1867 in Denmark

Events from the year 1867 in Denmark.

Incumbents

• Monarch – Christian IX
• Prime minister – C. E. Frijs

Events

• 16 January Emil Messershcmidt's Tannery on Gammel Kongevej in Copenhagen is hit by fire.
• 22 May – Maria Fedeorowna arrives to Copenhagen.
• 29 October A hurricane hits the Danish West Indies.
• 18 November The 1867 Virgin Islands earthquake and tsunami hits the Danish West Indies.

Undated

• The Royal Danish Academy of Music is founded.

Culture

Art

• Carl Neumann is awarded the Thorvaldsen Exhibition Medal for the painting Skibe under land efter en byge.

Births

JanuaryMarch

• 10 January Sophy A. Christensen, furnituremaker (died 1955)
• 27 January Charlotte Wedell, mathematicians (died 1953)

AprilJune

• 7 April Holger Pedersen, linguist (died 1953)
• 23 April Johannes Fibiger, physician (died 1928)
• 25 May Anders Peter Nielsen, sport shooter (died 1950)
• 11 June – Marie Krøyer, painter (died 1940)

JulySeptember

• 9 July
• Carl Jensen Burrau, mathematician (died 1944)

• Gad Frederik Clement, painter (died 1933)
• 16 September Hedevig Quiding, singer and music critic (died 1936)

OctoberDecember

• 22 December Carl Wesenberg-Lund, zoologist and freshwater ecologist (born 1955)
• 27 December – Johannes Larsen, painter (died 1961)

Deaths

• 3 March – Johan Ludwig Lund, painter (born 1777)
• 10 June Ilia Fibiger, writer (born 1817)
• 5 September Prince William of Hesse-Kassel (born 1787)
• 11 September Carl Wilhelm Thalbitzer, landowner and politician (born 1801)
• 10 September Broder Knud Brodersen Wigelsen, naval officer (born 1787)
• 22 November Didrik Frisch, painter (born 1835)
• 20 December Ole Johansen Winstrup, engineer and inventor (born 1782)

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