1871 in Denmark

Events from the year 1871 in Denmark.

Incumbents

2 January – The Stöðulög, laws on the constitutional standing of Iceland within the Danish realm, are passed.
2 May The Skanderborg–Silkeborg railway line is inaugurated
5 October – Den Danske Landmandsbank, Hypothek- og Vexelbank i Kjøbenhavn, present-day Danske Bank, is founded.
15 August The Vendsyssel Railway is inaugurated with the first train to Frederikshavn.
15 October – The Social Democratic party is founded by Louis Pio, Harald Brix and Paul Geleff.
8 November – At Lyksborg Slot, Princess Thyra gives birth to a daughter, conceived in a love affair with a cavalry lieutenant. The girl is adopted by a couple in Odense shortly after birth.

The first private kindergarten in Denmark is established in Copenhagen by writer Erna Juel-Hansen. Kindergarten with public support are not seen until 1901.
The Danish Women's Society, the world's oldest women's rights organization, is founded.

15 February – Martin Knudsen, physicist and researcher after whom the Knudsen gas state, the Knudsen number, and the Knudsen layer are named
20 March Mogens Ballin, painter and silversmith

5 April – Søren Absalon Larsen, physicist active in the field of electroacoustics; the Larsen effect was named after him
13 June – Elna Munch, feminist, suffragist and politician, one of the three first women to be elected to the Danish parliament in 1918
16 June Ingeborg Suhr Mailand, educator

2 November – Poul Heegaard, mathematician active in the field of topology, professor in mathematics at the University of Copenhagen 1910–1917, professor in mathematics at the University of Kristiania 1917–1941
5 November Susanne Lindberg, sports cyclist
12 November – Dagmar Hansen, cabaret singer and stage performer, Denmark's first pin-up girl
29 November Arnold Busck, bookseller, company founder
10 December – Jens Christian Bay, Danish-American writer and librarian
14 December – Harald Moltke, nobleman, painter and author

9 October – Niels Sigfred Nebelong, historicist-style architect, resident architect for the Danish lighthouse authority
14 October Johan Frederik Møller, painter and photographer
15 October - Oscar O'Neill Oxholm, military officer and landowner
2 December – Moritz Unna, photographer
12 December – Henrik Rung, composer, conductor and vocal pedagogue
27 December – Carl Ferdinand Allen, historian