Events from the year 1868 in Denmark.
Incumbents Monarch – Christian IX Prime minister – C. E. Frijs
Events 9 January The 1868 Danish West Indies status referendum takes place. 15 January Lucie Ingemannm painter (born 1792) 24 April – The Port of Esbjerg construction act provides for the construction of a new export port at Esbjerg, until then a tiny community, as a replacement for the harbour in Altona, which had previously been Denmark's most important North Sea harbour. 7 August – The Roman Catholic Diocese of Copenhagen is established. 8 August HDMS Lindormen is launched at Nyholm in Copenhagen. 4 October The Fredericia–Aarhus railway line is inaugurated. 16 October – All Danish rights to the Nicobar Islands, which since 1848 had been gradually abandoned, are sold to the British as the last remains of Danish India.
Undated
Magasin du Nord is established in Aarhus as Emil Vett & Co. by Theodor Wessel and Emil Vett.
Births
JanuaryMarch 7 January Johannes Wilhjelm, painter (died 1938) 9 January S. P. L. Sørensen, chemist (died 1939) 26 January Vilhelm Fischer, architect (died 1914) 2 February Anna Bloch, actress (died 1953)
AprilJune 14 April Gerda Madvig, painter and sculptor (died 1940) 13 May – Peter Hansen, painter (d. 1928) 25 April – Carl Wentorf, artist (d. 1914) 26 May – Carl Johan Bonnesen, sculptor (d. 1933) 31 May Sigrid Neiiendam, actress (died 1055)
JulySeptember 17 july – Henri Nathansen, writer and stage director (d. 1944) 10 September Jens Christian Johansen, engineer (died 1929 in Estonia)
OctoberDecember 25 October – Rasmus Harboe, sculptor (d. 1952) 27 November Wilhelm Hansen, businessman and art collector (died 1936)
Deaths
January March 16 January – Christopher Bagnæs Hansen, furniture maker (b. 1806) 8 March Axel Kittendorff, lithographer (born 1721) 10 March Bernt Wilhelm Westermann, businessman and collector (born 1781) 10 March Herman Wilhelm Bissen, sculptor (b. 1798) Bernt Wilhelm Westermann, businessman (b. 1781)
AprilJune 14 May Sophus August Wilhelm Stein, pyusician (born 1797)
OctoberDecember 14 October Emil Bærentzen, painter (born 1799) 15 July Georgia Schouw-Skovgaard, embroiderer (born 1828)
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