1899 in Denmark explained

The following events occurred in Denmark in the year 1899.

Incumbents

• Monarch  - Christian IX^[1]
• Prime minister  - Hugo Egmont Hørring

Events

• 18 May The Odsherred Railway opens.
• 21 July The Danish Nurses' Organization is established.
• 5 September The first labour and management agreement in Denmark is reached between the Danish Federation of Trade Unions and the Danish Employers' Confederation.^[2]
• 22 November J. P. Suhr & Søn is dissolved.^[3]

Undated

• The Women's Council in Denmark us established.

Culture

Art

• 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.^[4]

Sports

• 4 June KFUMs Boldklub København is founded.

Births

JanuaryMarch

• 13 January Gudrun Stig Aagaard, textile artist (died 1986)
• 30 January Anna Sofie Boesen Dreijer, textile artist (died 1986)
• 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)^[5]
• 19 March – Aksel Sandemose, author (died 1965)

AprilJune

• 30 April Olaf Wieghorst, painter (died 1988)

JulySeptember

• 27 July – Carl Johan Hviid, actor (died 1964)
• 2 September Hans Jacob Nielsen, boxer (died 1967)
• 7 September Hans Bjerrum, hockey player and businessman (died 1979)

OctoberDecember

• 9 October Thorkil Kristensen, politician (died 1989)

Deaths

• 17 August – Erik Bøgh, journalist, playwright and songwriter (born 1822)
• 14 September Vilhelm Groth, painter (born 1842)
• 21 October – Edvard Jünger, precision mechanic (born 1823)
• 18 November – Hans Peter Hansen, xylographer (born 1829)
• 29 December Vilhelm Christesen, silver smith (born 1822)

Notes and References

1. Web site: Christian IX king of Denmark . Encyclopedia Britannica . 17 June 2019 . en.
2. Walter Kolvenbach, Employee Councils in European Companies (Springer, 2013) p. 97
3. Web site: O. Suhr. Danish. Dansk Biografisk Leksikon. 29 August 2017.
4. Web site: A Jab of Relief. Anna Ancher's 'A Vaccination'. Danish. /perspectivejournal.dk. 16 June 2022.
5. Web site: Frederick IX king of Denmark . Encyclopedia Britannica . 16 June 2019 . en.