Events in the year 2019 in

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Incumbents

Monarch A monarch is a head of stateWebster's II New College DictionarMonarch Houghton Mifflin. Boston. 2001. p. 707. Life tenure, for life or until abdication, and therefore the head of state of a monarchy. A monarch may exercise the highest authority ...

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Margrethe II Margrethe II (; Margrethe Alexandrine Þórhildur Ingrid, born 16 April 1940) is Queen of Denmark. Having reigned as Denmark's monarch for over 50 years, she is Europe's longest-serving current head of state and the world's only incumbent femal ...

Prime Minister A prime minister, premier or chief of cabinet is the head of the cabinet and the leader of the ministers in the executive branch of government, often in a parliamentary or semi-presidential system. Under those systems, a prime minister is not ...

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Lars Løkke Rasmussen Lars Løkke Rasmussen (; born 15 May 1964) is a Danish politician who has served as Minister of Foreign Affairs since 2022. He previously served as the 25th Prime Minister of Denmark from 2009 to 2011 and again from 2015 to 2019. He was the lead ...

Events

* 2 January – Great Belt Bridge rail accident: A

DSB DSB may refer to: Science, technology and devices * DsbA, a bacterial member of the Dsb (disulfide bond) family of enzymes * Double strand break, a break in both DNA strands, part of DNA repair * in telecommunications, double-sideband transmission ...

express passenger train is hit by a semi-trailer from a passing cargo train on the western bridge of the

Great Belt Fixed Link The Great Belt Bridge ( da, Storebæltsbroen) or Great Belt fixed link ( da, Storebæltsforbindelsen) is a multi-element fixed link crossing the Great Belt strait between the Danish islands of Zealand and Funen. It consists of a road suspension ...

in Denmark, killing eight people and making it the deadliest rail accident in the country since 1988. * 10–27 January –

2019 World Men's Handball Championship The 2019 IHF World Men's Handball Championship was the 26th event hosted by the International Handball Federation and held in Denmark and Germany from 10 to 27 January 2019. It was the first IHF World Men's Handball Championship to include more t ...

– co-hosted with Germany * 26 May – The

2019 European Parliament election The 2019 European Parliament election was held between 23 and 26 May 2019, the ninth parliamentary election since the first direct elections in 1979. A total of 751 Members of the European Parliament (MEPs) represent more than 512 million peopl ...

* 5 June –

2019 Danish general election General elections were held in the Kingdom of Denmark on 5 June 2019 to elect all 179 members of the Folketing; 175 in Denmark proper, two in the Faroe Islands and two in Greenland. The elections took place ten days after the European Parliament ...

* 27 June – The Cabinet of Mette Frederiksen is presented. * 16 August –; The government of

rejects the suggestion that the United States might purchase

Greenland Greenland ( kl, Kalaallit Nunaat, ; da, Grønland, ) is an island country in North America that is part of the Kingdom of Denmark. It is located between the Arctic and Atlantic oceans, east of the Canadian Arctic Archipelago. Greenland is t ...

The arts

Film

Music

Sport

Badminton

* 17 February – Denmark wins the

2019 European Mixed Team Badminton Championships The 2019 European Mixed Team Badminton Championships was held in Copenhagen, Denmark, between 13–17 February 2019 and organised by Badminton Europe and Denmark's Badminton Union. Qualification Direct qualifiers * (host country) Qualification ...

by defeating Germany 3–0 in the final. * 24–31 March –

Viktor Axelsen Viktor Axelsen (born 4 January 1994) is a Danish badminton player. He is the 2017 and 2022 World champion and the 2020 Olympic champion. He won the 2010 World Junior Championships, beating South Korea's Kang Ji-wook in the final to become the ...

wins Men's Single at 2019 India Open.

Cycling

* 27 February – 3 March – Denmark wins one silver medal and two bronze medals at the

2019 UCI Track Cycling World Championships The 2019 UCI Track Cycling World Championships were held in Pruszków, Poland from 27 February to 3 March 2019. Schedule 20 events were held: Medal summary Medals table Men Women *Shaded events are non-Olympic References Externa ...

* 39 April –

Jakob Fuglsang Jakob Diemer Fuglsang (born 22 March 1985) is a Danish professional road racing cyclist, who currently rides for UCI WorldTeam . Before turning professional for , he was a mountain biker racing for Team Cannondale–Vredestein, winning the Under ...

wins

2019 Liège–Bastogne–Liège The 2019 Liège–Bastogne–Liège was a road bicycle racing, road cycling one-day race that took place on 28 April 2019 in Belgium. It was the 105th edition of Liège–Bastogne–Liège and the 20th event of the 2019 UCI World Tour. It was wo ...

