviet Union announces that 22 German divisions have been encircled at Stalingrad, with 175,000 killed and 137,650 captured.
* January 4 ...
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* 28 April – Frederik Draiby, architect, first city designer of Aarhus (died 1966)
* 29 May – Jens Hajslund, Olympic sport shooter, bronze medalist in team free rifle
A team is a group of individuals (human or non-human) working together to achieve their goal.
As defined by Professor Leigh Thompson of the Kellogg School of Management, " team is a group of people who are interdependent with respect to infor ...
at the 1912 Summer Olympics (died 1964
Events January
* January 1 – The Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland is dissolved.
* January 5 - In the first meeting between leaders of the Roman Catholic and Orthodox churches since the fifteenth century, Pope Paul VI and Patriarc ...
)
* 8 June – Thorvald Aagaard, composer (died 1937)
* 27 June – Axel Høeg-Hansen
Axel Høeg-Hansen (27 June 1877 – 30 August 1947) was a Danish architect.
Stylistically he mainly worked in neoclassical and functionalist styles.
He primarily worked in and around Aarhus at the turn of the 20th century.
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Axe ...
, architect (died 1947)
July–December
* 1 July – Kay Schrøder, Olympic fencer, competitor at the 1920 Summer Olympics (died 1949) * 13 July –Erik Scavenius
Erik Julius Christian Scavenius (; 13 July 1877 – 29 November 1962) was the Danish foreign minister from 1909 to 1910, 1913 to 1920 and 1940 to 1943, and prime minister from 1942 to 1943, during the occupation of Denmark until the Danish elect ...
, politician, Prime Minister of Denmark
The prime minister of Denmark ( da, Danmarks statsminister, fo, Forsætisráðharri, kl, Ministeriuneq) is the head of government in the Kingdom of Denmark comprising the three constituent countries: Denmark, Greenland and the Faroe Island ...
1942–1943 (died 1962
Events January
* January 1 – Western Samoa becomes independent from New Zealand.
* January 3 – Pope John XXIII excommunicates Fidel Castro for preaching communism.
* January 8 – Harmelen train disaster: 93 die in the wor ...
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* 10 August – Harald Bergstedt, writer, novelist, playwright and poet (died 1965)
* 22 August – Henning Eiler Petersen, mycologist, botanist and marine botanist (died 1946)
* 2 December – Carl Manicus-Hansen, gymnast, silver medalist in the team event in gymnastics at the 1906 Intercalated Games
At the 1906 Summer Olympics in Athens, four gymnastics events were contested, all for men only. Now called the ''Intercalated Games'', the 1906 Games are no longer considered as an official Olympic Games by the International Olympic Committee.
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(died 1960
It is also known as the "Year of Africa" because of major events—particularly the independence of seventeen African nations—that focused global attention on the continent and intensified feelings of Pan-Africanism.
Events
January
* Jan ...
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Deaths
* 30 January –Rudolph Rothe
Rudolph Rothe (18 October 1802 – 30 January 1877) was a Danish landscape architect who was awarded the high-ranking title of ''etatsråd'' for his achievements. Talented in both the practical and theoretical aspects of landscape gardening, he ...
, landscape architect (born 1802
Events
January–March
* January 5 – Thomas Bruce, 7th Earl of Elgin, British ambassador to the Ottoman Empire, begins removal of the Elgin Marbles from the Parthenon in Athens, claiming they were at risk of destruction during the O ...
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* 28 March – Henrik Nicolai Clausen, theologian and National Liberal Party politician (born in 1793
The French Republic introduced the French Revolutionary Calendar starting with the year I.
Events
January–June
* January 7 – The Ebel riot occurs in Sweden.
* January 9 – Jean-Pierre Blanchard becomes the first to fl ...
)
* 25 April – Peter Faber
Peter Faber (french: Pierre Lefevre or Favre, la, Petrus Faver) (13 April 1506 – 1 August 1546) was a Jesuit priest and theologian, who was also a co-founder of the Society of Jesus, along with Ignatius of Loyola and Francis Xavier. Pope Fra ...
, songwriter, telegraphy pioneer (born 1810
Events
January–March
* January 1 – Major-General Lachlan Macquarie officially becomes Governor of New South Wales.
* January 4 – Australian seal hunter Frederick Hasselborough discovers Campbell Island, in the Subantarctic.
* Jan ...
)
* 16 November – Oscar Alexander Ræder, writer (born 1844)
References
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Years of the 19th century in Denmark