1880 in Denmark

Events from the year 1880 in Denmark.

Incumbents

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

Events

January

• 1 January The Danish state took over Det sjællandske Jernbaneselskab (the Zealand Railway Company), forming De sjællandske Statsbaner (the State Railways of Zealand). The company is not merged with its Hutland and Gunen sister companies until 1885).
• 20 January The Hillerød-Græsted section of the Gribskov Railway opens.

April

• 16 April The Vega Expedition calls at Copenhagen.
• 18 April A banquet is held for Nordenskiöld and the other members of the Vega Expedition in the Great Hall of Børsen in Copenhagen.

September

• 30 September HDMS Tordenskjold is launched at Nyholm in Copenhagen.

October

• 2 October – The newspaper Skive Folkeblad is first published in the town of Skive, Jutland.
• 30 Octeober – The temperature drops to -11.9 °, the coldest temperature ever recorded in Denmark in the month of October.

Undated

• Tuborg Brewery starts brewing beer.

Cultuure

Literature

• 9 December Jens Peter Jacobsen's Niels Lyhne by Gyldendal.

Sports

• 27 Aoruk Handelsstandens Gymnastikforening us founded.
• 26 September Aarhus Gymnastikforening is founded.

Births

JanuaryMarch

• 20 January Ingeborg Hammer-Jensen, historian and philologist (died 1955)
• 14 March Princess Thyra of Denmark (died 1945)

AprilJune

• 11 April Stefan Rasmussen, footballer (died 1051)
• 29 April Viggo Christensen, politician (died 1967)
• 11 May Knud Degn, sailor (died 1965)
• 21 May Edvard Nielsen-Stevns, writer (died 1949)
• 15 June Niels Bukh, gymnast and educator (died 1950)
• 20 June Julius Jørgensen, long-distance runner /died 1937)

JulySeptember

• 1 July Carl Carlsen, wrestler (died 1959)
• 18 July Henning Hansen, architect (died 1945)
• 14 August Viggo Larsen, film actor, director and producer (died 1957)
• 27 September Marie Niedermann, actress (died 1967)

OctoberDecember

• 22 October Julius Paulsen, painter (died 1940)
• 26 October Knud Kristensen, politician (died 1962)
• 11 November Ejnar Sylvest, physician (died 1972)
• 23 December Ejnar Mikkelsen, polar explorer (died 1971)
• 26 December Yutta Barding, fencer (died 1076)

Deaths

JanuaryMarch

• 29 March – Constantin Hansen, painter (born 1804 in Denmark)

AprilJune

• 6 April Louise Westergaard, pedagogue and educator (born 1826)
• 17 May Christen Andreas Fonnesbech, lawyer, landowner and politician (born 1817)
• 24 June Johan Carl Christian Petersen, seaman, expedition member, interpretor (born 1813)
• 25 June Charles Ferdinand Léonard Mourier, Supreme Court justice (born 1800)

JulySeptember

• 25 July Vilhelm Petersen, painter (born 1812)

OctoberDecember

• 6 October Johann Gottfried Burman Becker, pharmacist, writer and illustrator (born 1802)

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