. * 16 June –

wins the

Critérium du Dauphiné The Critérium du Dauphiné, before 2010 known as the Critérium du Dauphiné Libéré, is an annual cycling road race in the Dauphiné region in the southeast of France. The race is run over eight days during the first half of June. It is part ...

. * 29 September –

Mads Pedersen Mads Pedersen may refer to: * Mads Pedersen (canoeist) (born 1996), Danish canoeist * Mads Pedersen (cyclist) (born 1995), Danish cyclist * Mads Pedersen (footballer, born 1993), Danish footballer * Mads Valentin, Danish footballer * Mads Pedersen ...

wins gold in Men's road race at the

2019 UCI Road World Championships The 2019 UCI Road World Championships was the 92nd edition of the UCI Road World Championships, the annual world championships for road bicycle racing. It took place between 22 and 29 September 2019 in the historic county of Yorkshire, United K ...

. * 16–20 October –

2019 UEC European Track Championships The 2019 UEC European Track Championships was the tenth edition of the elite UEC European Track Championships in track cycling and took place at the Omnisport Apeldoorn in Apeldoorn, Netherlands, between 16 and 20 October 2019. The event was org ...

* 17 October — Denmark wins gold in

Team Pursuit The team pursuit is a track cycling event similar to the individual pursuit, except that two teams, each of up to four riders, compete, starting on opposite sides of the velodrome. Race format Both men's and women's events are competed over ...

at the

. ** 17 October – Denmark wins a gold medal in

. ** 20 October ***

Amalie Dideriksen Amalie Dideriksen (born 24 May 1996) is a Danish road and track cyclist, who rides for UCI Women's WorldTeam . Career She won the junior women's road race at the World Championships in 2013 and 2014 as well as a bronze medal in the scratch ra ...

and

Julie Leth Julie Leth (born 13 July 1992) is a Danish racing cyclist, who currently rides for UCI Women's Continental Team . She competed in the 2013 UCI women's road race in Florence. Leth joined the team in 2017. In December 2018, announced that Leth ...

wins a gold medal for Denmark in Women's Madison. ***

Lasse Norman Hansen Lasse Norman Hansen (born 11 February 1992) is a Danish professional road and track racing cyclist, who currently rides for UCI ProTeam . During his track cycling career, he has won five medals (including two golds) at the Summer Olympic Games, ...

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Michael Mørkøv Michael Mørkøv Christensen (; born 30 April 1985) is a Danish professional racing cyclist, who currently rides for UCI WorldTeam . He is the brother of racing cyclists Jacob and Jesper Mørkøv. Career Born in Kokkedal, Mørkøv started as a t ...

wins a gold medal for Denmark in Men's madison.

Golf

* 8 December –

Rasmus Højgaard Rasmus Højgaard (born 12 March 2001) is a Danish professional golfer who won his first European Tour event at the 2019 AfrAsia Bank Mauritius Open, becoming the third youngest player to win on the European Tour. Amateur career Højgaard first ...

wins AfrAsia Bank Mauritius Openn.

Handball

* 27 January – Denmark wins the

in handball by defeating Norway 31–27 in the final.

Sailing

* 30 Oc tober – Anne-Marie Rindom wins the 2019 Women's World Sailor of the Year Award.

Tennis

* 8 June – Holger Vitus Nødskov Rune wins the

2019 French Open – Boys' Singles Holger Rune won the boys' singles tennis title at the 2019 French Open, defeating Toby Kodat in the final, 6–3, 6–7(5–7), 6–0. Tseng Chun-hsin was the defending champion, but chose not to participate. Seeds Draw Finals Top ...

Deaths

5 May Events Pre-1600 * 553 – The Second Council of Constantinople begins. *1215 – Rebel barons renounce their allegiance to King John of England — part of a chain of events leading to the signing of the Magna Carta. *1260 – Kub ...

Ib Glindemann Ib Niels Carl Glindemann Nielsen (September 27, 1934 – April 5, 2019) was a Danish jazz musician and the leader of the Ib Glindemann Orchestra (a big band modeled after the Stan Kenton Orchestra). Saxophonist Stan Getz frequently appeared with ...

, jazz composer and bandleader (born 1934)Dødsfald: Kapelmester, filmkomponist Ib Glindemann (84)
* 10 June – Ib Nørlund, composer (born 1931)

References

Links

* {{Year in Europe, 2019 Years of the 21st century in Denmark

2010s in Denmark