1869 in Denmark
Events from the year 1869 in Denmark.
Incumbents
- Monarch – Christian IX
- Prime minister – C. E. Frijs
Events
- 4 February – Kjøbenhavns Skøjteløberforening, Denmark's oldest ice skating club, is founded.
- 1 June – the telephone company Det Store Nordiske Telegrafselskab A/S, present-day GN Store Nord A/S, is founded as the result of merging three recently established telephone companies.
- 5 June – the equestrian statue of Frederick VII in the central square in Køge is inaugurated.
- 2 July – the first issue of Vestjylland eller Herning Folkeblad, present-day Herning Folkeblad, is published.
- 28 July – Crown Prince Frederick, the future King Frederick VIII, marries Princess Louise of Sweden at the Royal Palace in Stockholm, Sweden.
- 18 September – the Randers–Aalborg railway line, a newly completed railroad stretch between Randers and Aalborg, is inaugurated.
- 22 September – the 1869 Folketing election is held; the Mellem Party becomes the biggest party by winning 27 seats. C. E. Frijs remains Prime Minister.
Date unknown
- Rud. Rasmussen, a wooden furniture manufacturing company, is founded.
- An international archeology congress visits the Sølager archeological site at Gundested.
Births
January–June
- 2 January – Carl Moltke, Danish nobleman, minister to the United States in 1908, Minister of Foreign Affairs 1924–1926
- 26 March – Hans Munch-Petersen, scholar
- 6 April – Thomas Bærentzen, sculptor
- 28 April – Christian Geisler, organist and composer
- 7 June – Ole Olsen, sport shooter, Olympic bronze medalist in Shooting at the [1912 Summer Olympics – Men's team free rifle|team free rifle] at the 1912 Summer Olympics
- 26 June
- * Martin Andersen Nexø, socialist, later communist, writer
- * Ingeborg Appel, educator
July–December
- 3 July – Svend Kornbeck, stage and film actor
- 13 July – Christian Schrøder, film actor
- 13 August – Carl Christensen, Denmark's last executioner
- 11 November – Jens Birkholm, genre and landscape painter associated with the Funen Painters
- 23 November – Valdemar Poulsen, engineer who developed a magnetic wire recorder
- 6 December – Elna Borch, naturalism and symbolism sculptor
- 7 December – Ole Bendixen, explorer, merchant and author
- 18 December – Peter Esben-Petersen, entomologist
- 21 December – Christian Klengenberg, whaler, trapper and trader
- 26 December – August Blom, film director, production leader and pioneer of silent films
Deaths
- 11 March – Christian [August II, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Augustenburg|Christian August, Duke of Augustenborg], claimant of the provinces of Slesvig and Holstein
- 2 April – Frederik Treschow, supreme court attorney, politician, landowner and philanthropist
- 8 April Friedrich Gotschalk, businessman
- 22 May – Anton Eduard Kieldrup, landscape painter
- 13 June – Daniel Bentley, civil servant and mayor of Copenhagen
- 5 October – Adolph Peter Adler, theologian
- 14 December – Fritz Melbye, marine painter