1871 in Denmark
Events from the year 1871 in Denmark.
Incumbents
- Monarch – Christian IX
- Prime minister – Ludvig Holstein-Holsteinborg
Events
- 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.
Date unknown
- 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.
Births
JanuaryMarch
- 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
AprilJune
- 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
JulySeptember
- 19 July – Lars Jørgen Madsen, multiple Olympic medalist in rifle shooting
- 29 July – August Paulsen, Danish-American businessman and philanthropist
OctoberDecember
- 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
Deaths
JanuaryMarch
- 2 January – Niels Kjærbølling, ornithological writer and lithographer, founder of Copenhagen Zoo
- 28 January Thorgeir Guðmundsson, Icelandic-Danish clergy and publisher
- 1 March – Johan Henrik Nebelong, architect
- 19 March Frederik Oxholm, colonial administrator
- 28 March – Johan Vilhelm Gertner, portrait painter
AprilJune
- 5 June – Erich Christian Werlauff, historian
OctoberDecember
- 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