1899 in Denmark

The following events occurred in Denmark in the year 1899.

Incumbents

• Monarch – Christian IX
• Prime minister – Hugo Egmont Hørring

Events

March

• March The annual Charlottenborg Spring Exhibition opens. Anna Ancher's A Vaccination has already prior to the opening of the exhibition been sold to a Swedish collector, a fact reported in several newspapers.

May

• 18 May The Odsherred Railway opens.

June

• 4 June KFUMs Boldklub København is founded.

July

• 21 July The Danish Nurses' Organization is established.

September

• 5 September The first labour and management agreement in Denmark is reached between the Danish Federation of Trade Unions and the Danish Employers' Confederation.

November

• 22 November J. P. Suhr & Søn is dissolved.

Undated

• The Women's Council in Denmark is established.

Culture

Culture

• The Thorvaldsen Exhibition Medal is awarded to for his equestrian statue of Christian IX].

Sports

• Akademisk Boldklub wins the 1898–99 Football Tournament.

Births

JanuaryMarch

• 30 January – Anna Sofie Boesen Dreijer, textile artist (died 1986)
• 8 February – Henry Lorenzen, actor (died 1961 in West Germany)
• 25 February – Hans Lunding, military officer and member of the resistance movement (died 1989)
• 2 March – Harald Agersnap, composer, educator and musician (died 1982)
• 10 March – Finn Høffding, composer (died 1997)
• 11 March – Frederik IX, King of Denmark (died 1972)
• 19 March – Aksel Sandemose, author (died 1965)

AprilJune

• 30 April – Olaf Wieghorst, painter (died 1988)

JulySeptember

• 27 July – Carl Johan Hviid, actor (died 1964)
• 2 September – Hans Jacob Nielsen, boxer (died 1967)
• 8 September – Hans Bjerrum, hockey player and businessman (died 1979)

OctoberDecember

• 9 October Thorkil Kristensen, politician (died 1989)

Deaths

JanuaryMarch

• 16 June – August Winding, priest and composer (born 1835)
• 22 March – Anna Henriette Levinsohn, opera singer (born 1839)

JulySeptember

• 17 August – Erik Bøgh, journalist, playwright and songwriter (born 1822)
• 2 September – HDMS Herluf Trolle is launched from Orlogsværftet in Copenhagen.
• 14 September – Vilhelm Groth, painter (born 1842)

OctoberDecember

• 21 October – Edvard Jünger, precision mechanic (born 1823)
• 18 November – Hans Peter Hansen, xylographer (born 1829)
• 29 December – Vilhelm Christesen, silver smith (born 1822)

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