1873 in Denmark

Events from the year 1873 in Denmark.

Incumbents

20 April – A banquet for the Japanese diplomatic mission is held in the Børsen Building in Copenhagen.
5 May – The Scandinavian Monetary Union, a monetary union with Sweden, is formed, pegging the countries' currencies to each other.
13 May – Tuborg Brewery is founded by Carl Frederik Tietgen.
6 October – The equestrian statue of Frederick VII in front of Christiansborg Palace in Copenhagen is unveiled.
17 October The king sets the foundation stone for the new Royal Danish Theatre on Kongens Nytorv in Copenhagen.

Magazine publisher Aller Media is founded.
The Danish Mathematical Society is founded at the University of Copenhagen.Punch, an illustrated conservative satirical magazine modelled on the English Punch, is founded.
A new building for the Royal Mint is completed to designs by Gerdinand Meldahl at Hammelholm in Copenhagen.

9 January – Hans Frederick Blichfeldt, Danish-American mathematician
17 January – Benedict Nordentoft, educator and cleric, co-founder of a Danish community with a Lutheran church and a folk high school in Solvang, California
20 January – Johannes V. Jensen, author, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1944
21 January – Emilie Demant Hatt, artist, writer and ethnographer
2 February Sophus Wangøe, cinematographer
5 February – William Thalbitzer, philologist, professor of Eskimo studies at the University of Copenhagen
12 February – Gustav Bartholin Hagen, architect
28 February – Johan Frederik Steffensen, mathematician, statistician and actuary, professor of actuarial science at the University of Copenhagen 1923–1943
14 March – Herluf Zahle, barrister with the Supreme Court, career diplomat, President of the League of Nations 1928–1929
19 March – Betty Nansen, actress and theatre director

7 April
* Johannes Hjelmslev, mathematician, discoverer and eponym of the Hjelmslev transformation
* Christian Nielsen, sailor, silver medalist in the 6 Metre class at the 1924 Summer Olympics
25 April Magdalene Lauridsen, educator
10 May – Palle Bruun, hydraulic engineer, designed the Port of Skagen
21 May – Johannes Gandil, athlete and footballer, competitor in the 100 metre event at the 1900 Summer Olympics, silver medalist in football at the 1908 Summer Olympics
27 May – Harald Scavenius, diplomat and politician, Minister of Foreign Affairs 1920–1922
30 May – Oluf Olsson, gymnast, silver medalist at the 1906 Intercalated Games, bronze medalist in the team free system event at the 1912 Summer Olympics

4 July – Georges Dreyer, pathologist, professor of pathology at the University of Oxford 1907–1934
12 July – Rudolph Tegner, sculptor linked with the Symbolist movement
27 July – Estrid Hein, ophthalmologist and women's rights activist
2 August Harald Simonsen, businessman
3 August – Carl Hansen Ostenfeld, systematic botanist, professor in botany at the Royal Veterinary and Agricultural University from 1918, professor in botany at the University of Copenhagen and director of the Copenhagen Botanical Garden from 1923
10 August
* Esther Carstensen, women's rights activist and journal editor
* Svend Hammershøi, painter and ceramist
2 September – Johanne Hesbeck, photographer

8 October – Ejnar Hertzsprung, chemist and astronomer
17 October – Aage Hertel, actor
26 October – Thorvald Stauning, politician, the first social democratic Prime Minister of Denmark, served as Prime Minister 1924–1926 and from 1929
4 November – Jorgen Moeller, chess master
2 December – Christian Steenstrup, Danish-American inventor, invented the hermetically sealed refrigeration unit
4 December – Henrik Malberg, theater and cinema actor

3 November John Christmas. naval officer, plantation owner and acting Governor-General of the Danish West Indies
7 November – Thomas Overskou, actor, playwright and historian
25 November – Hans Harder, painter and drawing master