1897 in Denmark

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See also:	Other events of 1897 List of years in Denmark

Events from the year 1897 in Denmark .

Incumbents

• Monarch – Christian IX ^[1]
• Prime minister – Tage Reedtz-Thott (until 23 May), Hugo Egmont Hørring

Events

March

• 20 March – The East Asiatic Company is founded by H. N. Andersen in Copenhagen.

May

• 1 May – The Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek ioens in Copenhagen.
• 23 May – Tage Reedtz-Thott resigns as Prime minister of Denmark. The Hørring cabinet replaces the Reedtz-Thott cabinet.
• 29 May – St. Luke's Church in Frederiksberg is consecrated as the first new church to be built to relieve the pressure on Frederiksberg Church in the fast-growing Frederiksberg district of Copenhagen. ^[2]
• 31 May – The Hillerød–Frederiksbværk Railway opens north of Copenhagen. It is later extended to Gundested.

July

• 11 July – The 1897 Gentofte train crash takes place.

August

• 2 August – The Voast Line netween Copenhagen (Østerport) and Helsingør is inaugurated.
• 7 August – Cabinet of Hørring is formed by Hugo Egmont Hørring of the conservative party Højre after Tage Reedtz-Thott's resignation as Council President,

November

• 12 November – The People's House opens on Jagtvej in Copenhagen.

Undated

• The Danish Workers' Union is founded.
• The machine company Titan A/S us founded by merger of two existing companies.

Culture

Visual arts

• December – Peder Severin Krøyer's monumental oil-on-canvas group portrait painting A Meeting in the Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters is handed over the Carlsberg Foundation.

Film

• Peter Elfelt's Driving with Greenland Dogs becomes the first film sequence shot in Denmark.

Music

• 27 April – Carl Nielsen's first choral work, Hymnus amoris , completed the previous year, receives its première at the Music Society (Musikforeningen) in Copenhagen, with the composer conducting. Viggo Bielefeldt, Tia Krëtma and Katie Adler are the soloists. ^[3]

Sports

• 12 June – Aarhus Fremad is founded.
• 30 July – 2 August – Edwin Schraeder wins a gold medal in men's sprint at the amateur event of the 1897 ICA Track Cycling World Championships.

Undated

• The Danish National Road Race Championships takes place for the first time.
• Kjøbenhavns Boldklub wins the 1896–97 Football Tournament.

Births

Max Hansen.

Sofie Madsen.

January–March

• 25 February – Erling Foss, engineer, businessman (died 1982)
• 6 March – Knudåge Riisager, composer (died 1974)

April–June

• 19 May – Wiwen Nilsson, silversmith (died 1974 in Sweden)
• 27 May – Henrik Sørensen, writer (died 1976)
• 9 June – Ejnar Jacobsen, composer (died 1970)

July–September

• 6 July – Victor Isbrand, painter (died 1989)
• 29 August – Helge Rosvaenge, singer (died 1972)

October–December

• 29 October – Sigurd Langberg, actor (died 1954)
• 9 November – Arthur Jensen, actor (died 1981)
• 12 December – Svend Olufsen, engineer (died 1949)
• 22 December – Max Hansen, singer, actor and comedian (died 1962)
• 30 December – Sofie Madsen, educator /died 1982)
• 31 December – Liva Weel, actress (died 1952)

Deaths

Johannes Steenstrup.

January–March

• 30 March – Christoph Cloëtta, chocolate manufacturer (born 1836)

April–June

• 7 April – Ludvig Gade, dancer and mime (born 1823)
• 30 April – Carsten Henrichsen, painter (born 1824)
• 12 May – Herman H. J. Lynge, antiquarian bookseller (born 1822)
• 20 June – Johannes Steenstrup, natural scientist (born 1813)

July–September

• 30 September – Peter Nielsen, botanist (born 1829)

October–December

• 5 October – Adolf Ditlev Jørgensen, archivist (born 1940)
• 6 November – Emma Thomsen, painter (born 1820)

References

1. "Christian IX | king of Denmark". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved 17 June 2019.
2. "Kirkens historie" (in Danish). Sankt Lukas Kirke. Retrieved 30 August 2011.^{[ permanent dead link ]}
3. Daniel M Grimley (2010). Carl Nielsen and the Idea of Modernism. Boydell. p. xviii. ISBN   9781843835813.