1874 in Denmark

Events from the year 1874 in Denmark.

Incumbents

1 January – The first issue of fashion journal Nordisk Mønster-Tidende, present-day women's magazine Femina, is published.
5 January – Iceland is granted a constitution and limited home rule within the Danish realm.
14 July – Prime Minister Ludvig Holstein-Holsteinborg resigns, and is replaced by Christen Andreas Fonnesbech.
15 August – Esbjerg Harbour is inaugurated.
15 October – The Old Stage, the original of the Royal Danish Theatre, is inaugurated.
23 August Christian IX returns to Copenhagen from his visit to Iceland onboard the frigate.
16 December Prince Valdemar's confirmation in Fredensborg Palace Chapel.

Louis Poulsen, a lighting manufacturing company, is founded.
The 25 øre coin is introduced on the decimalisation of the krone. It remains in circulation until 2008, when it is demonetised as the lowest-denomination coin in the country.
Dalum Papirfabrik is established on Odense Å.

10 January – Louis Larsen, gymnast, silver medalist at the 1906 Intercalated Games
22 January – Frants Nielsen, sport shooter, competitor at the 1912 Summer Olympics
31 January – Harald Tandrup, writer
5 February Gunnar Asgeir Sadolin, businessman
20 February – Ebbe Kornerup, writer and painter
1 March
* August Hesselbo, pharmaceutical botanist and bryologist
* Jens Lind, apothecary, botanist and mycologist
22 March – Ove Paulsen, botanist, professor at the Pharmaceutical College in Copenhagen 1920–1947

12 May - Sigrid Kähler, artist
1 June – Peter Hertz, art historian
19 June – Peder Oluf Pedersen, engineer and physicist, IEEE Medal of Honor recipient in 1930
22 June – Viggo Jensen, weightlifter, shooter, gymnast and athlete, Olympic gold medalist and silver medalist in weightlifting at the 1896 Summer Olympics

23 July – Jens Peter Dahl-Jensen, sculptor and ceramist, model master of Bing & Grøndahl 1897–1917, artistic director of Norden 1917–1925
13 August Anna Wulff, educator
18 August – Christian Pedersen, sport shooter, competitor at the 1908 Summer Olympics

4 October – Agnes Smidt, painter and cultural activist
22 October – Thora Daugaard, women's rights activist, pacifist, editor and translator
1 November – Karl Albert Hasselbalch, physician and chemist, pioneer in the use of pH measurement in medicine
15 November – August Krogh, professor at the department of zoophysiology at the University of Copenhagen 1916–1945, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1920
1 December – Johannes Friis-Skotte, politician, Minister of Public Works 1924–1926 and 1929–1935
7 December – Carl Cohn Haste, blind pianist, organist and composer, music teacher at the Royal Blind Institute, first president of the Danish Association of the Blind
23 December – Viggo Wiehe, stage and film actor

20 February – Holger Roed, painter
6 March – Louise Rasmussen, ballet dancer and stage actor
20 March – Hans Christian Lumbye, composer of waltzes, polkas, mazurkas and galops, including the Champagne Galop
28 March – Peter Andreas Hansen, astronomer, Copley Medal recipient in 1850