1906 in Denmark

Incumbents

• Monarch – Christian IX, Frederick VIII
• Prime minister – J. C. Christensen

Events

• 30 January The proclamation of Frederick VIII as King of Denmark.
• 12 September – The inventor and aviation pioneer Jacob Christian Ellehammer makes a sustained but tethered flight in his self-built Ellehammer semi-biplane on the small outside Copenhagen, three years after the world’s first historical flight by the Wright brothers in 1903. The flight distance is 42 meters at an altitude of over 50 centimeters.
• 6 November – Ole Olsen founds Nordisk Film in Valby, Copenhagen, making it the oldest continuously operating film studio in the world.

Culture

Music

• 11 November Carl Nielsen's opera Maskarade premieres at the Royal Danish Theatre.

Sports

• 5 August Thorvald Ellegaard wins gold in men's sprint at the 1906 UCI Track Cycling World Championships.

Births

• 22 February Helge Kjærulff-Schmidt, actor
• 27 February Søren Kristian Toubro, engineer and Larsen & Toubro co-founder
• 9 March Bernhard Christensen, musician
• 2 October – Arne Sørensen, politician
• 10 October - Leo Mathisen, jazz musician and singer
• 8 November – H. C. Hansen, politician, former prime minister

Full date unknown

• Aage Thaarup, fashion designer

Deaths

JanuaryMarch

• 29 January – Christian IX
• 13 February - Albert Gottschalk, painter
• 7 March Oscar Wanscher, surgeon

AprilJune

• 12 April – Søren Anton van der Aa Kühle, brewer and businessman
• 5 May Andreas Riis Carstensen, painter
• 8 June - C. F. E. Horneman, composer

JulySeptember

• 28 July – August Jerndorff, painter

OctoberDecember

• 29 October – Jacob Heinrich Moresco, businessman