1885 in Denmark

Events from the year 1885 in Denmark.

Incumbents

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

Events

• January The magazine Kvinden & Samfundet is established.
• 1 October DSB is founded through the merger of the state-owned Zealand Railway Company and Jutland-Funen Railway Company.

Undated

• The Danish Union of Joiners is established.
• Kvindelig Fremskridtsforening is founded.

Sports

• 13 May Aalborg Boldspilklub is founded.

Births

JanuaryMarch

• 13 January Rasmus Hansen, gymnast (died 1967)
• 21 February
• Halvor Birch, gymnast (died 1962)
• Thøger Thøgersen, politician /died 1947)
• 25 February – Christian Petersen, sculptor (died 1961 in USA)
• 5 March Gerda Wegener, illustrator and painter (died 1940)
• 22 March Jens Kristian Jensen, gymnast (died 1956)

AprilJune

• 2 April Rikard Magnussen, sculptor (died 1948)
• 6 April – Holcha Krake, artist (died 1944 in USA)
• 17 April – Karen Blixen (died 1962)
• 23 April Jais Nielsen, painter (died 1961)

OctoberDecember

• 7 October – Niels Bohr, theoretical physicist (died 1962)
• 23 October Julius Lehrmann. sports shooter (died 1962)
• 26 October Niels Erik Nørlund, mathematician (died 1981)
• 25 November Daniel Andersen, composer, sculptor and ceramist (died 1959)
• 15 December Cay Lembcke, co-founder of the Danish Boy Schots movement (died 1965)

Deaths

JanuaryMarch

• 21 January – Jens Peter Trap, royal secretary, topographical writer and publisher (born 1810)
• 25 February Mozart Waagepetersen, businessman (born 1813)

AprilJune

• 27 April Hans Vilhelm Kaalund, poet (born 1818)
• 30 April Jens Peter Jacobsenm author (born 1847)
• 2 May Peter Ludvig Panum, physiologist (born 1820)

JulySeptember

• 2 June Edouard Buntzen, lawyer and politician (born 1809)
• 12 July Ferdinand Victor Alphons Prosch, vetenarian and biologist (born 1820)
• 21 September Georg Emil Tuxen. maval officer (born 1814)

OctoberDecember

• 11 November Oswald Sickert, artist (born 1929)
• 11 December Niels Simonsen, painter, lithographer and sculptor (born 1807)

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