1878 in Denmark

Events from the year 1878 in Denmark.

Incumbents

• Monarch – Christian IX
• Prime minister – J. B. S. Estrup

Events

• 39 July The 11th Scandinavian Scientist Conference is held in Copenhagen.
• 9 May The panserbatteri Helgoland is launched.
• 21 December Princess Thyra of Denmark is wed to Ernest Augustus, Crown Prince of Hanover in Copenhagen. The couple continue to Fredensborg Palace after the wedding ceremony.

Culture

Theatre, opera and ballet

• 25 September The opera Drot og marsk is first performed at the Rotal Danish Theatre in Copenhagen.

Births

JanuaryMarch

• 1 January – Agner Krarup Erlang, mathematician, statistician and engineer
• 6 January – Adeline Genée, Danish-British ballet dancer (died 1970)
• 10 February , businessman (died 1963)
• 13 March – Lau Lauritzen Sr., film director, screenwriter and actor (died 1938)
• 11 April – Holger-Madsen, actor (died 1943)
• 17 March Gudmund Nyeland Brandt, landscape architect (died 1945)

JulySeptember

• 30 July Jørgen Skafte Rasmussen, businessman, company founder (died 1964)
• 2 August – Princess Ingeborg of Denmark, duchess of Västergötland (died 1958 in Sweden)
• 25 September Holger Thiele, astronomer (died 1946)

OctoberDecember

• 9 November Povl Baumann, architect (died 1963)
• 24 December – Thomas Madsen-Mygdal, politician, former Danish prime minister (died 1943)

Deaths

• 6 March Harald Jerichau, painter (born 1851)
• 4 December David B. Adler, businessman (born 1826)

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