Events in the year 2020 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. for life or until abdication, and therefore the head of state of a monarchy. A monarch may exercise the highest authority and power i ...

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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 fema ...

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 i ...

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Mette Frederiksen Mette Frederiksen (; born 19 November 1977) is a Danish politician who has been Prime Minister of Denmark since June 2019, and Leader of the Social Democrats since June 2015. The second woman to hold either office, she is also the youngest prime ...

Events

*100 years since the reunification between North Schleswig (South Jutland) and Denmark. *250 years since the introduction of Freedom of the press in Denmark-Norway.

April

*April 15 – COVID-19 pandemic:

partially lifts its lockdown rules, allowing children up to age 11 to return to school.

Culture

Film

* 12 December '' Another Round'' wins the awards for

Best Film This is a list of categories of awards commonly awarded through organizations that bestow film awards, including those presented by various film, festivals, and people's awards. Best Actor/Best Actress *See Best Actor#Film awards, Best Actress#F ...

Best Director Best Director is the name of an award which is presented by various film, television and theatre organizations, festivals, and people's awards. It may refer to: Film awards * AACTA Award for Best Direction * Academy Award for Best Director * BA ...

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Thomas Vinterberg Thomas Vinterberg (; born 19 May 1969) is a Danish film director who, along with Lars von Trier, co-founded the Dogme 95 movement in filmmaking, which established rules for simplifying movie production. He is best known for the films ''The Celeb ...

), Best Screenwriter, (Thomas Vinterberg and

Tobias Lindholm Tobias Lindholm (born 5 July 1977) is a Danish screenwriter and film director. His 2015 directed film ''A War'' was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. In addition to ''A War'', he has directed the films '' R'' (2010), ...

) and Best Actor / Mads Mikkelsen) at the 33rd European Film Awards.

Sports

Badminton

* 1823 February

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 gold in Men's Single and

Kim Astrup Kim Astrup Sørensen (born 6 March 1992) is a Danish badminton player. As junior player, he won the bronze medal at the 2010 World Junior Championships in the boys' doubles. He later won a gold in the mixed doubles and bronze medals in the boys' ...

and

Anders Skaarup Rasmussen Anders Skaarup Rasmussen (born 15 February 1989) is a Danish badminton player. He joined the Denmark winning team at the 2016 Thomas Cup in Kunshan, China, where he and his teammates beating Indonesia 3–2 in the final. Rasmussen won the men's ...

win gold in Men's Double at the 2020 Spain Masters. * 15 March –

wins a gold medal in Men's Single at

2020 All England Open The 2020 All England Open (officially known as the Yonex All England Open Badminton Championships 2020 for sponsorship reasons) was a badminton tournament which took place at Arena Birmingham in England from 11 to 15 March 2020. It had a total p ...

. * 1317 October

2020 Denmark Open The 2020 Denmark Open (officially known as the Danisa Denmark Open presented by Victor for sponsorship reasons) was a badminton tournament which took place at the Odense Sports Park in Denmark from 13 to 18 October 2020. It had a total purse of $ ...

takes place in Odense. **

Anders Antonsen Anders Antonsen (born 27 April 1997) is a Danish badminton player. He won the gold medal at the 2015 European Junior Championships in the boys singles event, and at the same year was awarded the European Young Player of the Year. Together with th ...

wins gold in men's single

Cycling

* 26 February Denmark wins a gold medal in Men's team pursuit at the 2020 UCI Track Cycling World Championships. * 1 March Denmark wins a gold medal in Men's Madison at the 2020 UCI Track Cycling World Championships. * 18 August

Cecilie Uttrup Ludwig Cecilie Uttrup Ludwig (born 23 August 1995) is a Danish professional road cyclist, who currently rides for UCI Women's WorldTeam . Career As a junior, she competed at the 2012 UCI Road World Championships and the 2013 UCI Road World Champion ...

wins Giro dell'Emilia Internazionale Donne Elite * 11 October ** Casper Pedersen wins the 2020 Paris–Tours. **

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 the 2020 Gent–Wevelgem.

Golf

* 30 August

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 the

UK Championship The UK Championship is a professional ranking snooker tournament. It is one of snooker's prestigious Triple Crown events, along with the World Championship and the Masters. It is usually held at the Barbican Centre, York. Ronnie O'Sullivan ...

on the

2020 European Tour The 2020 European Tour was the 49th season of golf tournaments since the European Tour officially began in 1972 and the 12th edition of the Race to Dubai. The COVID-19 pandemic had a major impact on the season, with many tournaments being resche ...

. * 22 November Joachim B. Hansen wins

Joburg Open The Joburg Open is a men's professional golf tournament that is held in Johannesburg, South Africa. It is an event on the Southern Africa-based Sunshine Tour and co-sanctioned by the European Tour, which attracts a larger prize fund and stronger ...

on the

Handball

*3 to 20 December – The

2020 European Women's Handball Championship The 2020 European Women's Handball Championship was held from 3 to 20 December 2020. The games were played in Herning and Kolding, Denmark. Originally, this tournament would be held with 2 host countries: Norway and Denmark. However, lacking so ...

is held in Denmark and Norway.

Other

* 1 February – Sarah Mahfoud is new

IBF The International Boxing Federation (IBF) is one of four major organizations recognized by the International Boxing Hall of Fame (IBHOF) which sanctions professional boxing bouts, alongside the World Boxing Association (WBA), World Boxing Counci ...

world champion in featherweight after defeating Brenda Carabajal * 11 October – Sverri Sandberg Nielsen wins gold in men's single sculler at the 2020 European Rowing Championships.

Deaths

*11 January – Tom Belsø, motor racing driver (b. 1942). *29 June – Svend Aage Rask, footballer (b. 1935). *20 July – Lone Dybkjær, politician (b. 1940). *28 July –

Bent Fabric Bent Fabricius-Bjerre (7 December 1924 – 28 July 2020), better known internationally as Bent Fabric, was a Danish pianist and composer. Biography Bent Fabricius-Bjerre was born in Frederiksberg, Denmark. He started a jazz ensemble after ...

, pianist and composer (b. 1924). *22 August – Ulla Pia, singer (b. 1945) * November

Allan Botschinsky Allan Botschinsky (29 March 1940 – 26 November 2020) was a Danish jazz trumpeter and flugelhornist, composer, arranger, conductor, producer, and record label owner. Biography Botschinsky was born in Copenhagen, and had a background in classical ...

. kazz mus8ician

References

{{Year in Europe, 2020 Years of the 21st century in Denmark

2020s in Denmark