1884 in Denmark

Events from the year 1884 in Denmark.

Incumbents

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

Events

May

• 31 May – The Tommerup–Assens railway line opens on Funen.

June* 25 June – The 1884Danish Folketing election takes place.

• 10–16 August – The 8th International Medical Congress opens in Copenhagen. The participants include Peter Ludvig Panum (President), Louis Pasteur, Rudolf Ludwig Virchow and James Paget.

October

• 1 October The newspaper Dagbladet Politiken is founded by Viggo Hørup, Edvard Brandes and Hermann Bing.
• 3 October – The fire of the 2nd Christiansborg Palace begins.

Culture

Art

• The Thorvaldsen Exhibition Medal is awarded to Christian Zacho for the painting Quiet waters in Dyrehaven and to August Jerndorff for a portrait painting (possibly Anne Gerricke).

Births

JanuaryMarch

• 4 January Harald Christensen, wrestler (died 1959)
• 18 March – Oluf Høst, painter (died 1966)

AprilJune

• 9 April – Peter Andersen, gymnast (died 1954)
• 14 May – Erik Magnussen, silversmith (died 1861 in the United States)
• 28 May – Harald Krenchel, fencer (died 1922)
• 30 June – Svend Rindomm screenwriter and actor (died 1960)

JulySeptember

• 13 July Mary Willumsen, photographer (died 1961)
• 30 September – Carl Pedersen, rower (died 1968)

OctoberDecember

• 1 December Torben Meyer, actor (died 1975 in the United States)
• 6 November Elisabeth Neckelmann, painter (died 1956)
• 16 December – Jonathan Leunbach, doctor (died 1955)

Deaths

January March

• 24 January Johan Christian Gebauer, composer (born 1806)
• 3 February Hans Lassen Martensen, bishop and academic (born 1808)
• 16 February Niels Hoffmeyer, army officer (born 1836)

AprilJune

• 18 June Sophus Berendsen, businessman (died 1829)
• 28 June Anna Christiane Ludvigsen, poet (born 1794)

JulySeptember

• 9 August – Annestine Beyer, reform pedagogue and pioneer on women's education (born 1795)
• 19 September Moritz G. Melchior, businessman (died 1816)
• 23 September Mads Pagh Bruun, politician (born 1809)
• 30 September Rasmus Nielsen, philosopher (born 1809)

OctoberDecember

• 28 October Max Müller, army officer (born 1808)
• 19 December Alfred Benzon, pharmacist and industrialist (born 1823)
• 30 December Budtz Müller, photographer (born 1837)

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