1892 in Denmark

Events from the year 1892 in Denmark.

Incumbents

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

Events

• 20 April – The 1892 Danish Parliamentary Election takes place.
• 22 June – Fanø Nordsøbad is inaugurated on the island of Fanø.
• 49 July The 14th Scandinavian Scientist Conference is held in Copenhagen.

Undated

Culture

Music

• 8 April Carl Nielsen's String Quartet No. 2 is for the first time performed in public in Copenhagen.

Births

• 17 February – Poul Jørgensen (gymnast), gymnast (died 1973)
• 3 April Elof Risebye, painter (died 1961)
• 4 April – Charles Christian Lauritsen, Danish-American physicist (died 1968)
• 5 July Lauge Koch, geologist and Arctic explorer (died 1964)
• 9 August – Thomas Dinesen, Danish-Canadian military officer and recipient of the Victoria Cross (died 1979)
• 29 October Ernst Hansen, painter (died 1968)

Deaths

JanuaryMarch

• 12 January Heinrich Buntzen, painter (born 1808 in the Holy Roman Empire)
• 10 March Gottlieb Abrahamson Gedalia, banker (born 1816)

AprilSeptember

• 10 June – Adelgunde Vogt, sculptor (born 1811)
• 6 August – Ernst Immanuel Cohen Brandes, economist, writer, and editor (born 1844)
• 23 September – Mads Christian Holm, shipbuilder and ship-owner (born 1827)

OctoberDecember

• 17 December Christian Richardt, writer (born 1831)
• 22 December – M Wilhelm Hellesen, industrialist and inventor /born 1836)

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