1901 in Denmark

Incumbents

• Monarch – Christian IX
• Prime minister – Hannibal Sehested, Johan Henrik Deuntzer

Events

• 3 April – The 1901 Folketing election is held. It was the first use of a secret ballot in Denmark.
• 24 June – The Frilandsmuseet open-air museum is inaugurated in its present-day location north of Copenhagen.
• 24 July – Systemskiftet : with the appointment of the Cabinet of Deuntzer, parliamentarism is instituted in Denmark, and with the exception of the Easter Crisis of 1920 no Danish government since 1901 has been formed against the vote of a majority of the members of the Folketing.
• 30 August – A royal decree opens the King's Gate to Rosenborg Castle Garden, at the corner of Gothersgade and Kronprinsessegade, to the public.
• 25 September – The Ny Carlsberg Foundation is established.
• 28 November – Øksnehallen opens in the Meatpacking District in Copenhagen.

Undated

• The first automobile is registered in Copenhagen.
• The first kindergarten with public support in Denmark is established and inaugurated at Enghave Plads in the Vesterbro district of Copenhagen. Private kindergartens had been known since 1871.

Culture

Music

• 4 October Carl Nielsen's String Quartet No. 3 is for the first time performed in public in the small hall of the Odd Fellows Mansion in Copenhagen.

Sports

• 28 March Skive IK is founded.
• 14 July Thorvald Ellegaard wins gold in men's sprint at the 1901 UCI Track Cycling World Championships.

Births

• 20 February – Mogens Lassen, architect
• 3 May – Ebbe Schwartz, football
• 9 July – Peter Sekaer, photographer
• 25 August – Kjeld Abell, playwright

Deaths

JanuaryMarch

• 1 January Sophus Schandorph, poet
• 19 January – Henrik August Flindt, landscape architect
• 6 February – Christian Frederik Lütken, zoologist ad naturalist

OctoberDecember

• 19 October – Carl Frederik Tietgen, industrialist and banker
• 31 October – Frederik Christian Lund, painter and illustrator
• 16 November – Theobald Stein, sculptor
• 28 November – Ludvig Grundtvig, photographer