1 January - New Year's celebrations all over Denmark fall silent for two minutes as mark of respect for Scandinavian memorial service for those affected by the2004 Indian Ocean tsunami.
8 January - Denmark is hit by the storm calledErwin, the most powerful storm since the 1999 storm calledAnatol. Some areas are flooded as the wind causes very high seawater levels, but overall the damage is limited.
3 March - At 19.17 the 3500-ton freighter,MV Karen Danielsen, crashes into the Western bridge of theGreat Belt Bridge, 800m fromFunen. All traffic across the bridge is closed, effectively splitting Denmark in two.
4 March
- TheGreat Belt Bridge is reopened shortly after midnight after the freighterMV Karen Danielsen was pulled free, and inspectors found no structural damage to the bridge.
- The coldest day so far in Denmark this year. -20.2 degrees Celsius measured atTune Airport nearRoskilde. This is also the coldest day in the month of March since 1987. Source DMI.
7 July - Security in Denmark is stepped up after the7 July 2005 London bombings. The London attack is seen as connected to threats whichal-Qaeda had made against the countries supporting USA in theoccupation of Iraq, to which both the United Kingdom and Denmark contributed.
15 October -Crown Princess Mary of Denmark gives birth to a healthy boy, expected to be namedPrince Christian of Denmark. As the first child ofCrown Prince Frederik of Denmark the boy is expected to become king one day. Prior to the birth there had been some speculation as to what would happen if the child was a girl; theDanish constitution says that any younger boys would be above this girl in the line of succession, while the present-day consensus in Denmark is that the girl should become Queen. There had been a good deal of speculation that this birth of a baby girl would be an opportunity to change the constitution with regard to both the line of succession and a number of other areas like human rights; but as the child was a boy this is no longer relevant.
17 October - Egyptian newspaperEl Fagr publishes six of the cartoons during Ramadan along with an article strongly denouncing them. The publication of the images does not provoke any known protests from either Egyptian religious authorities nor the Egyptian government.[3][4]
October 27 - The police arrests 4 persons suspected to be part of an Islamic extremistterrorist cell planning suicide attacks. The arrests are reported to be connected to other arrests made in Bosnia; weapons and explosives have been found inSarajevo[permanent dead link]. The following day two more Danes were arrested in Denmark[permanent dead link].
27 October - A number of Muslim organizations file a complaint with the Danish police claiming thatJyllands-Posten had committed an offence under section 140 and 266b of theDanish Criminal Code.[5]
October -Taynikma, first volume of a Danish book series is published.[6]
15 December —Brøndby IF plays the last game in their UEFA CupGgroup B againstPalermo. After only 1 victory (againstM. Petach-Tikva) and 1 draw (againstEspanyol) in four games, Brøndby ends 4th in the group and is finished in the tournament.
