1899 in Denmark

← 1898 1897 1896 1899 in Denmark → 1900 1901 1902
Decades:	1870s 1880s 1890s 1900s 1910s
See also:	Other events of 1899 List of years in Denmark

The following events occurred in Denmark in the year 1899.

Incumbents

• Monarch – Christian IX ^[1]
• Prime minister – Hugo Egmont Hørring

Events

En vaccination, Anna Ancher

• March – The annual Charlottenborg Spring Exhibition opens. Anna Ancher's A Vaccination has already prior to the opening of the exhibition been sold to a Swedish collector, a fact reported in several newspapers. ^[2]
• 18 May – The Odsherred Railway opens.
• 4 June – KFUMs Boldklub København is founded.
• 21 July – The Danish Nurses' Organization is established.
• 5 September – The first labour and management agreement in Denmark is reached between the Danish Federation of Trade Unions and the Danish Employers' Confederation. ^[3]
• 22 November – J. P. Suhr & Søn is dissolved. ^[4]

Undated

• The Women's Council in Denmark is established.

Births

January–March

• 13 January – Gudrun Stig Aagaard, textile artist (died 1986)
• 30 January – Anna Sofie Boesen Dreijer, textile artist (died 1986)
• 2 March – Harald Agersnap, composer, educator and musician (died 1982)
• 10 March – Finn Høffding, composer (died 1997)
• 11 March – Frederik IX, King of Denmark (died 1972) ^[5]
• 19 March – Aksel Sandemose, author (died 1965)

April–June

• 30 April – Olaf Wieghorst, painter (died 1988)

July–September

• 27 July – Carl Johan Hviid, actor (died 1964)
• 2 September – Hans Jacob Nielsen, boxer (died 1967)
• 7 September – Hans Bjerrum, hockey player and businessman (died 1979)

October–December

• 9 October – Thorkil Kristensen, politician (died 1989)

Deaths

• 22 March – Anna Henriette Levinsohn, opera singer (born 1839)
• 17 August – Erik Bøgh, journalist, playwright and songwriter (born 1822)
• 14 September – Vilhelm Groth, painter (born 1842)
• 21 October – Edvard Jünger, precision mechanic (born 1823)
• 18 November – Hans Peter Hansen, xylographer (born 1829)
• 29 December – Vilhelm Christesen, silver smith (born 1822)

References

1. "Christian IX | king of Denmark". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved 17 June 2019.
2. "A Jab of Relief. Anna Ancher's 'A Vaccination'". /perspectivejournal.dk (in Danish). Retrieved 16 June 2022.
3. Walter Kolvenbach, Employee Councils in European Companies (Springer, 2013) p. 97
4. "O. Suhr". Dansk Biografisk Leksikon (in Danish). Retrieved 29 August 2017.
5. "Frederick IX | king of Denmark". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved 16 June 2019.