1918 in Denmark

Incumbents

• Monarch – Christian X
• Prime minister – Carl Theodor Zahle

  Events

• 22 April – The 1918 Folketing election takes place. Three women, the first in Danish history, are elected, among them Elna Munch.

  Date unknown

• Kjøbenhavns Boldklub wins the 1917–18 Danish National Football Tournament by defeating Randers Freja 52 in the final.

  Births

JanuaryMarch

• 2 February Thorkild Bjørnvig, poet
• 5 March Sonja Hauberg, writer
• 6 March Lilly Brændgaard, fashion designer

  AprilJune

• 18 April Gabriel Axel, filmmaker
• 9 April – Jørn Utzon, architect
• 27 June – Willy Breinholst, author, screenwriter and humourist

  OctoberDecember

• 22 December – Lis Møller journalist and politician

  Deaths

JanuaryMarch

• 4 January – Carl Aarsleff, sculptor
• 29 March – Fanny Suenssen, author

  AprilJune

• 6 June Valdemar Oldenburg, jurist and politician

  JulySeptember

• 26 August – Rogert Møller, architect

  OctoberDecember

• 16 November – Johan Henrik Deuntzer, Prime Minister 1901–05