1915 in Denmark

Events from the year 1915 in Denmark.

Incumbents

• Monarch – Christian X
• Prime minister – Carl Theodor Zahle

Events

• 7 May – A Folketing election is held. As required to change the Constitution, the government called for the dissolution of both the Folketing and the Landsting in order for the new Rigsdag to be able to introduce the new constitution.
• 5 June – Women's suffrage is introduced in Denmark, women are given the right to vote in Rigsdag elections.
• 27 June – Bedre Byggeskik, a late Danish incarnation of the Arts and Crafts Movement, is founded at a meeting in Odense as a reaction against the impoverished state of Danish architecture which they found to be a consequence of the Historicist style which had dominated the past decades.

Sports

• February Boldklubben Skjold is founded.

Births

JanuaryMarch

• 22 January Ole Berntsen, sailor (died 1996)
• 29 January Halfdan Rasmussen, poet (died 2002)

JulySeptember

• 21 August Raquel Rastenni, singer (died 1998)
• 26 August – Niels Macholm, painter and graphic artist (died in 1997)
• 21 September – Hanne Budtz, politician and lawyer (died 2004)

OctoberDecember

• 12 December – Tobias Faber, architect (died 2010)

Deaths

JanuaryMarch

• 12 January Caroline Hammer, photographer (born 1832)
• 13 January – Barclay Raunkiær, Arabia explorer, author (born 1889)
• 6 February Niels Steenberg, engineer (born 1839)
• 9 March Charlotte Klein, educator (born 1834)
• 11 March – Vilhelm Rosenstand, artist (born 1838)

JulySeptember

• 8 September – Julius Villiam Gudmand-Høyer, author (born 1841)
• 11 September – Jens Birkholm, genre and landscape painter associated with the Funen Painters (born 1869)

OctoberDecember

• 26 November Jacob Scavenius. landowner and politician (born 1838)
• 4 December Anton Hegner, musician and composer (died 1861)
• 20 December Carl Locher, painter (born 1851)

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