1869 in Denmark

Events from the year 1869 in Denmark.

Incumbents

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 [Danish Folketing election|1869 Folketing election] is held; the Mellem Party becomes the biggest party by winning 27 seats. C. E. Frijs remains Prime Minister.

Rud. Rasmussen, a wooden furniture manufacturing company, is founded.
An international archeology congress visits the Sølager archeological site at Gundested.

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

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

11 March – 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