The following events occurred in Denmark in the year 1899.
Incumbents Monarch – Christian IX Prime minister – Hugo Egmont Hørring
Events
March 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.
May 18 May The Odsherred Railway opens.
June 4 June KFUMs Boldklub København is founded.
July 21 July The Danish Nurses' Organization is established.
September 5 September The first labour and management agreement in Denmark is reached between the Danish Federation of Trade Unions and the Danish Employers' Confederation.Walter Kolvenbach, Employee Councils in European Companies (Springer, 2013) p. 97
November 22 November J. P. Suhr & Søn is dissolved.
Undated The Women's Council in Denmark is established.
Culture Culture The Thorvaldsen Exhibition Medal is awarded to for his equestrian statue of Christian IX].
Sports Akademisk Boldklub wins the 1898–99 Football Tournament.
Births
JanuaryMarch 30 January – Anna Sofie Boesen Dreijer, textile artist (died 1986) 8 February – Henry Lorenzen, actor (died 1961 in West Germany) 25 February – Hans Lunding, military officer and member of the resistance movement (died 1989) 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) 19 March – Aksel Sandemose, author (died 1965)
AprilJune 30 April – Olaf Wieghorst, painter (died 1988) 10 June , Alf Ross, jurist and philosopher (died 1979)
JulySeptember 27 July – Carl Johan Hviid, actor (died 1964) 2 September – Hans Jacob Nielsen, boxer (died 1967) 8 September – Hans Bjerrum, hockey player and businessman (died 1979)
OctoberDecember 9 October Thorkil Kristensen, politician (died 1989)
Deaths JanuaryMarch 16 June – August Winding, priest and composer (born 1835) 22 March – Anna Henriette Levinsohn, opera singer (born 1839)
JulySeptember 17 August – Erik Bøgh, journalist, playwright and songwriter (born 1822) 2 September – HDMS Herluf Trolle is launched from Orlogsværftet in Copenhagen. 14 September – Vilhelm Groth, painter (born 1842)
OctoberDecember 21 October – Edvard Jünger, precision mechanic (born 1823) 18 November – Hans Peter Hansen, xylographer (born 1829) 29 December – Vilhelm Christesen, silver smith (born 1822)
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