1869 in Denmark

Incumbents

• Monarch – Christian IX
• Prime minister – C. E. Frijs

  Events

• 4 February – Kjøbenhavns Skøjteløberforening, Denmark's oldest ice skating club, is founded.
• 1 June – the telephone company Det Store Nordiske Telegrafselskab A/S, present-day GN Store Nord A/S, is founded as the result of merging three recently established telephone companies.
• 5 June – the equestrian statue of Frederick VII in the central square in Køge is inaugurated.
• 2 July – the first issue of Vestjylland eller Herning Folkeblad, present-day Herning Folkeblad, is published.
• 28 July – Crown Prince Frederick, later King Frederick VIII, marries Princess Louise of Sweden at the Royal Palace in Stockholm, Sweden.
• 18 September – the Randers–Aalborg line, a newly completed railroad stretch between Randers and Aalborg, is inaugurated.
• 22 September – the 1869 Folketing election is held; the Mellem Party becomes the biggest party by winning 27 seats. C. E. Frijs remains Prime Minister.

  Date unknown

• Rud. Rasmussen, a wooden furniture manufacturing company, is founded.

  Births

January–June

• 2 January – Carl Moltke, Danish nobleman, minister to the United States in 1908, Minister of Foreign Affairs 1924–1926
• 26 March – Hans Munch-Petersen, scholar
• 6 April – Thomas Bærentzen, sculptor
• 28 April – Christian Geisler, organist and composer
• 7 June – Ole Olsen, sport shooter, Olympic bronze medalist in team free rifle at the 1912 Summer Olympics
• 26 June – Martin Andersen Nexø, socialist, later communist, writer

  July–December

• 3 July – Svend Kornbeck, stage and film actor
• 13 July – Christian Schrøder, film actor
• 13 August – Carl Peter Hermann Christensen, Denmark's last executioner
• 11 November – Jens Birkholm, genre and landscape painter associated with the Funen Painters
• 23 November – Valdemar Poulsen, engineer who developed a magnetic wire recorder
• 6 December – Elna Borch, naturalism and symbolism sculptor
• 7 December – Ole Bendixen, explorer, merchant and author
• 18 December – Peter Esben-Petersen, entomologist
• 21 December – Christian Klengenberg, whaler, trapper and trader
• 26 December – August Blom, film director, production leader and pioneer of silent films

  Deaths

• 11 March – Christian August, Duke of Augustenborg, claimant of the provinces of Slesvig and Holstein
• 2 April – Frederik Treschow, supreme court attorney, politician, landowner and philanthropist
• 5 October – Adolph Peter Adler, theologian
• 22 May – Anton Eduard Kieldrup, landscape painter
• 14 December – Fritz Melbye, marine painter