1893 in Denmark

Events from the year 1893 in Denmark.

Incumbents

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

Events

• 19 May B 93 is founded.
• October – The first edition of Johannes Jørgensen's Taarnet is published.
• 7 November – Aarhus Municipal Hospital opens with a building designed by architect Thomas Arboe.

Undated

• Akademisk Boldklub wins the 1892–93 Football Tournament.

Births

JanuaryMarch

• 26 January – Christian Arhoff, actor (died 1973)
• 5 February Alsing Andersen, politician (died 1962)
• 14 February – Kay Fisker, architect (died 1965)
• 21 March Emil Bønnelycke, poet (died 1953)

AprilJune

• 26 May – Vilhelm Lundstrøm, painter (died 1950)
• 12 June – Helga Frier, actress (died 1972)

JulySeptember

• 24 July – Carl Theodor Sørensen, landscape architect (died 1979)
• 28 July – Rued Langgaard, composer and organist (died 1952)
• 4 August – Tom Kristensen, poet and critic (died 1974)

OctoberDecember

• 25 December – Prince Viggo, Count of Rosenborg (died 1970)

Deaths

JanuaryMarch

• 28 January Joachim Bruun de Neergaard, landowner and politician (born 1806)
• 2 February Carl Christoffer Georg Andræ, politician (born 1812)

AprilJune

• 13 April Charles Abrahams, architect (born 1838)
• 24 April Lauritz Rasmussen, zinc and bronze caster (born 1824)
• 10 June – Erhardine Adolphine Hansen, actress (born 1815)

JulySeptember

• 14 August Carl Balsgaard, painter (born 1812)
• 7 September – Israel B. Melchior, photographer (born 1827)
• 13 September – Carl Ludvig Gerlach, composer and opera singer (born 1832)
• 19 September – Anker Heegaard, businessman (born 1815)
• 27 September Andreas Frederik Krieger, politician (born 1817)

OctoberDecember

• Hinrich Johannes Rink, geologist (born 1819)
• Philip Heyman, businessman (born 1837)
• 21 December Isaac Wilhelm Tegner, lithographer (born 1815)

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