1882 in Denmark

Incumbents

• Monarch - Christian IX
• Prime minister - J. B. S. Estrup

  Events

• 2 January - FLSmidth, a supplier of cement production technology, is founded by Frederik Læssøe Smidth as a small "technical bureau" based in a single room of his mother's apartment.
• 5 November - Carl Jacobsen's sculpture collection, which later forms the basis of the Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek, is opened to the public in his winter garden.

  Undated

• A group of dissatisfied students from the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts founds the Artists' Studio School as a reaction to the outdated teachings at the Academy-

  Births

• 25 April - Christian Mortensen, world's oldest man of his day
• 19 September - Robert Storm Petersen, cartoonist, painter, humorist, writer
• 16 November - Kai Nielsen, sculptor

  Deaths

• 28 January - Hans Jørgen Hammer, painter