1969 in Denmark

Incumbents

• Monarch - Frederick IX
• Prime minister - Jens Otto Krag

  Events

• 20 February – The North Sea Continental Shelf cases are decided at the International Court of Justice.
• 10 March – The Danish Technical Museum is inaugurated in Helsingør.
• 8 May – The Museum of Medical History is inaugurated in Bredgade in Copenhagen.
• 28 May – The LO School is inaugurated by the Danish labour movement in Helsingør.
• 15 June – The 750 years' anniversary of the Danish flag, Dannebrog, is celebrated throughout Denmark. 750 flags from all parts of Denmark are gathered on City Hall Square in Copenhagen.
• 24 June – The proposed lowering of the electoral age from 21 to 18 is rejected by 78.6% of voters at the 1969 Danish electoral age referendum.
• 1 July – Denmark legalizes visual pornography.
• 30 September - The government sets up a temporary Environmental Committee.
• 15 November – An estimated 20,000 people attend an anti-Vietnam War demonstration in Copenhagen, marching from Østerbro Barracks to Christiansborg by way of the American Embassy.

  Full date missing

• The Danish Liberal Centre Party is dissolved.

  Sport

• Boldklubben 1903 wins the 1969 Danish 1st Division in football.

  Music

• First performance in Denmark of Rued Langgaard's Music of the Spheres, 51 years after it was composed.

  Births

• 7 February – Chris Minh Doky, jazz bassist, composer, producer
• 19 May – Thomas Vinterberg, film director

  Deaths

• 2 January - Julius Bomholt, politician
• 16 December - Leo Mathisen, jazz pianist, singer
• 26 December – Gundorph Albertus, silversmith