1892 in Denmark

Incumbents

• Monarch - Christian IX
• Prime minister - J. B. S. Estrup

Events

• 20 April - The 1892 Danish Parliamentary Election takes place.
• 22 June - Fanø Nordsøbad is inaugurated on the island of Fanø.
• 49 July The 14th Scandinavian Scientist Conference is held in Copenhagen.

Culture

Music

• 8 April Carl Nielsen's String Quartet No. 2 is for the first time performed in public in Copenhagen.

Births

• 17 February - Poul Jørgensen (gymnast), gymnast
• 3 April Elof Risebye, painter
• 4 April - Charles Christian Lauritsen, Danish-American physicist
• 5 July Lauge Koch, geologist and Arctic explorer
• 9 August - Thomas Dinesen, Danish-Canadian military officer and recipient of the Victoria Cross
• 29 October Ernst Hansen, painter

Deaths

JanuaryMarch

• 12 January Heinrich Buntzen, painter
• 10 March Gottlieb Abrahamson Gedalia, banker

AprilSeptember

• 10 June – Adelgunde Vogt, sculptor
• 6 August - Ernst Immanuel Cohen Brandes, economist, writer, and editor
• 23 September - Mads Christian Holm, shipbuilder and ship-owner

OctoberDecember

• 17 October Albert Heinrich Riise, pharmacist
• 22 December - M Wilhelm Hellesen, industrialist and inventor /born 1836)